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30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH and RIPCORD live in Belgium

Saturday 27 June 1987Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium6 PM150 Fr (Belgian franc) NAPALM DEATH headlining on this day in 1987 with support from RIPCORD and EARDAMAGE. The venue was Netwerk in Aalst, northern Belgium. Netwerk opened in 1981 as an independent socio-cultural centre hosting music and art events. The building...

27 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death

27 Years Ago: INCUBUS rehearse in Tampa, FL

UPDATE: Many thanks to Mark LaVenia for writing to correct the details below! The bassist in this video is a different Mark:"The Mark in the video jammed with the Howard brothers for a period, but was never a formal member. I do see my amp and RAT pedal in...

22 June 2017

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29 Years Ago: BOLT THROWER release In Battle There is No Law (Early Band History)

Total possession of the atmosphere! After receiving the Concession of Pain demo (September 1987), John Peel arranged for a session. They recorded 4 songs on 3 January 1988: "Forgotten Existence", "Attack in the Aftermath", "Psychological Warfare", "In Battle There is No Law". The session was broadcast on Wednesday...

12 June 2017

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25 Years Ago: SEANCE release Fornever Laid to Rest on Black Mark (Swedish Death Metal)

Formed by members of ORCHRISTE ("Sin" from this album was an old ORCHRISTE song) and TOTAL DEATH in 1990, SEANCE released Fornever Laid to Rest on this day in 1992. This was the debut SEANCE album, recorded and released within a year of their only demo, the extremely...

8 June 2017

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27 Years Ago: TIAMAT (formerly TREBLINKA) release Sumerian Cry on C.M.F.T.

We have changed our name to TIAMAT because it does really fit our lyrics better. The Satanic image is to keep the Unholy Black Metal alive. Some people (in fact, alot of people) want to kill it but early Venom, Possessed, Destruction, Slayer, Sodom will forever live on...

7 June 2017

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23 Years Ago: CENTINEX complete Transcend the Dark Chaos

CENTINEX recorded Transcend the Dark Chaos at Dan Swanö's Hellspawn/Unisound Studios over a weekend, finishing on this day in 1994. ...we recorded it during 2 days so it went pretty fast. We had a good time, but there was not that much alcohol involved in that recording though...- Martin...

5 June 2017

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26 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Left Hand Path

Also a big thank you to our musical influences - REPULSION, SLAYER, R.A.V.A.G.E., DEATHSTRIKE, AUTOPSY, CHRISTOPHER YOUNG and VOMIT (Norway). Left Hand Path (Official Video) ENTOMBED released their classic debut on this day in 1990. Most of the songs on 'Left Hand Path' are old NIHILIST songs and...

4 June 2017

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30 Years Ago: POSSESSED release The Eyes of Horror

Their final record (not counting the 1988 CD compilation or Torrao demos), POSSESSED released The Eyes of Horror on this day in 1987 through Combat Records. I don't think that we ever "moved" away from the heavier stuff, I think that we were just doing something different at the...

31 May 2017

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25 Years Ago: MONSTROSITY release Imperial Doom

Yes, so far, and we're waiting to get the year end figures. It's amazing that sales have been good since our tour with Pestilence was cut short in Europe and we haven't toured at all in the U.S. It's been totally the underground which has supported us with...

26 May 2017

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30 Years Ago: DEATH release Scream Bloody Gore

...it's a five-album deal. As far as I know, Randy Burns will hopefully be producing and we will start recording in mid-to-lare July....I'm very confident in our new material. We've got a fairly large following. Just wait for the album - it will devastate. Combat are very supportive...

25 May 2017

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25 Years Ago: MY DYING BRIDE release As the Flower Withers

At the moment we're working on the LP and we are keeping our new songs a bit of a secret for a while. They will be quite different from the usual Death Metal style though.- Aaron Stainthorpe / My Dying Bride interview, Mortuary #3, 1992 MY DYING BRIDE...

22 May 2017

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28 Years Ago: PARADISE LOST record Frozen Illusion demo

On this day in 1989 PARADISE LOST were recording their second demo at LION Studios in Leeds. Internal Torment Lion was owned by members of GOLD FRANKINCENSE & DISK DRIVE and had a welcoming attitude towards the growing anarcho-punk scene in Leeds and West Yorkshire.Other bands that recorded their...

13 May 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Paradise Lost

26 Years Ago: MASACRE record Ola de violencia

The first major release by Colombian cult MASACRE! Recorded on this day in 1990 at Midi Mix Studios, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. Self-released the following year, it quickly reached the European underground and they soon signed to Osmose. The debut LP Reqviem was released in October 1991; followed by this...

9 May 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Masacre

30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record the second half of Scum

NAPALM DEATH recorded the second half of Scum during this month in 1987 at Rich Bitch Studios, Birmingham. The first half was recorded the previous August (1986) at Rich Bitch and originally intended for a split with ATAVISTIC. Well, the old demo was a little out of date...

7 May 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death Punk History

25 Years Ago: INCANTATION release Onward to Golgotha

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it...

5 May 2017

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28 Years Ago: ROTTING CHRIST record their side of The Other Side of Life split

ROTTING CHRIST recorded and mixed their side of the split 7" with SOUND POLLUTION - The Other Side of Life - on this day in 1989. A few months after the Decline's Return demo. Nine songs, ranging between 7 seconds and a full minute, of grindcore. In the...

4 May 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Rotting Christ

27 Years Ago: HADEZ, SEPULCRO & MORTUORIO live in Lima, Peru

Cult death / thrash from Peru! HADEZ at that point had only released two demos (maybe a third, depending on when Hadez Attack was recorded).The other two bands only ever released demos. Hadez - Altar of Sacrifice MORTUORIO released one official demo, Cámara de torturas, in November 1989. Mortuorio...

29 April 2017

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30 Years Ago: RIPPING CORPSE record Death Warmed Over demo

I would say we started out as speed metal went through the thrash zone and ended up at death metal with a touch of hardcore. We were with the first ones doing it. We were there from day one really, I remember when there wasn't a death metal,...

26 April 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Heavy Metal History Ripping Corpse