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26 Years Ago: CYNIC release Focus (studio footage)

By the time we were writing and recording “Focus” we were no longer listening to much death metal. We were exploring all different styles of music and it was coming through in the music we wrote. We didn’t hold ourselves to any musical standards. It didn’t have to...

14 September 2019

• Tags: Cynic Death Metal History

32 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record their first Peel Session

We had to hire equipment - we had no amps, drums or cymbals - because we hadn't started touring then and had recorded on equipment available in studios. Anyway, we turned up. "How long are your songs?" Dale [Griffin] asked. "Pretty short, we'll do twelve numbers," we said....

13 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death Punk History

28 Years Ago: REPULSION live at Schoolkids Records, Ann Arbor

Ear-splitting In-store... Friday September 6th REPULSION played live at Schoolkids Records in Ann Arbor, Michigan on this day in 1991. Schoolkids' was an independent music store which supported local bands, including the death metal masters REPULSION from nearby Flint. Earlier in 1991 the band had reformed, recorded a...

6 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Repulsion

18 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Morning Star

We had already written the tracks before going into the studio. We spent five days in the studio, then 2 in another studio to do the vocals, then moved to another studio for 2 days to finish off the vocals.If the first take goes well we may do...

3 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Entombed

28 Years Ago: ATHEIST release Unquestionable Presence

The unquestionable breakthrough release of '91 from Florida's original "brain metal" band ATHEIST released their classic second album Unquestionable Presence on this day in 1991 through Death Records (the Metal Blade sub-label, manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros). Unquestionable Presence is one of the best albums of the...

30 August 2019

• Tags: Atheist Death Metal History

30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH release Mentally Murdered

We didn't say, "Let's make it more death metal,"; we were just incorporating different styles while doing it just happened. It happened more on "Mentally Murdered", really; it's where it all started. Mitch Harris / Napalm Death interview, Metal Hanger 18, 2011 NAPALM DEATH released the Mentally Murdered...

29 August 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death

19 Years Ago: EXHUMED release Slaughtercult

"Slaughtercult" took shape throughout 1999, and was a combination of a lot of stuff. Two of the major factors were Fleshredding fret-rapist Mike Beams being with the band for the whole conception of the album. When he joined the band in 1998, "Gore Metal" was already written, and...

16 August 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Exhumed

24 Years Ago: DISMEMBER release Massive Killing Capacity

I think there has been a lot more involvement and input from all the members of the band this time around. Not that it wasn't like that before, but while making this album the guys in the band did a lot more writing. I also think we have...

4 August 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Dismember

26 Years Ago: NECROPHOBIC release The Nocturnal Silence

"The Nocturnal Silence" is NOT for the weak, the christians and people with fear for the dark. It contains 9 songs of pure evil and darkness that'll make the sun never rise again!!! Recorded in March at Sunlight Studio - between CEMETERY's Godless Beauty and AT THE GATES'...

2 August 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Necrophobic

30 Years Ago: REPULSION release Horrified

A few weeks ago I received a copy of the rough mix of REPULSIONS's "Slaughter Of The Innocent" LP (thanks Mitch) and it's so mindblowingly excellent I thought I'd tell you about it, OK? REPULSION, as all Death conoisseurs should know, are based in Michigan and were formeerly...

29 May 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Repulsion

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

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone Death Metal History

19 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH live in Poland

BEHEMOTH live at Studio TVP Łęg, Kraków, Poland on this day in 2000. The concert was released by Metal Mind on VHS as Live Εσχατον: The Art of Rebellion. It has been reissued several times on DVD. This gig took place between two European tours at either end...

27 April 2019

• Tags: Behemoth Death Metal History

16 Years Ago: IMMOLATION live in Amsterdam

IMMOLATION live on this day in 2003, towards the end of their Bringing Down the World European tour with CRADLE OF FILTH. This gig took place at the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam and was released on DVD as Bringing Down the World by Listenable in 2005. The tour started...

18 April 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Immolation

17 Years Ago: HAEMORRHAGE release Morgue Sweet Home

HAEMORRHAGE released their fourth album, Morgue Sweet Home, on this day in 2002 through German label Morbid Records. Morbid was a great label and I just would mention some of the bands they released to see that: Dead Infection, Agathocles, Blood, Gut, Dying Fetus, Blood, etc… Obviously they...

4 April 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Haemorrhage

27 Years Ago: ENTOMBED & CARCASS live in London (Gods of Grind)

ENTOMBED and CARCASS live on this day in 1992. Only three dates into the Gods of Grind tour, organised by Earache and featuring ENTOMBED, CARCASS, CATHEDRAL and CONFESSOR. After this London Astoria gig the tour continued through Europe for the rest of March and early April, ending in...

18 March 2019

• Tags: Carcass Death Metal History Entombed

27 Years Ago: SARCOFAGO release Crush, Kill, Destroy

SARCOFAGO released the Crush, Kill, Destroy 12" EP on this day in 1992. CKD was a Brazil-only title put out after The Laws of Scourge (1991) and Hate (1994). Side A featuring the only new material - the title track and "Little Julie" - with side B being...

16 March 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Sarcofago

33 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record From Enslavement to Obliteration

At the time, in England, hardcore thrash was a form that came from elsewhere and was a very minority interest. Even among many heavy metallers, it wasn't even really seen as music at all. You know, "There's no tunes. You can't sing along to that." Many of those...

15 March 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death Punk History

27 Years Ago: CRADLE OF FILTH live in Ipswich

CRADLE OF FILTH live on this day in 1992. Recordings of the gig were included on the split tape with MALEDICTION. We were just looking for an essence of evil or nastiness. We obviously added a bit of that lovelorn, romantic darkness, vampirism sort of purported. But yeah,...

13 March 2019

• Tags: Cradle of Filth Death Metal History