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25 Years Ago: PRIMORDIAL record Dark Romanticism... Sorrow's Bitter Harvest...

We recorded our first and only demo "Dark Romanticism", recorded for about £50 in the lads home town of Skerries in a converted front room studio on eight tracks. Considering the equipment and the time and our experience we were quite shocked at how well it came out....

22 June 2018

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25 Years Ago: MORTIIS completes The Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost

MORTIIS "apologizes" the musical mistakes comitted on this recording, 95% was done at one tack. So Fuck off!! MORTIIS was formed December '92... The original and ONLY member of MORTIIS.- Petrified zine #2, 1993 After leaving EMPEROR in December 1992, MORTIIS began recording this debut demo the following...

15 June 2018

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19 Years Ago: KULT OF AZAZEL live in Florida

KULT OF AZAZEL - or AZAZEL as they were known at the time - live on this day in 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. AZAZEL became KULT OF AZAZEL, after several demos, in 2001 and released their debut album Triumph of Fire and a split with KRIEG that year.

14 June 2018

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21 Years Ago: ARCTURUS complete La Masquerade Infernale

I took part in the sessions for La Masquerade Infernale back in 1996 where I sung vocals on 'The Chaos Path'. I was at their rehearsal place a lot and we jammed for a bit and Knut came up with this idea for what later would be 'The...

12 June 2018

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24 Years Ago: MARDUK live in Copenhagen

MARDUK live on this day in 1994. Part of the Sons of Northern Darkness tour with IMMORTAL.

7 June 2018

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22 Years Ago: DODHEIMSGARD release Monumental Possession

DØDHEIMSGARD released their second killer album on this day in 1996. Monumental Possession lineup: Aldrahn (Vocals / THORNS, ZYKLON-B), Vicotnik (Drums), Apollyon (Guitars / AURA NOIR), Alver (Bass / EMPEROR). I think we had the right people in the right time, like Apollyon and Fenriz for their influence...

5 June 2018

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27 Years Ago: THORNS record Grymyrk

Just as STIGMA DIABOLICUM became THORNS, Snorre W. Ruch and Harald Eilertsen recorded the cult rehearsal Grymyrk on this day in 1991, it soon - unintentionally - spread through trading circles: ...that was the tape that was supposed to be just for the members of THORNS to rehearse to and...

3 June 2018

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16 Years Ago: DARKSPACE release -I demo

DARKSPACE released their first demo on this day in 2002. It has only ever been available digitally, originally from their official website with an accompanying PDF booklet. Darkspace - -I (song order is backwards) A year and a half later they released I, the debut album; first as...

30 May 2018

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20 Years Ago: OFERMOD release Mysterion Tes Anomias

Brilliant response from those who have got their hands on it. Although this assault is very restricted, so be proud if you are among those who possess it. We have a couple of labels interested in putting it out on CD, but this is something we will have...

29 May 2018

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22 Years Ago: BATHORY release Blood on Ice

Released on this day in 1996, but the material dates back further - to the days of Blood Fire Death - and could have been the fifth BATHORY album if released in 1989. Re-recorded / re-worked at Hellhole Studio in June-July 1995 Blood on Ice was finally released...

27 May 2018

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22 Years Ago: GORGOROTH live in Bergen (The Last Tormentor)

Lineup: Pest, Grim, Infernus, Ares GORGOROTH recorded live at the Garage, Bergen on this day in 1996. Two songs from the concert were released by Malicious Records as The Last Tormentor 7". Later reissues were released under the title Bergen 1996.

23 May 2018

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10 Years Ago: NYKTALGIA release Peisithanatos

NYKTALGIA released their second album on this day in 2008. Peisithanatos was their last album. Following their final concert in November 2008, at the the second Nidrosian Black Mass, NYKTALGIA split.

20 May 2018

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31 Years Ago: BATHORY release Under the Sign of the Black Mark

GARFFFFFFFFFF! At least it arrived! The hellish third lp with the pride of Scandinavia! This time QUORTHON doesn't do all the work alone, at least we know he got a drummer! (We don't know his name thought.......) This is probably one of the best Death Metal lp'es ever...

11 May 2018

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20 Years Ago: SHINING release Submit to Selfdestruction

From the old official website biography: Suicide, self-destruction and the abuse of the human flesh & mind, these three topics are the main issues dealt with in Shining's music. The band has since its very beginning (1996) been cursed and the individuals within suffered from enormous problems because...

10 May 2018

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13 Years Ago: ONDSKAPT release Dodens evangelium

ONDSKAPT released their second album on this day in 2005 through Portuguese label Next Horizon. Dödens evangelium would be followed five years later by the third - and still most recent - album Arisen from the Ashes. During the 2005-2010 period members were still active in other bands:...

8 May 2018

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24 Years Ago: DARK FUNERAL release Dark Funeral

...we decided to not include the lyrics because it would have costed a lot more. At first we wanted to have them enclosed, but then we had to drop the pictures of us on the inside fold up instead. We thought it was more important with these pictures...

4 May 2018

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18 Years Ago: NECROMANTIA release IV: Malice

NECROMANTIA released IV: Malice - their third album - on this day in 2000. It would be another seven years before new material was unleashed on The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven.

30 April 2018

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38 Years Ago: VENOM record their first demo

Photograph: Rik Walton The demo... with Clive singing, I was able to talk the engineer into working for free and talked everybody else into working for free with my charm and managed to get the band in the studio for a couple of hours for those three tracks....

29 April 2018

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