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31 Years Ago: BATHORY release Blood Fire Death

"Blood Fire Death" was a complicated album as we were doing it almost for a year, back and forth. We had plans to do a concept album and were really into this Viking thing. Swords, muscles and Conan. We started to write songs for an album called "Blood...

8 October 2019

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13 Years Ago: AMESOEURS release Ruines humaines

AMESOEURS released their debut, Ruines humaines, on this day in 2006. Neige (ALCEST, MORTIFERA, PESTE NOIRE) formed the band in 2004 with Audrey Sylvain (PESTE NOIRE, ASPHODÈLE) and Fursy Teyssier (LES DISCRETS). ...this concept was already in my mind before I met Neige. I wasn't a musician at...

6 October 2019

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20 Years Ago: PRIMORDIAL release The Burning Season

...the recording of "The Burning Season" is done...it turned out rather well considering it was done in 6 (count em 6...yeah 6...666 ?) days !. And it clocks in at over 30 minutes...for four tracks. We conquered again in the face of adversity, or rather temperamental computers and...

4 October 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Primordial

20 Years Ago: VOMITOR record Roar of War

I think it was only 45 minutes to record hahaha, it was recorded live in our rehearsal room, everything was miked up, the guy pressed record on his machines and we went for it, we rehearse hard to play easy, all of our Albums are done in the...

3 October 2019

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20 Years Ago: DIMMU BORGIR, MONSTROSITY & EPOCH OF UNLIGHT live in Florida

One of the last dates on the In Satan We Trust tour - the North American leg of their Your World is Not Enough tour - DIMMU BORGIR headlined in St. Petersburg, Florida on this day in 1999. The North American / Canadian tour ran from 1 September...

28 September 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Dimmu Borgir Monstrosity

21 Years Ago: LUGUBRUM record De Zuivering

LUGUBRUM recorded De Zuivering on this day in 1998. The material was released as a split CD with fellow Belgians SUDARIUM (I, Unclean - their only release) through Skramasax. De Zuivering was re-released on cassette as a standalone LUGUBRUM title in 2006 and again in 2017 on vinyl....

28 August 2019

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23 Years Ago: CRADLE OF FILTH release Dusk and Her Embrace

This was a bit of a weird one. We actually recorded it as our second release, but we then had to take our label to court which meant that most of it was temporarily lost for legal reasons. The next thing I know the band had split into...

19 August 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Cradle of Filth

22 Years Ago: BORKNAGAR release The Olden Domain

I remember I felt a profound rush of satisfaction when the music for The Olden Domain started to come together in terms of writing, producing, and, even more so, when the album was finished. Finally, I felt that all the pieces of the puzzle came together in a...

18 August 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Borknagar

21 Years Ago: FUNERAL MIST release Devilry

FUNERAL MIST, formed by Arioch (MARDUK) in 1994, released their first major release - the Devilry minialbum - on this day in 1998. Recording took place in late 1997-January 1998 at Necromorbus Studio. Some of the songs, including the eponymous track above, originate at least as far back...

30 July 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Funeral Mist

25 Years Ago: GEHENNA complete First Spell

...out style has progressed a lot since our demo. The new material is more melodic and has a lot more keyboard and acoustics than our demo. Dolgar / Gehenna interview, Petrified #3, 1994 GEHENNA entered Soundsuite Studio to record their second EP, First Spell, on the 3rd of...

7 June 2019

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23 Years Ago: ORDER OF THE EBON HAND complete The Mystic Path to the Netherworld

The majority of ORDER OF THE EBON HAND's debut album The Mystic Path to the Netherworld was recorded in April 1995, but the final three songs were recorded on this day in 1996. Mystic Path was released through George Zacharopoulos's Hypervorea Records which also released early albums by...

24 May 2019

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21 Years Ago: MARDUK live in Rotterdam

MARDUK live in Rotterdam, Holland on this day in 1998.

5 May 2019

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28 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE live in Finland

DARKTHRONE live in Lahti, Finland on this day in 1991. This gig took place a few months after the release of their debut Soulside Journey, while material was being written for what would be released as Goatlord (e.g., the second song, "Life", is "In His Lovely Kingdom" on...

4 May 2019

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15 Years Ago: ARKONA release Vozrozhdenie

Many of my songs are filled with melancholy and pain for the past heritage, forgotten by my folk. The new songs are written more consciously because with life experience grows the wisdom, which can be reflected in creativity. I think there is no point in comparing the releases...

20 April 2019

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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

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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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