January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

John Paul Jones

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in England. The birth name is John Richard Baldwin. British musician-multi-instrumentalist, music producer, composer, arranger. He is best known as the bassist and keyboardist of the band Led Zeppelin. John’s contribution to the band’s work is huge. In 2011, he was recognized as one of the best bass guitarists of all time according to a survey conducted by Rolling Stone magazine. In addition, he was ranked 14th in the list of the 50 greatest bassists of all time by the editors of the same magazine.

Ross Friedman (Ross The Boss)

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in the USA in 1954. Known by the nickname “Ross The Boss”. As a child, he played the violin masterfully, but later fell in love with the guitar. Together with bassist Joey DeMaio, they founded the band Manowar, in which Ross recorded six albums. He left the Manowar group in 1988. Their last album together was Kings of Metal.

Bernd Aufermann

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in Germany in 1970. Guitarist of the band Angel Dust and former member of Running Wild.

Spiros Efthimiadis

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in Greece in 1971. Former guitarist of the band Rage.

Craig Pillard

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in the USA in 1972. Guitarist and vocalist in the death metal band Disma and former member of Incantation.

Rob Arnold

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

Born in the USA in 1980. Former guitarist of the bands Chimaira and Six Feet Under. Currently the guitarist of WretchedPain.

The album Amok by the Finnish metal band Sentenced has been released

January 3 in the history of rock and metal music

This is the third album of the Finnish band. The album was released on Century Media Records in 1995. On this album, the Finns have already started to lighten the sound from death metal towards melodically heavy. Nevertheless, the album turned out to be quite good, with good reviews.