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31 Years Ago: MEFISTO record The Puzzle demo

Cult Swedish thrash / death, MEFISTO recorded their last demo together in November 1986. They split soon after (see interview except below) but have recently reunited with the original lineup to record a new album, 2.0.1.6: This Is the End of It All... the Beginning of Everything... and a self-titled...

15 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Mefisto

23 Years Ago: ARCKANUM completes the Trulen demo

Recorded over a month on a Fostex 4-track, ARCKANUM completed the cult Trulen demo on this day in 1994. The 15 song tape was originally limited to 111 hand-numbered copies, several hundred were released later. The well known "Gava fran trulen" video takes audio from this demo. The...

14 November 2017

• Tags: Arckanum Black Metal History

28 Years Ago: GODFLESH release Streetcleaner

GODFLESH released their debut album on this day in 1989. Powerful industrial metal, a term which almost instantly lost any meaning in the following decade. The cover image is taken from a scene in the 1980 film Altered States, watch below.

13 November 2017

• Tags: Godflesh Heavy Metal History

26 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Clandestine

"The greatest extreme metal platter since Venom's 'Black Metal'." - Raw magazine Entombed - Stranger Aeons (Official Video) Released on this day in 1991, Clandestine was ENTOMBED's second album. A friend of ours who used to work at a record store came up with that name. He had...

12 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Entombed

27 Years Ago: INCANTATION remix Entrantment of Evil at Trax East

Entrantment of Evil was recorded earlier in 1990, between 26 May and 2 June at Stardust Recording. Seraphic Decay released the original 7" in August 1990. INCANTATION's deal with Relapse was formed around the same time, and on this day in 1990 they remixed the songs from Entrantment...

11 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Incantation

31 Years Ago: SEPULTURA release Morbid Visions

Our next LP will be called "Morbid Visions". It will be 8 songs, one being instrumental. It will be much better recorded; our first one was recorded only on eight tracks, and the songs are all on a higher level, they're faster and heavier. We've got a better...

10 November 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Sepultura

30 Years Ago: CANDLEMASS release Nightfall

This was our breakthrough album! Epicus didn't sell much when it came out, but NIGHTFALL really hit off from the very beginning. A couple of gigs in England and one at the Dynamo Festival in Holland and life never was the same again! CANDLEMASS released their second album...

9 November 2017

• Tags: Candlemass Heavy Metal History

31 Years Ago: EXUMER release Possessed by Fire (...and the flames are burning higher!)

Our current manager, Matthias Prill, knew Tommy Ziegler, the head of Disaster, so he invited the guy to the show. We brought Warfare over from England and we really played our hearts out; the offer came from that night....we did receive some other offers, but I won't say...

8 November 2017

• Tags: Exumer Heavy Metal History

30 Years Ago: PENTAGRAM (Chile) live at Manuel Plaza, Santiago

Cult Chilean thrash and early (POSSESSED style) death! PENTAGRAM live on this day in 1987.Picoroco Records released a compilation CD in 2000, the last two tracks are from this concert with slightly better sound from a tape recording. The above song was "Profaner", below is "Fatal Predictions". With...

7 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Pentagram (Chile)

23 Years Ago: DEMONIC CHRIST finish recording Punishment for Ignorance

DEMONIC CHRIST began recording their only album, Punishment for Ignorance, on 30 October at Sonic Cafe Recording in Charlotte, NC and completed the record on this day in 1994. Dana Duffey – Guitars, VocalsDuane Brown – DrumsJon Vesano – Guitars, Vocals (Jon would go on to form DARKMOON with...

6 November 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Demonic Christ

29 Years Ago: GG ALLIN & THE SEWER SCUM live at Lismar Lounge, New York

More of a disaster than most GG performances - they barely manage to get through a couple of songs. Live on this day in 1988. G.G. Allin is skunk piss. Rotting trash rock in the lowest form. No quality. Everything sucks and so do we. The full song-list...

5 November 2017

• Tags: GG Allin Punk History

31 Years Ago: VIO-LENCE complete their second demo

We're influenced by a lot of stuff. Sean listens to a lot of Alice Cooper and stuff like that. Slayer. Me and Phil basically listen to anything and everything. We listen to everything, from all boundaries of music. Deen listens to DK's. We all pretty much listen to...

4 November 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Vio-lence

31 Years Ago: SLAYER live at The Stone, San Francisco

Live on this day in 1986, SLAYER in San Francisco (the first of two nights at The Stone). Reign in Blood had been a released a few weeks earlier and this was an early date in the supporting US tour, with OVERKILL as opener. This tour ended in...

3 November 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Slayer

24 Years Ago: MIASMA release Love Songs (Little girl, I hope one day we will meet again)

Released on this day in 1993, Love Songs was the last major MIASMA recording. As with their only album, Changes (1992), the CD was released by Austrian label Lethal Records. Love Song is an EP (more single than mini album) with the featured title song, an instrumental /...

2 November 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Miasma

39 Years Ago: CRISIS record their John Peel Session (UK Punk77)

Well I must say that of all the contemporary varieties of rock music, it's this basic and direct variety that I like the best myself.- John Peel about this session, 8 November 1978 Most famously a pre-DEATH IN JUNE band, CRISIS recorded their one and only Peel session...

1 November 2017

• Tags: Crisis Punk History

19 Years Ago: ACHERON, DEICIDE live in Florida

Halloween 1998 in Hallandale, southern Florida saw a gathering of Flordian death metal bands including ACHERON, DEICIDE, HIBERNUS MORTIS and BRUTAL MASTICATION. Full sets were recorded on video for each band. Also playing that night were HELLWITCH who reformed for the night after splitting in 1997. Deicide -...

31 October 2017

• Tags: Acheron Death Metal History Deicide

34 Years Ago: MERCYFUL FATE release Melissa

I was doing all the music at that time, so I just kept composing, kept composing because I loved to compose. Get up in the middle of the night. I remember when I did "Satan's Fall" that was maybe within a week or two. Every night until 3AM,...

30 October 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Heavy Metal History Mercyful Fate

34 Years Ago: ONSLAUGHT release What Lies Ahead demo (Protest... but who said you'll survive?)

No idea how valid this is, but at least one source gives today as the date this demo was "released" in 1983. Sold by the band through zines, tape trading etc. Known as What Lies Ahead, the demo was a collection of rehearsals and live recordings. Anyway, a...

29 October 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Onslaught