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30 Years Ago: OBITUARY release World Demise

The new album has 12 songs. It was produced by Obituary and Scott Burns and help-mixed by my live sound man, Big Shirt. So it's a combination of these that brought the production together. I was pretty excited about the new album because we've gone through a lot...

6 September 2024

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30 Years Ago: TIAMAT release Wildhoney

TIAMAT released their fourth album Wildhoney on this day in 1994. ...we just try to write the best songs we can do that's it. If it's a fast, hard song or if it's slow or whatever, it doesn't matter to us. Johnny Hagel / Tiamat interview, Word of...

1 September 2024

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30 Years Ago: AT THE GATES release Terminal Spirit Disease

AT THE GATES released their third album on this day in 1994 through Peaceville. On the new LP/CD there will be no violin, 'cause we had no violin player that is interested in playing full time with us. But maybe we will use violin on our next release,...

18 July 2024

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30 Years Ago: AMORPHIS release Tales from the Thousand Lakes

Just before we released Tales From The Thousand Lakes we got the idea to use the Kalevala for our lyrics. Amorphis firmly rooted in folk, ethnic and oriental music, using that in combination with stories from the Kalevala seemed like a very original and unique idea to us....

12 July 2024

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30 Years Ago: CANNIBAL CORPSE release The Bleeding

...it is going to be much easier to actually remember songs from it. I know that for example on "Eaten Back To Life" some tracks were so similar to one another, at least for many listeners, that it was hard to distinguish them, even after a few listens....

12 April 2024

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30 Years Ago: MORTA SKULD release As Humanity Fades

MORTA SKULD released their second album on this day in 1994 through Peaceville's Deaf Records. The album followed Dying Remains, released only a year earlier, and a brief, temporary split: ...the band and myself got into an argument about my playing, and at the time I was going...

1 February 2024

• Tags: Death Metal History Morta Skuld

30 Years Ago: MOLESTED release Unborn Woods in Doom

I began a Death Metal band called Molested and that was really cool times. It was kind of being an apprentice, learning to play guitar, and we rehearsed and all that for four years, I think every second day. Really intense period. Øystein Brun / Borknagar interview, Cryptic...

9 August 2023

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25 Years Ago: ACHERON release Those Who Have Risen

It's occultist roots stemming back to the ancient Vampiric society of UR mixes well with our dark music. It is still very Satanic in nature, but it is something different than anything I wrote before. Rev. Vincent Crowley, Acheron interview, Dark Ages, 1998 ACHERON released their fifth full-length...

28 July 2023

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25 Years Ago: DYING FETUS release Killing on Adrenaline

It's definitely our best one, the best songwriting, the best production and all that stuff. So it is definitely a step forward for the band and as far as a wider audience goes, the record label, Morbid Records, helped that. They've taken care of a lot of the...

27 July 2023

• Tags: Death Metal History Dying Fetus

30 Years Ago: MASACRE release Barbarie y sangre en memoria de Cristo

MASACRE released the Barbarie y sangre en memoria de Cristo EP on this day in 1993 through vocalist Alex's Mórbida Productions.

14 July 2023

• Tags: Death Metal History Masacre

30 Years Ago: CANNIBAL CORPSE release Hammer Smashed Face

...i don't know what the purpose [of the EP] waz actually, we just wanted to record those songs, and metal blade were interested to see if we could sell something without a gruesome gory cover. Alex Webster / Cannibal Corpse interview, Eruptions From Below #5, 1993 CANNIBAL CORPSE...

23 March 2023

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30 Years Ago: BENEDICTION release Dark is the Season

...we don't want to be just one style. If you see the 3 tracks on "Dark..." are all different!! "Foetus Noose" is brutal death metal, "Forged in Fire" is a heavy metal cover version song (by ANVIL - gods!!!) and "Dark Is The Season" is a rumbling doom-laden...

13 October 2022

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30 Years Ago: AUTOPSY release Acts of the Unspeakable

...the third album will be even more different than before. People will trip on that too because everything is different with whatever phase we're in.The songs are way different, but not like a different style. Certainly not more mellow or anything like that. If anything, its way more...

12 October 2022

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30 Years Ago: SORROW release Hatred and Disgust

SORROW released their debut album, Hatred and Disgust, on this day in 1992 through Roadrunner. In '88 we started as a thrash band, we were totally into Slayer but that didn't do much for us in '89 so we decided to get more extreme and circulated our tape through...

6 October 2022

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30 Years Ago: CANNIBAL CORPSE release Tomb of the Mutilated

...I haven't even talked to the guys about this, what this album sounds like. I've been sitting here trying to think about what to say. The best thing I can come up with is that it's kinda like a mixture between the first and second album but it's...

22 September 2022

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30 Years Ago: FEAR FACTORY release Soul of a New Machine

FEAR FACTORY released their debut LP, Soul of a New Machine, on this day in 1992 through Roadrunner. Feature in Vital Wound zine from 1992: FEAR FACTORY was founded in October'91 by Dino Cazares (guitars), Burton C. Bell (vocals), Raimond Herrera (drums) and David Gibney (bass). The band...

25 August 2022

• Tags: Death Metal History Fear Factory

30 Years Ago: IMPETIGO release Horror of the Zombies

Yes the second LP called "Horror of the Zombies" will be out by June 5th! The delay is for no real reason, the payment to the studio was a little late and it held things up some, also it took longer to put the cover and layout together...

5 June 2022

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30 Years Ago: UNCANNY record Nyktalgia demo

I think it'll be available in August sometime, because the place where we're gonna copy the demos has closed for the summer so we just have to wait. We will also have one track on some compilation tapes but I don't know when they're going to be released....

15 May 2022

• Tags: Death Metal History Uncanny