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32 Years Ago: SABBAT live in Osaka

Japan's SABBAT live on this day in 1987 at YANTA鹿鳴館, Osaka, Japan. YANTA鹿鳴館 was a heavy metal club in Nishikujō, Osaka which opened in 1985. The location still exists and is now known as 西九条BRAND NEW. Sabbat - The Curse of Hamagrism: Hamaguri Mythology This gig has been...

5 April 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Sabbat (Japan)

26 Years Ago: ARCHGOAT record their unreleased first album

ARCHGOAT completed recording material intended for their debut album on this day in 1993 at KC Studio. The album has never been released in full, but a select few songs were released in 2005 as Angelslaying Black Fucking Metal. We did record back in -93 material for a...

12 February 2019

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17 Years Ago: DESTROYER 666 record Cold Steel... for an Iron Age

...I think we'll have to record it on your side of the world. It's certainly the best thing I've ever been a part of, that's for sure. Shrapnel has written 3 songs and Berzerker wrote 1 song. But as usual, they contribute bits and pieces here and there,...

6 February 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Destroyer 666

21 Years Ago: SVARTSYN release Tormentor

After returning from touring with LUROR, DESASTER and BEHEMOTH, SVARTSYN - now a duo following the depature of guitarist Surth - recorded the Tormentor EP in July of 1997. The follow-up to their debut album, The True Legend, was released on this day in 1998. Svartsyn - Throne...

2 February 2019

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15 Years Ago: CARPATHIAN FOREST live in Poland (We're Going to Hollywood for This)

Carpathian Forest live, Studio TVP, Kraków, Poland CARPATHIAN FOREST live at Studio TVP in Kraków, Poland on this day in 2004. This recording was released as the first half of the DVD We're Going to Hollywood for This: Live Perversions later that year through Metal Mind.

1 February 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Carpathian Forest

22 Years Ago: ABSU release The Third Storm of Cythraul

I've actually been wanting to re-mix the album - not every song, but like half the tracks. For example: "A Magician's Lapis-Lazuli" - the snare drum's completely buried. I really wanted to experiment on this recording, because I used four different snare drums on the recording - a...

27 January 2019

• Tags: Absu Black Metal History

17 Years Ago: BILSKIRNIR record In Flames of Purification

Widar completed the recording of BILSKIRNIR's debut album, In Flames of Purification, on this day in 2002. The original five songs were recorded in sessions over four weeks and released later in the year by Solistitium Records' short lived imprint Millenium Metal Music. For all those who burned...

26 January 2019

• Tags: Bilskirnir Black Metal History

13 Years Ago: BLACKLODGE release SolarKult

SataN, the most powerful force in the human life, the one who is accessing the most incredible amount of power nowadays, the tornado who is leading the humanity to global enslavement through technology, applied cybernetics. Science above the flesh. We are hailing the Great Beast and the rising...

22 January 2019

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35 Years Ago: Scandinavian Metal Attack is released (Bathory)

We were so proud holding that SCANDINAVIAN METAL ATTACK compilation album in our hands first time. We knew none of our friends in bands had ever even been close to record anything properly. There was this other band we knew somewhat that got a record contract around that...

19 January 2019

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24 Years Ago: BLUT AUS NORD release Ultima Thulee

...I think that everything that makes Blut Aus Nord is already at the heart of Ultima Thulée which, even if it is a rather naive album in its expression, contains this feeling found on what was recorded by BaN since. There is an obvious progression over the years,...

15 January 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Blut aus Nord

23 Years Ago: FUNERAL FROST record Queen of Frost

FUNERAL FROST finished recording their only album on this day in 1996. Queen of Frost was the only major release by FUNERAL FROST during their existence. They also recorded four demos between 1994 and 1997. The last demo was remastered in 2004 for a 7" entitled Watch Them...

9 January 2019

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19 Years Ago: ARKHON INFAUSTUS live in France

French black metal perversion. ARKHON INFAUSTUS live on this day in 2000, supporting ENTHRONED. Around the time of the Dead Cunt Maniac 7", released through Spikekult.

7 January 2019

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26 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH complete The Return of the Northern Moon

Aaaarrrrrgggghhhh! This is a great Polish band that have chosen to play Northern Black Metal in the vein of BURZUM, EMPEROR, and ILDJARN! Four tracks pure unholy chants, dark voices, and whispers... The two members NERGAL, and BAAL have created a true masterpiece...- Review from Petrified #2, 1993...

30 December 2018

• Tags: Behemoth Black Metal History

26 Years Ago: MARDUK release Dark Endless

MARDUK released their debut full-length album on this day in 1992 through Tomas Nyqvist's No Fashion Records. This is date generally given, but as the interview below shows it may have been delayed. I send a demo to his zine [Putrefaction], and at the same time he started...

23 December 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Marduk

24 Years Ago: DIMMU BORGIR release Inn i evighetens morke

DIMMU BORGIR released their first major title, the Inn i evighetens morke EP, on this day in 1994 through Dutch label Necromantic Gallery Productions.

17 December 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Dimmu Borgir

22 Years Ago: RAGNAROK release To Mend the Oaken Heart

I feel that these musical forms are a part of everyone. It is the song of their ancestral homes, the earth, wind, sun and rain, and by the gift of their gods made into sound - manifesting itself in tribal chants, fertility rites, ritual and praise - its...

16 December 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Ragnarok (United Kingdom)

17 Years Ago: TROLLECH release Ve hvozdech...

Trollech is an old ancient empire, older then all states and kingdoms of this world. We have came from our kingdom among you human race to show you that beings as goblins, elves, dragons, nymphs and all other creatures and beasts still live in woods. We want to...

15 December 2018

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19 Years Ago: TULUS release Evil 1999

Evil 1999 was recorded at Panser Studio in Oslo, Norway. It has 10 awesome tracks and we are pleased with the result. We have received good critics. It has a good sound and the music is intense, and it has a good groove. We don't care that much...

7 December 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Tulus