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31 Years Ago: MEFISTO record The Puzzle demo

Cult Swedish thrash / death, MEFISTO recorded their last demo together in November 1986. They split soon after (see interview except below) but have recently reunited with the original lineup to record a new album, 2.0.1.6: This Is the End of It All... the Beginning of Everything... and a self-titled...

15 November 2017

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26 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Clandestine

"The greatest extreme metal platter since Venom's 'Black Metal'." - Raw magazine Entombed - Stranger Aeons (Official Video) Released on this day in 1991, Clandestine was ENTOMBED's second album. A friend of ours who used to work at a record store came up with that name. He had...

12 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Entombed

27 Years Ago: INCANTATION remix Entrantment of Evil at Trax East

Entrantment of Evil was recorded earlier in 1990, between 26 May and 2 June at Stardust Recording. Seraphic Decay released the original 7" in August 1990. INCANTATION's deal with Relapse was formed around the same time, and on this day in 1990 they remixed the songs from Entrantment...

11 November 2017

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31 Years Ago: SEPULTURA release Morbid Visions

Our next LP will be called "Morbid Visions". It will be 8 songs, one being instrumental. It will be much better recorded; our first one was recorded only on eight tracks, and the songs are all on a higher level, they're faster and heavier. We've got a better...

10 November 2017

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30 Years Ago: PENTAGRAM (Chile) live at Manuel Plaza, Santiago

Cult Chilean thrash and early (POSSESSED style) death! PENTAGRAM live on this day in 1987.Picoroco Records released a compilation CD in 2000, the last two tracks are from this concert with slightly better sound from a tape recording. The above song was "Profaner", below is "Fatal Predictions". With...

7 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Pentagram (Chile)

24 Years Ago: MIASMA release Love Songs (Little girl, I hope one day we will meet again)

Released on this day in 1993, Love Songs was the last major MIASMA recording. As with their only album, Changes (1992), the CD was released by Austrian label Lethal Records. Love Song is an EP (more single than mini album) with the featured title song, an instrumental /...

2 November 2017

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19 Years Ago: ACHERON, DEICIDE live in Florida

Halloween 1998 in Hallandale, southern Florida saw a gathering of Flordian death metal bands including ACHERON, DEICIDE, HIBERNUS MORTIS and BRUTAL MASTICATION. Full sets were recorded on video for each band. Also playing that night were HELLWITCH who reformed for the night after splitting in 1997. Deicide -...

31 October 2017

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28 Years Ago: BOLT THROWER release Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness

Earlier in October we posted the live recording of "Realm of Chaos" a day after it was written! A year later, on this day in 1989, BOLT THROWER released Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness on Earache. Well, Games Workshop actually approached us [before] we signed the contract...

28 October 2017

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30 Years Ago: MORBID live in Stockholm

MORBID live on this day in 1987. Birkagården - Stockholm, Sweden.

23 October 2017

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26 Years Ago: DEATH release Human (Lack Of Comprehension video + Making of video)

Released on this day in 1991. "Human" really says it all for me, personally, and it describes that album, 'cause it all revolves around human nature and my views as a fellow human being, it's definitely not about some satanic or made-up demons. I just want to make...

22 October 2017

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24 Years Ago: CARCASS release Heartwork (Seething work, seering words)

I would like to think that this album is a lot more focused. I think the extremities are definitely still there, and we never really considered heavily into the extremities anyway. Yeah, of course what we've been doing has been kind of against the grain of traditional rock...

18 October 2017

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25 Years Ago: BENEDICTION release Dark Is the Season EP

...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 2017

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30 Years Ago: AUTOPSY rehearse Embalmed (pre 1987 demo)

One of the earliest AUTOPSY recordings. The rehearsal took place on this day in 1987, soon after the band formed that August, and a few weeks before they recorded their first official demo in November / December 1987. You can find this track on disc 2 of the...

8 October 2017

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21 Years Ago: MY DYING BRIDE release Like Gods of the Sun

...that's actually possibly the only album we planned, because normally we just write stuff and we put it on record; we don't really know what the sound, what the finished product is going to be like. For Like Gods of the Sun, we knew that so many bands...

7 October 2017

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29 Years Ago: BOLT THROWER live in Birmingham (first time playing Realms of Chaos)

This is a new one we just worked out yesterday, haven't got any lyrics yet... haven't really got a title for it either... it's called... whatever... OK, it's called The Realms of Chaos, yeah, why not! A day after they finished writing music for what would become the...

3 October 2017

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28 Years Ago: ENTOMBED finish recording their first demo But Life Goes On

But Life Goes On was recorded very shortly after Nihilist had split up. Alex was busy with his studies at that time, so everything was made by me, Uffe and L.G. Uffe and I played all the guitars and bass. Recorded over two days, 23-24 September, the newly...

24 September 2017

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28 Years Ago: CADAVER live in Sarpsborg (Sunset at Dawn)

An early tape by CADAVER (known as CADAVER INC. in 2001) recorded live on this day in 1989. The gig was released as Sunset at Dawn on the bands own Graf Productions / Rapax.

16 September 2017

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26 Years Ago: GOATLORD release Reflections of the Solstice (Joe Frankulin 1992 interview)

TOTALLY HORRID, SADISTIC AND SICKENED... DOOM/DEATH FROM LAS VEGAS! US Cult GOATLORD with their sick doom attack classic Reflections of the Solstice!! Released on this day in 1991 by German label Turbo Music, it was released in the US the following year by JL America. Joe Frankulin interview,...

13 September 2017

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