Happy birthday to Vinny!

September 13, 1957: Vinny Appice (Vincent Samson Appice) birthday

"Vincent Samson Appice (born September 13, 1957) is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell. He is the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice." -Wikipedia

Black Sabbath - Country Girl

Happy birthday to Ripper!

September 13, 1967: Tim "Ripper" Owens (Timothy Steven Owens)

Judas Priest - Burn In Hell (Live)

Happy birthday to Kelly from Atheist!

September 13, 1968: Kelly Shaefer (Atheist)

"Atheist is an American death metal band from Sarasota, Florida, formed in 1987. The band's original lineup consisted vocalist and rhythm guitarist Kelly Shaefer, lead guitarist Rand Burkey, bassist Roger Patterson and drummer Steve Flynn. The band is known for its highly technical playing style, and its 1991 album Unquestionable Presence is regarded as a landmark of the technical death metal genre. The band gained a following largely within its own genre. After disbanding in 1994, the group reformed in 2006 and has since released one studio album and a live DVD." -Wikipedia

ATHEIST - Piece of Time (OFFICIAL FULL ALBUM STREAM)

CAGE heavy metal anniversary

September 13, 1998: Cage - Unveiled

"Cage is an American heavy metal band from San Diego, California. Over their career, the band has released seven studio albums and played shows with Great White, Manowar, Metallica, and Judas Priest ... Cage formed in 1992 with the original lineup being, Sean Peck (vocals), David Garcia (guitar), Eric Horton (guitar), Mike Giordano (bass), and Damian Arletto (drums). Peck had previously been the leader of a band called Nomad, while Garcia and Giordano had performed with Crusher. Garcia and Horton had also been a part of Nomad with Peck. Even though the band formed in 1992, the band did not release their first album, Unveiled, until 1998, likely due to it being self-produced." -Wikipedia

Cage - Modern Darkness

Cynic progressive death metal anniversary

September 13, 1993: Cynic - Focus - Roadrunner Records

"Focus is the debut studio album by American metal band Cynic, released September 14, 1993, through Roadrunner Records. A remastered version of the album was released in 2004." -Wikipedia [The Metal Archives shows September 13, 1993.]

"Cynic is an American progressive metal band formed in Miami, Florida in 1987. Paul Masvidal originally served solely as the band's guitarist, but later took over as lead vocalist and chief songwriter. Cynic incorporates elements of progressive rock, alternative, and metal." -Wikipedia

Cynic – Focus

Flotsam and Jetsam anniversary

September 13, 2024: Flotsam and Jetsam - I Am the Weapon - AFM Records

"I Am the Weapon is the fifteenth studio album by American thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam, released on September 13, 2024. This album marked the first time since 2010's The Cold that the band recorded more than one album with the same lineup." - Wikipedia

Flotsam and Jetsam - Primal

in memory of Faith or Fear bassist C.J. Jenkins

September 13, 2009: RIP C.J. Jenkins (Clarence Jenkins) (September 22, 1958 - September 13, 2009) (Faith or Fear bass 1982-1991, 2002-2003, 2008-2009)

Faith or Fear's period of activity: 1982-1991, 2002-2003, 2008-present. Faith or Fear is a thrash metal band from Pennsylvania /New Jersey, USA whose first run was from 1982 until 1991, with subsequent reunions.

Faith or Fear - Punishment Area (Punishment Area 1989)

Blue Öyster Cult anniversary

September 13, 1978: Blue Öyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening - Columbia Records

"Some Enchanted Evening is the second live album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on September 13, 1978. The album was certified for a million units sold in the United States. The album's seven tracks were recorded at various locations in the United States and England." -Wikipedia

Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Live at Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, AR - April 1978)

Alice Cooper anniversary

September 13, 2011: Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare - UMe Records

"Welcome 2 My Nightmare (also known as Welcome to My Nightmare 2) is the nineteenth solo and the twenty-sixth studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on September 13, 2011, by UME. It is a sequel to his 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare. Peaking at No. 22 in the Billboard 200, it is Cooper's highest-charting album in the US since 1989's Trash." -Wikipedia

Alice Cooper - A Runaway Train

Stryper anniversary

Stryper anniversary

September 13, 2024: Stryper – When We Were Kings - Frontiers Records "When We Were Kings is the twentieth release and sixteenth studio album by Christian metal band Stryper, produced by frontman Michael Sweet and released on September 13, 2024. A month before its release, the band released the self titled track music video." -Wikipedia

Stryper "When We Were Kings" - Official Music Video

Suicidal Tendencies anniversary

September 13, 1988: Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today - Epic Records

"How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today is the third studio album by American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released on September 13, 1988 on Epic Records, the band's first album on that label. It was also their first album recorded with guitarist Mike Clark and their only release with bassist Bob Heathcote, who was replaced by Robert Trujillo in 1989. It is considered to be an essential release in the genre by Revolver." -Wikipedia

"How Will I Laugh... represents a critical step in Suicidal Tendencies' stylistic evolution, in that it captures the band abandoning most of their full-fledged punk influences in favor of a more thrash-oriented sound. One begins to hear this stylistic shift in this album's predecessor Join the Army, with 'How Will I Laugh' delivering a distinctly more defined metal sound, with more complex and lengthy songs, and better production values ... The addition of a rhythm guitarist Mike Clark (who had played with vocalist Mike Muir in No Mercy, which was supposed to originally be a metal-only side project) changed the band's style heavily as well. Clark wrote much of the music for this album and gave lead guitarist Rocky George more soloing time, thus creating another factor in this album and future albums' more metal-oriented sound." -Wikipedia

Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow

DOKKEN anniversary

September 13, 1984: Dokken - Tooth and Nail - Elektra Records

"Tooth and Nail is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Dokken, released on September 17, 1984 through Elektra Records ... After the unsuccessful US release of the band's 1983 debut album, Breaking the Chains, the record label was reluctant to give credit to Dokken for a follow-up. Dokken's management struggled to convince the label's executives to give the band another chance and this fight for recognition is reflected in the album's title. This album was the group's first with bassist Jeff Pilson following Juan Croucier's departure to join Ratt ... Tooth and Nail received positive reviews but was a slow seller, reaching the peak of No. 49 on the US Billboard 200 album chart and Gold status more than ten months after its release, on the wake of the success of the single 'Alone Again' and of its accompanying music video. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 1989, after both Under Lock and Key (1985) and Back for the Attack (1987) had achieved such status." -Wikipedia

DOKKEN - Tooth and Nail

War of Ages anniversary

September 13, 2019: War of Ages - Void - Facedown Records

"Void is the eighth studio album by American Christian metal band War of Ages. It was released on September 13, 2019, and produced by the band's guitarist, Jack Daniels. It is the only studio album by the band to feature Kaleb Leubchow on drums while he was alive, as Leubchow died in 2022 following the release of the EP Rhema, and their 2023 release Dominion consists of posthumous recordings." -Wikipedia

War of Ages - Blood of the Earth

Since the Death anniversary

September 13th, 2024: Since the Death - Underbara Människa (single)

death/black/thrash metal from Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden

Since The Death - Underbara Människa

Underbara Människa by Since The Death

Tristania gothic metal anniversary

September 13, 1999: Tristania - Beyond the Veil - Napalm Records

Wikipedia notes about the album:

Beyond the Veil is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Tristania. It is the last album to feature the band's former vocalist, guitarist and core songwriter, Morten Veland. Tristania stood apart from the other bands of the genre with their use of three distinct vocal styles in the "operatic soprano Vibeke Stene, clean-singing counter-tenor Østen Bergøy, and harsh, black metal-style shrieker Morten Veland". Beyond the Veil made use of a ten-member choir and featured violin passages from Pete Johansen of The Sins of Thy Beloved, earning "rave reviews" across Europe. By then, the band had risen to "the top of the gothic metal heap" with their "lush, symphonically enhanced" approach. The album features "tender ethereal female voices" and "the brutality and harshness", making it a promoter on the gothic metal scene. They were "dealt a potentially crippling blow" when singer, guitarist and principal composer Veland left the group to form Sirenia. Tristania has continued to prosper with subsequent releases[11] and has since been "regarded as one of the world's premiere goth metal bands".

Tristania - Aphelion

Testimony of Apocalypse anniversary

September 13, 2021: Testimony of Apocalypse - Redemption (single) - The Charon Collective

ABOUT THE BAND: "Testimony of Apocalypse brings brutal, high-energy metal with thrash, groove, and death elements in a progressive sound. Formed in 2021, their debut album, None Escape the Judgement (2022), featured Sacrament’s Michael Torone. The follow-up, The Offering (2023), showcased 10 guest vocalists. Now with Derek Corzine as frontman, their third album, Agony in the Garden, arrives in 2025."

This single was later on incorporated into the 2022 album None Escape the Judgement as the second song.

Testimony of Apocalypse - Redemption (Lyric Video)

Anthrax anniversary

September 13, 2011: Anthrax - Worship Music - Megaforce Records

"Worship Music is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. The album was released on September 12, 2011, internationally, and on September 13 in the United States. It was the band's first album of original material since 2003's We've Come for You All, the first full-length Anthrax album since the return of longtime vocalist Joey Belladonna, and the final album with guitarist Rob Caggiano prior to his departure in January 2013." -Wikipedia

Anthrax - "Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't"

MEGADETH anniversary

MEGADETH anniversary

September 13, 1999: Megadeth - Risk - 1999, Cassette, CD Club

"Risk is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Megadeth, released on August 31, 1999, by Capitol Records, the band's last album to be released by the label. The first Megadeth album since 1990 to feature a lineup change, Risk marks the studio debut of drummer Jimmy DeGrasso with the band, as well as the final appearance of longtime guitarist Marty Friedman, who announced his departure a year later." -Wikipedia

Megadeth - "Breadline" - Risk (1999)

KISS anniversary

September 13, 1984: KISS - Animalize - Mercury Records

"Animalize is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Kiss. It was released on September 13, 1984, by Mercury Records. The album marked the only appearance by lead guitarist Mark St. John, who replaced Vinnie Vincent in April 1984." -Wikipedia

Kiss - Thrills In The Night

in memory of composer Arnold Schoenberg on his birthday

September 13, 1874: Arnold Schoenberg (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951)

"Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance, and twelve-tone composition. He taught composition in Vienna and at the Prussian Academy of Arts (1925–1933), resigning in anticipation of Nazi Germany's civil–service restrictions. He defiantly reaffirmed his Judaism before immigrating to the United States, where he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1936–1944)."

Wikipedia observes about Schoenberg's "Pierrot lunaire":

Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds "Pierrot lunaire" ("Three times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot lunaire'"), commonly known simply as Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the Moonlight"), is a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg. It is a setting of 21 selected poems from Albert Giraud's cycle of the same name as translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben ... Pierrot lunaire is among Schoenberg's most celebrated and frequently performed works. Its instrumentation – flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), violin (doubling viola), cello, and piano, with the addition of a vocalist – is an important ensemble in 20th- and 21st-century classical music and is referred to as a Pierrot ensemble.

Arnold Schoenberg - "Pierrot lunaire"

Complete performance: Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire

The Schoenberg Automaton(Australia/Canada 2009-2017; technical death metal/deathcore)

Besides their name, the band used Schoenberg’s bold ideas about music as a guide when writing their own songs. Instead of following normal patterns, Schoenberg rewrote the rules for how notes and song structures fit together. The band took that mindset and applied it to heavy metal. They created fast, chaotic, and harsh technical death metal filled with tricky rhythms, sudden changes, and strange, uncomfortable-sounding notes.

The Schoenberg Automaton - Apus

Happy birthday to Dave!

September 13, 1961: Dave Mustaine (David Scott Mustaine) birthday

"David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983. Megadeth has released seventeen studio albums, sold over 50 million records worldwide, with five albums platinum-certified, and won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017 at the 59th Grammy Awards, for the title track of their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia." -Wikipedia

Megadeth - Hook In Mouth (Remastered)

PINK FLOYD anniversary

September 12, 1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Harvest/Columbia Records "Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States through Columbia Records, as the band's first album for the label." -Wikipedia

"In 2015, Rolling Stone named it the fourth-greatest progressive rock album. In 2014, Prog readers voted it the seventh-greatest progressive rock album. In 1998, Q readers voted Wish You Were Here the 34th-greatest album. In 2000, Q placed it at number 43 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2000, it was voted number 38 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. IN 2007, ONE OF GERMANY'S LARGEST PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS, WDR 2, ASKED ITS LISTENERS TO VOTE FOR THE 200 BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE WAS VOTED NUMBER ONE. In 2004, Wish You Were Here was ranked number 36 on the Pitchfork list of the Top 100 albums of the 1970s. IGN rated Wish You Were Here as the eighth-greatest classic rock album, and Ultimate Classic Rock placed Wish You Were Here as the second-best Pink Floyd album." -Wikipedia

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

THIN LIZZY anniversary

September 12, 1975: Thin Lizzy - Fighting - Vertigo Records

"Fighting is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1975. Following the release of four studio albums, the band finally forged an identifiable sound featuring the twin guitars of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. This sound draws from hard rock, folk, pop and rhythm and blues. It set the stage for the big commercial breakthrough of the follow-up album, Jailbreak. The album was also their first album to chart in the UK, hitting No. 60." -Wikipedia

Thin Lizzy - Fighting My Way Back

ANNIHILATOR anniversary

September 12, 1990: Annihilator - Never, Neverland - Roadrunner Records

"Never, Neverland is the second album by thrash/heavy metal band Annihilator, released on August 7, 1990, through Roadrunner." -Wikipedia (The Metal Archives shows September 12, 1990)

Annihilator - Road to Ruin

HYPERSTRIKE high action hero heavy metal anniversary

September 12, 2025: Hyperstrike - High Risk (debut album)

Hyperstrike - Seattle action heavy metal since 2024

ABOUT THESE HEROES: Born of "The Blade" Seattle, WA, Hyperstrike brings action, danger and excitement back to heavy metal. Feat. members of Xoth, Ghost Ship Octavius. Chop Daddy on Nasty Slap Bass, Brain Lord on Explosive Pipes, Siberian Claw on Ripping Guitar, and Goblin Hammer on epic drums.

Hyperstrike - Savage Sword

Hyperstrike - Leaving You Again

High Risk by Hyperstrike

in memory of RUSH drummer Neil Peart on his birthday

September 12, 1952: Neil Peart (Neil Ellwood Peart; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020)

Rush - Anthem

in memory of PARADOX drummer Axel Blaha

September 12, 2023: RIP Axel Blaha (June 7, 1964 - September, 2023) (Paradox drums 1986-1991, 2016-2023)

The Metal Archives shows his work with Paradox includes the albums: 1987 Product of Imagination; 1989 Heresy (90% rating with seven reviews); 2021 Heresy II: End of a Legend; 2024 Rearrange the Past.

Paradox - Search for Perfection

DEMON HUNTER anniversary

September 12, 2025: Demon Hunter – There Was a Light Here - Weapons MFG "There Was a Light Here is the twelfth studio album by American Christian metal band Demon Hunter, released through their self-founded record label, Weapons MFG. It was released on September 12, 2025." -Wikipedia

Demon Hunter "I'm Done" Official Music Video

Demon Hunter "Sorrow Light The Way" Official Music Video

Demon Hunter "There Was A Light Here" Official Music Video

GAMMA RAY anniversary

September 12, 2001: Gamma Ray - No World Order! (2001), CD, Victor (Japan, Digipak) "No World Order is the seventh full-length album by the German power metal band Gamma Ray released in 2001." -Wikipedia

Gamma Ray - No World Order! - The Heart of the Unicorn

LED ZEPPELIN anniversary

LED ZEPPELIN anniversary

September 12, 2025: Led Zeppelin - Live EP - Atlantic

"Live E.P. is a live EP by the English rock band Led Zeppelin in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of their 1975 studio album, Physical Graffiti." -Wikipedia

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir (Live at Knebworth 1979) (Official Video)