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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

31 Years Ago: PESTILENCE release Malleus Maleficarum

We have just completed 3 new songs: "Extreme Undion", "Subordinte To The Domination" and "Hatred In One". One song is an up tempo song, the other is again ultra fast. The fastest song we made a this time!! Patrick Mameli / Pestilence interview, Decibel of Death #9, 1987...

26 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Pestilence

18 Years Ago: DEICIDE release In Torment in Hell

A rushed obligation, DEICIDE released their sixth album on this day in 2001. Their last with Roadrunner. ...that record was a fuckin rush rush hurry up and get it out and get off Roadrunner. They were shelving all the records. What's the point of fuckin putting all this...

25 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Deicide

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Tokyo Blade Warlock

32 Years Ago: DEATH rehearse for Leprosy

We were constantly working on new songs when we were in the rehearsal room or when we were on tour. I still remember that we went to the Morrisound in April 1988. And that everything was put on tape in just a few weeks. All the songs were...

23 September 2019

• Tags: Death Death Metal History

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Type O Negative

37 Years Ago: THE GUN CLUB release Miami

Don't go walkin' slow, the Devil's on the loose. THE GUN CLUB released their second album, Miami, on this day in 1982. The Gun Club - Mother of Earth Miami was recorded at Blank Tape Studios, New York; produced by BLONDIE guitarist Chris Stein. Stein released Miami, and...

20 September 2019

• Tags: Punk History The Gun Club

28 Years Ago: ASSUCK record Anticapital

ASSÜCK completed the recording of their debut 12", Anticapital, on this day in 1991 at Morrisound. We've kinda veered off from fucking dead people, we've bridged into reality a little more and everyday troubles that we have, a lot of our lyrics are animal rights, anti racist lyrics,...

19 September 2019

• Tags: Assuck Death Metal History Punk History

30 Years Ago: BITCH MAGNET release Umber

People seemed to like it, it got really good reviews. I knew it was a really good record. I knew that after Star Booty we had something really powerful up our sleeves, I just knew it. We all knew it. It didn't matter that no-one else knew, and...

15 September 2019

• Tags: Bitch Magnet Punk History

26 Years Ago: CYNIC release Focus (studio footage)

By the time we were writing and recording “Focus” we were no longer listening to much death metal. We were exploring all different styles of music and it was coming through in the music we wrote. We didn’t hold ourselves to any musical standards. It didn’t have to...

14 September 2019

• Tags: Cynic Death Metal History

32 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record their first Peel Session

We had to hire equipment - we had no amps, drums or cymbals - because we hadn't started touring then and had recorded on equipment available in studios. Anyway, we turned up. "How long are your songs?" Dale [Griffin] asked. "Pretty short, we'll do twelve numbers," we said....

13 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death Punk History

32 Years Ago: BIG BLACK release Songs About Fucking

The term 'rock & roll music' originally meant dirty songs about fucking, it was rhythmic songs that were euphemistically or explicitly about fucking. Songs about fucking - that's what rock & roll meant. And then the Parents' Music Resource Center was trying to rein in the subject matter...

10 September 2019

• Tags: Big Black Punk History

28 Years Ago: REPULSION live at Schoolkids Records, Ann Arbor

Ear-splitting In-store... Friday September 6th REPULSION played live at Schoolkids Records in Ann Arbor, Michigan on this day in 1991. Schoolkids' was an independent music store which supported local bands, including the death metal masters REPULSION from nearby Flint. Earlier in 1991 the band had reformed, recorded a...

6 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Repulsion

30 Years Ago: EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN release Haus der Luge

EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN released their fifth full-length album on this day in 1989. The striking cover artwork is based on Hans Baldung's 1534 woodcut of wild horses in the woods and mountains of Alsace. The original print can be viewed below, one of a series of three 'wild horses'...

4 September 2019

• Tags: Einsturzende Neubauten Punk History

18 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Morning Star

We had already written the tracks before going into the studio. We spent five days in the studio, then 2 in another studio to do the vocals, then moved to another studio for 2 days to finish off the vocals.If the first take goes well we may do...

3 September 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Entombed

28 Years Ago: ATHEIST release Unquestionable Presence

The unquestionable breakthrough release of '91 from Florida's original "brain metal" band ATHEIST released their classic second album Unquestionable Presence on this day in 1991 through Death Records (the Metal Blade sub-label, manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros). Unquestionable Presence is one of the best albums of the...

30 August 2019

• Tags: Atheist Death Metal History

30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH release Mentally Murdered

We didn't say, "Let's make it more death metal,"; we were just incorporating different styles while doing it just happened. It happened more on "Mentally Murdered", really; it's where it all started. Mitch Harris / Napalm Death interview, Metal Hanger 18, 2011 NAPALM DEATH released the Mentally Murdered...

29 August 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death

21 Years Ago: LUGUBRUM record De Zuivering

LUGUBRUM recorded De Zuivering on this day in 1998. The material was released as a split CD with fellow Belgians SUDARIUM (I, Unclean - their only release) through Skramasax. De Zuivering was re-released on cassette as a standalone LUGUBRUM title in 2006 and again in 2017 on vinyl....

28 August 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Lugubrum