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30 Years Ago: SKYCLAD release The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth

When I look back upon my many years spent as the vocalist and lyricist of SKYCLAD, I feel enormously proud of what we managed to collectively achieve. I think that basically we created a brand new sound with that band, which has over subsequent years influenced a whole...

17 October 2021

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20 Years Ago: MEN OF PORN release Experiments in Feedback

I don't want to be a rock star, I want to make music I like, which happens to have a limited audience. But you never know. Who ever thought Nirvana would be huge?I like people to have a reaction to the music. If they like it, great. I...

16 October 2021

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30 Years Ago: WOLF SPIDER release Drifting in the Sullen Sea

WOLF SPIDER (formerly WILCZY PAJĄK) released their fourth album, Drifting in the Sullen Sea, on this day in 1991 through Under One Flag. The band split soon after the release but reformed two decades later. Their fifth album, V, was released in 2015.

14 October 2021

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35 Years Ago: METAL CHURCH release The Dark

METAL CHURCH released their second LP, The Dark, on this day in 1986 through Elektra. [On the album sleeve] We're standing in front of a place in Seattle. O.K., Seattle, the city, it goes in a circle, right, and right in the middle of it there's a lake...

6 October 2021

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25 Years Ago: INFERNO release Utter Hell

Formed by Aggressor (AURA NOIR, VED BUENS ENDE), Einar Sjursø (BEYOND DAWN, VIRUS) and Bestial Tormentor (LAMENTED SOULS, WAKLEVÖREN) in 1995, INFERNÖ released their debut album, Utter Hell, on this day in 1996 through Osmose.

30 September 2021

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35 Years Ago: HEAD OF DAVID record their second Peel session

HEAD OF DAVID were at Maida Vale 4 recording their second of four sessions for John Peel's programme on this day in 1986.

23 September 2021

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35 Years Ago: MASSAKRE record Pissing Into the Mass Grave

Cult Chilean band MASSAKRE started life as SEPULCRO in 1982 but recorded their first demo, under the new name, on this day in 1986 at R.E.C. Studios. I didn't buy ground in heavenNor did I accept darknessThat the metaphysic one builtFor the untroubled powerful- Pablo Neruda

21 September 2021

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35 Years Ago: MEGADETH release Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

I think "Peace Sells" shows maturity on the bands part as far as song writing and the band playing together and having an overall better group sound. Just because we did a lot of touring in the first year and we've been playing around a lot together which...

19 September 2021

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20 Years Ago: ISIS live at CBGB, New York

ISIS played live at CBGB, New York on this day in 2001. The set was audio and video recorded. Two songs - "Celestial" and "Collapse and Crush" - were included on the 2006 DVD Clearing the Eye.

26 August 2021

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30 Years Ago: FUDGE TUNNEL release Hate Songs in E Minor

FUDGE TUNNEL released their debut album, Hate Songs in E Minor, on this day in 1991 through Earache. It's a combination of Wiseblood's "Fudgepunch", our favourite song and Sponge Tunnel, a band from Chicago. Originally it was going to be Sponge Tunnel. It causes various problems. Relativity had...

20 August 2021

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20 Years Ago: DERATIZATOR released their only demo

Slovenian thrash, DERATIZATOR formed in December 1999 and, after 25 concerts, split in August 2001. That same month the band briefly regrouped to record their only demo before parting ways forever - that demo was completed on this day in 2001. The band have remastered the recording and...

17 August 2021

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35 Years Ago: CIRITH UNGOL release One Foot in Hell

"One Foot in Hell" is a solid album and there is nothing bad I can say about it. The only thing we did wrong was leave Metal Blade Records, after that was released. To be honest, I am not sure why that happened, but it was a mistake....

12 August 2021

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35 Years Ago: VULCANO release Bloody Vengeance

In the very beginning of the 80's there was a small scene into the most radical way to do heavy metal. It was a transition from 70's heavy metal to N.W.O.B.H.M. and it happened a mix with British punk, too. That situation was the fuel in inert state...

10 August 2021

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35 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD release Orgasmatron

I didn't come up with the title Orgasmatron right off the bat. The album's working title was Riding with the Driver (each Motörhead studio album, except Bastards, which we made in 1993, is named after one of its songs), but that track didn't turn out as good as...

9 August 2021

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35 Years Ago: KREATOR release Flag of Hate

...I think it's already released. It's a little later than we expected because there was a mistake in the cutting, but it should definitely be out. To give you an idea of our new material, one track is about seven and a half minutes, another is slower like...

4 August 2021

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20 Years Ago: PIG DESTROYER release Prowler in the Yard

I am parked at the elementary school across from her house, listening to the rain pound against the roof of the car. I feel dislocated and ghost-like. I am a cadaver bored wth its own funeral. The painkillers are making it difficult for me to concentrate. The streetlight...

24 July 2021

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35 Years Ago: JUGGERNAUT release Baptism Under Fire

From San Antonio, Texas - JUGGERNAUT released their debut LP, Baptism Under Fire, on this day in 1986 through Metal Blade.

20 July 2021

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30 Years Ago: FORCED ENTRY release As Above, So Below

...we put out our first record, Uncertain Future, in the winter of 1989 and then we did our first tour with Coroner and Atrophy, and we did the whole States with them. That was pretty cool. Then we came back home for about three weeks, and went back...

14 June 2021

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