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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

29 Years Ago: CRO-MAGS release Best Wishes

CRO-MAGS released their second LP on this day in 1989.

26 April 2018

• Tags: Punk History

33 Years Ago: EXODUS release Bonded by Blood

EXODUS released their legendary classic Bonded by Blood on this day in 1985! Black magic rites on this black evil night!!

25 April 2018

• Tags: Exodus Heavy Metal History

23 Years Ago: SADISTIK EXEKUTION, ABSU & IMPALED NAZRENE live in Berlin

Part of the SADISTIK EXEKUTION / ABSU / IMPALED NAZRENE Sex, Cyber & Rock'n Roll European tour. Live on this day in 1995 at the now-closed Knaack Klub in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. This is ImpNaz live in Berlin 1995, not sure if it's the same gig:

24 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History

30 Years Ago: Psychic Possessor record Toxin Diffusion

PSYCHIC POSSESSOR recorded their debut album, Toxin Diffusion, over a week during this month in 1988 "in 16 trakcs at J.G. studio, Belo Horizonte".The band was formed by guitarist Flávio Rodriguez, who left VULCANO after recording the classic Bloody Vengeance album. Between leaving VULCANO and forming PSYCHIC POSSESSOR,...

23 April 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History

33 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD live in Bochum

Classic early RUNNING WILD live on this day in 1985.

22 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Running Wild

34 Years Ago: BROKEN BONES live in Leeds

BROKEN BONES live at the Leeds Bierkeller on this day in 1984.

21 April 2018

• Tags: Broken Bones Punk History

37 Years Ago: GIRLSCHOOL release Hit and Run (NWOBHM)

Girlschool - C'mon Let's Go (Promo Video) Girlschool - Hit and Run (Top of the Pops, April 1981) GIRLSCHOOL released their classic second album on this day in 1981. Girlschool - Yeah Right (Promo Video)

20 April 2018

• Tags: Girlschool Heavy Metal History

37 Years Ago: VENOM release In League with Satan

One day I came in with this riff and Abaddon started pounding the toms to it in a really tribal way. I was expecting a straight beat, but this rolling thing started happening with the song. And the solo is just a bunch of single, sustained notes with...

19 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Venom

31 Years Ago: SLAUGHTER LORD live in Melbourne

SLAUGHTER LORD, the pioneering Australian thrash & death horde, live in Melbourne on this day in 1987. The scene here is getting bigger and better all the time. Heaps of bangers are getting into THRASH / DEATH / H'CORE bands 'cause they have finally got their own bands...

18 April 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Slaughter Lord

22 Years Ago: DISSECTION & GORGOROTH live in Trier

DISSECTION live on this day in 1996, part of the World Tour of the Light's Bane. The tour was in support of their second album, Storm of the Light's Bane, which had been released in November 1995. The European leg of their tour - with GORGOROTH and SATYRICON...

17 April 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Dissection Gorgoroth