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20 Years Ago: WINDIR release 1184

"1184" is not a concept album. The songs '1184' and 'Heidra' are the only songs related to the title. The title is the year of the greatest sea battle in Norway. It took place in the Fjord of our home village Sogndal. The people of Sogndal were tired...

19 November 2021

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25 Years Ago: THRONE OF AHAZ release On Twilight Enthroned

I think we are influenced by everything we listen to. I listen to a lot of different stuffs, such as Bathory, Tiamat, Bestial Summoning, Pandemonium, Merciless (swe), Rotting Christ, Fester, Dark Throne, Profanatica, Marduk, (old) Kreator, Nocturnal Rites, Manowar, Necromantia and many else. Beretorn / Throne of Ahaz...

16 November 2021

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20 Years Ago: SILENCER release Death - Pierce Me

SILENCER released their only album, Death - Pierce Me, on this day in 2001 through Prophecy. The lineup consisted of Nattramn (DIAGNOSE LEBENSGEFAHR), Leere, and Wolz (of BETHLEHEM and later HALGADOM and DEINONYCHUS). After the recording I think we wrote each other one time, I sent him a...

30 October 2021

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25 Years Ago: MYSTICUM release In the Streams of Inferno

...we are preparing ourselves for the album right now. We are working on the cover which is going to look great! (If my computer doesn't fuck it all up!) It is going to look brilliant and we are going to do some photo sessions soon. The only problem...

1 October 2021

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20 Years Ago: DARK FUNERAL release Diabolis Interium

On this record we have changed more than on the previous one. Some arrangements are more melodic and there are more changes from the drumbeats. This is the most complete Dark Funeral album to date and the first one that I'm completely satisfied about. The atmosphere, the artwork...

24 September 2021

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20 Years Ago: NOCTERNITY release Crucify Him

The fact that En Oria was not released at the time recorded didn't stop us from recording 'Crucify Him', which is a mini Cd a step further from En Oria, as a physical evolution, and getting involved to KYRCK productions. Merkaal / Nocternity interview, 2001 NOCTERNITY released Crucify...

15 September 2021

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30 Years Ago: BEHERIT release The Oath of Black Blood

Yes, "The Oath of Black Blood" poser 12" is out now. Fuckin' stupid 12". But it was not our idea. I was against to release those old songs on vinyl. We will record our first true album in '92. It should be real heavy... Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance /...

14 September 2021

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20 Years Ago: XASTHUR release A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors

[Xasthur] formed around early 1996, and I had a lot of hard times making it work out - I was thinking maybe it wasn't meant to be, after a lot of time had past. To tell the truth, I'd never had so much suppressed hatred come out of...

12 September 2021

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20 Years Ago: DARKMOON release 308 Antichrist

DARKMOON unleashed their final record, .308 Antichrist, on this day in 2001 through Tribunal Records. We will keep pushing for more and more extreme sounds, and more challenges for our own personal abilities. Always keeping things interesting on our behalf. We will keep pushing to the next level,...

6 September 2021

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20 Years Ago: BLASPHEMY record a rehearsal (Victory Son of the Damned)

BLASPHEMY recorded a rehearsal session on this day in 2001 in the basemenet of Bestial Saviour of the Undead Legions ahead of a gig at Anza Club, Vancouver that night. Members of BLACK WITCHERY were in attendance.The rehearsal was captured with the same mini disc recorder as the...

29 August 2021

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30 Years Ago: BEHERIT, IMPALED NAZARENE, AMORPHIS, DEMIGOD live at Day of Darkness Festifall

On this day in 1991, Oulu, Finland - the Day of Darkness Festifall! A legendary gathering of the Finnish black and death metal underground. Day of Darkness Festifall 1991 Flyer

23 August 2021

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30 Years Ago: ENTHRONE release Black Winds (pre CARPATHIAN FOREST)

Formed by Lord Nosferatu (Nattefrost) and Lord Karnstein (Nordavind) in 1990, ENTHRONE released their only demo - Black Winds - on this day in 1991. In 1992 the band became CARPATHIAN FOREST and recorded the Bloodlust and Perversion demo later that year.

21 July 2021

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20 Years Ago: ORODRUIN release The Dark Tower

Formed by JvB/Yrch (HAAT) in 2000, ORODRUIN released The Dark Tower EP on this day in 2001 through Jeroen's Black Abyss Productions (possibly best known over here for the series of ICHNEUTIC tapes released around this time).

18 July 2021

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20 Years Ago: BLASPHEMY live in Canada (Live Ritual: Friday the 13th)

The audience response to our return was incredible. Every show we played with that line-up was devastating! We rehearsed quite often so performing the songs live went without difficulties... In particular, that Friday the 13th show was poorly organized. It was part of some "festival" that the promoter...

13 July 2021

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25 Years Ago: ANCIENT WISDOM release For Snow Covered the Northland

Formed originally as ANCIENT by Marcus Norman in 1992, ANCIENT WISDOM released their debut album on this day in 1996. ...it's kind of hard to explain why Ancient Wisdom sounds the way it does. But I know, when I started the band back in 1992 the big thing...

4 July 2021

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30 Years Ago: BATHORY release Twilight of the Gods

So we decided to do this 'epic' thing once more, a bit more in the soundtrack direction. That became "Twilight of the Gods". Quorthon / Bathory interview, Slayer #10, 1994 The sixth BATHORY epic was released on this day in 1991! After "Hammerheart" we felt like playing a...

29 June 2021

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20 Years Ago: FUNERIS NOCTURNUM release From the Aspect of Darkly Illuminated

It will be faster, more technical and more brutal but still black metal. No fucking space metal. Torment / Funeris Nocturnum interview, 2000 Finnish black/death metal, FUNERIS NOCTURNUM released their second album - From the Aspect of Darkly Illuminated - on this day in 2001 through Woodcut Records....

27 June 2021

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15 Years Ago: INFERI release Shores of Sorrow

After 2 demo tapes on Northern Heritage Records, Inferi returns with debut full length album. Gone are the raw 4-tracker hiss and clumsy playing, and Inferi shows how their cold and melancholic midpaced / slow Black Metal works with proper studio recording. Excellent eerie riffs and compositions often...

19 June 2021

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