HEAVY HISTORY

48 years ago today (February 23, 1976), AC/DC took over Swanston Street in Melbourne to film their classic video for "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock' n' Roll)".



TALENT WE LOST

R.I.P. John Dawson Winter III (JOHNNY WINTER): February 23rd, 1944 – July 16th, 2014 (aged 70)



R.I.P. Paul O'Neill (TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, SAVATAGE): February 23, 1956 – April 5, 2017

HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 72nd  
Brad Whitford (AEROSMITH) - February 23rd, 1952

Happy 76th  
Stephen Norman Priest (SWEET) - February 23rd, 1948
 
Happy 62nd 
Michael F. Wilton (QUEENSRŸCHE) - February 23rd, 1962


 
Happy 60th  
John Norum (EUROPE) - February 23rd, 1964


 
Happy 54th  
Corey Lowery (DARK NEW DAY, STEREOMUD, STUCK MOJO) - February 23rd, 1970 

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 27th
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’s Facing The Animal - February 23rd, 1997

Happy 31st  
VAN HALEN’s Live: Right Here, Right Now - February 23rd, 1993

Happy 25th  
OVERKILL’s Necroshine – February 23rd, 1999

Happy 20th  
MY DYING BRIDE's Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light - February 23rd, 2004


 
Happy 17th  
MASTERPLAN’s MK II - February 23rd, 2007
NAGLFAR’s Harvest - February 23rd, 2007
 
Happy 15th  
ROTTING CHRIST’s Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story - February 23rd, 2009
THE AGONIST’s Lullabies For The Dormant Mind - February 23rd, 2009
WOLF’s Ravenous - February 23rd, 2009
AUTUMN’s Altitude - February 23rd, 2009
 
Happy 13th  
TURISAS’ Stand Up And Fight – February 23rd, 2011
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS’ Satanico Dramatico – February 23rd, 2011
 
Happy 9th  
THE AGONIST’s Eye Of Providence – February 23rd, 2015
ENSIFERUM’s One Man Army – February 23rd, 2015
CARACH ANGREN’s This Is No Fairytale – February 23rd, 2015

Happy 6th
DELIVERANCE - The Subversive Kind - February 23rd, 2018
DESTROYER 666 - Call of the Wild - February 23rd, 2018
DIMMU BORGIR - Interdimensional Summit - February 23rd, 2018
MEGAHERZ - Komet - February 23rd, 2018
MGT - Gemini Nyte - February 23rd, 2018
NECROPHOBIC - Mark of the Necrogram - February 23rd, 2018
NICK OLIVERI - N.O. Hits at All, Vol. 4 - February 23rd, 2018
SALEM - Attrition - February 23rd, 2018
SCHWARZER ENGEL - Kult der Krähe - February 23rd, 2018
SEBASTIEN - Act of Creation - February 23rd, 2018
TENGGER CAVALRY - Cian Bi - February 23rd, 2018