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30 Years Ago: SODOM release Better Off Dead

This war theme has always been around us. If you read newspaper every day and watch TV shows every day, there is always a war raging. I just wanna describe wars; I can't write anything about World War II because of Germany. I use the Vietnam War because...

1 October 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Sodom

32 Years Ago: DANZIG live in Sheffield

This is, as far as I know, the earliest DANZIG live footage! On this day in 1988 at Sheffield City Hall. supporting METALLICA. Six dates into their Not of This World Tour which began in Edinburgh on the 24th. After 14 UK dates the band returned to the...

30 September 2020

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30 Years Ago: MEGADETH release Rust in Peace

We didn't have a theme for this one. It was just get it out. We worked with Mike Clink on the production. He's the best producer I've ever worked with, and I'm looking forward to working with him again. The record was mixed by Max Norman. It ha...

24 September 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Megadeth

45 Years Ago: SCORPIONS release In Trance

...when the Kraut rock thing came up, back then, in the early Seventies, it was like all the international stars in big music magazines: they got big articles and nice features - it was like they were putting us down and making us very small. It was like,...

17 September 2020

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30 Years Ago: SADUS release Swallowed in Black

For one thing, it will be on CD finally! You'll definately notice that we've gotten a hell of a lot better. The progression on this album is just amazing. That's what I feel. The production fuckin' rules. We're not a trebley band anymore. I know we always had...

11 September 2020

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30 Years Ago: JUDAS PRIEST release Painkiller

Their scorching new release, featuring the gargantuan title track and video Painkiller. Awesome! Backwards or Forwards. JUDAS PRIEST released their classic twelth album, Painkiller, on this day in 1990.

3 September 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Judas Priest

35 Years Ago: S.O.D. release Speak English or Die

All of these death metal bands who are terrible will hopefully listen to this album and say "I quit!", and put the guitars away and go working at a counter, and not playing anymore. We were hoping maybe that would stop people, but actually I think it had...

30 August 2020

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40 Years Ago: TYGERS OF PAN TANG release Wild Cat

I have so many fantastic memories about that time. The band lived in London while we were recording 'Wildcat,' and we were out every night partying! All the bands used to meet at the Ship then on to the Marquee Club in Wardour Street in the West End...

23 August 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Tygers of Pan Tang

30 Years Ago: XENTRIX release For Whose Advantage?

England's favorite speedsters XENTRIX (pronounced Zen-tricks) are back to capture America's ears on their second full-length album... XENTRIX released their second LP, For Whose Advantage, on this day in 1990 through Roadracer Records. For whose advantage, was more thought out and technical, we spent more time on the songs...

21 August 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Xentrix

32 Years Ago: METALLICA release Harvester of Sorrow

Arriving here in the UK just over a week earlier than the US, METALLICA released the "Harvester of Sorrow" single on this day in 1988. On the B-side are two covers: "Breadfan" (BUDGIE) and "The Prince" (DIAMOND HEAD). We later attempted to mix these songs properly, but somehow...

19 August 2020

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30 Years Ago: EVICTION release The World is Hours Away

Eviction are a Crossover band out of Pittsburgh, PA. They are a very good Crossover band in the vein of Crumbsuckers, only much better, and not so lame. The vocals sound like the original Crumbsuckers singer. Musically they play well arranged Hardcore with a Thrash style. Live they...

4 August 2020

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32 Years Ago: PERGAMENT release Vruca linija

PERGAMENT - from Novi Sad, Serbia (former Yugoslavia) - released their only album, Vruća linija, on this day in 1988.

17 July 2020

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28 Years Ago: PARADISE LOST release Shades of God

It's got some parts that are a little faster than "Gothic," but then there's some parts that are slower than anything we've done before. It's a more listenable Lp than anything we've done before, it's got more variation. Gregor Mackintosh / Paradise Lost interview, Thrashikus #5, 1992 PARADISE...

14 July 2020

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Paradise Lost

35 Years Ago: HALLOWS EVE release Tales of Terror

A couple of years ago, when we started playing [in Atlanta], there wasn't anything happening, but as time went on, they finally caught on to what we were doing. The first time we played in Atlanta, they never saw or heard anything like us, and these people weren't...

12 July 2020

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32 Years Ago: VOIVOD release Dimension Hatross

The whole concept for the next LP has already been created. The concept involves a journey that the Voivod will take into another dimension. This new dimension is called Hatross and it will be created in the Voivod lab. The whole thing is very difficult to explain. The...

29 June 2020

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30 Years Ago: DANZIG release II: Lucifuge

I believe I have my own place in the Rock sphere. And no-one else can really occupy it. You see you can't be anything else but yourself and carve out your own niche. People have influenced me sure, but what i do doesn't sound like anyone else. I...

26 June 2020

• Tags: Danzig Heavy Metal History Punk History

35 Years Ago: VICIOUS RUMORS release Soldiers of the Night

We played LIVE and concentrated on getting Larry Howe's drums perfect to begin with, then building up from there with the other instruments. Mike Varney had a pretty rigid deal back then for all the Shrapnel Records bands. We had only 100 hours to do everything in the...

25 May 2020

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35 Years Ago: DESTRUCTION release Infernal Overkill

Our brand new material is more technical and ofcourse still speedy and heavy. Songs like: "Black Death", "The Ritual", "Death Trap" and "Bestial Invasion" are real killer!! Tommy Sandmann / Destruction interview, Brain Damage #2, 1985 DESTRUCTION released their classic debut album Infernal Overkill on this day in 1985...

24 May 2020

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