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31 Years Ago: DEVIATED INSTINCT record Welcome to the Orgy

Recorded at Scoop studio in Norwich with Mark Wyatt during this month in 1987. A lot of the lyrics have fantasy visual imagery to make them more interesting, but the most recent lyrics I've not even bothered with that, and just stuck to personal feelings etc. Obviously, "protest" lyrics...

8 January 2018

• Tags: Punk History

14 Years Ago: VROLOK release Resurgence II: Where the Dying Meet the Dead

VROLOK released the second in their Resurgence trilogy on this day in 2004 through Alpha Draconis Records. Below is a video interview with VROLOK from 2012, around the time of the split with RELIQUE. That split tape would be their last release. Since then Dan has joined LITHOTOME...

7 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Vrolok

15 Years Ago: REVENGE release Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist

The Canadian black metal skinhead cult has been around for many years hailing violence and antichrist elitist ideals. Too many are jumping on this trend these days but they are years too late.Revenge is a violent warfare holycaust attack on all who hail the beliefsof Inferion.- J. Read...

6 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Revenge

25 Years Ago: ARCHGOAT record Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)

ARCHGOAT finished recording their only major release before the mid-2000s reformation on this day in 1993. Recording began on Monday, the day before, and the EP was mixed on the 6th at Music Box Studio. Paul Thind was forming Necropolis Records around this time and would release Angelcunt...

5 January 2018

• Tags: Archgoat Black Metal History

27 Years Ago: AMORPHIS complete Disment of Soul

Recorded over 48 hours at Timo Tapio Tolkki's (STRATOVARIUS) TTT Studio, AMORPHIS completed their debut demo, Disment of Soul, on this day in 1991. They signed to Relapse soon after and in May 1991 recorded material for the self-titled 7". At least four other songs were recorded during that...

4 January 2018

• Tags: Amorphis Death Metal History

28 Years Ago: NECROMANTIA release their first promo tape

Late 1989... I knew Baron Blood before and we shared similar likings in music and ideas so we decide to express them in a musical form. The Promo Tape 1990 was recorded in one night from 6 in the afternoon until 5 in the morning! LIVE! We did...

3 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Necromantia

22 Years Ago: BEHEMOTH release Grom (original unused artwork)

"Grom" is dedicated to ourselves,Bards of Pomeranian Heathendom BEHEMOTH released their second album, Grom, on this day in 1996. The first edition was put out by Carsten Molitor's great Solistitium Records (WYRD, BILSKIRNIR, HELHEIM, NOCTERNITY). We only had contact towards the end of Solistitium and the short-lived Omvina,...

2 January 2018

• Tags: Behemoth Black Metal History

22 Years Ago: BURZUM release Filosofem on Misanthropy Records

The other unreleased full-lenght album of BURZUM is «Filosofem-» meaning "disparaging assertion proposed in a philosophical erudite language," with songs like «Burzum- the Spirit of Aether,» «Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament,» «Circumambulation of the Transcendental Pillar of Singularity,» and «Filosofem.» Very weird and original production. The best...

1 January 2018

• Tags: Black Metal History Burzum

27 Years Ago: TORR complete Institut klinicke smrti at studio Citron

TÖRR completed their killer second album on this day in 1990. Institut klinické smrti was recorded over 16 days at Studio Citron and released in the summer of 1991 by Direkt. TÖRR are another legendary part of the Czech 80s scene. Their history extends back to 1977, some of their...

31 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Torr

25 Years Ago: DAWN record their second demo Apparition

DAWN recorded at Dan Swanö's Gorysound (later Unisound) studio on this day in 1992. It was one of the last Gorysound recordings. Other Gorysound demo bands that year included KATATONIA, MANIFEST, INTERMENT, FULMINATION, OBSCURE INFINITY and OPHTHALAMIA.

30 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Dawn

28 Years Ago: RAZOR live Toronto Metal Massacre 2 (Shotgun Justice)

Live at the second Toronto Metal Massacre on this day in 1989. The eastern US and Canada had just gone through one of the coldest periods on record but the show went ahead, organised by Two Rays Promotion. RAZOR produced a multi-cam shoot of this gig and you can see...

29 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Razor

21 Years Ago: SECRETS OF THE MOON live under A Black Winter Night

First of all, a word on "Vanitas"; it's our latest rehearsal demotape which contains four typical Secret Of The Moon tracks, plus a Beherit ("Sadomatic Rites")-conversion. Moreover, you'll find seven live songs which were recorded at our "A Black Winter Night"-gig, on December 28th, 1996. This particulary tape...

28 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History

30 Years Ago: ADX live in Paris (French Speed Metal)

Live on this day in 1987 ADX played at Maison de la Mutualité, Paris. This high quality recording was released the following year as Exécution publique. Sounds like a large crowd, la Mutualité had a 1700+ capacity; similar size to the Astoria. ADX stands for Acier DouX. It...

27 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History

33 Years Ago: RUNNING WILD release Gates to Purgatory (black and heavy is our sound!)

This summer should see the release of the band's debut album. All I can say is once that record is out, by all means pick it up. It will undoubtedly be one of the top metal albums of 1984. And Bob Muldowney was right on in the July...

26 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Running Wild

32 Years Ago: KING DIAMOND release No Presents for Christmas

It was Michael Denner and me that wrote the music together, and I always do all the lyrics of course, but I had just started King Diamond and I was fooling around with lines and stuff together. We also did "Halloween" around then, and we were sitting around,...

25 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History King Diamond

30 Years Ago: MORBID release December Moon

The moon was full, and this demo were done at 5th and 6th December 87 anno satanas and it took 16 hours. MORBID recorded December Moon over those 16 hours at Thunderload Studio in Stockholm. First released by the band themselves as a demo tape, with artwork by...

24 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Morbid

28 Years Ago: DEATH SS release Black Mass

Year by year we had evolved our style, enriching it of new elements, but the roots were always the same... from the old "glitter rock" of acts like the Sweet, Slade and T-Rex (for the glamorous taste and the strong visual characterization), to Punk rock (for the aggressive...

23 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death SS Heavy Metal History

22 Years Ago: OBTEST release Pries audra demo

You know it's not so easy to express the way music influences mixes. AC/DC, Manowar, Kreator were the bands whick took us in to metal music world back then. As a musician I was influenced by Kreator, Death, Grave, Paradise lost. During early black metal days heavy inspiration...

22 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Obtest