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30 Years Ago: OPETH release Orchid

...the 1st studiorecordings with OPETH is our forthcoming CD "Orchid". It'll be released through UK label CANDLELIGHT and it'll feature 7 songs. Despite that there are so few songs the total running time will be about 65 minutes. I think that people who are into symphonic metal with...

15 May 2025

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30 Years Ago: SUFFOCATION release Pierced from Within

SUFFOCATION released their third album, Pierced from Within, on this day in 1995 through Roadrunner.

1 May 2025

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30 Years Ago: DEICIDE release Once upon the Cross

It's back to the basics. It beats your fucking brains out for 30 minutes (laughs). You can also understand what I say in this record, the pronunciation is much better in this record. The vocal lines were much more muddier in the first album, if you listen to...

18 April 2025

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30 Years Ago: VITAL REMAINS release Into Cold Darkness

VITAL REMAINS released their second album, Into Cold Darkness, on this day in 1995 through Peaceville. Believe it or not, Vital Remains wore war paint back in '91 before it became a trend as it is today. We would paint our faces, and cover outselves with blood, and...

25 March 2025

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30 Years Ago: UNLEASHED release Victory

UNLEASHED released their fourth album, Victory, on this day in 1995.

27 February 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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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