Today In Metal History 🤘 June 22nd, 2023🤘 BLACK SABBATH, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, WHITE LION, DEATH, MORBID ANGEL

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Today In Metal History 🤘 June 22nd, 2023🤘 BLACK SABBATH, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, WHITE LION, DEATH, MORBID ANGEL

TALENT WE LOST

Vincent Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN): March 11th, 1964 – June 22th, 2018



Heavy Birthdays

Happy 75th
Todd Rundgren - June 22nd, 1948

Happy 74th
Gary Moffet (APRIL WINE) - June 22nd, 1949
Moffet can be heard on everything from 1973’s Electric Jewels to 1984’s Animal Grace.

Lawrence E. "Larry" Junstrom (LYNYRD SKYNYRD, .38 SPECIAL) - June 22nd, 1949

Heavy Releases

Happy 44th
QUEEN's Live Killers - June 22nd, 1979
Recorded live during the European leg of Queen's Jazz Tour in 1979.

Happy 42nd
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT’s Fire Of Unknown Origin - June 22nd, 1981

Happy 36th
WHITE LION's Pride - June 22nd, 1987
MARILLION’s - Clutching At Straws - June 22nd, 1987
The last album with lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988.

Happy 35th
ANATHEMA’s Alternative 4 - June 22nd, 1998

Happy 31st
BLACK SABBATH's Dehumanizer - June 22nd, 1992

Happy 30th
DEATH’s Individual Thought Patterns - June 22nd, 1993
The only album by the band to feature KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy LaRocque.



MORBID ANGEL’s Covenant - June 22, 1993


Happy 25th 
ICED EARTH’s Something Wicked This Way Comes – June 22nd, 1998

Happy 24th
HYPOCRISY’s Hypocrisy - June 22nd, 1999

Happy 19th
MOTÖRHEAD’s Inferno - June 22nd, 2004 
GARY MOORE’s Power Of The Blues - June 22nd, 2004

Happy 16th
CANDLEMASS' King Of The Grey Islands - June 22nd, 2007

Happy 14th
ASPHYX's Death...The Brutal Way - June 22nd, 2009
DRUDKH's Microcosmos - June 22nd, 2009
NIGHTRAGE's Wearing A Martyr's Crown - June 22nd, 2009
SPINAL TAP's Back From The Dead - June 22nd, 2009

Happy 13th
DANZIG's Deth Red Sabaoth - June 22nd, 2010
EARLY GRAVES’ Goner
YAKUZA’s Of Seismic Consequence

Happy 12th
PROTEST THE HERO Scurrilous - June 22nd, 2011
BORN OF OSIRIS’ The Discovery
EYEHATEGOD’s Live (DVD)
TESSERACT’s One
STREAM OF PASSION’s Darker Days

Happy 11th
LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY Ascending To Infinity - June 22nd, 2012
DEATHSPELL OMEGA’s Drought (EP) – June 22nd, 2012

Happy 5th
CRAFT’s White Noise And Black Metal - June 22nd, 2018
IMPENDING DOOM’s The Sin And Doom, Vol. II - June 22nd, 2018
KHEMMIS’ Desolation - June 22nd, 2018
MARDUK’s Viktoria - June 22nd, 2018
NINE INCH NAILS’ Bad Witch - June 22nd, 2018


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