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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

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21 Years Ago: AZAZEL release The Night of Satanachia

Ave! Yeah you have heard right. We have MCD deal with Miscarriage records from Italy. We get this deal follow Riccardo Figiaconi write to Teemu (Darkwoods My Betrothed) and ask him would they do cd to Miscarriage, but Teemu told him, that they have record deal with Hammerheart...

16 August 2017

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32 Years Ago: SEPULTURA record Bestial Devastation

Este disco e dedicado á todos fans de death metal do mundo We were freaking out because it was the first time ever we were gonna walk in the studio. I wasn't even used to playing a real drum set-mine was totally fucked up, really primitive-I didn't even...

11 August 2017

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33 Years Ago: DESTRUCTION unleash Bestial Invasion of Hell demo

Tommy met up with Schmeir at a disco, of all places! Schmeir picked up the bass and for the time, the lineup was complete. However, a short time before they went into the studio to record the first demo, the vocalist was fired and Schmeir took over at...

10 August 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Destruction Heavy Metal History

29 Years Ago: REENCARNACION record Acompaname a la tumba (Colombian Black Metal)

Recorded a few months after their first full-length, known either as Reencarnación or 888 Metal, REENCARNACIÓN recorded the EP Acompáñame a la tumba on this day in 1988. 8/8/88. Since 1988 this EP has been re-released on vinyl and included on some reissues of the debut album. We've...

8 August 2017

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23 Years Ago: ENSLAVED release Frost

Yep, that's right. I also sometimes add plain pieces of poetry (ex. "Isøders Dronning"/"The Queen of the Vast Icelands" which will be on our next album "Frost"). This is more mood based stuff springing from my dark and sometimes melancholic moments. But the Viking concept is something that...

4 August 2017

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10 Years Ago: ALCEST release Souvenirs d'un autre monde

The Alcest album is almost done. It will be released in 2007 and will be entitled "Souvenirs d'un autre monde", in English it means "Memories of another world". This title is to be understood literally and it sums up the whole Alcest concept.- Neige / Amesoeurs interview, Todestrieb...

3 August 2017

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21 Years Ago: FALKENBACH release ...en their medh riki fara... (German Viking Metal)

Þat kann ek it ellifta:ef ek skal til orrostuleiða langvini,und randir ek gel,en þeir með ríki faraheilir hildar til,heilir hildi frá,koma þeir heilir hvaðan. Released on this day in 1996, the title of FALKENBACH's debut album was taken from a line in the poem Hávamál. Hávamál (sayings of...

29 July 2017

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21 Years Ago: LORD WIND Forgotten Songs CD released on Full Moon Prod

At that time I was keen on Celtic mythologies and Druids' mysticism. I lived in a world of my imagination and my spirituality and I did not pay any attention to the outside world. I prayed to Gods on holy Samhain night. All these things had great impact...

28 July 2017

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11 Years Ago: LIFELOVER release Pulver

This was an instantly popular release when it arrived on this day in 2006. LIFELOVER, and this album in particular, influenced a wave of new bands although most lacked the sardonic self-awareness and humour behind these songs of modern urban depression and introspective hate/violence fantasies. The members disguised...

25 July 2017

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17 Years Ago: BLASPHEMY & BLACK WITCHERY live in Vancouver Canada

Live on this day in 2000, BLASPHEMY and BLACK WITCHERY. The Friday the 13th Live Ritual was actually our 3rd show since the reformation. BLACK WITCHERY was up here in July 2000ce for our return, they weren't here for the Friday the 13th assault. We did 4 shows...

21 July 2017

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21 Years Ago: LIMBONIC ART release Moon in the Scorpio on Nocturnal Art

The figure on the front cover is a sorcerer, an imagined image or spectrum....The being may illustrate the surrendering to death and the beyond. Moon stands for intuition and the Scorpio is a symbol of death....More that you listen and more that you see is helping you to...

20 July 2017

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24 Years Ago: FORGOTTEN WOODS record Through the Woods

Although some of the songs were written as far back as October 1991, FORGOTTEN WOODS recorded their debut demo on this day in 1993.

19 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Forgotten Woods

32 Years Ago: Tom G. Warrior radio interview (CELTIC FROST Emperor's Return era)

This interview, with a New York radio programme, took place this month in 1985, shortly after their first European tour - a mini tour in May and June. Emperor's Return would be released in a few weeks in the US on Metal Blade. The 15 August date always...

16 July 2017

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31 Years Ago: DESTRUCTION release Eternal Devastation (1986 Video Interview)

14 months after the ultra classic Infernal Overkill DESTRUCTION unleashed Eternal Devastation on this day in 1986. Recorded in Bavaria during April and mastered at Studio Nord. Studio Nord was established in 1966 (one of the oldest German private studios) and is still around today with a complete...

12 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Destruction Heavy Metal History