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23 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Transilvanian Hunger (if any man should attempt to criticize this LP...)

Released on this day in 1994. DARKTHRONE's fourth album and, after the controversy that followed, their last on Peaceville for about 12 years. No other band has been boycotted to such an extent as DARKTHRONE. This feeble attempt to shut us up simply enables us to take this title:...

17 February 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone

25 Years Ago: CELTIC FROST release Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying (In the Chapel in the Moonlight)

CELTIC FROST released their compilation album on this day in 1992. Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying included a few albums tracks, but mostly unreleased, re-recorded and rare material like the song above, In The Chapel In The Moonlight - originally a Billy Hill number from 1936. FROST...

11 February 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Celtic Frost Heavy Metal History

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

Early Norwegian black / death / thrash (crossover) cult VOMIT recorded the Rot in Hell demo on this day in 1987 at their practice space in Nittedal - their hometown, just north of Oslo. No peers, no scene. As it was back then. But if you listen to...

31 January 2017

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20 Years Ago: NECROMANTIA release Ancient Pride (the wolf, the bear, the raven)

Released by NECROMANTIA on this day in 1997, between the second album Scarlet Evil Witching Black (1995) and third, IV: Malice (2000). It's only for this album (the lyrical change from vampyrism and darkness to ancient times -ed), "Ancient Pride". It was something we wanted to do like a...

29 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Necromantia

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

NME captured the sound and spirit of VENOM and HELLHAMMER and unleashed Unholy Death, an album that stands tall alongside the gods, on this day in 1986. Since then it has become a classic in underground metal / first wave of black metal! All of my infractions with the law really have...

28 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History NME

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

These same three guys 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...

25 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Rotting Christ

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

Recorded and mixed on this day in 1995 at Studio 001, Carlton, Melbourne. This is after the debut Vengeance War 'till Death and a few month before they recorded Blood & Valour at the same studio that August. We've got a lot of new material ready now, we've...

22 January 2017

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20 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 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Summoning

21 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Total Death (The envy of loosers we piss on)

DARKTHRONE released their sixth album on this day in 1996 through Moonfog. 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, 2001...

15 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone

22 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 2017

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20 Years Ago: PENTAGRAM (Chile) record their first demo

Early PENTAGRAM demos are killer, and the first was recorded during this month in 1987 at Nacofon studios. I don't remember how much it cost us, but it was a really cheap recording. The drummer had worked at that studio (Nacofon) before so he took us there. When...

7 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Pentagram (Chile)

20 Years Ago: USURPER release Threshold of the Usurper (original artwork source)

Frosty maniacs USURPER released the CD EP Threshold of the Usurper on this day in 1996. Where did you get the picture of the "Threshold Of The Usurper" release from? It looks like an ancient, bloody Aztec ritual or something like that. We ripped that off from a...

6 January 2017

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24 Years Ago: ARCHGOAT finish recording 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 2017

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25 Years Ago: PROFANATICA live at Candlewood Inn, Brookfield, CT

Live on this day in 1992. PROFANATICA live at Candlewood Inn in Brookfield, which is apparently now an upmarket wedding venue ("Abode of the blessed I will strike"...!) since it "underwent a million dollar update and expansion before opening exclusively for private events in 1999".

4 January 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Profanatica

27 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 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Necromantia

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

"Grom" is dedicated to ourselves,Bards of Pomeranian Heathendom BEHEMOTH released their second album 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 the label and as it became...

2 January 2017

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21 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 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Burzum

26 Years Ago: TORR record Institut klinicke smrti at studio Citron

TÖRR recorded their killer second album on this day in 1990. Institut klinické smrti was 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 earliest material was released as 666...

31 December 2016

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