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25 Years Ago: MASTER'S HAMMER record Jilemnicky okultista

It'll be 9-10 songs which we are recording now, the whole September till half of October. I believe the lp/cd will be out this year. Franta Štorm / Master's Hammer interview, Hammer of Damnation #4, 1993 During this month in 1992 MASTER'S HAMMER were recording their second album,...

5 October 2017

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33 Years Ago: BATHORY release the legendary self titled debut LP on Black Mark

Released on this day in 1984 and influencing almost everything that followed! BATHORY's debut. I don't know exactly how much it has sold. I believe it has sold very good, much better than we thought it would do. All I know is that in Sweden it has sold...

2 October 2017

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26 Years Ago: IMMORTAL release their self-titled EP (Unholy Forces of Evil)

We truly have the best scene... yes, especially the bands into "the black circle". We have a war against the trend people... And of course we are ready to fight. We are vikings, but remember vikings were not nice men... They butchered people daily... So will we do...-...

1 October 2017

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20 Years Ago: VULPECULA release Fons Immortalis

After all those years writing in the narrow confines of ORDER FROM CHAOS, I felt exhausted. VULPECULA gave me a break and desperately needed chance to work in a different direction.- Chuck Keller / Ares Kingdom interview, Voices from the Darkside Formed by Chuck Keller (ORDER FROM CHAOS)...

30 September 2017

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15 Years Ago: CRYSTALIUM, BLODSRIT, BELENOS live in Paris (From the Past Tour)

The gig of the Nehema/Crystalium tour was nice, it was at the Loco in Paris, it's a well know venue and somehow a cult place for some. Unfortuately, on this particular day, there were very few people if you compare to gig in 2001 when we headline the...

29 September 2017

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35 Years Ago: MERCYFUL FATE unleash their debut, the Mercyful Fate MLP (Nuns Have No Fun)

Those were the times of paying your dues. When we did the mini LP for RaveOn, I had planned all the backing vocals. A choir. The engineer was like, "No, you don't have the time. You can have one backing vocal.' I was like, "What?! I can't do...

25 September 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Mercyful Fate

21 Years Ago: GEHENNA release Malice (Our Third Spell) on Cacophonous

Recorded a couple of months earlier at Soundsuite Studio, Malice was released on this day in 1996. The third of the 'spell' releases, following First Spell in 1994 and the debut full-length Seen Through the Veils of Darkness from 1995. All three were recorded at Soundsuite, which GEHENNA...

23 September 2017

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21 Years Ago: MOONBLOOD record at Digan Tonstudio, Saxony

On this day in 1996 MOONBLOOD held a recording session and completed two songs. "Fullmoon Witchery" was included on the 1997 Encyclopedia Pestilentia compilation but "Under the Abyssic Black Wings of the 3rd Angel" was never officially released. Recording took place at Digan Tonstudio in Annaberg, Saxony (Sachsen)...

22 September 2017

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21 Years Ago: MYSTICUM live at Grotten, Asker, Norway

In the Streams of Inferno-era MYSTICUM live in Norway on this day in 1996! This rare footage is included on recent CD reissues of the album as a bonus DVD.

21 September 2017

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30 Years Ago: RETROSATAN record Grito mortal (Argentinian black metal)

RETROSATAN's 1987 tape Grito mortal is killer speed metal influenced by NWOBHM (PRIEST / MAIDEN etc) played with high intensity and lyrics dealing with religion and corruption.The video above is a bonus from the 2010 CD reissue of this demo with some extra tracks. About the date: some...

19 September 2017

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23 Years Ago: SATYRICON release The Shadowthrone (The struggle against God and Christ has started)

Because our music is elite and we (as other elite bands) use our resources the way we were meant to. Hail all elite bands, you know who you are! We are also warriors of the true forest horde. Sons of Nothern nature, climb up on your mountainside and...

12 September 2017

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23 Years Ago: INFERNUM complete the cult ...Taur-nu-Fuin... album

The light of fullmoon gave a new self-coming... A sigh of the night... Like a raging storm materialized the breath of the dark... Like a border of time found the coldness of a deep darkness... In November 1992 Anextiomarus (Grzegorz Jurgielewicz, also known as Karcharoth) formed INFERNUM. After...

10 September 2017

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21 Years Ago: SOLSTAFIR release Til Valhallar on View Beyond Records (Icelandic Black Metal)

Til Valhallar was originally intended as a follow-up to their first demo Í Norðri. Six tracks were recorded but instead of being their second demo it became their first MCD. Four of the six songs were released on this day in 1996 by Czech label View Beyond Records....

8 September 2017

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23 Years Ago: DESTROYER 666 release their first demo: Six Songs with the Devil

Join our Thrashin' Rage! In May 1994 K.K. Warslut formed DESTRÖYER 666 after leaving BESTIAL WARLUST. A few months later, "in September Mourning '94", K.K. Warslut and drummer Chris Volcano recorded the Six Songs with the Devil demo, released on this day in 1994. Sometime in 1990, he...

6 September 2017

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26 Years Ago: DISSECTION release Into Infinite Obscurity

First available as a promo tape from the band, DISSECTION's Into Infinite Obscurity 7" was released by Corpse Grinder Records (Arcveil, France) on this day in 1991. DISSECTION started before Summer '90 when Jon left RABBITS CARROT, where he was playing guitars. He recruited Ole also from R.C. though...

5 September 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Dissection

11 Years Ago: MGLA release Mdlosci

Released on this day in 2006 by Garazel / Flagellum Haereticorum. Since the original 7", Mdłości has been combined with Further Down the Nest. This MGLA compilation was first released by our old comrades at Todeskult in 2007 (who also released the debut KRIEGSMASCHINE album). Mdłości I Through...

3 September 2017

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24 Years Ago: ABIGAIL finish recording Descending from a Blackend Sky EP (Tokyo Black Metal)

ABIGAIL play fast and simple Black Metal. Their 7" EP on HSB Records as well as their split LP on Warmaster Records are incredibly fantastic.- Mirai Kawashima / Sigh interview, Psychopathological, 1993 On this day in 1993 Yasuyuki Suzuki (then also known as Barbatos, before he formed the...

23 August 2017

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22 Years Ago: DIMMU BORGIR live in Germany (pre For all Tid)

On this day in 1995, a Saturday evening, MAYHEMIC TRUTH and DIMMU BORGIR were playing the closing day of what would become Under the Black Sun, but in 1995 was simply Folter Open Air. Not all bands were filmed, but some footage has survived - watch below! Organised...

19 August 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Dimmu Borgir