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25 Years Ago: AETERNUS release ...and So the Night Became

In ways, it's different, but it's not so different in other ways, you know?! That's how I see it. The musical progress is clear, I think. "...And So The Night Became" has more pounding sound, better arrangement and more 'focused' emotion than "Beyond The Wandering Moon". Aeternus interview,...

15 September 2023

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25 Years Ago: FUNERAL MIST release Devilry

FUNERAL MIST - formed by Arioch (MARDUK) in 1994 - released their first major release, the Devilry mini-album, on this day in 1998. Recording took place in late 1997 through January 1998 at Necromorbus Studio. Some of the songs, including the eponymous track above, originate at least as...

30 July 2023

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20 Years Ago: KOLDBRANN release Nekrotisk inkvisition

The album was recorded in our first rehearsal space in Drammen, as well as in the basement of the old drummer's house, using a lot of equipment that we had brought there ourselves. It was not a very structured process, and none of us had that much studio...

14 April 2023

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25 Years Ago: COVENANT release Nexus Polaris

The meaning of it... directly you can't say... "Nexus" means a connection point between 2 things and "Polaris" has two different means... It's a guiding star, and at the same time it's the name of the first NUCLEAR MISSILE ever made...Compolaris... so... for me, the title means "Progressive...

24 March 2023

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20 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Hate Them

I have tried to combine my way of playing to get the most darkness out of the riffs. It will contain more and more of the old spirit. The old spirit of Black Metal will be more present than in some years for us you know. Nocturno Culto...

17 March 2023

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30 Years Ago: BURZUM release Aske

I am satisfied [with Aske] yeah, but it was the second full length album that supposed to be out by now, I guess D.S.P. did not understand that in time. The second LP is recorded in April 1992 and it's getting rather old, it'll be out in September...

10 March 2023

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25 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH release Pandemonic Incantations

The new songs differ from the ones on Grom. They are surely more mature in each way. You'll see, we've developed as musicians, and it's audible on our new record. It's full of extreme emotions. The sound is also much better than on our previous release. There may...

2 March 2023

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25 Years Ago: ANGELCORPSE release Exterminate

"Exterminate", our second album, was released at the end of February (1998), I'm not sure when the Aussie release will occur. Expect the album to be everything you know about Angelcorpse only much more obsessive and ripping than ever before. This new album has a lot more blasting...

25 February 2023

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20 Years Ago: SATANIC WARMASTER release Opferblut

SATANIC WARMASTER released their second album, Opferblut ("Sacrificial blood"), on this day in 2003 through No Colours. The debute album convinced No Colours Records to a degree they offered a contract. Flattered by the possibility to become one in the lineage of Dimmu Borgir, Graveland etc. I agreed...

19 February 2023

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25 Years Ago: SETHERIAL release Lords of the Nightrealm

First of all, black metal lies in the intellect, not in the tempo. We play fast as we find it most satisfying that way, not for any other reason. No band gets to be a pure black metal act just by playing fast, nor by playing slow. Real...

2 February 2023

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30 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH record The Return of the Northern Moon

'The Return of the northern moon' is our first real stuff, it's only a proclaim of Behemoth's acts. Our newest stuff is more into pure evil black metal. 'True horned sodomy', our next demo, will be recorded in pro-studio and it will contain seven trax of pure unholiness....

19 December 2022

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40 Years Ago: VENOM release Black Metal

Our music is Power Metal, Venom Metal, Black Metal not Heavy Metal cos that's for the chicks. Venom interview, Kerrang!, 1982 VENOM released their iconic second album, Black Metal, on this day in 1982 through Neat. Satan is power and Venom is power so we write about Satan....

1 November 2022

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20 Years Ago: SATYRICON release Volcano

Strong, dark atmospheres, coldness, eeriness - you can expect "Volcano" to invoke this in you. This album is mostly about powerful and quite straightforward Black Metal, with some Thrash and Hardrock elements thrown in. Don't bother so much with how it eventually differs from the other albums or...

26 October 2022

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25 Years Ago: BURZUM release Daudi Baldrs

Balder's Death is meant to stimulate mortal's ability to think beyond the normally accepted 'truths', to make them think for themselves. Dreams change nothing. Thoughts change nothing either, but perhaps the next album will stimulate mortal's will to act? We need no more dreams. We need no more...

14 October 2022

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20 Years Ago: SHINING release III: Angst Sjalvdestruktivitetens emissarie

SHINING III was basically the album where we truly reached where we were aiming, both musically as well as lyrically... Kvarforth / Shining interview, Carpathian Wolves Legion, 2005 SHINING released their third album on this day in 2002 through Avantgarde.

7 October 2022

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20 Years Ago: NEGURA BUNGET release n crugu bradului

'N crugu bradului opens and closes a complete and expressive cycle, a unitary vision melting mythological ambient, psychedelic and Transilvanian feeling into a complex layered musical and ideological structure. Sought original musical and lyrical structures, a deep personal emotional approach, make the album not just a cyclic dream...

3 October 2022

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20 Years Ago: ANTAEUS release De Principii Evangelikum

De Principii Evangelikum is another stone to the edifice, yet not the final one, just taking part of those pillars, making sure the schrei X kathedral is still standing and holding the void. MkM / Antaeus interview, Darkened Zine, 2002 ANTAEUS released their second album on this day...

23 September 2022

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20 Years Ago: THE KOVENANT release In Times Before the Light

All of these changes through the years are important for us, but playing what we play now is very important. We have molded our music. When we started off we were very young; we played black metal and we thought it was so cool. It was. The second...

3 September 2022

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