TALENT WE LOST

R.I.P. Gordon “Gord” Kirchin (PILEDRIVER) - September 23rd, 1961 - September 22, 2022 (aged 60)



HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 77th
Neal Smith (ALICE COOPER) - September 23rd, 1947

Happy 75th
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – September 23rd, 1949 (Photo credit: Mike Miller)

Happy 56th
Cato Bekkevold (ENSLAVED) - September 23rd, 1968
Patrick Gravel (HANKER) – September 23rd, 1968

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 41st
KISS' Lick It Up - September 23rd, 1983

Happy 38th
BOSTON’s Third Stage - September 23, 1986

Happy 33rd
THE CULT’s Ceremony - September 23rd 1991
EUROPE's Prisoners In Paradise - September 23rd, 1991

KYUSS' Wretch - September 23rd, 1991

Happy 32nd
SKID ROW’s B-Side Ourselves – September 23rd, 1992

Happy 28th
IRON MAIDEN’s Best Of The Beast – September 23rd, 1996

Happy 27th
DREAM THEATER's Falling Into Infinity - September 23rd, 1997



CREAM’s Those Were the Days - September 23rd 1997

Happy 22nd
SAXON's Heavy Metal Thunder - September 23rd, 2002
KATAKLYSM’s Shadows & Dust - September 23rd, 2002

Happy 21st
TRIUMPH’s Live At The Us Festival - September 23rd, 2003
PANTERA’s The Best Of Pantera - September 23rd, 2003
ALICE COOPER's The Eyes Of Alice Cooper - September 23rd, 2003
MONSTROSITY's Rise To Power - September 23rd, 2003

SIX FEET UNDER's Bringer Of Blood - September 23rd, 2003

Happy 13th
BIOHAZARD's Reborn In Defiance - September 23rd, 2011
LOCH VOSTOK's Dystopium - September 23rd, 2011
TEXTURES' Dualism - September 23rd, 2011
VAN CANTO's Break The Silence - September 23rd, 2011

Happy 10th
AFFIANCE’s Blackout – September 23rd, 2014

Happy 8th
ALLEGAEON’s Proponent for Sentience - September 23, 2016
ALMAH’s E.V.O - September 23, 2016
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED’s Creatures Watching Over the Dead - September 23, 2016
DYSRHYTHMIA’s The Veil of Control - September 23, 2016
EVERY TIME I DIE’s Low Teens - September 23, 2016
GRIM REAPER’s Walking in the Shadows - September 23, 2016
INSOMNIUM’s Winter's Gate - September 23, 2016

IRON MASK’s Diabolica - September 23, 2016
MONTE PITTMAN’s Inverted Grasp of Balance - September 23, 2016
NEUROSIS’ Fires Within Fires - September 23, 2016
OPERATION: MINDCRIME’s Resurrection - September 23, 2016
SAINT VITUS’ Live Vol. 2 - September 23, 2016
TRAP THEM’s Crown Feral - September 23, 2016
EWIGKEIT’s 23 - September 23rd, 2020

Happy 2nd
KEN MODE’s Null
MOONSPELL’s From Down Below – Live 80 Meters Deep - September 23rd, 2022
OVO’s Ignoto - September 23rd, 2022
RAZOR’s Cycle Of Contempt - September 23rd, 2022
SILENT KNIGHT’s Full Force - September 23rd, 2022
STRATOVARIUS’ Survive - September 23rd, 2022
VENOM INC.’s There's Only Black - September 23rd, 2022