On what would have been their birthdays or anniversaries, the world is remembering Jack Bruce of CREAM, Paul Shortino of KING KOBRA and ROUGH CUTT fame, Steve Hogarth's work with MARILLION, TUFF's album release What Comes Around Goes Around from May 1991, SCORPIONS' Humanity: Hour I, HATESPHERE's Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes, BLACK MAJESTY's In Your Honor EP, PRETTY MAIDS' Pandemonium album, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's One of Us Is the Killer album and TRIBULATION's The Formulas Of Death.

Meanwhile, CALIBAN released Zeitgeister, CANVAS SOLARIS dropped Chromosphere, CHARLIE BENANTE released Silver Linings, MYLES KENNEDY debuted with his album The Ides Of March, PER WIBERG issued All Is Well In The Land Of The Living, But For The Rest Of Us… and SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE unveiled Mountain Fever.