TALENT WE LOST

RIP Gerald “Gerry” McGhee (BRIGHTON ROCK): August 15, 1962 – August 25, 2020 (aged 58)

HEAVY BIRTHDAYS

Happy 75th Birthday
Gene Simmons (real name Chaim Witz; KISS) – August 25, 1949

Happy 73rd
Robert John Arthur “Rob” Halford (JUDAS PRIEST) August 25, 1951

Happy 72nd
Geoff Downes (YES, ASIA) – August 25, 1952

Happy 62nd
Vivian Patrick Campbell (DEF LEPPARD, DIO) August 25, 1962

Congratulations on your 60th birthday
Patrick Mulock (PHEAR, EIDOLON) – August 25, 1964

Happy 59th
Nigel Durham (SAXON) – August 25, 1965

Happy 58th
Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, ALICE COOPER, KISS, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) – August 25, 1966

Happy 51st
Olavi Mikkonen (AMON AMARTH) – August 25, 1973

Happy 41st Birthday
David Kinkade (SOULFLY, ARSIS) – August 25, 1983

HEAVY EXPENDITURE

Happy 48th
BOSTON’s Boston – August 25, 1976

Happy 42nd
ALICE COOPER’s zipper gets caught in the skin – August 25, 1982

Happy 37th
AEROSMITH’s permanent vacation – August 25, 1987

Happy 32nd
WARRANT’s Dog Eats Dog – August 25, 1992

Happy 27th
GAMMA RAY’s somewhere in space – August 25, 1997

Happy 26th
ROB ZOMBIE’s Hellbilly Deluxe – August 25, 1998

Happy 18th
Location of CATAMENIA: COLD – August 25, 2006

Happy 16th
INTO ETERNITY’s The Incurable Tragedy – August 25, 2008
SOUR DRINKS’ Verses of Steel – August 25, 2008

Happy 15th
AZAGHAL’s Teraphim – August 25, 2009
OH, SLEEPER’s Son of the Morning – August 25, 2009

Happy 14th
TRISTANIA’s Rubicon – August 25, 2010
We Rule The Night by SONIC SYNDICATE – August 25, 2010

Happy 10th
THE HAUNTED’s Exit Wounds – August 25, 2014
WOLF’s Devil’s Seed – August 25, 2014

Happy 7th
AKERCOCKE’s Renaissance in Extremis – August 25, 2017
BRENDON SMALL’s Brendon Small’s Galaktikon II: Become the Storm – August 25, 2017
DAGOBA’s Black Nova – August 25, 2017
DIE APOKALYPTICS REITER’s Der Rote Reiter – August 25, 2017
ESKIMO CALLBOY’s The Scene – August 25, 2017
The power of THE HAUNTED in numbers – August 25, 2017
KORPIKLAANI’s Live at Masters Of Rock – August 25, 2017
LACRIMOSA’s Testimony – August 25, 2017
LENG TCH’E’s Razorgrind – August 25, 2017
MELPROUS’ Malina – August 25, 2017
LIONHEART’s Second Nature – August 25, 2017
SANNHET is so insensitive – August 25, 2017
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE’s Villains – August 25, 2017

Happy 1st
Alice Cooper – Gone – August 25, 2023
The Armed – Perfect Saviors – August 25, 2023
Asking Alexandria – Where Do We Go Now? – August 25, 2023
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Nahab – August 25, 2023
Dethklok – Metalocalypse: Army Of The Doomstar – August 25, 2023
Endstille – Detonation – August 25, 2023
Exmortus – Necrophony – August 25, 2023
Filter – The Algorithm – August 25, 2023
Hurricane – Reconnected – August 25, 2023
Spell – Unholy Deification – August 25, 2023
Lions at the Gate – The Apologies We Can’t Make – August 25, 2023
UDO – Touchdown – August 25, 2023
The Word Alive – Hard Reset – August 25, 2023