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” anthem filled with raw energy 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” setting the tone for the album with its icy riffs.
January 7th 2004
“Terror” is the eighteenth studio album by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. “Pharaoh” with blistering guitar work, powerful vocals 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“.
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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