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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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24 Years Ago: THE 3RD AND THE MORTAL release Painting on Glass

We have all the way since the beginning in 1992 tried to capture a unique sound. The idea behind the band was that it t was not to have any musikal bounderies what so ever, in a process of creating songs and different soundscapes. In the beginning every...

19 January 2020

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30 Years Ago: ROTTING CORPSE record Neck Breaking Fury

For instance this band Rotting Corpse consists of what I would call true metal fans. They've been into metal from it's early days. You know when Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Saxon, MSG etc. were the hardest you could find. Then you probably wonder why they've chosen such...

13 January 2020

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20 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Victory

I think the entire professional career in all its fifteen years has been one single learning process as far as songwriting, production and self presentation goes. I think there has been a constant development from one stage to the next whereas Death Or Glory was the only exception...

10 January 2020

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22 Years Ago: KATATONIA release Saw You Drown

Only a few weeks after the release of Sounds of Decay in late 1997 a quite different KATATONIA emerged on this day in 1998 with the release of Saw You Drown. The limited EP served as an introduction to the style KATATONIA shifted to on their third album,...

1 January 2020

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