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21 Years Ago: ULVER release Nattens madrigal

We are what our name uphold. Wolves.. During night we find a mental and to some extent also a physical (!) well-being that we most likely are never to find at daytime. The truth is simply that ever time the sun breaks through it has a detrimental effect...

3 March 2018

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24 Years Ago: SACRAMENTUM record Finis Malorum

When we started it was just because we wanted to make extreme music, violent music. We had no ambitions whatsoever. Then thing started to happen. A lot of people liked the stuff we made. So we became more serious and after we had recorded the MCD "Finis Malorum"...

27 February 2018

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26 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release A Blaze in the Northern Sky

We are the New Darkthrone. We deny old Darkthrone stuff. We formed in 1991. All has changed. Unholy black metal and satanic poetry are us. We hate death metal and trendy scene. We will not be part of it. To isolate it what we must do to make...

26 February 2018

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25 Years Ago: IN THE WOODS... record a rehearsal tape

IN THE WOODS... recorded this rehearsal tape in February 1993. We had a really bad rehearsal place in the basement of a school and every time we were to rehearse we had to find all the equipment from the bomb shelter. It took ages to put everything up and to...

25 February 2018

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21 Years Ago: IMMORTAL release Blizzard Beasts

We managed to be different from our earlier albums also this time, and we changed the concept a bit, but not the style. It still sounds Immortal. We also wanted to develop ourselves continuously. Develop, but maintain and keep our own style. Theme is the usual, which I...

24 February 2018

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30 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Land of Frost

Yes this tape is very different from our current style, and no, I don't consider it part of Darkthrone!!! That kind of goes for "Thulcandra" too, but we spread it in over 200 copies, so I guess (sadly) that it is part of our history which many will...

23 February 2018

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15 Years Ago: MGLA record Power and Will

MGŁA finished recording Power and Will on this day in 2003. The four songs (Parts I-VI) were recorded over two days at Gaschamber Portable. The lineup at that point was founding member M. and Daren (KRIEGSMASCHINE, HOLY DEATH, ARAGON) on drums. The material would be their first public...

22 February 2018

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24 Years Ago: EMPEROR release In the Nightside Eclipse

...we have recorded a full lenght album, it's entitled "In the nightside eclipse" and are to be released as soon as the final mix and artwork is ready...it will be a monument in the Black Metal history.- Samoth / Emperor interview, Pure Fucking Hell #2, 1994 Released during the...

21 February 2018

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21 Years Ago: ARCKANUM release Kostogher

Through wooded glades he wanders with dancing nymphs who foot it on some sheer cliff's edge, calling upon Pan, the shepherd-god, long-haired, unkempt. He has every snowy crest and the mountain peaks and rocky crests for his domain; hither and thither he goes through the close thickets, now...

20 February 2018

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24 Years Ago: BEHERIT release H418ov21.C

"H418..." was supposed to be a special teaser-release before the release of a new band-BEHERIT album. I just never managed to get the band together again...- Nuclear Holocausto / Beherit interview, Sue, 2000 BEHERIT released the ambient album H418ov21.C on this day in 1994, just three months after...

19 February 2018

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24 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Transilvanian Hunger

In my 13 years with DARKTHRONE, some fucken weird stuff has crossed my path, therefore I remember "Transilvanian Hunger" as the most crazy and mean time of my life.- Nocturno Culto / Darkthrone interview, Nocturnal Cult, 2001 Released on this day in 1994. DARKTHRONE's fourth album, and after the controversy...

17 February 2018

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18 Years Ago: KATHARSIS release 666

Doch endlich stürzt in letzten Flammen,In gräßlicher VernichtungsprachtDes Himmels "Herrlichkeit" zusammenUnd schwarz entsteigt die ew'ge Nacht...HEIL LUZIFER. HEIL SATAN!!! KATHARSIS released their killer debut 666 on this day in 2000. An album that owed much to Under a Funeral Moon, yet had a quality and relevance - which...

15 February 2018

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20 Years Ago: SPEAR OF LONGINUS record Nada Brahma

SPEAR OF LONGINUS recorded most of Nada Brahma on this day in 1998. The intro and outro ("I.A.O." and "Interplanetary Warfare and the Attack of the Culture Heroes") date back to 1995.The complete mini album was then mixed at Vibrafeel Studios in March of 98 and released the following year...

7 February 2018

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16 Years Ago: IMMORTAL release Sons of Northern Darkness

It has a very triumphant and victorious feel to it. There're a lot of atmospheric parts on this album that we felt they haven't been used very much in the past, for example song 'Beyond the North Waves' has those new elements. We are total metal fans we...

4 February 2018

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15 Years Ago: WYRD release Wrath & Revenge on Desolate Landscapes

Not an album, rather a compilation of songs from the Unchained Heathen Wrath demo, Songs of the Northern Gale demo, Of Revenge and Bloodstained Swords demo and one exclusive song. WYRD released Wrath & Revenge on this day in 2003. I really wanted to use this anniversary as a way to...

1 February 2018

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31 Years Ago: VOMIT record Rot in Hell (cult Norwegian death thrash)

No peers, no scene. As it was back then. But if you listen to this song, feral death thrash a la hell awaits album by Slayer, it is so clear why two of the members were chosen as session members for Mayhem.- Fenriz, Band of the Week Early...

31 January 2018

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24 Years Ago: TORGEIST record Devoted to Satan

This record is dedicated to all of you, Brothers and Sisters, who've killed the false and feeble god. May you eternally follow the way of Satanism... Hail to all the true Black Metal Underground. TORGEIST recorded Devoted to Satan over one "night of fullmoon", completing their debut demo...

29 January 2018

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32 Years Ago: NME release Unholy Death (metal and speed kills!)

All of my infractions with the law really have nothing to do with the band. Other than the security guy who showed up 'cause I was smashing a bat while we were recording....when we were recording Unholy Death, and I was all pissed off and stressed, I took...

28 January 2018

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