On This Day in Metal – August 25th
Albums Release
August 25th 1982
Alice Cooper – “Zipper Catches Skin”
“Zipper Catches Skin” is the seventh solo studio album by American rock singer Alice Cooper.
August 25th 1987
Aerosmith – “Permanent Vacation”
“Permanent Vacation” is the ninth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith.
August 25th 1989
Rage – “Secrets in a Weird World”
“Secrets in a Weird World” is the fifth full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage.
August 25th 1992
Fear Factory – “Soul Of A New Machine”
“Soul of a New Machine” is the debut studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory.
August 25th 1992
“Dog Eat Dog” is the third studio album by American rock band Warrant.
August 25th 1996
Tunes of War is the seventh studio album by German heavy metal band Grave Digger.
August 25th 1997
Gamma Ray – “Somewhere Out in Space”
“Somewhere Out in Space” is an album by German power metal band Gamma Ray.
August 25th 1997
Jag Panzer – “The Fourth Judgement”
“The Fourth Judgement” is the third studio album released (fourth recorded) by American power metal band Jag Panzer.
August 25th 1998
Rob Zombie – “Hellbilly Deluxe”
“Hellbilly Deluxe” is the debut solo studio album by American musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie.
August 25th 2006
“Mystica” is the eleventh album by German melodic hard rock and power metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell.
August 25th 2009
Municipal Waste – “Massive Aggressive”
“Massive Aggressive” is the fourth studio album by American thrash metal band Municipal Waste.
August 25th 2023
“Road” is the twenty-second solo and overall twenty-ninth studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper.
Metal Birthdays
August 25th 1949
Gene Simmons – Kiss
Gene Simmons is an American musician. Also known by his stage persona “The Demon” he was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss.
August 25th 1951
Rob Halford – Judas Priest
Robert John Arthur Halford is an English heavy metal singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Judas Priest.
August 25th 1962
Vivian Campbell – Def Leppard
Vivian Patrick Campbell is a Northern Irish guitarist. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as a member of Dio and has been a member of Def Leppard.
August 25th 1965
Nigel Durham – Saxon
Nigel Durham is a British drummer best known for his brief involvement with Saxon.
August 25th 1966
Derek Sherinian – ex-Dream Theater
Derek Sherinian is an American keyboardist of Armenian descent who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol and Joe Bonamassa. He was also a member of Dream Theater.
August 25th 1973
Olavi Mikkonen – Amon Amarth
Olavi Mikkonen lead guitar in Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth.
August 25th 1983
David Kinkade – Soulfly
David W. Kinkade is an American metal drummer. In August 2011, he was announced as the drummer of Soulfly.
