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20 Years Ago: GODKILLER release The End of the World

I changed everything between 'The Rebirth of the Middle Ages' and 'The End of the World' because I was so fed up with that black metal clichés. Too much bands. It was not interesting anymore.- Duke Satanaël / Godkiller interview, 2000 GODKILLER - the solo band of Duke...

27 June 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Godkiller

28 Years Ago: DANZIG release II

Danzig - Her Black Wings DANZIG released II on this day in 1990. Danzig - Devil's Plaything From the November 1990 New York Times "Dark Metal: Not Just Smash and Thrash" article: Unlike the younger dark-metal performers, Glenn Danzig was already active during the punk era of the...

26 June 2018

• Tags: Danzig Heavy Metal History Punk History

17 Years Ago: REVEREND BIZARRE finish recording In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

It is a record full of music that is heavy and slow and has lyrics that don't deal with marijuana, hot rods, tits or pussies, but death, horror, loss, judgment and destruction. The atmosphere is that of discipline instead of relaxation. This isn't any chill out music. If...

25 June 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Reverend Bizarre

25 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Under a Funeral Moon

Recorded in June the previous year, Peaceville released the iconic Under a Funeral Moon on this day in 1993. We didn't care really much for the albums at the time, we all agreed that the rehearsals we did was the most important thing. We actually rehearsed a lot......

24 June 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone

34 Years Ago: CHRISTIAN DEATH live in Amsterdam

Live at the Melkweg club, Amsterdam on this day in 1984. A fairly good quality recording, bootlegged in 1989 as Catastrophe Ballet Live. This was towards the end of CHRISTIAN DEATH's fragmented European tour; their first time playing outside the US. The band traveled to Paris on 21...

23 June 2018

• Tags: Christian Death Punk History

25 Years Ago: PRIMORDIAL record Dark Romanticism... Sorrow's Bitter Harvest...

We recorded our first and only demo "Dark Romanticism", recorded for about £50 in the lads home town of Skerries in a converted front room studio on eight tracks. Considering the equipment and the time and our experience we were quite shocked at how well it came out....

22 June 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Primordial

26 Years Ago: DISMEMBER live in Milan

Part of the "Campaign for Musical Destruction" European tour with NAPALM DEATH and OBITUARY; DISMEMBER live on this day in 1992.

21 June 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Dismember

29 Years Ago: EXCEL release The Joke's on You

...the TV and the distortion is just what people do. Sitting in front of a TV, going from channel to channel having your life directed by the norm. Consulting your TV to guide your life. It's the way we see things coming to in the world. Especially in...

20 June 2018

• Tags: Excel Heavy Metal History Punk History

30 Years Ago: DOOM record their first Peel session

DOOM recorded their first of two Peel sessions on this day in 1988 at Maida Vale 5. The session was first played on the Tuesday 28 June programme. John mentions he'll be seeing DOOM - along with NAPALM DEATH, EXTREME NOISE TERROR, and ELECTRO HIPPIES - live at...

19 June 2018

• Tags: Doom (United Kingdom) Punk History

15 Years Ago: INCANTATION live in New Zealand

INCANTATION live on this day in 2003 in Auckland, New Zealand. The second date of their Blasphemy Down Under tour. The next day they played in Christchurch, followed by six dates in Australia. The tour concluded in Syney at the third Bloodlust festival.

18 June 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Incantation

27 Years Ago: NUCLEAR DEATH release Carrion for Worm

The whole idea behind our music is the extremity of noise. We like to deceive our listeners ears with our music. The chords we use are not power chords--they are dissonant. So to the common ear it can be displeasing. Our music is constant noise...yet there always remains...

17 June 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Nuclear Death

33 Years Ago: SACRIFICE record The Exorcism demo

[Brian Taylor] asked us and the guys from SLAUGHTER to come down and talk and he offered to pay for our recordings and he would sell them at the [Record Peddler] store to make back the money. He was in a local hardcore band called YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH...

16 June 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Sacrifice

25 Years Ago: MORTIIS completes The Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost

MORTIIS "apologizes" the musical mistakes comitted on this recording, 95% was done at one tack. So Fuck off!! MORTIIS was formed December '92... The original and ONLY member of MORTIIS.- Petrified zine #2, 1993 After leaving EMPEROR in December 1992, MORTIIS began recording this debut demo the following...

15 June 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Mortiis

19 Years Ago: KULT OF AZAZEL live in Florida

KULT OF AZAZEL - or AZAZEL as they were known at the time - live on this day in 1999, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. AZAZEL became KULT OF AZAZEL, after several demos, in 2001 and released their debut album Triumph of Fire and a split with KRIEG that year.

14 June 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History

45 Years Ago: PENTAGRAM record Hurricane b/w Earth Flight in Falls Church, VA

Some of the earliest PENTAGRAM material. Recorded on this day in 1973 at Bias Recording Studios in Falls Church, VA where they had put together a 5-song demo in March. "Released" in 1973 on Boffo Socko as either a very limited or just promotional single. Only "Hurricane" has...

13 June 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Pentagram

21 Years Ago: ARCTURUS complete La Masquerade Infernale

I took part in the sessions for La Masquerade Infernale back in 1996 where I sung vocals on 'The Chaos Path'. I was at their rehearsal place a lot and we jammed for a bit and Knut came up with this idea for what later would be 'The...

12 June 2018

• Tags: Arcturus Black Metal History

28 Years Ago: MORTICIAN live in New York

Mere months after forming, possibly their first ever show; MORTICIAN live on this day in 1990.

11 June 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History

28 Years Ago: PHLEGETHON complete Neutral Forest (pre HOODED MENACE)

I also rank my early work with Phlegethon pretty high. As a teenager I worked my ass off for those Phlegethon songs, and I still like them. Especially the ones on the 'Neutral Forest' demo from 1990. It's just the bad production and crappy performance that totally ruin...

10 June 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History