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15 Years Ago: ALTAR SHADOWS release I

15 Years Ago: ALTAR SHADOWS release I

ALTORIŲ ŠEŠĖLIAI (ALTAR SHADOWS) released the debut demo I on this day in 2005. A second demo followed in late 2006. The only album by ALTORIŲ ŠEŠĖLIAI - Margi sakalai (Speckledy Falcons) - was recorded in December 2006 and released by us in June 2007. Several songs by...
22 Years Ago: BEHEXEN record Blessed Be the Darkness

22 Years Ago: BEHEXEN record Blessed Be the Darkness

Attraction to Satanism and extreme music. Those were the accomplishing and uppermost reasons to start Behexen. From those times we nevertheless have developed musically as well as mentally, but the meaning of Behexen still is the same, that meaning being the cultivation of Satan and death! Torog /...
10 Years Ago: TWILIGHT release Monument to Time End

10 Years Ago: TWILIGHT release Monument to Time End

TWILIGHT released their second album, Monument to Time End, on this day in 2010. Five years after the self-titled debut - released by THR - the follow-up features three of the five original members: Imperial (KRIEG), Wrest (LEVIATHAN) and Azentrius (NACHTMYSTIUM). Malefic (XASTHUR) and Hildolf (DRAUGAR) are replaced...
25 Years Ago: ALGAION record Vox Clamentis

25 Years Ago: ALGAION record Vox Clamentis

ALGAION completed recording of Vox Clamentis - the follow-up to their FMP debut LP Oimai Algeiou - on this day in 1995. The mini CD was released about a year later through Italian label Wounded Love. Vox Clamentis was again recorded at Peter Tägtgren's Abyss studio. When we...
10 Years Ago: AKITSA release Au crepuscule de l'esperance

10 Years Ago: AKITSA release Au crepuscule de l'esperance

It possesses the deepest, most sincere lyrics we've ever written. Musically, it is evolving toward new ground while retaining the fundamental roots of Akitsa. The songs were sporadically recorded at different time periods. This should explain the changes and variation in our sound as the settings were changed...
25 Years Ago: NAZXUL release Totem

25 Years Ago: NAZXUL release Totem

NAZXUL released their debut album on this day in 1995 through Vampire Records, the NSW label that first released SADISTIK EXEKUTION's The Magus in 1991. We have always considered our sound to be a part of the black metal cult and shall always remain that way. The authentic...
25 Years Ago: SUMMONING release Lugburz

25 Years Ago: SUMMONING release Lugburz

SUMMONING released their debut album Lugburz on this day in 1995. This album contains most of the demo-songs, but highly rearranged. Most of the basic riffs have been composed on bass-guitar, while Protector added the other melody-lines on guitar. On this album keyboards have been used, just as...
21 Years Ago: EMPEROR release IX Equilibrium

21 Years Ago: EMPEROR release IX Equilibrium

I think the new album is a bit beyond the terms of Black Metal. We have used a more "all over" Metal influence, ranging from strict Heavy to Trash/Death Metal. After finishing an album, there are always things one could have wished to do differently, but I feel...