After the release of The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms, I started to record an album which was going to be entitled The Day Of Wrath. In the middle of the recordings the studio was completely destroyed by a fire, whose origin is still shrouded in the mist of...
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On this day in 1989 EXODUS released their third album, Fabulous Disaster, in the UK through Music for Nations ("BUY OR DIE!"), a week before the start of their European tour. The tour ran from February 1989 into early March. Starting and ending in England with support from ACID REIGN. The middle European...
Dear thrashing people. Please, listen now to the following words of an old wise man... Tonight, enjoy yourself... but don't get too much drunk, don't be a little bad king of a fucking stupid massacre. If it's so, you're in a false place here... MESSIAH recorded their second...
KREATOR live on this day in 1986. Rudi & Neudi's Heavy Metal Battle was a German cable-TV show hosted by current MANILLA ROAD drummer Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth. Endless Pain had been released just a few months earlier by Noise, Flag of Hate would be released that August, the Hell...
Live at the second Toronto Metal Massacre on this day in 1989. The eastern US and Canada had just gone through one of the coldest periods on record but the show went ahead, organised by Two Rays Promotion. RAZOR produced a multi-cam shoot of this gig and you can see...
Live on this day in 1987 ADX played at Maison de la Mutualité, Paris. This high quality recording was released the following year as Exécution publique. Sounds like a large crowd, la Mutualité had a 1700+ capacity; similar size to the Astoria. ADX stands for Acier DouX. It...
This summer should see the release of the band's debut album. All I can say is once that record is out, by all means pick it up. It will undoubtedly be one of the top metal albums of 1984. And Bob Muldowney was right on in the July...
It was Michael Denner and me that wrote the music together, and I always do all the lyrics of course, but I had just started King Diamond and I was fooling around with lines and stuff together. We also did "Halloween" around then, and we were sitting around,...
Year by year we had evolved our style, enriching it of new elements, but the roots were always the same... from the old "glitter rock" of acts like the Sweet, Slade and T-Rex (for the glamorous taste and the strong visual characterization), to Punk rock (for the aggressive...
"Terror and Submission" was recorded at this studio located in the Santa Monica Mountains in Southern California. The setting was beautiful. I can't remember the name of the studio. During this month in 1986, HOLY TERROR entered Skyline Studios in Topanga Canyon to record their classic debut Terror...
Great band name, good demo. Somewhere between speed and (new wave of) heavy metal - the German sound of the time (GRAVE DIGGER and others). Released on this day in 1985. Every night I hear thunder.The shadow, can't you see?So one night I will follow.The dark side reigns...
It was a bomber's sky: dry air, wind enough to clear the smoke, cloud broken enough to recognise a few stars... On this day in 1979 MOTORHEAD released their sixth single, reaching 34 in the charts. The song (and iconic huge bomber rig) was, at least in part,...
It was really like a demo album. We accomplished. We did not loose. We lost lots of money but we didn't loose, in one way, because we accomplished what we were looking to do which was to get our name out - get the style of music that...
Your eyes and mind have been devastated by WHITE DWARF for the past ten years. Now it's time for your ears to get it! Warhammer enthusiasts Sabbat, the speed rock band from the bowels of Nottingham burst out with this specially commissioned Blood for the Blood God disc,...
Nicht ganz. Wir waren eigentlich glücklich, daß wir eine CD fur ADIPOCERE aufnehmen konnten, aber das Aufnahmebudget war zu niedrig und die Promotion war ebenfalls mangelhoft. Unsere zweite CD wird bei NUCLEAR BLAST erscheinen. Wir hoffen das ist eine Verbesserung.- Lucas van Slegtenhorst / Celestial Season interview, Chaos...
METAL CHURCH live on this day in 1985 at Muldoon’s Off 10, Mounds View, Minnesota.
Recorded by John C Fox.
DARK ANGEL released the classic Darkness Descends through Combat on this day in 1986. Topics on Darkness Descends ranged from euthanasia and the very real pain of losing a loved one ("Death Is Certain") to the hypocrisy existing in a beloved book - the Bible ("The Burning of...
GODFLESH released their debut album on this day in 1989. Powerful industrial metal, a term which almost instantly lost any meaning in the following decade.
The cover image is taken from a scene in the 1980 film Altered States, watch below.