THE GATHERING played live at the 27th Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands on this day in 1996.
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ANVIL released their debut LP, Hard 'n' Heavy, on this day in 1981.
I am also proud of Manic Impressions because I think it is probably our most focused album and the most consistent throughout. Everything just fits well together on that one and that was the result of bring in a new drummer and working with him more closely with...
One day I came in with this riff and Abaddon started pounding the toms to it in a really tribal way. I was expecting a straight beat, but this rolling thing started happening with the song. And the solo is just a bunch of single, sustained notes with...
One of, if not the, first heavy metal bands from Slovenia (Yugoslavia as it was then), POMARANČA released their debut album, Peklenska pomaranča (Hell Orange - taken from A Clockwork Orange which was re-titled in Slovenia), on this day in 1981.
The only agenda we've ever had in Priest was to really give every album its own life and I think we've achieved that on everything from Rocka Rolla up to the new one, Nostradamus. That said, if ever there was a controversial record in terms of what people...
It's never just another album, it's always the most evolved versions of ourselves that we can be at that moment. But we were trying to push stuff to as dark as they could possibly be, as heavy and as intense as it could be. Being young men in...
In 1981, we recorded and released "Breaker" which brought us fame in Europe, an important contribution having the open-tour for Judas Priest. Since then, all was great as albums and tours, though over the years we confronted with some changes of band members. Accept interview, Heavy Metal Magazine,...
Photograph: Erica Echenberg THIN LIZZY recorded their ninth John Peel session on this day in 1976 at Maida Vale 4 with producer Tony Wilson and engineer Bill Aitken. The session aired a month later, on 9 March, and served as a preview for songs on their their sixth...
Leipzig thrash. THE ART OF THE LEGENDARY TISHVAISINGS released their only album, Catharsis, on this day in 1991.
GRAVE DIGGER released their third LP, War Games, on this day in 1985 through Noise.
Here's the thing about Frost and Fire: It was never ever supposed to be a record that was released to the public. At that time, every band in the world was making cassettes, and then they would send them out to the record company to try and get...
Japanese heavy metal, still going strong. ANTHEM released the Ready to Ride 12" EP on this day in 1985 through Nexus. Side A featured two new songs - "Ready to Ride" and "Shed" - while side B included three English-language versions of songs originally recorded for their debut...
...we try to make it so you're not burned out on the album in two weeks you know. We want you to, like, a year later still be playing it, and going, "Oh, I never noticed that." Ward Evans / Psychotic Waltz interview, Metal Prophet, 1990 PSYCHOTIC WALTZ...
Everytime we write an album we don't go like, let's make it more mainstream or whatever, just to go into the studio and make something. We don't think like that. YOU know we play the music for ourselves and we want to have fun with the stuff we...
I think the next album is going to be rougher, but it's not going to be noisier. People who are expecting more commercial songs are going to be disappointed. People who are expecting Slayer-sounding songs are going to be disappointed as well. I think a lot of people...
This war theme has always been around us. If you read newspaper every day and watch TV shows every day, there is always a war raging. I just wanna describe wars; I can't write anything about World War II because of Germany. I use the Vietnam War because...
This is, as far as I know, the earliest DANZIG live footage! On this day in 1988 at Sheffield City Hall. supporting METALLICA. Six dates into their Not of This World Tour which began in Edinburgh on the 24th. After 14 UK dates the band returned to the...