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28 Years Ago: ANATHEMA complete An Iliad of Woes

Recorded at M.A. Studios over a long weekend, ANATHEMA began recording on Friday 23 November and completed their debut demo on this day (a Sunday) in 1990. At the same time, MY DYING BRIDE were recording their debut demo at Revolver Studios (they started on Saturday). An Iliad...

25 November 2018

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26 Years Ago: DOOM SNAKE CULT release Love, Sorrow, Doom

We knew that, once again, it wasn't about tight musicianship or anything like that. It was about being unique... there were so many other bands in Vegas doing the Exodus, doing the Metallica or the 'this band, that band' thing and we wanted to always be different, and...

24 November 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Doom Snake Cult

30 Years Ago: NECROPHILE record The Terminal Derangement

Tokyo death metal, NECROPHILE recorded their debut demo on this day in 1988 at Academy Apolo. They recorded two further demos demos and released splits until going quiet around 1992. In recent years NECROPHILE returned; first with a demo compilation and most recently their debut album, Awakening Those...

18 November 2018

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29 Years Ago: MORBID ANGEL, BOLT THROWER, CARCASS & NAPALM DEATH live in Nottingham

At the mid-point of Earache's seven date Grindcrusher tour, four legendary bands live at Nottingham's Rock City. Morbid Angel - Live, Nottingham Rock City, 1989 (Grindcrusher Tour) I remember an incident when we played Nottingham Rock City. Dave Vincent had requested a bucket full of maggots which the...

14 November 2018

• Tags: Bolt Thrower Carcass Death Metal History Morbid Angel Napalm Death

21 Years Ago: DEICIDE release Serpents of the Light

Deicide - Serpent of the Light The guy, Nizen Lopez, who did the artwork for the album... he came to a show and gave me the painting. It had his phone number and everything on the back of it. The painting was titled, "Serpent of the Light." I...

20 October 2018

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25 Years Ago: CARCASS release Heartwork

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 2018

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27 Years Ago: MORGOTH live in Frankfurt

Full MORGOTH gig from this day in 1991, a few months after the release of their debut LP Cursed.

9 September 2018

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23 Years Ago: NASUM release Industrislaven

It's quite ok I think. Unfortunately there have been a lot of mistakes from the record labels' side that we wished we could have been without. For example the cover picture should have been printed over the whole page (why it ended up so small, I haven't got...

3 September 2018

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30 Years Ago: GRAVE record Sick Disgust Eternal demo

GRAVE complete the recording of their first demo, Sick Disgust Eternal, at the Yellow House, Visby, Gotland, Sweden on this day in 1988. I dont have them in front of me but I try the best I can to remember, haha.. The first one "Sick, disgust, eternal" demo was...

1 September 2018

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26 Years Ago: VITAL REMAINS release Let Us Pray

VITAL REMAINS released their debut LP, Let Us Pray, through Deaf Records (Peaceville) on this day in 1992. ...there are a lot of bands just jumping on the bandwagon just to make money and rip people off. We try to be original as hell and we don't rip...

21 August 2018

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28 Years Ago: CANNIBAL CORPSE release Eaten Back to Life

CANNIBAL CORPSE released their debut album on this day in 1990 through Death Records (Metal Blade). Yeah, we sent out like our videos ... actually, I knew a guy that I used to work with at a record store chain around here, and uh he like had some...

17 August 2018

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24 Years Ago: AT THE GATES release Terminal Spirit Disease

AT THE GATES released their third album on this day in 1994. On the new LP/CD there will be no violin, 'cause we had no violinplayer that is interested in playing fulltime with us. But maybe we will use violin on our next release, however that seems so...

18 July 2018

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15 Years Ago: DEATH SQUADRON record Black Guard of War

Short-lived Spanish death / black metal (in the vein of BLASPHEMY) band DEATH SQUADRON recorded their first EP on this day in 2003. The lineup included Deathrune Records' Matei on vocals and Todesking (PROCLAMATION, SACRIFICIO) on drums.

15 July 2018

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30 Years Ago: AUTOPSY record Critical Madness demo

The key to the real heaviness was getting the two guitar attack going. The first demo was a great start, but we of course wanted things to be more brutal and saw to it that we made that happen. Song-wise, there's not any difference on the first demo,...

10 July 2018

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27 Years Ago: MASSACRE release From Beyond

MASSACRE released their classic debut album on this day in 1991. Most of the songs date back much further; to a time when Florida death metal was still in its infancy, shortly before the band was put on hold. Massacre - Chamber of Ages (Official video, source: MTV)...

1 July 2018

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28 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH live in Salisbury (Live Corruption)

Napalm Death - Live Corruption (Complete) NAPALM DEATH live at the Salisbury Arts Centre on this day in 1990. Pro-shot; released on VHS as Live Corruption by Fotodisk in the US and a few years later by Earache.

30 June 2018

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26 Years Ago: DISMEMBER live in Milan

Part of the "Campaign for Musical Destruction" European tour with NAPALM DEATH and OBITUARY; DISMEMBER live on this day in 1992.

21 June 2018

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15 Years Ago: INCANTATION live in New Zealand

INCANTATION live on this day in 2003 in Auckland, New Zealand. The second date of their Blasphemy Down Under tour. The next day they played in Christchurch, followed by six dates in Australia. The tour concluded in Syney at the third Bloodlust festival.

18 June 2018

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