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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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Katatonia

31 Years Ago: VOIVOD live in Montreal (A Flawless Structure)

We were extremely worried when Piggy was ill with cancer, it gave us a big shock to find that something like that could just come to the surface like that. We've become mote health conscious, we've grown closer together, personally and musically, and now after this record, which...

21 December 2019

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

33 Years Ago: FALL OF BECAUSE (Pre GODFLESH) live

At that time, Fall of Because was the entire opposite of all the speed stuff happening. We'd do gigs with Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror. When we would play, Paul and I would face Justin with our backs to the crowd and play for ourselves. And everybody...

20 December 2019

• Tags: Godflesh Heavy Metal History

15 Years Ago: MINOTAURI release Minotauri

With MINOTAURI, the idea is more riff-based the hard way, ya know? Also, my vocals are nothing nice or beautiful. I like hard sounds and I think there`s no point to sound radio-friendly or nice when playing Doom Metal. A mix of HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, DEATH ROW (PENTAGRAM),...

17 December 2019

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Minotauri

33 Years Ago: VOIVOD complete Killing Technology

The recording and mixing of VOIVOD's classic third album, Killing Technology, took place at Musiclab, (at the time, West) Berlin, over a couple of weeks. The album was completed on this day in 1986. Around this time engineer Harris Johns and his Musiclab was also being used by...

14 December 2019

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

31 Years Ago: HALLOWS EVE live in New York

Killer speed metal! HALLOWS EVE live on this day in 1988 at a warehouse venue called the Grunge Club in Middletown, New York. The full concert can be found on the History of Terror boxset DVD.

12 December 2019

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15 Years Ago: SUNN O))) record the final Peel session

Organised and booked before John Peel passed away, SUNN O))) recorded the last of three posthumous Peel sessions, on this day in 2004. The session aired on the 21st with the programme hosted by Rob Da Bank.

9 December 2019

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28 Years Ago: DEATH SS release Heavy Demons

When I started with the band I was very young and I wanted to break the world. When I then reformed Death SS in 1988 I simply had the purpose to start a professional music career, which could grow artistically over the time. I was never interested in...

2 December 2019

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25 Years Ago: TIAMAT release Gaia

It's about nature. It's one of the few songs that is more direct, I think, my personal view of it. We don't like to discuss the lyrics and everything, I think it's more up to the listener. Johnny Hagel / Tiamat interview, Word of Mouth #3, 1995 TIAMAT...

28 November 2019

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28 Years Ago: THERGOTHON complete Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth

The atmosphere. Everything else happened just to support it. Niko Skorpio / Thergothon interview, We Wither, 2011 Finnish funeral doom, THERGOTHON completed the recording and mixing of their cult demo Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth at studio Tuotanto-Tekniikka on this day in 1991. The tape was self-released by the band and...

18 November 2019

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35 Years Ago: SLAYER release Live Undead

SLAYER released the Live Undead 12" on this day in 1984 through Metal Blade. SLAYER is great on vinyl, but those who have seen the band play (except KERRANG!) will tell you they are one of the most intense live bands on the scene. They play so much...

16 November 2019

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Slayer

39 Years Ago: GIRLSCHOOL release Yeah Right

GIRLSCHOOL release Yeah Right b/w The Hunter on this day in 1980, the lead single from their second album, Hit and Run. Bronze promo video with Phil Taylor (MOTORHEAD) cameo:

7 November 2019

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37 Years Ago: DIAMOND HEAD live Paris Theatre (BBC)

DIAMOND HEAD played live at the Paris Theatre, London on this day in 1982. Recorded by the BBC who used the theatre to record comedy programmes and live performances from the 1960s until it closed in 1995.

6 November 2019

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34 Years Ago: CORONER record Death Cult

Killer demo! CORONER finished recording the Death Cult demo on this day in 1985 at Magnetix Studio. Joining Ron Royce, Tommy T. Baron and Marquis Marky is session vocalist (and lyricist) Tom G. Warrior (CELTIC FROST)! ...there was a music shop in Zurichwhere we used to meet up....

19 October 2019

• Tags: Coroner Heavy Metal History

30 Years Ago: D.R.I. release Thrash Zone

D.R.I. released their fifth album, Thrash Zone, on this day in 1989.

10 October 2019

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31 Years Ago: FORBIDDEN release Forbidden Evil

With Forbidden, you had a band that was all over the map, and that chaos was Forbidden Evil. We didn't really know what we were trying to do. It was fast, this guy is singing (makes high falsetto voice) everywhere, what's going on? I listen to that album...

30 September 2019

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25 Years Ago: QUORTHON (Bathory) releases Album

We had finished with the last Bathory album and I had some material, and wanted to try making a solo record. It was something I wanted to do. Quorthon / Bathory interview, Chronicles of Chaos, 1995 Following the sixth album, Twilight of the Gods (1991), BATHORY took an...

27 September 2019

• Tags: Bathory Heavy Metal History Quorthon