Maudat is a concept album: since the beginning of the band, we like to write only concept albums because we think that music and lyrics go hand in hand. Most of the time, I create lyrics before the music and after we put the words on the music....
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WITCHFINDER GENERAL played live at Tiffany's on this day in 1983. The concert was released in 2006 as Live '83.
Tiffany's is gone now, but used to be located at 27a Oxford Street in Manchester.
To these words I write,Oh lend me your ears just for tonight!
Barbatos is metal punk band. More simple guitar riffs than Abigail. Influenced from Venom, Discharge, The Exploited, GBH, Misfits, Mentors, etc.- Yasuyuki Suzuki / Barbatos interview, Metal Cast, 2012 Yasuyuki Suzuki, and a group of other ABIGAIL / CUT THROAT / SABBAT members, recorded the second BARBATOS album...
Danzig - Her Black Wings DANZIG released II on this day in 1990. Danzig - Devil's Plaything From the November 1990 New York Times "Dark Metal: Not Just Smash and Thrash" article: Unlike the younger dark-metal performers, Glenn Danzig was already active during the punk era of the...
It is a record full of music that is heavy and slow and has lyrics that don't deal with marijuana, hot rods, tits or pussies, but death, horror, loss, judgment and destruction. The atmosphere is that of discipline instead of relaxation. This isn't any chill out music. If...
...the TV and the distortion is just what people do. Sitting in front of a TV, going from channel to channel having your life directed by the norm. Consulting your TV to guide your life. It's the way we see things coming to in the world. Especially in...
[Brian Taylor] asked us and the guys from SLAUGHTER to come down and talk and he offered to pay for our recordings and he would sell them at the [Record Peddler] store to make back the money. He was in a local hardcore band called YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH...
Some of the earliest PENTAGRAM material. Recorded on this day in 1973 at Bias Recording Studios in Falls Church, VA where they had put together a 5-song demo in March. "Released" in 1973 on Boffo Socko as either a very limited or just promotional single. Only "Hurricane" has...
Here we are again, Sportsfans, something old - me, something new - Brian, something borrowed - money, and something reptile - Phil. MOTORHEAD released their excellent sixth album on this day in 1983. Eddie Clarke left the band during the 1982 Iron Fist tour and was replaced by...
We didn't work on it as a concept album, especially not lyrically, but we worked the whole album together musically as a concept. Omnio was the first album we did as an entirety somehow, we composed and rehearsed the songs in the same kind of tracklisting that's present...
...people have said to me that we split the thrash scene in half with this album but we gained more fans as well so that's great. I think we gave people something to think about because we progressed, we got some overwhelming reactions we never expected which were...
VINTERSORG started recording their second album, Ödemarkens son, on this day in 1999 at Ballerina Audio.
Also available on Cassette and Cartridge Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Jimmy Bain, Cozy Powell, Tony Carey Rising was released on this day in 1976. RAINBOW would soon leave for the US to tour through June and July, returning to the UK for September and then on to...
HOLY MOSES released their debut LP, Queen of Siam, on this day in 1986. FLASH!! Just received a two track advance tape from Earthshaker Records. It's by a band called Holy Moses, which consists of Sabina Classen (vocals), Andreas Classen (guitars), Herbert Dreger (drums), and Ramon Brusseler (bass)....
Photograph: Rik Walton The demo... with Clive singing, I was able to talk the engineer into working for free and talked everybody else into working for free with my charm and managed to get the band in the studio for a couple of hours for those three tracks....
BRATS began as a punk rock band in Copenhagen, 1977. The earliest material is good but not remarkable. Guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner (and briefly Carsten Van der Volsing) soon began incorporating their heavy metal influences - JUDAS PRIEST, SCORPIONS and UFO. BRATS released their only LP...
EXODUS released their legendary classic Bonded by Blood on this day in 1985!
Black magic rites on this black evil night!!
