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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

• Tags: Black Metal History Ofermod

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

• Tags: Bathory Black Metal History

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Gorgoroth

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

• Tags: Bathory Black Metal History

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Shining

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Ondskapt

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Dark Funeral

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Necromantia

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History

20 Years Ago: RAVENTHRONE release Malice in Wonderland

RAVENTHRONE released their debut album on this day in 1998. Formed by Ray Wells, also known as Pazuzu, of PAZUZU and an early member of fellow Austrian Black Metal Syndicate member SUMMONING, and Armand Hortolomei (Engelmacher). RAVENTHRONE is a project band that I started about two years ago....

27 April 2018

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23 Years Ago: SADISTIK EXEKUTION, ABSU & IMPALED NAZRENE live in Berlin

Part of the SADISTIK EXEKUTION / ABSU / IMPALED NAZRENE Sex, Cyber & Rock'n Roll European tour. Live on this day in 1995 at the now-closed Knaack Klub in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. This is ImpNaz live in Berlin 1995, not sure if it's the same gig:

24 April 2018

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37 Years Ago: VENOM release In League with Satan

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...

19 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Venom

22 Years Ago: DISSECTION & GORGOROTH live in Trier

DISSECTION live on this day in 1996, part of the World Tour of the Light's Bane. The tour was in support of their second album, Storm of the Light's Bane, which had been released in November 1995. The European leg of their tour - with GORGOROTH and SATYRICON...

17 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Dissection Gorgoroth

19 Years Ago: EMPEROR live in London (Emperial Live Ceremony)

EMPEROR recorded a live set, later released as Emperial Live Ceremony, on this day in 1999 at London's LA2 (formerly Astoria 2, later Mean Fiddler, now demolished). This was towards the of their April European Conquest Spring 1999 tour, playing the next day in Bradford at the Rio...

14 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Emperor

35 Years Ago: MERCYFUL FATE live in Eindhoven (with King Diamond commentary)

MERCYFUL FATE were playing live at the Dynamo Club on this day in 1983. The full gig does exist on video (watch below), sourced from a decent quality VHS. Three songs have been preserved in amazing quality though and they can be found on the DVD included with...

9 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Mercyful Fate

17 Years Ago: GRAND BELIAL'S KEY record Judeobeast Assassination

The conceptual order of our albums is retrogressive, meaning the first album dealt with the most recent religious passages inspired by the New Testament. The second album, "JUDEOBEAST" explored the inseparability of Judeo-Christianity, it's complementation and co-existence. Gelal Necrosodomy / Grand Belial's Key interview, Castle of Vampiria, 2009...

8 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Grand Belial's Key

22 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE live at Rockefeller, Oslo

Nocturno Culto made me do it, anyway that was our final gig.- Fenriz / Darkthrone interview, Tartaros' Tales #1, 1996 DARKTHRONE live on this day in 1996 at the Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo; with SATYRICON playing their first show - Satyr also played bass with DARKTHRONE on this...

6 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone