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Leslie West (MOUNTAIN) - October 22, 1945 R.I.P.
Bobby Blotzer (RATT) - October 22, 1958
Dave McClain (S.A. SLAYER, SACRED REICH, MACHINE HEAD) - October 22, 1965
Rafael Bittencourt (ANGRA) - October 22, 1971
Wurzel (MOTORHEAD) - October 23, 1949 R.I.P.
Robert Trujillo (SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, OZZY OSBOURNE, METALLICA) - October 23, 1964
Chris von Rohr (KROKUS) - October 24, 1951
Glenn Tipton (JUDAS PRIEST) - October 25, 1947
Matthias Jabs (SCORPIONS) - October 25, 1955
Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, CHICKENFOOT) - October 25, 1961
John Leven (EUROPE) - October 25, 1963
Robert Lowe (SOLITUDE AETURNUS, CANDLEMASS) - October 25, 1964

October 22, 1969: LED ZEPPELIN release II.
October 22, 1974: KISS release Hotter Than Hell.
October 22, 1991: DEATH release Human and SLAYER release Decade Of Aggression.
October 22, 1996: OVERKILL release F**k You And Then Some and VAN HALEN release Best Of - Volume I.
October 22, 1999: S.O.D. kick off their first official tour, appropriately named Killith Fair.
October 22, 2000: MOTORHEAD celebrate their 25th Anniversary with a sold out show at Brixton Academy.
October 22, 2002: BLACK SABBATH release Symptom Of The Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978.
October 22, 2010: VIRGIN STEELE release The Black Light Bacchanalia.
October 22, 2012: DARK TRANQUILLITY release Zero Distance and THE SWORD release Apocryphon.
October 22, 2013: DEF LEPPARD release Viva! Hysteria, LITA FORD releases The Bitch Is Back...Live, and METAL CHURCH release Generation Nothing.
October 22, 2021: ARMORED SAINT release Symbol Of Salvation Live, DREAM THEATER release A View From The Top Of The World, SIXX:A.M. release Hits (compilation album), and U.D.O. release Game Over.

October 23, 1982: BUDGIE release Deliver Us From Evil.
October 23, 1990: DEEP PURPLE release Slaves And Masters.
October 23, 1995: DEF LEPPARD release Vault and OZZY OSBOURNE releases Ozzmosis.
October 23, 1998: DAVID LEE ROTH's released his autobiography Crazy From The Heat.
October 23, 2006: ANGRA release Aurora Consurgens.
October 23, 2007: EXODUS release The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A., HAMMERFALL release Steel Meets Steel, and HELLOWEEN release Gambling With The Devil.
October 23, 2012: SISTER SIN release Now And Forever.
October 23, 2015: STRYPER release Fallen.
October 23, 2020: ARMORED SAINT release Punching the Sky and HAMMERFALL's Live! Against the World.

October 24, 1978: RUSH release Hemispheres.
October 24, 1986: STRYPER release To Hell With The Devil.
October 24, 1995: ANTHRAX release Stomp 442 and SAVATAGE release Dead Winter Dead.
October 24, 2000: MEGADETH release Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years, and OVERKILL release Bloodletting.
October 24, 2005: DEEP PURPLE release Rapture Of The Deep.
October 24, 2006: SKID ROW release Revolutions Per Minute and PAUL STANLEY releases Live To Win.
October 24, 2007: HELLOWEEN release Gambling With The Devil.
October 24, 2013: ANGRA release Best Reached Horizons.
October 24, 2014: LIV KRISTINE releases Vervain.

October 25, 1982: KISS release Creatures Of The Night.
October 25, 1985: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY release Animosity.
October 25, 1991: R.I.P. legendary concert promoter Bill Graham.
October 25, 1993: DIO releases Strange Highways.
October 25, 1994: MERCYFUL FATE release Time and TIAMAT release Wildhoney.
October 25, 2004: DEF LEPPARD release Best Of Def Leppard.
October 25, 2005: AEROSMITH release Rockin' The Joint.
October 25, 2006: EUROPE release Secret Society.
October 25, 2013: SEPULTURA release The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart and SAHG release Delusions Of Grandeur.
October 25, 2019: PHIL CAMPBELL releases Old Lions Still Roar.

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