Today marks the anniversary of several influential metal albums, including AC/DC's iconic video for 'It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)', which was filmed in Melbourne on this day in 1976.
Several notable musicians are also celebrating birthdays today: Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Stephen Norman Priest (Sweet), Michael F Wilton (QueensrĂżche), John Norum (Europe), Corey Lowery (Dark New Day, Stereomud, Stuck Mojo), and more.
Other albums released on this day include Grip Inc's Solidify, Overkill's Necroshine, My Dying Bride's Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light, Masterplan's MK II, Naglfar's Harvest, Rottin' Christ's Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story, The Agonist's Lullabies For The Dormant Mind, Wolf's Ravenous, Autumn's Altitude, Turisas' Stand Up And Fight, Dia De Los Muertos' Satanico Dramatico, Ensiferum's One Man Army, Carach Angren's This Is No Fairytale, Deliverance – The Subversive Kind, Destroyer 666 – Call of the Wild, Dimmu Borgir's Interdimensional Summit, Megahertz' Komet, MGT's Gemini Nyte, Necrophobic's Mark of the Necrogram, Nick Oliveri's N.O.
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4, Salem's Attrition, Schwarzer Engel's Kult der Krähe, Sebastein's Act of Creation, and Tengger Cavalry's Cian Bi.