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22 Years Ago: DEVIL DOLL release Dies Irae on Hurdy Gurdy Records

After the release of The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms, I started to record an album which was going to be entitled The Day Of Wrath. In the middle of the recordings the studio was completely destroyed by a fire, whose origin is still shrouded in the mist of...

9 February 2018

• Tags: Devil Doll Heavy Metal History

25 Years Ago: DEMILICH release Nespithe

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the sinister TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil Demi-Lich... It's actually from role-playing games, even...

8 February 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Demilich

20 Years Ago: SPEAR OF LONGINUS record Nada Brahma

SPEAR OF LONGINUS recorded most of Nada Brahma on this day in 1998. The intro and outro ("I.A.O." and "Interplanetary Warfare and the Attack of the Culture Heroes") date back to 1995.The complete mini album was then mixed at Vibrafeel Studios in March of 98 and released the following year...

7 February 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Spear of Longinus

28 Years Ago: EXTREME NOISE TERROR record their third Peel session

ENT were amazing. So were their fans. Any track more than 20 seconds long was greeted with derisive cries of "too long, too slow" or "fucking prog-rockers" from the faithful, most of whom looked as though they had but recently risen from shallow graves alongside the A12, the...

6 February 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Extreme Noise Terror Punk History

28 Years Ago: PARADISE LOST release Lost Paradise

I write all the music and Nick writes all the lyrics. All kinds of music inspires me, from bands like TROUBLE, PENTAGRAM, COIL etc. to films like "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Hellraiser" and "In the Name of the Rose"....Writing songs for PARADISE LOST is a huge challenge. We don't...

5 February 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Paradise Lost

16 Years Ago: IMMORTAL release Sons of Northern Darkness

It has a very triumphant and victorious feel to it. There're a lot of atmospheric parts on this album that we felt they haven't been used very much in the past, for example song 'Beyond the North Waves' has those new elements. We are total metal fans we...

4 February 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Immortal

21 Years Ago: ANGELCORPSE release Nuclear Hell

Bill Taylor joined on rhythm guitar in November, and Angelcorpse toured Europe in Dec 96 in support of Impaled Nazarene. From the last show of the tour we made a 2 song live 7" EP called "Nuclear Hell".- Pete Helmkamp / Angelcorpse interview, Mourning the Ancient This recording...

3 February 2018

• Tags: Angelcorpse Death Metal History

33 Years Ago: AMEBIX live at the Ambulance Station

AMEBIX live on this day in 1985 at The Ambulance Station; number 306 on the Old Kent Road, London. The venue, a fire station since the turn of the century until 1969, was taken over by anarchist, punks and squatters in 1984. The building was occupied until 1986 and hosted many benefit gigs,...

2 February 2018

• Tags: Amebix Punk History

15 Years Ago: WYRD release Wrath & Revenge on Desolate Landscapes

Not an album, rather a compilation of songs from the Unchained Heathen Wrath demo, Songs of the Northern Gale demo, Of Revenge and Bloodstained Swords demo and one exclusive song. WYRD released Wrath & Revenge on this day in 2003. I really wanted to use this anniversary as a way to...

1 February 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Wyrd

31 Years Ago: VOMIT record Rot in Hell (cult Norwegian death thrash)

No peers, no scene. As it was back then. But if you listen to this song, feral death thrash a la hell awaits album by Slayer, it is so clear why two of the members were chosen as session members for Mayhem.- Fenriz, Band of the Week Early...

31 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Mayhem

29 Years Ago: EXODUS release Fabulous Disaster (good clean violent fun)

On this day in 1989 EXODUS released their third album, Fabulous Disaster, in the UK through Music for Nations ("BUY OR DIE!"), a week before the start of their European tour. The tour ran from February 1989 into early March. Starting and ending in England with support from ACID REIGN. The middle European...

30 January 2018

• Tags: Exodus Heavy Metal History

24 Years Ago: TORGEIST record Devoted to Satan

This record is dedicated to all of you, Brothers and Sisters, who've killed the false and feeble god. May you eternally follow the way of Satanism... Hail to all the true Black Metal Underground. TORGEIST recorded Devoted to Satan over one "night of fullmoon", completing their debut demo...

29 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Torgeist

32 Years Ago: NME release Unholy Death (metal and speed kills!)

All of my infractions with the law really have nothing to do with the band. Other than the security guy who showed up 'cause I was smashing a bat while we were recording....when we were recording Unholy Death, and I was all pissed off and stressed, I took...

28 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History NME

26 Years Ago: BARBACK complete the Skullgrave EP (the trial of Ursula Kemp)

Recorded in December 1991, BARBACK finished mixing the Skullgrave EP, their last release, during this month in 1992. The cover image shows a skeleton presented in a coffin - one of two skeletons originally discovered in St Osyth, Essex in the 1920s - believed to be the bones of Ursula Kemp, who...

27 January 2018

• Tags: Barback Death Metal History

31 Years Ago: POSSESSED live in Parma, Ohio

Recorded from the soundboard on this day in 1987. POSSESSED live in Parma, Ohio.

26 January 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Possessed

29 Years Ago: ROTTING CHRIST record the Decline's Return demo

These same three fellows would go on to record several classic albums, but on this day in 1989 they were recording a rehearsal demo in Athens. Raw blasts of death metal/grindcore, or "music(?)" as they list it on the tape. Ooouuuuaaaoooouuu...... How did you describe this demo???? Who traded it with...

25 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Rotting Christ

31 Years Ago: MESSIAH record Extreme Cold Weather (there lies my neighbours frozen mum)

Dear thrashing people. Please, listen now to the following words of an old wise man... Tonight, enjoy yourself... but don't get too much drunk, don't be a little bad king of a fucking stupid massacre. If it's so, you're in a false place here... MESSIAH recorded their second...

24 January 2018

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Messiah

32 Years Ago: SLAUGHTER rehearse with Chuck Schuldiner (Fuck of Death)

Chuck's brief excursion to Toronto - joining Canadian legends of death & thrash SLAUGHTER in anticipation of their upcoming album recording - resulted in this rehearsal tape, generally known as Fuck of Death ("deep in the coffin, Death prevails"); recorded on this day in 1986. Chuck returned to Florida soon after this...

23 January 2018

• Tags: Death Metal History Slaughter