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21 Years Ago: WARLOGHE record The Black Tower demo

...there is no distinction. The arts are my life, I spend my days perfecting my art, Warloghe is just one part of it, it is the conduit through which I channel, the sigils turning into sound. But like you may have already guessed, the music itself is not...

17 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Warloghe

29 Years Ago: NIHILIST complete Only Shreds Remain demo at Sunlight Studio

We used Sunlight only because Morbid had been there. But I was not pleased with the studio. I think the production on our second demo sucks. The drums, especially, sound awful. Skogsberg didn't know much about how to take care of death metal back then. The reason we...

16 December 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Nihilist

32 Years Ago: LUCIFER'S HERITAGE (pre-BLIND GUARDIAN) release Symphonies of Doom demo

Great band name, good demo. Somewhere between speed and (new wave of) heavy metal - the German sound of the time (GRAVE DIGGER and others). Released on this day in 1985. Every night I hear thunder.The shadow, can't you see?So one night I will follow.The dark side reigns...

15 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Lucifer's Heritage

24 Years Ago: KATATONIA release Dance of December Souls (ashes spread in the northern storm)

...it's a memorial hail to all the Asa Viking warriors which died by the hands of christians yet still with their refusal to believe in the white Christ. As we are messengers of the north, it's our duty to begin a huge revenge... Musically "Dance..." is a mixture...

14 December 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Katatonia

23 Years Ago: GRAND BELIAL'S KEY release Triumph of the Hordes

Released on tape by Pagan Records on this day in 1994, the second GRAND BELIAL'S KEY demo. Recorded at The Dungeon in Arlington, Virginia. "In Rapture by the Fenrir Moon" was re-recorded for the debut album, "Sleeping Princes of the Arges" was forgotten; and while "When Darkness Rears...

13 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Grand Belial's Key

20 Years Ago: LIMBONIC ART release In Abhorrence Dementia

Limbonic Art today is Daemon on guitar and lead vocals. Morfeus on guitar, additional vocals, and synthesizer programming/samples.The main interest that we have is to create music within the dark dimensions. With some powerful and mournful metallic symphonies, followed up by great artistic cover work and pathological reveries...

12 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Limbonic Art

21 Years Ago: NEGURA BUNGET release their debut album Zirnindu-sa

Our first album, Zîrnindu-să, was also released at the end of the same year [1996], by Bestial Records which, back then, was the only underground label in Romania. Moreover, we could even say that the label itself was founded specially for the release. I consider that we had...

11 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Negura Bunget

38 Years Ago: PUBLIC IMAGE LTD recorded their only Peel session

Very, very good indeed that I think; most effective. And whether you like Public Image or not, and of course a lot of people don't judging from the music papers and so forth. You read a lot of critical letters and people write me a lot of critical letters...

10 December 2017

• Tags: Public Image Ltd Punk History

23 Years Ago: AUTOPSY finish recording Shitfun

[In late 1994] we were three months on the road in the U.S. and we lost a lot of money as well as time. That tour was too long, we didn't even enjoy to be together on the road anymore. When the tour was finally over, we all...

9 December 2017

• Tags: Autopsy Death Metal History

20 Years Ago: KATATONIA release Sounds of Decay

Recorded at Sunlight Studio in Stockholm, KATATONIA released the Sounds of Decay EP on this day in 1997. It followed the incredible Brave Murder Day, released just over a year before. The cover art was taken from E. Elias Merhige's 1990 film Begotten. ...it's from a film, it was Roberto from Avantgarde...

8 December 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Katatonia

26 Years Ago: ATOMIC AGGRESSOR record and release the Resurrection demo (You look so afraid!)

Killer Chilean, Lovecraftian death metal; ATOMIC AGGRESSOR released their last demo on this day in 1991. Resurrection was the second demo. Bloody Ceremonial was released in 1989 and the only other material was a rehearsal tape in 1990. Great raw sound influenced by MORBID ANGEL, POSSESSED...! It was...

7 December 2017

• Tags: Atomic Aggressor Death Metal History

23 Years Ago: Radio 1 Rock Show airs CARCASS session

Carcass - Buried Dreams (Radio 1 Rock Show Session) On this day (8pm, Radio 1) in 1994 CARCASS' Rock Show session was aired. Introduced by Claire Sturgess who took over from Tommy Vance the year before. You can find the four tracks from this session on Wake Up...

6 December 2017

• Tags: Carcass Death Metal History

24 Years Ago: ULVER release the Vargnatt promo tape

ULVER released their original promo tape Vargnatt on this day in 1993. Ulver - Tragediens trone, Live/Promo Video, Oslo, 1993 Some of the lyrics were written by Jørn H. Sværen who has remained a collaborator with ULVER to this day: I met Jørn "Smile to life and I'll...

5 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Ulver

27 Years Ago: DEICIDE Live & Pissed in Bradford

Deicide full live set, Bradford, 1990 Best-era DEICIDE live in Bradford on this day in 1990. Part of the Sacrificial Tour which started in Dublin at the end of November and finished in Switzerland at the end of December. The gig has a heightened intensity from the start as...

4 December 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Deicide

24 Years Ago: DISSECTION release their debut album The Somberlain

When we compose our music we unlock the gates to our perpetual uncontrolled feelings. It is not only music, but also emotions, aggression, hate despair, sorrow, evil..... Things that normal people would call extreme, but we find beautiful! If we affect other peoples emotions, then it's great. We...

3 December 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Dissection

34 Years Ago: PSYCHIC TV live at Atonal Festival, Berlin

Psychic TV live Atonal Festival, Berlin, 1983 A few weeks after their first ever performance - at the Manchester Ritz, 6th November - PSYCHIC TV performed this disconcert in West Germany at the Atonal Festival in Pankehallen, Berlin on this day in 1983. See more photos taken at...

2 December 2017

• Tags: Psychic TV Punk History

38 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD release the Bomber single (napalm to the bone!)

It was a bomber's sky: dry air, wind enough to clear the smoke, cloud broken enough to recognise a few stars... On this day in 1979 MOTORHEAD released their sixth single, reaching 34 in the charts. The song (and iconic huge bomber rig) was, at least in part,...

1 December 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Motorhead

32 Years Ago: WATCHTOWER release Energetic Disassembly

It was really like a demo album. We accomplished. We did not loose. We lost lots of money but we didn't loose, in one way, because we accomplished what we were looking to do which was to get our name out - get the style of music that...

30 November 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Watchtower