Today In Metal History 🤘 October 22nd, 2024🤘 DEATH, LESLIE WEST, RATT, LED ZEPPELIN, KISS, SLAYER, VAN HALEN

TALENT WE LOST

R.I.P. George Redburn Young (AC/DC producer/brother): November 6th, 1946 – October 22nd, 2017 (aged 75)

R.I.P. Leslie West (MOUNTAIN): October 22nd, 1945 – December 23, 2020 (aged 70)

HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 66th

Bobby Blotzer (RATT) – October 22nd, 1958

Happy 59th

Dave McClain (MACHINE HEAD) – October 22nd, 1965

Happy 53rd

Rafael Bittencourt (ANGRA) – October 22nd, 1971

HEAVY RELEASES

Happy 55th

LED ZEPPELIN II – October 22nd, 1969

Happy 50th

KISS’ Hotter Than Hell – October 22nd, 1974

Happy 33rd

DEATH’s Human – October 22nd, 1991

SLAYER’s Decade Of Aggression – October 22nd, 1991

SUFFOCATION’s Effigy Of The Forgotten – October 22nd, 1991

VAN HALEN’s Best Of – Volume I – October 22nd, 1996

OVERKILL’s Fuck You!!! And Then Some – October 22nd, 1996

JOURNEY’s Trial By Fire – October 22nd, 1996

Happy 26th

DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’s Under The Running Board – October 22nd, 1998

Happy 22nd

BEHEMOTH’s Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond) – October 22nd, 2002


BLACK SABBATH’s Symptom Of The Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978 – October 22nd, 2002

Happy 15th

MANEGRAM’s Nattvasen – October 22nd, 2009

Happy 14th

FORBIDDEN’s Omega Wave – October 22nd, 2010


CRADLE OF FILTH’s Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa – October 22nd, 2010

NEAERA’s Forging The Eclipse – October 22nd, 2010

VIRGIN STEELE’s The Black Light Bacchanalia – October 22nd, 2010

Happy 12th

DARK TRANQUILLITY’s Zero Distance – October 22nd, 2012

BISON B.C.’s Lovelessness – October 22nd, 2012

ILL NINO’s Epidemia – October 22nd, 2012

THE SWORD’s Apocryphon – October 22nd, 2012

Happy 11th Birthday

METAL CHURCH’s Generation Nothing – October 22nd, 2013


IHSAHN’s Das Seelenbrechen – October 22nd, 2013

LITA FORD’s The Bitch Is Back…Live – October 22nd, 2013

DEF LEPPARD’s Viva! Hysteria – October 22nd, 2013

Happy 3rd

ARMORED SAINT – Symbol Of Salvation Live – October 22, 2021

BURNING POINT – Arsonist Of The Soul – October 22, 2021

CRADLE OF FILTH – Existence Is Futile – October 22, 2021

DREAM THEATER – A View From The Top Of The World – October 22, 2021

EVERY TIME I DIE – Radical – October 22, 2021

EXHUMED – Worming – October 22, 2021

MASSACRE – Resurgence – October 22, 2021

SIXX:A.M. – Hits – October 22, 2021

U.D.O. – Game Over – October 22, 2021

WAKING THE CADAVER – Authority Through Intimidation – October 22, 2021