HEAVY HISTORY

50 years ago today (April 26, 1972), ALICE COOPER released his highest charting single, ”School's Out”, which hit #1 in the UK, #2 in Ireland and #3 in Canada (photo credit above: Joel Barrios).



TALENT WE LOST

R.I.P. Nathan Jonas Jordison (VIMIC, SLIPKNOT, MURDERDOLLS): April 26, 1975 – July 26, 2021

HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 84th
DUANE EDDY - April 26, 1938

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 28th
JIMI HENDRIX’ Blues - April 26th, 1994

Happy 23rd  
CHILDREN OF BODOM’s Hatebreeder - April 26th, 1999

Happy 15th  
ANGEL CORPSE's Of Lucifer And Lightning - April 26th, 2007

Happy 12th Birthday
1349’s Demonoir - April 26th 2010
AXEL RUDI PELL’s The Crest - April 26th, 2010

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE’s Fever - April 26th, 2010
KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI’s Betryal, Justice, Revenge – April 26th, 2010
MASTER’s The Human Machine – April 26th, 2010
RAINTIME’s Psychromatic – April 26th, 2010
SKYFORGER’s Kurbads – April 26th, 2010

Happy 11th Birthday
CATALEPSY’s Bleed – April 26th, 2011
DESTROPHY’s Cry Havoc – April 26th, 2011
ENDWELL’s Punishment – April 26th, 2011
HOPE FOR THE DYING’s Dissimulation – April 26th, 2011
KRALLICE’s Diotima – April 26th, 2011
DEAFHEAVEN’s Roads To Judah – April 26th, 2011
OTEP’s Atavist – April 26th, 2011
PRIMORDIAL’s Redemption at the Puritan's Hand - April 26th 2011
VOMITORY’s Opus Mortis VIII - April 26th, 2011

Happy 10th 
Birthday MEZARKABUL’s MMXII – April 26th, 2012

Happy 9th  
DEEP PURPLE’s Now What?! - April 26th, 2013

THE OCEAN’s Pelagial - April 26th, 2013
SODOM’s Epitome of Torture - April 26th, 2013
VICIOUS RUMORS’ Electric Punishment - April 26th 2013

Happy 3rd
THE DAMNED THINGS' High Crimes - April 26th, 2019
ENFORCER's Zenith - April 26th, 2019

HARDLINE's Life - April 26th, 2019
HELHEIM's Rignir - April 26th, 2019
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD's Fishing for Fishies - April 26th, 2019
MANEGARM's Fornaldarsagorna - April 26th, 2019
NEW YEARS DAY's Unbreakable - April 26th, 2019
NINE SHRINES' Retribution Therapy - April 26th, 2019
PARAGON's Controlled Demolition - April 26th, 2019
STEEL PROPHET's The God Machine - April 26th, 2019
SUNN O)))'s Life Metal - April 26th, 2019
VAURA's Sables - April 26th, 2019