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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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35 Years Ago: SLAUTER XSTROYES release Winter Kill

...in order to make the record in the first place,my mother helped us get along for $5000,so we had forty hours to studio time to do the whole thing and then we recorded it and pressed it and everything was done with our $5000 budget!That's all we had.We...

22 May 2020

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27 Years Ago: UPSIDEDOWN CROSS release Evilution

Boston doom. UPSIDEDOWN CROSS released their second - and final - album, Evilution, on this day in 1993 through Taang.

21 May 2020

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15 Years Ago: BUTTERFLY TEMPLE release The Times of Mara

I think that BUTTERFLY TEMPLE was actually the first band on the Russian pagan metal scene. Themes like national patriotism, ancient Slavonic beliefs, memories of the exploits of our ancestors, appeared, of course, in the work of some groups formed before us. The value of BUTTERFLY TEMPLE for...

19 May 2020

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25 Years Ago: PARADISE LOST release The Last Time

We play the music that we want to hear or listen to. We are not in it to please anyone or appeal to a certain market. We play music we appreciate and hopefully right-minded people will like it and grow with us. If you start to play music...

8 May 2020

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33 Years Ago: NECROPHAGIA release It Began with a Twisted Dream

Not the Ohio band that released Season of the Dead the same year; this NECROPHAGIA were from California and released It Began with a Twisted Dream - a brutal thrashing demo - on this day in 1987. NECROPHAGIA were one of the earliest signing to Wild Rags Records,...

20 April 2020

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40 Years Ago: IRON MAIDEN release Iron Maiden

I started five years ago in the East End of London. At that time, I couldn't find any musicians or contracts so, with Dave Murray (guitar) and Paul Di Anno (vocals), we used to play in East End pubs that don't exist anymore, or even in clubs. Then...

14 April 2020

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42 Years Ago: RAINBOW release Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

I criticize my own work pretty harshly, yet I feel this is some of the best music I have ever been part of. Ritchie Blackmore / Rainbow interview, Guitar Player, 1978 RAINBOW released their third LP on this day in 1978. A classic heavy metal album containing some...

9 April 2020

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28 Years Ago: SKYCLAD release A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol

SKYCLAD released their second album, A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol, on this day in 1992 through Noise. ...[the debut album is] essentially a thrash album, with one folk metal tune; we had a violin player to come down and play on that song, and while he...

8 April 2020

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35 Years Ago: SLAYER, EXODUS & VENOM live at Studio 54 (Ultimate Revenge Tour)

Playing Studio 54 was a real treat; I had heard about that club and the whole Saturday Night Fever disco era, so for the band to play that club was pretty damn cool. For it to be Venom, Slayer, and Exodus, that was definitely the end of the...

3 April 2020

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30 Years Ago: ATROPHY release Violent by Nature

I thought the second album had a lot more to it. First of all the production quality was much better (more money and more time in the studio). We worked extremely hard on it and I thought it had more groove to it while still keeping it fast...

26 March 2020

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40 Years Ago: DEF LEPPARD release On Through the Night

You know, that first record, Tom Allom produced it, God bless him. Lovely guy and a good producer. But I think his instructions from the record label must have been something like, "Just capture the band's energy, man." We'd been playing most of those songs live for 18...

14 March 2020

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44 Years Ago: JUDAS PRIEST release The Ripper

JUDAS PRIEST released their second single, "The Ripper" b/w "Island of Domination", on this day in 1976. The lead single from their second LP Sad Wings of Destiny, which was released two weeks later.

10 March 2020

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15 Years Ago: PANTHEIST release Amartia

The idea of doing this album has been there since early 2000 I believe. They were my first musical ideas for Pantheist, so I had the chance to work on them for a long time. We wanted to record Amartia around the time of our '1000 years' demo,...

2 March 2020

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30 Years Ago: RAZOR release Shotgun Justice

Canadian speed legends RAZOR released their sixth album, Shotgun Justice, on this day in 1990. Shotgun Justice is the first RAZOR album with Bob Reid on vocals. ...he had SFH, his other band, he'd done demos -- he sent me his demos, and in fact, he opened for...

1 March 2020

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23 Years Ago: FORSAKEN release Evermore

Maltese doom metal, FORSAKEN released their debut album on this day in 1997. There was a three-year hiatus prior to "Evermore"'s release, which was mostly taken up by gigging in the Island and even a tour in France and Spain in March 1994 to support the Ep's release....

4 February 2020

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34 Years Ago: ORIGINAL SIN record Sin Will Find You Out

ORIGINAL SIN recorded Sin Will Find You Out on this day in 1986 at Sonic Sound Studios, Freeport, New York. Marketed as all-female band, the truth is the music was performed by Edward Pursino and Joe O'Reilly of VIRGIN STEELE with Mark Edwards on drums and Danielle Draconis...

25 January 2020

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