5/28/20
Rick Wartell (TROUBLE) - May 28
Wendy O. Williams May 28, 1949 R.I.P.
Francis Rossi (STATUS QUO) - May 29, 1949
Blaze Bayley (BLAZE, WOLFSBANE, IRON MAIDEN) - May 29, 1963
Thomas Youngblood (KAMELOT) - May 29, 1974
'Away' Langevin (VOIVOD) - May 30, 1963
Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, AUDIOSLAVE) - May 30, 1964
Steve West (DANGER DANGER) - May 30, 1965
Mike Dupke (W.A.S.P.) - May 30, 1974
Brian Fair (SHADOWS FALL) - May 30, 1975
John Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN) - May 31, 1948 R.I.P.
Scotti Hill (SKID ROW) - May 31, 1964
May 28, 1984: LITA FORD releases Dancin' On The Edge.
May 28, 1985: LIZZY BORDEN releases Love You To Pieces.
May 28, 1991: WARRIOR SOUL release Drugs, God And The New Republic.
May 28, 1996: SLAYER release Undisputed Attitude.
May 28, 2013: ALICE IN CHAINS release The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, JUDAS PRIEST release Epitaph, and SACRED OATH release Fallen.
May 29, 1983: the US Festival's Heavy Metal Day bangs heads with over 250,000 people partying with VAN HALEN, OZZY OSBOURNE, JUDAS PRIEST, TRIUMPH, QUIET RIOT, SCORPIONS and MOTLEY CRUE.
May 29, 1985: WARLOCK release Hellbound.
May 29, 1989: BANG TANGO release Psycho Cafe.
May 29, 2000: IRON MAIDEN release Brave New World.
May 29, 2001: QUIET RIOT release Guilty Pleasures.
May 29, 2009: UFO release The Visitor.
May 29, 2015: HELLOWEEN release My God-Given Right.
May 30, 1978: LED ZEPPELIN enters a recording studio for the first time since the death of Robert Plant's son, Karac, in July 1977. The sessions will be the band's final proper studio album, 1979's In Through The Out Door.
May 30, 1980: GARY MOORE releases G-Force.
May 30, 1997: R.I.P. Aaron West Arkeen (GUNS N' ROSES song-writer).
May 30, 2008: COMMUNIC release Payment Of Existence.
May 31, 1976: THE WHO headline a bill at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England and put their name into the Guiness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever, when their set measures at 120 decibels.
May 31, 1980: WHITESNAKE release Ready An' Willing.
May 31, 1984: Tom G. Warrior and Martin Ain form CELTIC FROST.
May 31, 1993: Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea became parents to Stephanie Rose.
May 31, 1999: IN FLAMES release Colony.
May 31, 2005: SENTENCED release The Funeral Album.
May 31, 2010: NEVERMORE release The Obsidian Conspiracy.
May 31, 2011: GAMMA RAY release Skeletons & Majesties.
