HEAVY HISTORY

40 years ago today (May 29th, 1983). 
QUIET RIOT + MÖTLEY CRÜE + OZZY OSBOURNE + JUDAS PRIEST + TRIUMPH + SCORPIONS + VAN HALEN
On one bill. In front of nearly 500,000 people at Glen Helen Regional Park near Devore, San Bernardino, California.
US Festival - Heavy Metal Day




HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 78th
Gary Brooker (PROCOL HARUM, ERIC CLAPTON, ALAN PARSONS PROJECT) - May 29th, 1945

Happy 74th
Francis Rossi (STATUS QUO) - May 29th, 1949

Happy 60th
Blaze Bayley (BLAZE, WOLFSBANE, IRON MAIDEN) - May 29th, 1963

Happy 49th
Thomas Youngblood (KAMELOT) - May 29th, 1974

Heavy Releases

Happy 38th
WARLOCK's Hellbound - May 29th, 1985

Happy 34th
BANG TANGO's Psycho Cafe - May 29th, 1989

Happy 23rd
IRON MAIDEN's Brave New World - May 29th, 2000

Happy 22nd
QUIET RIOT’s Guilty Pleasures - May 29th, 2001

Happy 17th
CELTIC FROST's Monotheist - May 29th, 2006

Happy 16th
CEPHALIC CARNAGE's Xenosapien - May 29th, 2007

Happy 14th
AMORPHIS' Skyforger - May 29th, 2009
ANDREAS KISSER's Hubris I & II - May 29th, 2009
DEVOURMENT's Unleash The Carnivore - May 29th, 2009
NECROPHOBIC's Death To All - May 29th, 2009
TÝR’s By The Light Of The Northen Star - May 29th, 2009
UFO's The Visitor - May 29th, 2009

Happy 11th
SYNTHETIC BREED’s Zero Degrees Freedom – May 29th, 2012

Happy 10th
CHILDREN OF BODOM’s Halo Of Blood - May 29th, 2013
CHTHONIC’s Bú-Tik - May 29th, 2013

Happy 8th
HELLOWEEN’s My God-Given Right – May 29th, 2015

Happy 3rd
ACARASH’s Descend To Purity - May 29th, 2020
ALESTORM’s Curse Of The Crystal Coconut - May 29th, 2020
BEHEMOTH’s A Forest (EP) - May 29th, 2020
BLEED FROM WITHIN’s Fracture - May 29th, 2020
CENTINEX’s Death in Pieces - May 29th, 2020
DEF LEPPARD’s London To Vegas (live album) - May 29th, 2020
GRAVE DIGGER’s Fields Of Blood - May 29th, 2020
SORCERER’s Lamenting Of The Innocent - May 29th, 2020
XIBALBA’s Años en Infierno - May 29th, 2020