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22 Years Ago: OBTEST release Pries audra demo

You know it's not so easy to express the way music influences mixes. AC/DC, Manowar, Kreator were the bands whick took us in to metal music world back then. As a musician I was influenced by Kreator, Death, Grave, Paradise lost. During early black metal days heavy inspiration...

22 December 2017

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21 Years Ago: WARLOGHE record The Black Tower demo

...there is no distinction. The arts are my life, I spend my days perfecting my art, Warloghe is just one part of it, it is the conduit through which I channel, the sigils turning into sound. But like you may have already guessed, the music itself is not...

17 December 2017

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23 Years Ago: GRAND BELIAL'S KEY release Triumph of the Hordes

Released on tape by Pagan Records on this day in 1994, the second GRAND BELIAL'S KEY demo. Recorded at The Dungeon in Arlington, Virginia. "In Rapture by the Fenrir Moon" was re-recorded for the debut album, "Sleeping Princes of the Arges" was forgotten; and while "When Darkness Rears...

13 December 2017

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20 Years Ago: LIMBONIC ART release In Abhorrence Dementia

Limbonic Art today is Daemon on guitar and lead vocals. Morfeus on guitar, additional vocals, and synthesizer programming/samples.The main interest that we have is to create music within the dark dimensions. With some powerful and mournful metallic symphonies, followed up by great artistic cover work and pathological reveries...

12 December 2017

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21 Years Ago: NEGURA BUNGET release their debut album Zirnindu-sa

Our first album, Zîrnindu-să, was also released at the end of the same year [1996], by Bestial Records which, back then, was the only underground label in Romania. Moreover, we could even say that the label itself was founded specially for the release. I consider that we had...

11 December 2017

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24 Years Ago: ULVER release the Vargnatt promo tape

ULVER released their original promo tape Vargnatt on this day in 1993. Ulver - Tragediens trone, Live/Promo Video, Oslo, 1993 Some of the lyrics were written by Jørn H. Sværen who has remained a collaborator with ULVER to this day: I met Jørn "Smile to life and I'll...

5 December 2017

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24 Years Ago: DISSECTION release their debut album The Somberlain

When we compose our music we unlock the gates to our perpetual uncontrolled feelings. It is not only music, but also emotions, aggression, hate despair, sorrow, evil..... Things that normal people would call extreme, but we find beautiful! If we affect other peoples emotions, then it's great. We...

3 December 2017

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25 Years Ago: GRAVELAND complete the Drunemeton promo tape

One of the earliest GRAVELAND demos (the cover says Promo Tape), Rob Fudali (Darken) began recording in Wrocław on the 10th of November and completed Drunemeton on this day in 1992. Very raw and primitive, but that has more to do with the equipment than vision when you...

28 November 2017

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27 Years Ago: MAYHEM live in Leipzig (Photos and Audio)

We just started playing live after a break which lasted 4 years, and the reasons were lack of members and rehearsalplaces. And songs. Now we did a couple of gigs, it was cool except that all the equipment fucked up on the 1st one, and Hellhammer was drunk...

26 November 2017

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21 Years Ago: Rarog Fire Fest, Moscow (NOKTURNAL MORTUM, LUCIFUGUM) (Full Video)

Live on this night in 1996, NOKTURNAL MORTUM headlined with support from LUCIFUGUM, THRON and NORGARD.

22 November 2017

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23 Years Ago: ARCKANUM completes the Trulen demo

Recorded over a month on a Fostex 4-track, ARCKANUM completed the cult Trulen demo on this day in 1994. The 15 song tape was originally limited to 111 hand-numbered copies, several hundred were released later. The well known "Gava fran trulen" video takes audio from this demo. The...

14 November 2017

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31 Years Ago: SEPULTURA release Morbid Visions

Our next LP will be called "Morbid Visions". It will be 8 songs, one being instrumental. It will be much better recorded; our first one was recorded only on eight tracks, and the songs are all on a higher level, they're faster and heavier. We've got a better...

10 November 2017

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23 Years Ago: DEMONIC CHRIST finish recording Punishment for Ignorance

DEMONIC CHRIST began recording their only album, Punishment for Ignorance, on 30 October at Sonic Cafe Recording in Charlotte, NC and completed the record on this day in 1994. Dana Duffey – Guitars, VocalsDuane Brown – DrumsJon Vesano – Guitars, Vocals (Jon would go on to form DARKMOON with...

6 November 2017

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34 Years Ago: MERCYFUL FATE release Melissa

I was doing all the music at that time, so I just kept composing, kept composing because I loved to compose. Get up in the middle of the night. I remember when I did "Satan's Fall" that was maybe within a week or two. Every night until 3AM,...

30 October 2017

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30 Years Ago: MORBID live in Stockholm

MORBID live on this day in 1987. Birkagården - Stockholm, Sweden.

23 October 2017

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30 Years Ago: KING DIAMOND release Abigail (you must rest in shame)

"Mercyful Fate is dead, long live the King" was last year's slogan, when the "Fatal Portrait" album by Denmark's pride KING DIAMOND stole the hearts of a great many Metal-Fans. Now, with their latest release "Abigail", KING DIAMOND finally show their superior form and present a concept-album featuring...

21 October 2017

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22 Years Ago: SUMMONING release Minas Morgul

...the lyrical and musical concept behind Summoning is based on Middle Earth, the mind world created by Tolkien, dealing with descriptions of landscapes, battles and great events of Tolkien's books just like "Lord of the Rings" or "The Silmarillion".My musical influences are lots of metal bands from the...

16 October 2017

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22 Years Ago: MOONBLOOD record Siegfried (Die Sage vom Helden)

Considered by MOONBLOOD to not reflect their true concept or intentions, Siegfried was recorded during this month in 1995 and released on only 50 tapes. From the official biography: In October, one month later, they released a Reh/Demo Tape that shouldn't really appear in their discography as lyrically it...

15 October 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Moonblood