Talent We Lost

R.I.P. John Patrick Jr. McDonald (Midnight from CRIMSON GLORY): April 29th, 1962 - July 8th, 2009
He sang on these gems: Crimson Glory (1986), Transcendence (1988), Strange and Beautiful (1991).

Heavy Birthdays

Happy 70th
Greg T Walker (LYNYRD SKYNYRD, BLACKFOOT) - July 8th, 1951

Happy 64th
Carlos Cavazo (RATT, QUIET RIOT) - July 8th, 1957

Happy 57th

Steve Ramsey (SKYCLAD, SATAN) - July 8th, 1964

Happy 54th
Tommy Vetterli (CORONER) - July 8th, 1967

Happy 52nd

George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher (CANNIBAL CORPSE, MONSTROSITY) - July 8th, 1969

Heavy Releases

Happy 27th 
HELLOWEEN’s Master Of The Rings - July 8th, 1994
HELLOWEEN introduce new singer Andi Deris (ex-PINK CREAM 69) and drummer Uli Kusch (ex-GAMMA RAY).

Happy 24th 
EMPEROR’s Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk – July 8th, 1997
PRIMUS’ Brown Album – July 8th, 1997
EXODUS’ Another Lesson In Violence - July 8th, 1997
Paul Baloff returns, albeit briefly. He would sadly pass in 2002. 

Happy 18th 
DAVID LEE ROTH’s Diamond Dave - July 8th, 2003

Happy 13th 
CANNIBAL CORPSE's Centuries Of Torment: The First 20 Years - July 8th, 2008
WHITECHAPEL's This Is Exile - July 8th, 2008

Happy 7th 
JUDAS PRIEST’s Redeemer Of Souls - July 8th, 2014
Seven years ago today we saw Richie Faulkner replace K.K. Downing in JUDAS PRIEST. The band’s first top ten album debut in the US! It also went #1 in Czechoslovakia and Finland.

GOATWHORE’s Constricting Rage Of The Merciless - July 8th, 2014
STEEL PROPHET’s Omniscient - July 8th, 2014
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s Celestite - July 8th, 2014
CHELSEA GRIN’s Ashes To Ashes – July 8th, 2014
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s Celestite - July 8th, 2014

Happy 5th
CENTINEX’s Doomsday Rituals - July 8th, 2016
CHEVELLE’s The North Corridor - July 8th, 2016
DEADLOCK’s Hybris - July 8th, 2016
NONPOINT’s The Poison Red - July 8th, 2016
TRICK OR TREAT’s Rabbits' Hill, Pt. 2 - July 8th, 2016
WOLVERINE’s Machina Viva - July 8th, 2016