Today in Metal History – January 7th
Album Release
January 7th 1983
Chateaux – “Chained and Desperate”
“Chained and Desperate”” is the debut album by English heavy metal band Chateaux. “Spirit of the Chateaux” is a standout track from “Chained and Desperate”.
January 7th 1999
Taake – “Nattestid ser porten vid”
“Nattestid ser porten vid” is the debut album released by Norwegian black metal band Taake. “Nattestid ser porten vid I” is a standout track.
January 7th 2004
“Terror” is the eighteenth studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. “Pharaoh” is a standout track from “Terror”.
EP/Live Release
January 7th 1979
Def Leppard – “The Def Leppard E.P.”
“The Def Leppard E.P.” is the debut EP by English hard rock band Def Leppard. Best song: “Getcha Rocks Off” a raw and energetic track from “The Def Leppard E.P.”.
Single Release
January 7th 1997
Metallica – “King Nothing”
“King Nothing” is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released as fourth single from the sixth studio album “Load”.
January 7th 2008
Delain – “The Gathering”
“The Gathering” is a song by the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain. Released as fourth single from the debut studio album “Lucidity“.
January 7th 2016
Megadeth – “Dystopia”
“Dystopia” is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth. Released as third single from the fifteenth studio album “Dystopia”.
January 7th 2019
Flotsam and Jetsam – “Control”
“Control” is a song by the American thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam. Released as third single from the thirteenth studio album “The End of Chaos“.
January 7th 2022
Sabaton – “Soldier of Heaven”
“Soldier of Heaven” is a song by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. Released as second single from the tenth studio album “The War to End All Wars“.
January 7th 2022
Lordi – “Day off of the Devil”
“Day off of the Devil” is a song by Finnish hard rock band Lordi. Released as sixth single from the box set “Lordiversity“.
January 7th 2025
Warbringer – “A Better World”
“A Better World” is a song by the American thrash metal band Warbringer. Released as first single from the seventh studio album “Wrath and Ruin“.
Metal Birthdays
January 7th 1969
Vorph – Samael
Michael Locher also known as Vorphalack or simply Vorph, is a Swiss musician who provides vocals and is a guitarist for the industrial/black metal band Samael.
January 7th 1971
Nick Holmes – Paradise Lost
Nicholas John Arthur Holmes is an English singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic metal/doom metal band Paradise Lost and Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.
January 7th 1987
Teemu Mäntysaari – Megadeth
Teemu Mäntysaari is a Finnish guitarist. He is known for playing for metal bands Wintersun, Imperanon, Induction, Smackbound and Megadeth.
Legends We Lost
January 7th 2011
Phil Kennemore – Y&T
Phil Kennemore (October 20th, 1953 – January 7th, 2011) was the bassist and a founding member of the American hard rock band Y&T, known for his powerful bass lines and backing vocals.
January 7th 2020
Neil Peart – Rush
Neil Ellwood Peart (September 12th, 1952 – January 7th, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush.
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