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34 Years Ago: WARLOCK (Doro) and TOKYO BLADE live in London

Professionally recorded for the LWT/ITV programme Live from London, TOKYO BLADE and WARLOCK played live at the Camden Palace on this day in 1985. Warlock live at the Camden Palace We had a call one day from our agency, there was a proposal from London Weekend Television who...

24 September 2019

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20 Years Ago: TYPE O NEGATIVE release World Coming Down

The songs on World Coming Down are so powerful and dark because they are blunt and honest. We've always tried to be honest. And the problem with that... well, actually it's not even a problem. Because when you're honest, at least you know who your friends are and...

21 September 2019

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36 Years Ago: BLACK SABBATH live at the Reading Festival

BLACK SABBATH headlined Reading on this day in 1983, the second of the three day festival. THE STRANGERS headlined the previous day and THIN LIZZY closed the third day, their last festival appearance.

27 August 2019

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23 Years Ago: GODFLESH release Songs of Love and Hate

Our initial goal of Godflesh was to have this brutally heavy shit, but have a mechanical side to what we do: To be groove-oriented. We always wanted a fat groove. Obviously, we were able to get that fat groove, having a drummer, unlike before, when we used a...

20 August 2019

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37 Years Ago: SAINT VITUS record Saint Vitus

SAINT VITUS completed recording their classic debut album on this day in 1982. Due to a contractual dispute between their label SST and distributor MCA / Unicorn Records - which lasted until late 1983 - the album would not be released until February 1984. We were playing as...

17 August 2019

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36 Years Ago: ARMORED SAINT release Armored Saint EP

ARMORED SAINT released their debut studio recording, the self-titled 12", on this day in 1983 through Metal Blade. The opener "Lesson Well Learned" was previously included on the Metal Blade compilation Metal Massacre II (1982). Soon after, the band received a three album deal with major Chrysalis and...

9 August 2019

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36 Years Ago: DIO release Holy Diver (Single)

DIO released the Holy Diver single, taken from the album of the same name, on this day in 1983. "Evil Eyes" appeared on the 7" b-side, the 12" single added "Don't Talk to Strangers".

5 August 2019

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26 Years Ago: VOIVOD release The Outer Limits

I think people are more ready now for our stuff, 'cause we've been told that we were 10 years [ahead of our time], and it's been 10 years, so here we are now. And I think the Seattle scene, bands like Nirvana, really opened doors. People are more...

3 August 2019

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31 Years Ago: CORONER release Punishment for Decadence

We didn't really ponder these things a lot, we just did what we loved doing. Back then we were still very ambicious in becoming the fastest playing, while simultaneously maintaining most possible technicality and musical complexity. Ron Royce / Coroner interview, Agoraphobic News, 2016 CORONER released the second...

1 August 2019

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31 Years Ago: RIGOR MORTIS release their debut LP

Texan legends RIGOR MORTIS released their debut eponymous LP on this day in 1988 through Capitol Records. We did one tour in the States with DEATH ANGEL and they gave us a lot of money! Basically for a band that comes out of nowhere, that did one demotape,...

19 July 2019

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27 Years Ago: MERCILESS release The Treasures Within

...Rogga farting to much in the studio, so it's not so good sound. Ha, hi it's not really true, the true is: I part so much that all tapes burned up!! Om du trodde på det där, så slut fis för i helvetes i nattvakten, ja, ja, now...

1 July 2019

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49 Years Ago: BLACK SABBATH record Paranoid

Over a week in June BLACK SABBATH worked on their second LP Paranoid, completing the recording on this day in 1970. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Official Video) From an article in the NME, 26 September 1970: Black Sabbath turn out a gutsy, sock 'em all the time type...

21 June 2019

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49 Years Ago: URIAH HEEP release ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble

URIAH HEEP released their debut LP on this day in 1970. It was released that August in the US as Uriah Heep with "Bird of Prey" replacing "Lucy Blues". If you're ever totally satisfied with any of your records then you might as well give up. But on...

13 June 2019

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30 Years Ago: SLAUGHTER live in Toronto (last gig with Terry Sadler)

1989 and no feelings. I insulted the audience all night. It was fabulous!! Terry Sadler / Slaughter interview, Voices from the Darkside SLAUGHTER live on this day in 1989! You'll notice the date is different to the video title, in the comments bassist / vocalist Terry Sadler himself...

28 May 2019

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39 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD release The Golden Years EP

In the midst of our travels, Bronze put out an EP of four tracks ('Leaving Here', 'Stone Dead Forever', 'Dead Men Tel No Tales', and 'Too Late Too Late'), recorded live while we were gigging. As a joke I told the label to call it The Golden Years...

8 May 2019

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30 Years Ago: ANNIHILATOR release Alice in Hell

...it's a cross between the dead ghost of Alice and Linda Blair from "The Exorcist". It's a kind of a haunting cover but it was different for us because it was more dark cover for us.I watch a lot of horror movies and do you remember the movie...

17 April 2019

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32 Years Ago: SABBAT live in Osaka

Japan's SABBAT live on this day in 1987 at YANTA鹿鳴館, Osaka, Japan. YANTA鹿鳴館 was a heavy metal club in Nishikujō, Osaka which opened in 1985. The location still exists and is now known as 西九条BRAND NEW. Sabbat - The Curse of Hamagrism: Hamaguri Mythology This gig has been...

5 April 2019

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21 Years Ago: HEFEYSTOS record Psycho Cafe

Polish band HEFEYSTOS completed their second, and final, album on this day in 1998. Psycho Café was recorded at C.L. Studio. HEFEYSTOS formed in 1994 and by 1998 had developed a sound that incorporated a varied range of alternative, avant-garde, gothic, even post-punk influences; largely shedding the epic...

17 March 2019

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