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20 Years Ago: NOMINON release Diabolical Bloodshed

20 Years Ago: NOMINON release Diabolical Bloodshed

NOMINON released their debut album Diabolical Bloodshed on this day in 1999, just over a year after recording at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm. The reactions were mainly positive, much like it was with Recremation; a lot of people thought it was cool that Nominon played the Swedish type of...
20 Years Ago: REPUGNANT release Hecatomb

20 Years Ago: REPUGNANT release Hecatomb

REPUGNANT released Hecatomb on this day in 1999 through To the Death Records. The EP ends with a cover of CELTIC FROST's "The Usurper". Basically just because it's a great song and we do it much better than any other band... don't you think? Carlos Sathanas / Repugnant...
20 Years Ago: OPETH release Still Life

20 Years Ago: OPETH release Still Life

The only thing that makes us satisfied after recording a new album is to feel that it's better or at least equal to the last. There's not much to achieve in the world of death metal apart from more recognition and more fans. I don't know, we don't...
30 Years Ago: FUNEBRE record Cranial Torment

30 Years Ago: FUNEBRE record Cranial Torment

We have big laughs about it, it's so primitive! But doesn't almost everyone kind of progress in the songwriting area as the time goes on? I don't what's the attitude towards Samppa and Seppo, but I suppose their feelings are the same. I've never asked what they think...
29 Years Ago: NOCTURNUS release The Key

29 Years Ago: NOCTURNUS release The Key

It's called The Key and it's on Earache Rec. It was recorded at Morrisound and it was engineered by Tom Morris. It contains 9 tracks and the CD has an extra one. Mike Browning / Nocturnus interview, Blasphemous #1, 1991 NOCTURNUS released their classic debut, the occult sci-fi...
18 Years Ago: DEICIDE release In Torment in Hell

18 Years Ago: DEICIDE release In Torment in Hell

A rushed obligation, DEICIDE released their sixth album on this day in 2001. Their last with Roadrunner. ...that record was a fuckin rush rush hurry up and get it out and get off Roadrunner. They were shelving all the records. What's the point of fuckin putting all this...
32 Years Ago: DEATH rehearse for Leprosy

32 Years Ago: DEATH rehearse for Leprosy

We were constantly working on new songs when we were in the rehearsal room or when we were on tour. I still remember that we went to the Morrisound in April 1988. And that everything was put on tape in just a few weeks. All the songs were...
28 Years Ago: ASSUCK record Anticapital

28 Years Ago: ASSUCK record Anticapital

ASSÜCK completed the recording of their debut 12", Anticapital, on this day in 1991 at Morrisound. We've kinda veered off from fucking dead people, we've bridged into reality a little more and everyday troubles that we have, a lot of our lyrics are animal rights, anti racist lyrics,...
26 Years Ago: CYNIC release Focus (studio footage)

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...
28 Years Ago: ATHEIST release Unquestionable Presence

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...
19 Years Ago: EXHUMED release Slaughtercult

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...