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40 Years Ago: ALTERED IMAGES record their first Peel Session

Photograph: Terry Lott Time for me to step into the cold shower again and listen to another one from Altered Images... ALTERED IMAGES recorded their first of three sessions for John Peel's programme on this day in 1980. Peel had first met the group less than a month...

7 October 2020

• Tags: Punk History

38 Years Ago: RITUAL release Mind Disease

Great roaring post-punk with an abrasive sax, horror themes, and frantic drumming, especially on "Mind Disease." "Nine" is more arty and hence less effective, but these guys have real potential. For early KILLING JOKE fans. Maximum Rocknroll #3, 1982 RITUAL released the Mind Disease 7" on this day...

6 October 2020

• Tags: Punk History

20 Years Ago: ENSLAVED release Mardraum (Beyond the Within)

There's always been a development in our band. When you create the songs, you have aims. And these aims are something you reach for when you shape an album. It means a lot to reach our aims. When we did "Mardraum", it meant a lot to us to...

2 October 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History Enslaved

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

• Tags: Danzig Heavy Metal History Punk History

20 Years Ago: JOYLESS release Wisdom & Arrogance

I used to say Joyless was a Black Metal band trying to make pop-music. Not entirely true obviously, but not too far off the map either. We were sick to death with everything concerning Forgotten Woods. Instead of changing Forgotten Woods, we gave it all a new name....

28 September 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History Joyless

20 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH release Enemy of the Music Business

I think on face value you can look at it and [think] we might be sparking off on some fuckin' righteous trip or whatever, but it's not so much that, really, as a case of documentation of all the shit that we went through. I mean, I like...

25 September 2020

• Tags: Napalm Death Punk History

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

25 Years Ago: PRIMORDIAL release Imrama

[recording] was a fuckin nightmare and if you knew how we did it you wouldnt believe that it sounds like it does today, we hadnt a fuckin clue what we were doing but the spirit within the songs was right and it survived all the shit that went...

20 September 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History Primordial

30 Years Ago: OBITUARY release Cause of Death

We have a new album coming out in November, it's called "Cause of Death". We did a cover tune on it called "Circle of the Tyrants" by Celtic Frost. We redid "Find the Arise", from Raging Death compilation. The album was done on 24-tracks unlike "Slowly We Rot"...

19 September 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History Obituary

20 Years Ago: ANTAEUS release Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan

We do perform the musik we stand for, we do get to be truely into what we do, I mean, I would listen to AntaeuS Myself not as self satisfaction, but more since it's the Hate I seek. MkM / Antaeus interview, Agonia zine #3, 2001 ANTAEUS released...

18 September 2020

• Tags: Antaeus Black Metal History

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Scorpions

35 Years Ago: AMEBIX release Arise!

As if a soundtrack for a ultra-bizarre horror treat, AMEBIX scorches down with a deep haunting sound while the guitar and bass churn out some cauldronistic spells of eerie havoc. Vocals are booming and strong, pushing with character, and "Arise" is superbly recorded and shows the improvement of...

14 September 2020

• Tags: Amebix Punk History

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Sadus

20 Years Ago: NILE release Black Seeds of Vengeance

There are themes of vengeance running through all those songs. I guess we had four or five songs written before we came up with the actual title for the album and wrote the title track. So we decided to call it Black Seeds Of Vengeance and we had...

5 September 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History Nile

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

40 Years Ago: DEAD KENNEDYS release Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

We were meticulous. We were never - and I have never been - fast in the studio. 'California Uber Alles', just a goddamn single, took a month. But the results speak for themselves. The rest of the band would really get down on me for being too picky,...

2 September 2020

• Tags: Dead Kennedys Punk History

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History S.O.D.