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38 Years Ago: VENOM record their first demo

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....

29 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History

38 Years Ago: BRATS (pre-MERCYFUL FATE) release 1980

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...

28 April 2018

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33 Years Ago: EXODUS release Bonded by Blood

EXODUS released their legendary classic Bonded by Blood on this day in 1985! Black magic rites on this black evil night!!

25 April 2018

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33 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD live in Bochum

Classic early RUNNING WILD live on this day in 1985.

22 April 2018

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37 Years Ago: GIRLSCHOOL release Hit and Run (NWOBHM)

Girlschool - C'mon Let's Go (Promo Video) Girlschool - Hit and Run (Top of the Pops, April 1981) GIRLSCHOOL released their classic second album on this day in 1981. Girlschool - Yeah Right (Promo Video)

20 April 2018

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37 Years Ago: VENOM release In League with Satan

One day I came in with this riff and Abaddon started pounding the toms to it in a really tribal way. I was expecting a straight beat, but this rolling thing started happening with the song. And the solo is just a bunch of single, sustained notes with...

19 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Venom

31 Years Ago: SLAUGHTER LORD live in Melbourne

SLAUGHTER LORD, the pioneering Australian thrash & death horde, live in Melbourne on this day in 1987. The scene here is getting bigger and better all the time. Heaps of bangers are getting into THRASH / DEATH / H'CORE bands 'cause they have finally got their own bands...

18 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Slaughter Lord

28 Years Ago: BATHORY release Hammerheart

The basics were recorded at the end of the last summer. We've let them "ripe", we recorded 12 or 13 songs. We've choosen seven which will be out on the album. The reason there are so few songs is that we have three songs which are more than...

16 April 2018

• Tags: Bathory Heavy Metal History

26 Years Ago: GODFLESH release Pure

The word [Pure] has got so much - it is loaded because it's not even blatant. I like the extremity of it as well. Essentially we are coming from extremes but it's extremes that get a bit lost in the mangle because you just can't be that specific...

13 April 2018

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36 Years Ago: WITCHFINDER GENERAL complete Death Penalty recording

The recording date isn't listed officially, but some cleaver soul used an interview with Phil Cope to work it out. At the start of '82 like I said before the love of my life left me and I was gutted. And we did a gig and it went...

11 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Witchfinder General

35 Years Ago: MERCYFUL FATE live in Eindhoven (with King Diamond commentary)

MERCYFUL FATE were playing live at the Dynamo Club on this day in 1983. The full gig does exist on video (watch below), sourced from a decent quality VHS. Three songs have been preserved in amazing quality though and they can be found on the DVD included with...

9 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Mercyful Fate

37 Years Ago: GIRLSCHOOL & MOTORHEAD on Rockstage

Cheers you lot! The gig was actually recorded way back in August 1980, but on this day in 1981 the old Associated Television (now ITV) broadcast MOTORHEAD & GIRLSCHOOL on the Rockstage programme. Watch both sets, recorded at Nottingham's Theatre Royal, below. MOTORHEAD get 35 minutes, GIRLSCHOOL about...

4 April 2018

• Tags: Girlschool Heavy Metal History Motorhead

31 Years Ago: VOIVOD release Killing Technology

"Killing Technology" lyrically will be a little more political though. We've never tried to side with one point of view but in the lyrics we like to tell people about nuclear war and polluting the atmosphere and stuff, and "Killing Technology" has quite a bit of that -...

3 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

22 Years Ago: NEUROSIS release Through Silver in Blood

We basically knew what we were going for. I'd say this record is more of an epic undertaking than the last one. We know how to get a lot more out of one note these days and we are a lot more trance-oriented in our music as far...

2 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Neurosis

28 Years Ago: FORBIDDEN release Twisted into Form (Bay Area Thrash)

We'll begin with FORBIDDEN EVIL in 1988, we did a lot of touring and everything went well. Next, we did TWISTED INTO FORM, then everything went well again. However, somebody wanted to put us in the studio instead of keeping us on tour when TWISTED INTO FORM was...

30 March 2018

• Tags: Forbidden Heavy Metal History

32 Years Ago: VOIVOD release Rrroooaaarrr (and there's no chance to save your cracked brain!)

Anyway, we had to make a move, because "War and Pain" had been released more than a year, before we decided to enter the studio and record "RRROOOAAARR". Our material had been ready for a long time and we were looking forward to listening to our new songs....

14 March 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

33 Years Ago: BULLDOZER release The Day of Wrath

We always write about our real experiences. We never invented an honour story or a satanic rite. That's why we're not a "Black Metal" band. "The Exorcism" is a real personal story, and that goes for the other songs - they're real experiences that we (or I) happen...

13 March 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Bulldozer Heavy Metal History

28 Years Ago: KREATOR, CORONER, SABBAT, TANKARD live at Thrashing East Festival

Just months after the fall of the Berlin wall, and still several months from formal reunification, the Thrashing East Festival took place at Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, East Berlin on this day in 1990. Headlined by KREATOR with TANKARD, CORONER and SABBAT! There is a lot of killer footage from the...

4 March 2018

• Tags: Coroner Heavy Metal History Kreator Sabbat (United Kingdom)