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35 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH record Unpopular Yawns of Middle Class Warfare

Pray to the gods and worship the goods... Anarcho punk band (as they were) NAPALM DEATH recorded Unpopular Yawns of Middle Class Warfare on this day in 1983. Very rare and I haven't been able to find a sample, but a song from this demo - "The Crucifixion...

14 May 2018

• Tags: Napalm Death Punk History

24 Years Ago: EXIT-13 complete Ethos Musick

EXIT-13 finalised and mastered their second album, Ethos Musick, on this day in 1994. We never practiced or recorded a single note of music sober. Ever! Beer was always a part of rehearsals and live shows. When it came to recording, we probably spent more on the grog...

13 May 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History

32 Years Ago: HOLY MOSES release Queen of Siam

HOLY MOSES released their debut LP, Queen of Siam, on this day in 1986. FLASH!! Just received a two track advance tape from Earthshaker Records. It's by a band called Holy Moses, which consists of Sabina Classen (vocals), Andreas Classen (guitars), Herbert Dreger (drums), and Ramon Brusseler (bass)....

12 May 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Holy Moses

31 Years Ago: BATHORY release Under the Sign of the Black Mark

GARFFFFFFFFFF! At least it arrived! The hellish third lp with the pride of Scandinavia! This time QUORTHON doesn't do all the work alone, at least we know he got a drummer! (We don't know his name thought.......) This is probably one of the best Death Metal lp'es ever...

11 May 2018

• Tags: Bathory Black Metal History

20 Years Ago: SHINING release Submit to Selfdestruction

From the old official website biography: Suicide, self-destruction and the abuse of the human flesh & mind, these three topics are the main issues dealt with in Shining's music. The band has since its very beginning (1996) been cursed and the individuals within suffered from enormous problems because...

10 May 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Shining

23 Years Ago: MORBID ANGEL release Domination

Morbid Angel - Where the Slime Live (Official Video) The next album is going to be much heavier. As soon as this tour closes, we go home to write some new songs. I can assure you that the sound is going to be as fast and heavy as...

9 May 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Morbid Angel

13 Years Ago: ONDSKAPT release Dodens evangelium

ONDSKAPT released their second album on this day in 2005 through Portuguese label Next Horizon. Dödens evangelium would be followed five years later by the third - and still most recent - album Arisen from the Ashes. During the 2005-2010 period members were still active in other bands:...

8 May 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Ondskapt

25 Years Ago: AT THE GATES release With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

On the new LP/CD there will be no violin, 'cause we had no violinplayer that is interested in playing fulltime with us. But maybe we will use violin on our next release, however that seems so far away. The technical side of our band has developed a lot...

7 May 2018

• Tags: At the Gates Death Metal History

28 Years Ago: VITAL REMAINS record Excruciating Pain

VITAL REMAINS recorded their second demo, Excruciating Pain, on this day in 1990 at Atonal Studio, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. ...musically everyone tells it the way it is and we all work together to create a brutal piece of music. I write all the lyrics and no-one else has...

6 May 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Vital Remains

26 Years Ago: INCANTATION release Onward to Golgotha

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it...

5 May 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Incantation

24 Years Ago: DARK FUNERAL release Dark Funeral

...we decided to not include the lyrics because it would have costed a lot more. At first we wanted to have them enclosed, but then we had to drop the pictures of us on the inside fold up instead. We thought it was more important with these pictures...

4 May 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Dark Funeral

36 Years Ago: THE CURE release Pornography

...The outing ties in with the release of a new Cure album on the Fiction label, through Polydor. It has the working title of 'Pornography', but as the Polydor spokesperson observed this week: "Whether or not it will actually go out under that title remains to be seen."-...

3 May 2018

• Tags: Punk History The Cure

38 Years Ago: JOY DIVISION live for the last time (Birmingham University)

Tickets were on sale at the union for £1.50, or £1.75 on the door. Food available, late bar. JOY DIVISION played their final concert on this day in 1980. With support from A CERTAIN RATIO, the gig took place at Birmingham Uni's High Hall - a student block,...

2 May 2018

• Tags: Joy Division Punk History

30 Years Ago: EXTREME NOISE TERROR record their second Peel session

EXTREME NOISE TERROR recorded their second Peel session on this day in 1988. Still a good few months before they recorded their debut album A Holocaust in Your Head, this session includes a few songs that would end on up the LP (and were already known to most...

1 May 2018

• Tags: Extreme Noise Terror Punk History

18 Years Ago: NECROMANTIA release IV: Malice

NECROMANTIA released IV: Malice - their third album - on this day in 2000. It would be another seven years before new material was unleashed on The Sound of Lucifer Storming Heaven.

30 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Necromantia

38 Years Ago: VENOM record their first demo

Photograph: Rik Walton The demo... with Clive singing, I was able to talk the engineer into working for free and talked everybody else into working for free with my charm and managed to get the band in the studio for a couple of hours for those three tracks....

29 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History

38 Years Ago: BRATS (pre-MERCYFUL FATE) release 1980

BRATS began as a punk rock band in Copenhagen, 1977. The earliest material is good but not remarkable. Guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner (and briefly Carsten Van der Volsing) soon began incorporating their heavy metal influences - JUDAS PRIEST, SCORPIONS and UFO. BRATS released their only LP...

28 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Punk History

20 Years Ago: RAVENTHRONE release Malice in Wonderland

RAVENTHRONE released their debut album on this day in 1998. Formed by Ray Wells, also known as Pazuzu, of PAZUZU and an early member of fellow Austrian Black Metal Syndicate member SUMMONING, and Armand Hortolomei (Engelmacher). RAVENTHRONE is a project band that I started about two years ago....

27 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History