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29 Years Ago: ROTTING CHRIST record the Decline's Return demo

These same three fellows would go on to record several classic albums, but on this day in 1989 they were recording a rehearsal demo in Athens. Raw blasts of death metal/grindcore, or "music(?)" as they list it on the tape. Ooouuuuaaaoooouuu...... How did you describe this demo???? Who traded it with...

25 January 2018

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23 Years Ago: BESTIAL WARLUST record a demo (pre Blood & Valour)

Our music is created by power from ourselves (thought to music). We are strong and powerful-minded people. After all, isn't that what this music about? By the direction of most lame bands around these days, not a lot of music is done by this.- Bestial Warlust interview, Descent...

22 January 2018

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20 Years Ago: FALKENBACH release ...magni blandinn ok megintíri...

Beer I bring thee, tree of battle,Mingled of strength and mighty fame;Charms it holds and healing signs,Spells full good, and gladness-runes. FALKENBACH released ...magni blandinn ok megintíri..., the second album, on this day in 1998. Most of the lyrics are about Asatru, the religion of Germanic and north-European...

21 January 2018

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21 Years Ago: SUMMONING release Dol Guldur (In Mordor, where the shadows are)

In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling. We fear that now it is inhabited again, and with power sevenfold. A black cloud lies often over it of late. In this high place you may see the two...

19 January 2018

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22 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Total Death

Darkthrone plays unholy black metal exclusively. The envy of loosers we piss on. We really didn't do a lot of interviews from 93 and onwards. We sort of came out nowhere with Total Death album, because we've been just keeping low profile.- Fenriz / Darkthrone interview, Fire Goat,...

15 January 2018

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23 Years Ago: COUNTESS record Ad Maiorem Sathanae Gloriam

During a bitter January week in the year 1995 Orlok recorded the third COUNTESS album, Ad Maiorem Sathanae Gloriam. There is an improvement in songwriting on Ad Maiorem compared to the previous album, but it's still not songwriting that I can be satisfied with to this day. Looking...

12 January 2018

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20 Years Ago: DIABOLI release Towards Damnation on FMP

DIABOLI released their second album, Towards Damnation, through Full Moon Productions during this month in 1998.

10 January 2018

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14 Years Ago: VROLOK release Resurgence II: Where the Dying Meet the Dead

VROLOK released the second in their Resurgence trilogy on this day in 2004 through Alpha Draconis Records. Below is a video interview with VROLOK from 2012, around the time of the split with RELIQUE. That split tape would be their last release. Since then Dan has joined LITHOTOME...

7 January 2018

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15 Years Ago: REVENGE release Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist

The Canadian black metal skinhead cult has been around for many years hailing violence and antichrist elitist ideals. Too many are jumping on this trend these days but they are years too late.Revenge is a violent warfare holycaust attack on all who hail the beliefsof Inferion.- J. Read...

6 January 2018

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25 Years Ago: ARCHGOAT record Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)

ARCHGOAT finished recording their only major release before the mid-2000s reformation on this day in 1993. Recording began on Monday, the day before, and the EP was mixed on the 6th at Music Box Studio. Paul Thind was forming Necropolis Records around this time and would release Angelcunt...

5 January 2018

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28 Years Ago: NECROMANTIA release their first promo tape

Late 1989... I knew Baron Blood before and we shared similar likings in music and ideas so we decide to express them in a musical form. The Promo Tape 1990 was recorded in one night from 6 in the afternoon until 5 in the morning! LIVE! We did...

3 January 2018

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22 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH release Grom (original unused artwork)

"Grom" is dedicated to ourselves,Bards of Pomeranian Heathendom BEHEMOTH released their second album, Grom, on this day in 1996. The first edition was put out by Carsten Molitor's great Solistitium Records (WYRD, BILSKIRNIR, HELHEIM, NOCTERNITY). We only had contact towards the end of Solistitium and the short-lived Omvina,...

2 January 2018

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22 Years Ago: BURZUM release Filosofem on Misanthropy Records

The other unreleased full-lenght album of BURZUM is «Filosofem-» meaning "disparaging assertion proposed in a philosophical erudite language," with songs like «Burzum- the Spirit of Aether,» «Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament,» «Circumambulation of the Transcendental Pillar of Singularity,» and «Filosofem.» Very weird and original production. The best...

1 January 2018

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27 Years Ago: TORR complete Institut klinicke smrti at studio Citron

TÖRR completed their killer second album on this day in 1990. Institut klinické smrti was recorded over 16 days at Studio Citron and released in the summer of 1991 by Direkt. TÖRR are another legendary part of the Czech 80s scene. Their history extends back to 1977, some of their...

31 December 2017

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25 Years Ago: DAWN record their second demo Apparition

DAWN recorded at Dan Swanö's Gorysound (later Unisound) studio on this day in 1992. It was one of the last Gorysound recordings. Other Gorysound demo bands that year included KATATONIA, MANIFEST, INTERMENT, FULMINATION, OBSCURE INFINITY and OPHTHALAMIA.

30 December 2017

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21 Years Ago: SECRETS OF THE MOON live under A Black Winter Night

First of all, a word on "Vanitas"; it's our latest rehearsal demotape which contains four typical Secret Of The Moon tracks, plus a Beherit ("Sadomatic Rites")-conversion. Moreover, you'll find seven live songs which were recorded at our "A Black Winter Night"-gig, on December 28th, 1996. This particulary tape...

28 December 2017

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30 Years Ago: MORBID release December Moon

The moon was full, and this demo were done at 5th and 6th December 87 anno satanas and it took 16 hours. MORBID recorded December Moon over those 16 hours at Thunderload Studio in Stockholm. First released by the band themselves as a demo tape, with artwork by...

24 December 2017

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28 Years Ago: DEATH SS release Black Mass

Year by year we had evolved our style, enriching it of new elements, but the roots were always the same... from the old "glitter rock" of acts like the Sweet, Slade and T-Rex (for the glamorous taste and the strong visual characterization), to Punk rock (for the aggressive...

23 December 2017

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