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25 Years Ago: GEHENNA complete First Spell

...out style has progressed a lot since our demo. The new material is more melodic and has a lot more keyboard and acoustics than our demo. Dolgar / Gehenna interview, Petrified #3, 1994 GEHENNA entered Soundsuite Studio to record their second EP, First Spell, on the 3rd of...

7 June 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Gehenna

38 Years Ago: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES release Juju

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES released their fourth studio album, Juju, on this day in 1981. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound (Official Video) It was the first time we'd made, for want of a better word, a 'concept' album. It drew on darker elements. It wasn't pre-planned, but...

6 June 2019

• Tags: Punk History Siouxsie and the Banshees

30 Years Ago: REPULSION release Horrified

A few weeks ago I received a copy of the rough mix of REPULSIONS's "Slaughter Of The Innocent" LP (thanks Mitch) and it's so mindblowingly excellent I thought I'd tell you about it, OK? REPULSION, as all Death conoisseurs should know, are based in Michigan and were formeerly...

29 May 2019

• Tags: Death Metal History Repulsion

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Slaughter

23 Years Ago: ORDER OF THE EBON HAND complete The Mystic Path to the Netherworld

The majority of ORDER OF THE EBON HAND's debut album The Mystic Path to the Netherworld was recorded in April 1995, but the final three songs were recorded on this day in 1996. Mystic Path was released through George Zacharopoulos's Hypervorea Records which also released early albums by...

24 May 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History

32 Years Ago: GG Allin records You Give Love a Bad Name

They want me in a studio, but it ain't gonna change a thing. I'm not selling out, no fucking way. It'll still be a scum fucking record. GG Allin interview, Noise Noise Noise, 1987 GG ALLIN and an assemblage of session members known as The Holy Men -...

18 May 2019

• Tags: GG Allin Punk History

37 Years Ago: THE GYMSLIPS record their first Peel session

THE GYMSLIPS recorded their first Peel session on this day in 1982. The first of two that year, followed by two more in 1983 and one in 1984! At this point the band was less than a year old; they had supported DOLLY MIXTURE, ANDROIDS OF MU and...

12 May 2019

• Tags: Punk History

36 Years Ago: SKELETAL FAMILY record their first Peel session

SKELETAL FAMILY recorded their first of two Peel sessions on this day in 1983. The session first aired on the 21st, sharing the session slots with a repeat of MAGAZINE's first session originally recorded in February 1978. All four songs appear on their debut LP Burning Oil, released...

11 May 2019

• Tags: Punk History Skeletal Family

40 Years Ago: THE CURE record their second Peel session

THE CURE recorded their second John Peel session on this day in 1979. Three Imaginary Boys, CURE's debut album, was released the day before this recording. The Peel session was first aired on 16 May. The last song, "Desperate Journalist in Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation", a brilliant response...

9 May 2019

• Tags: Punk History The Cure

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

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Motorhead

21 Years Ago: MARDUK live in Rotterdam

MARDUK live in Rotterdam, Holland on this day in 1998.

5 May 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Marduk

28 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE live in Finland

DARKTHRONE live in Lahti, Finland on this day in 1991. This gig took place a few months after the release of their debut Soulside Journey, while material was being written for what would be released as Goatlord (e.g., the second song, "Life", is "In His Lovely Kingdom" on...

4 May 2019

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone Death Metal History

28 Years Ago: MELVINS release Bullhead

I like the new record better, generally, than our other ones. I like the material better, overall. There's some songs on our other records that I just hate. I like this stuff better, and uh... I like the production better too. Buzz / Melvins interview, Flipside, 1991 MELVINS...

3 May 2019

• Tags: Melvins Punk History

36 Years Ago: CRASS record Sheep Farming in the Falklands

And, you know, I don't really give a toss if the cause is wrong or right. My political neck means more to me than the lives of a thousand men. CRASS completed recording the Sheep Farming in the Falklands b/w Gotcha! 7" single on this day in 1983...

28 April 2019

• Tags: Crass Punk History

19 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH live in Poland

BEHEMOTH live at Studio TVP Łęg, Kraków, Poland on this day in 2000. The concert was released by Metal Mind on VHS as Live Εσχατον: The Art of Rebellion. It has been reissued several times on DVD. This gig took place between two European tours at either end...

27 April 2019

• Tags: Behemoth Death Metal History

40 Years Ago: CRASS record Reality Asylum

The whole thing was how the western world is like a concentration camp or asylum. At one point it was going to be 'Christ's Auschwitz' or something. I saw the concentration camps as a template for how it actually was: you had your slaves working at Ford or...

22 April 2019

• Tags: Crass Punk History

38 Years Ago: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY record their second Peel session

John Peel had been playing records by the band since 1979, when they were known as BOYS NEXT DOOR. Between their relocation from Melbourne to London in 1980 and 1982 - shortly before moving to Berlin and soon after splitting - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY recorded four Peel sessions.This...

21 April 2019

• Tags: Punk History The Birthday Party

15 Years Ago: ARKONA release Vozrozhdenie

Many of my songs are filled with melancholy and pain for the past heritage, forgotten by my folk. The new songs are written more consciously because with life experience grows the wisdom, which can be reflected in creativity. I think there is no point in comparing the releases...

20 April 2019

• Tags: Arkona (Russia) Black Metal History