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40 Years Ago: JOY DIVISION & KILLING JOKE live London Lyceum

After returning from a January European tour, JOY DIVISION played three gigs with KILLING JOKE. The two bands co-headlined the third at the Lyceum, London on this day in 1980. Opening bands were A CERTAIN RATIO and SECTION 25. Several recordings exist - audience, soundboard and soundcheck. Five...

29 February 2020

• Tags: Joy Division Killing Joke

20 Years Ago: THOU SHALT SUFFER release Somnium

I find it easier to write instrumental music, as lyrics and words do not "come" as easily to me as music does. Initially, I had five lyrics for this album but, as I mentioned above, many things have changed since I started, so I chose to use only...

28 February 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History Thou Shalt Suffer

30 Years Ago: BEHERIT record Seventh Blasphemy demo

...those recordings are all quite "raw", recorded live, cheaply reproduced. The heavier Beherit first appeared in 1991... Holocausto / Beherit interview, Sue, 2000 BEHERIT recorded Seventh Blasphemy on this day in 1990, the first of four tapes recorded that year.

26 February 2020

• Tags: Beherit Black Metal History

30 Years Ago: GANG GREEN live in London (Can't Live Without It)

Join the Green Party!!GANG GREENWill be recording their show at the LONDON MARQUEE on SUNDAY 25th FEBRUARY for future release as a Live LPFirst 50 paying customers will receive a FREE can of Budweiser on the night GANG GREEN played live at the Marquee, London on this day...

25 February 2020

• Tags: Gang Green Punk History

36 Years Ago: SIN 34, FEAR live in Los Angeles

$7.50 in advance, $8.50 at the door... FEAR, CIRCLE JERKS, VANDALS, SIN 34 (killer!) TOXIC REASONS and AFFLICTED played at the Olympic Auditorium on this day in 1984. Organised by Goldenvoice and, at least some it, filmed. Footage of FEAR and SIN 34 exists (watch below!) unfortunately both...

24 February 2020

• Tags: Fear Punk History Sin 34

32 Years Ago: SLAB! record their last Peel session

Not the sort of thing you can dance around the maypale to really. SLAB! recorded their third and final John Peel session on this day in 1988. The session aired on 7 March, sharing the session spots with BOLT THROWER (a rebroadcast of their first session recorded that...

21 February 2020

36 Years Ago: COIL record How to Destroy Angels

COIL know how to destroy Angels. How to paralyse. Imagine the world in a bottle. We take the bottle, smash it, and open your throat with it. I warn you we are murderous. We will massacre the logical revolts. We know nothing. We know everything. We know one...

19 February 2020

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22 Years Ago: ABIGOR release Supreme Immortal Art

...the album is very technical and complex. It's for sure the most matured release so far, even I am not that satisfied with the production, anyway, I think we've managed to create a kind of restless harmony between the keyboards and the guitars, without any loss of the...

17 February 2020

• Tags: Abigor Black Metal History

22 Years Ago: SETHERIAL release Lords of the Nightrealm

First of all, black metal lies in the intellect, not in the tempo. We play fast as we find it most satisfying that way, not for any other reason. No band gets to be a pure black metal act just by playing fast, nor by playing slow. Real...

14 February 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History Setherial

40 Years Ago: COCKNEY REJECTS record their second Peel session

East End Oi! COCKNEY REJECTS recorded their second John Peel session on this day in 1980. The recording aired on the 25th, sharing the session slots with STIFF LITTLE FINGERS (their fourth). The session was recorded a few weeks before the release of Greatest Hits Vol. 1, their...

13 February 2020

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20 Years Ago: DECEASED release Supernatural Addiction

Weird morbid ideas is all that runs through me when it comes to Deceased. I wanted to put it all out there and write songs about some "horror moments" in my life that got to me either from a book, movie, or elsewhere sometime in my life. The...

9 February 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History Deceased

20 Years Ago: BLOODBATH release Breeding Death

BLOODBATH released their debut EP, Breeding Death, on this day in 2000. The band was formed by Mikael Åkerfeldt (OPETH), Blakkheim (KATATONIA), Jonas Renkse (KATATONIA) and Dan Swanö (Unisound, EDGE OF SANITY and many others) with the aim to play late 80s/early 90s death metal. Breeding Death was...

8 February 2020

• Tags: Bloodbath Death Metal History

36 Years Ago: SIEGE record Drop Dead

SIEGE recorded at Radiobeat Studios, Boston on this day in 1984. Radiobeat was fucking killer. Some a' the best bands were orbiting around Kenmore and the most exciting recordings in town then were coming out of there. SIEGE's shit was recorded live, too - a lot of people...

6 February 2020

• Tags: Punk History Siege

28 Years Ago: MIASMA release Changes

Austrian death metal. MIASMA released their only album, Changes, on this day in 1992 through Lethal Records. We guess you don't know that our "Changes" album was self-financed and our contract with "Lethal Records" was very loose in that we just got the promise to get back the...

5 February 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History Miasma

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History

30 Years Ago: MAYHEM live in Jessheim

We just started playing live after a break which lasted 4 years, and the reasons were lack of members and rehearsalplaces. And songs. Now we did a couple of gigs, it was cool except that all the equipment fucked up on the 1st one... Euronymous / Mayhem interview,...

3 February 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History Mayhem

20 Years Ago: RAGNAROK release Diabolical Age

...the third album is on it's way. It will be called "Diabolical Age" and contains 8 tracks including a very nice and melodic piano outro. Though it is only 8 tracks on the record, you can still enjoy almost 60 minutes of black metal at it's best. Jontho...

31 January 2020

• Tags: Black Metal History

24 Years Ago: GATES OF ISHTAR record A Bloodred Path

I'm quite satisfied with "A bloodred path", but the only reason that it's not full-pointer is because of the old material which is on it, but it's a great album to do a debut with. Andreas Johansson / Gates of Ishtar interview, Ichor #2, 1997 Finnish melodic death...

30 January 2020

• Tags: Death Metal History