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37 Years Ago: IRON MAIDEN release Twilight Zone c/w Wrathchild

Here in Blighty Twilight Zone was a non-album single; a double-A side with "Wrathchild". We couldn't afford to pay for another video for 'Twilight Zone', so we did a double A-side, because we knew we were gonna be off touring a lot and, if by any chance they wanted us on...

2 March 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Iron Maiden

35 Years Ago: ROCK GODDESS release Rock Goddess

ROCK GODDESS released their debut eponymous album this month in 1983. The band were already building a dedicated following in the rock and NWOBHM scene after gigging the circuit (later supporting IRON MAIDEN and DEF LEPPARD), appearing at the 1982 Reading festival, a Sounds cover feature and Kerrang!...

14 February 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Rock Goddess

46 Years Ago: HAWKWIND record Silver Machine

The Silver Machine single was recorded live on this day in 1972 during HAWKWIND's set at the Greasy Truckers Party, The Roundhouse, London. Other artists playing that day were MAN, BRINSLEY SCHWARZ and MAGIC MICHAEL. The original vocals were performed by Robert Calvert. The band considered them inadequate for the single,...

13 February 2018

• Tags: Hawkwind Heavy Metal History

16 Years Ago: METALUCIFER live at The Live Station, Tokyo

METALUCIFER live on this day in 2002 at The Live Station (also known as Meguro Live Station) in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The venue opened in 2000. The recording was released as Heavy Metal Genocide - Live in Japan 2002 by Dozin Destroyer in 2003.

11 February 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Metalucifer

22 Years Ago: DEVIL DOLL release Dies Irae on Hurdy Gurdy Records

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...

9 February 2018

• Tags: Devil Doll Heavy Metal History

29 Years Ago: EXODUS release Fabulous Disaster (good clean violent fun)

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...

30 January 2018

• Tags: Exodus Heavy Metal History

31 Years Ago: MESSIAH record Extreme Cold Weather (there lies my neighbours frozen mum)

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...

24 January 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Messiah

32 Years Ago: KREATOR live on Heavy Metal Battle

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...

11 January 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Kreator

28 Years Ago: RAZOR live Toronto Metal Massacre 2 (Shotgun Justice)

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...

29 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Razor

30 Years Ago: ADX live in Paris (French Speed Metal)

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...

27 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History

33 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Gates to Purgatory (black and heavy is our sound!)

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...

26 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Running Wild

32 Years Ago: KING DIAMOND release No Presents for Christmas

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,...

25 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History King Diamond

28 Years Ago: DEATH SS release Black Mass

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...

23 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death SS Heavy Metal History

31 Years Ago: HOLY TERROR record their debut album Terror and Submission

"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...

20 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Holy Terror

32 Years Ago: LUCIFER'S HERITAGE (pre-BLIND GUARDIAN) release Symphonies of Doom demo

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...

15 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Lucifer's Heritage

38 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD release the Bomber single (napalm to the bone!)

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,...

1 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Motorhead

32 Years Ago: WATCHTOWER release Energetic Disassembly

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...

30 November 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Watchtower

30 Years Ago: SABBAT release Blood for the Blood God (White Dwarf Flexi)

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,...

29 November 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Sabbat (United Kingdom)