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30 Years Ago: SAMAEL release Ceremony of Opposites

SAMAEL released their third album, Ceremony of Opposites, on this day in 1994. For Ceremony of Opposites the songs were mainly composed with the guitar and the keyboards were added afterward to give a different ambiance and dimension to the music.We were considering the vocal as another instrument...

18 February 2024

• Tags: Black Metal History Samael

30 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Transilvanian Hunger

No other band has been boycotted to such an extent as DARKTHRONE. This feeble attempt to shut us up simply enables us to take this title: The worlds most hated band. We have no problems with that...... DARKTHRONE released their fourth album, Transilvanian Hunger, on this day in...

17 February 2024

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone

30 Years Ago: MORTA SKULD release As Humanity Fades

MORTA SKULD released their second album on this day in 1994 through Peaceville's Deaf Records. The album followed Dying Remains, released only a year earlier, and a brief, temporary split: ...the band and myself got into an argument about my playing, and at the time I was going...

1 February 2024

• Tags: Death Metal History Morta Skuld

35 Years Ago: SHELLSHOCK release Mortal Days

Late 80s thrash from Saitama, Japan; SHELLSHOCK released their debut album Mortal Days on this day in 1989.

28 January 2024

• Tags: Heavy Metal History

30 Years Ago: DAWN release Naer solen gar nither for evogher

Our debut album was NOT a blend of black metal and death metal, but rather a blend of heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, alternative, and classical music/guitar. This album was created between 1992 and late 1993, so it was a time when death metal was very hyped....

6 January 2024

• Tags: Black Metal History Dawn

35 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Port Royal

It was a very weird thing. We started that stuff with the Under Jolly Roger album, and everything started with the song "Under Jolly Roger." At that time we were looking for a title for the whole record, and I said that was a great title for the...

26 September 2023

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Running Wild

25 Years Ago: AETERNUS release ...and So the Night Became

In ways, it's different, but it's not so different in other ways, you know?! That's how I see it. The musical progress is clear, I think. "...And So The Night Became" has more pounding sound, better arrangement and more 'focused' emotion than "Beyond The Wandering Moon". Aeternus interview,...

15 September 2023

• Tags: Aeternus Black Metal History

20 Years Ago: ULVER release A Quick Fix of Melancholy

...we did another EP, Quick Fix of Melancholy, which was our way of trying to get back into writing songs—or something resembling songs—and also find out where we wanted to take things. Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg / Ulver interview, Modern Fix, 2005 ULVER released their fourth EP, A Quick...

26 August 2023

• Tags: Ulver

35 Years Ago: SAINT VITUS release Mournful Cries

SAINT VITUS released their fourth album, Mournful Cries, on this day in 1988 through SST. The band practiced in a shed behind a crack-house in Torrance and they worried they might get their amps impounded or stolen before the studio date came. Whereas for the first album the...

22 August 2023

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Saint Vitus

30 Years Ago: MOLESTED release Unborn Woods in Doom

I began a Death Metal band called Molested and that was really cool times. It was kind of being an apprentice, learning to play guitar, and we rehearsed and all that for four years, I think every second day. Really intense period. Øystein Brun / Borknagar interview, Cryptic...

9 August 2023

• Tags: Borknagar Death Metal History

25 Years Ago: FUNERAL MIST release Devilry

FUNERAL MIST - formed by Arioch (MARDUK) in 1994 - released their first major release, the Devilry mini-album, on this day in 1998. Recording took place in late 1997 through January 1998 at Necromorbus Studio. Some of the songs, including the eponymous track above, originate at least as...

30 July 2023

• Tags: Black Metal History Funeral Mist

25 Years Ago: ACHERON release Those Who Have Risen

It's occultist roots stemming back to the ancient Vampiric society of UR mixes well with our dark music. It is still very Satanic in nature, but it is something different than anything I wrote before. Rev. Vincent Crowley, Acheron interview, Dark Ages, 1998 ACHERON released their fifth full-length...

28 July 2023

• Tags: Acheron Death Metal History

25 Years Ago: DYING FETUS release Killing on Adrenaline

It's definitely our best one, the best songwriting, the best production and all that stuff. So it is definitely a step forward for the band and as far as a wider audience goes, the record label, Morbid Records, helped that. They've taken care of a lot of the...

27 July 2023

• Tags: Death Metal History Dying Fetus

30 Years Ago: BRATMOBILE record a Peel session

BRATMOBILE recorded their session for the John Peel programme on this day in 1993 at Maida Vale 4. It was broadcast on 10 September.

25 July 2023

• Tags: Bratmobile Punk History

35 Years Ago: RIGOR MORTIS release Rigor Mortis

We did one tour in the States with DEATH ANGEL and [Capitol Records] gave us a lot of money! Basically for a band that comes out of nowhere, that did one demotape, 500 copies... we had no idea what the music business was all about as far as...

19 July 2023

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Rigor Mortis

30 Years Ago: MASACRE release Barbarie y sangre en memoria de Cristo

MASACRE released the Barbarie y sangre en memoria de Cristo EP on this day in 1993 through vocalist Alex's Mórbida Productions.

14 July 2023

• Tags: Death Metal History Masacre

25 Years Ago: NASUM release Inhale / Exhale

Grindcore wasn't that hot at that time. Napalm Death had made a few non-grindcore albums and it was evident that we filled a void. There was a hole in the extreme music world that we happened to fill. Many of the reviews had passages like "I don't usually...

26 May 2023

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Nasum

20 Years Ago: KOLDBRANN release Nekrotisk inkvisition

The album was recorded in our first rehearsal space in Drammen, as well as in the basement of the old drummer's house, using a lot of equipment that we had brought there ourselves. It was not a very structured process, and none of us had that much studio...

14 April 2023

• Tags: Black Metal History Koldbrann