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30 Years Ago: THEATRE OF TRAGEDY release Theatre of Tragedy

We didn't feel innovative, but very happy to have the possibility to record our own music and release it on CD. When we started out the scene was very small and since we had some success in the beginning we became "the new wave" People enjoyed what we...

4 July 2025

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30 Years Ago: BLIND GUARDIAN release Imaginations from the Other Side

...and there are different sides. It's just from the view of a person who see things different and who's still into fantasy and into daydreams. And that's what Imaginations from the Other Side means. Because most of the people are too realistic and they don't like to stay...

4 April 2025

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35 Years Ago: DEATH SS release Black Mass

People were shocked to see five crazy young boys, masked as monsters, that, from a stage set up with authentic cemetery artifacts (stolen the night before from the local cemetery) threw worms, real blood and rotting flesh to the audience, playing a kind of music so dark and...

23 December 2024

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30 Years Ago: THERGOTHON release Stream from the Heavens

'Stream From The Heavens' will be out on CD and possibly on cassette format too. It shall include 6 slow and atmospheric songs, together around 45 minutes of dark music. The material was recorded and mixed in October / November 1992.[...]We are waiting for the Cd to be...

15 June 2024

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35 Years Ago: SHELLSHOCK release Mortal Days

Late 80s thrash from Saitama, Japan; SHELLSHOCK released their debut album Mortal Days on this day in 1989.

28 January 2024

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35 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Port Royal

It was a very weird thing. We started that stuff with the Under Jolly Roger album, and everything started with the song "Under Jolly Roger." At that time we were looking for a title for the whole record, and I said that was a great title for the...

26 September 2023

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35 Years Ago: SAINT VITUS release Mournful Cries

SAINT VITUS released their fourth album, Mournful Cries, on this day in 1988 through SST. The band practiced in a shed behind a crack-house in Torrance and they worried they might get their amps impounded or stolen before the studio date came. Whereas for the first album the...

22 August 2023

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35 Years Ago: RIGOR MORTIS release Rigor Mortis

We did one tour in the States with DEATH ANGEL and [Capitol Records] gave us a lot of money! Basically for a band that comes out of nowhere, that did one demotape, 500 copies... we had no idea what the music business was all about as far as...

19 July 2023

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25 Years Ago: NASUM release Inhale / Exhale

Grindcore wasn't that hot at that time. Napalm Death had made a few non-grindcore albums and it was evident that we filled a void. There was a hole in the extreme music world that we happened to fill. Many of the reviews had passages like "I don't usually...

26 May 2023

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35 Years Ago: VIO-LENCE release Eternal Nightmare

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. I think the drums could've been louder in some parts but other than that, I think it's killer. Yeah, I think it turned out really good. Rob Flynn / Vio-lence interview, Out of the Underground #1, 1989 VIO-LENCE released their debut album,...

12 April 2023

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30 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Pile of Skulls

RUNNING WILD released their seventh album, Pile of Skulls, on this day in 1992. I think it was back in ninety one when I started reading books about the UFO phenomenon and other phenomenons. ...["Sinister Eyes"] was the first time I had written about that, because I was...

21 October 2022

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30 Years Ago: D.R.I. release Definition

During the Four of a Kind and Thrash Zone years, we were doing pretty good. We reached a certain point where we weren't getting any higher and lower, so for Definition, we decided to open for a lot of bands - like Ice-T & Body Count and Testament....

20 October 2022

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35 Years Ago: WARLOCK release Triumph and Agony

WARLOCK released their fourth and final album on this day in 1987. When [the "All We Are" video] came out, the first time I saw it on Headbangers Ball. I was a big KISS fan. I'm STILL a big KISS fan, and Paul [Stanley] and Gene [Simmons] were...

29 September 2022

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50 Years Ago: BLACK SABBATH release Vol 4

This album isn’t going to be quite as raw and heavy as the first three. We’re getting more into melody. Ozzy Osbourne / Black Sabbath interview, 1972 BLACK SABBATH released their fourth album, Vol. 4, on this day in 1972 through Vertigo.

25 September 2022

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35 Years Ago: METRALION record Quo Vadis

Part of the first generation of thrash mtal bands from Rio de Janeiro, METRALION, completed recording their debut album, Quo Vadis, on this day in 1987 at Master Estudio.

4 September 2022

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30 Years Ago: THE GATHERING release Always...

Some songs we work are very difficult to write. It's not easy to put an eerie atmosphere around the songs. Frank & Rene are the riff writers and together we tight the songs. We are always try to develop a tragic and doomy atmosphere. The real feeling must...

9 June 2022

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35 Years Ago: DEATHWISH release At the Edge of Damnation

A lot of the songs on "Damnation" were written ages ago - going back to the bands early days - so we don't think the METALLICA comparisons are justified. Among us we have influences across the whole range of HM from LED ZEPPELIN and BLACK SABBATH to SLAYER...

10 May 2022