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36 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 2017

• Tags: Girlschool Heavy Metal History Motorhead

30 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 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

32 Years Ago: VENOM release Possessed

The posters read... BLACK METAL RETURNS Thirteen Power Packed Tracks This month in 1987 VENOM unleashed their fourth album - Possessed. The last VENOM album with Mantas until the mid-90s reunion. I don't think that everybody had enough input, because when we came to record the album, nobody...

2 April 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Venom

27 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 2017

• Tags: Forbidden Heavy Metal History

34 Years Ago: SALEM record their last demo (NWOBHM)

SALEM recorded their third and last demo on this day in 1983 at September Sound, Huddersfield. Salem won a "battle of the bands" at Huddersfield Polytechnic, following which they recorded the last demo at September Sound, Huddersfield, in March 1983, which demonstrated the maturing song writing of the...

23 March 2017

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30 Years Ago: AGRESSOR rehearse early material (French death/thrash)

Somewhere in Antibes, AGRESSOR were recording a rehearsal on this day in 1987. Brutal thrash / early death metal, this recording is known as Rehearsal of Death. Several of these songs made their way to the killer debut album, Neverending Destiny, released by Noise Records in 1990. After...

16 March 2017

• Tags: Agressor Death Metal History Heavy Metal History

31 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 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

32 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 2017

• Tags: Bulldozer Heavy Metal History

35 Years Ago: DIAMOND HEAD release Borrowed Time

DIAMOND HEAD released their major label debut on this day in 1982. Lightning to the Nations was the real first album, self-released by the band in 1980 and today much easier to find (as either LttN or The White Album). Borrowed Time is a relatively neglected part of...

12 March 2017

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26 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD live in Munich (Everything Louder Than Everything Else)

Live on this day in 1991 at the Deutsches Museum, Munich during the 1916 tour, following the album release in January. The gig, MOTÖRHEAD's 15th Anniversary show, was released on video as Everything Louder than Everything Else which includes interviews during the German leg of the tour. Lemmy,...

11 March 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Motorhead

27 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 2017

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

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

Here in Britain 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...

2 March 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Iron Maiden

28 Years Ago: OBLITERATION live in Dover

OBLITERATION live on this day in 1989 at the St Johns Ambulance Hall, Durham Hill, Dover. Supporting AXEGRINDER with EPIDEMIC, TOMORROWS ALCOHOLICS and RISE. 7pm, £2. We have OBLITERATION's only album Obscured Within in stock. The remastered CD includes bonus demos Into The Void and Internal Corrosion which...

25 February 2017

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30 Years Ago: ANTHRAX Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London

The death of Cliff Burton suddenly ended their European tour opening for METALLICA in September 1986. ANTHRAX returned to Europe in February. The short tour also featured METALLICA and CELTIC FROST for some dates, ending on this day in 1987 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London with support from...

15 February 2017

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28 Years Ago: M.O.D. release Gross Misconduct

M.O.D. released their second album on this day in 1989 through Megaforce Records. I'm Billy Milano, I'm a bold courageous man. A knight without armour in a bold savage land. I protect all fair maidens and damsels in distress. I'll try and comfort you, but first take off...

14 February 2017

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45 Years Ago: HAWKWIND record Silver Machine

The Silver Machine single was recorded live on this day in 1972. Part of HAWKWIND's set during the Greasy Truckers Party at 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...

13 February 2017

• Tags: Hawkwind Heavy Metal History

25 Years Ago: CELTIC FROST release Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying (In the Chapel in the Moonlight)

CELTIC FROST released their compilation album on this day in 1992. Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying included a few albums tracks, but mostly unreleased, re-recorded and rare material like the song above, In The Chapel In The Moonlight - originally a Billy Hill number from 1936. FROST...

11 February 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Celtic Frost Heavy Metal History

21 Years Ago: DEVIL DOLL release Dies Irae (...usher in the rays of chaos)

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 2017

• Tags: Devil Doll Heavy Metal History