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31 Years Ago: DR. KNOW release This Island Earth (in my dreams, nightmares are the truth)

Released by Death Records (Metal Blade) during this month in 1986, the killer debut DR. KNOW album - This Island Earth! Metal / hardcore crossover from Oxnard, CA. (nardcore) following on from their great EPs Plug-In Jesus and Burn. Huge fucking Sabbath fan, big Black Flag fan, just love...

4 September 2017

• Tags: Dr Know Punk History

11 Years Ago: MGLA release Mdlosci

Released on this day in 2006 by Garazel / Flagellum Haereticorum. Since the original 7", Mdłości has been combined with Further Down the Nest. This MGLA compilation was first released by our old comrades at Todeskult in 2007 (who also released the debut KRIEGSMASCHINE album). Mdłości I Through...

3 September 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History MGLA

27 Years Ago: MORBID SAINT release Spectrum of Death (Lock Up Your Children)

MORBID SAINT's Spectrum of Death was recorded at Opus Recording in 1988 and originally released as Lock Up Your Children on demo cassette. The recent pro-tape reissue of that demo, replicating the original design, is available here. We pretty much recorded our current set that we were playing out at...

2 September 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Morbid Saint

26 Years Ago: TIAMAT release The Astral Sleep

After signing a deal with Century Media, TIAMAT released their second album on this day in 1991. I can't remember the exact details. I think UNLEASHED already had a contract with Century Media and Johan had asked them to do a good word for TIAMAT. We recorded "The...

1 September 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Tiamat

33 Years Ago: SLAUGHTER rehearse and record their earliest material (Meatcleaver)

Those "Meatcleaver" demos were us experimenting with ideas and lyrics. Completely off the top of our heads!! On this day in 1984 legendary Canadian band SLAUGHTER were rehearsing in Ron Sumners basement. It's the first recording of the band that made its way into tape trading circles and...

31 August 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Slaughter

32 Years Ago: NASTY SAVAGE release their debut on Metal Blade

MERCY ONTO YOU, WHO REIGN IN TERROR, SERVANTS OF METAL, YOU WEAR STUDS AND LEATHER! Recorded at Morrisound Studios a few years before the death metal scene exploded; NASTY SAVAGE released their eponymous debut on this day in 1985 through Metal Blade. THE SAVAGE MASTER, IS COMING FROM...

30 August 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Nasty Savage

29 Years Ago: PROTECTOR complete recording their debut LP Golem

How would you describe your music to someone who's never heard Protector?? MICHAEL: Bestial invasion!HANSI: Brutal & aggressive!MARTIN: Fast, thrashy, murderous & neck-breaking! - Protector interview, Phoenix Militia #3, 1986 Golem was recorded at Phoenix Studio in Bochum, Germany throughout August, ending on this day in 1988. PROTECTOR's next album...

29 August 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Protector

25 Years Ago: SAVIOR complete Brutal Tradition demo (Portland Death Metal) (1994 Interview, Part Two)

Continuing the article from yesterday about SAVIOR's final demo and the related full-length... Exactly one year before recording Bleeding at the Heart (27 August 1993), SAVIOR were in Dog Fish Sound recording Brutal Tradition. BT was mixed and completed a day later, 28 August 1992. Their best release?...

28 August 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History

24 Years Ago: SAVIOR record Bleeding at the Heart (Portland Death Metal) (1994 Interview, Part One)

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before SAVIOR's material is compiled onto a Collection CD. They deserve to be rediscovered. SAVIOR had a history with punk and members of SAVIOR also played in DICKFINGER. Through the five or six demos their sound mutated from D.R.I. speed/hardcore...

27 August 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History

33 Years Ago: BLACK FLAG live at The Stone, San Francisco

Shot by Ace Video on this day in 1984, BLACK FLAG at The Stone in San Francisco, CA. The Stone was already a well-known venue for punk and Bay Area thrash at that point. Cliff Burton played his first METALLICA show there, it hosted EXODUS, OVERKILL, DANZIG and...

26 August 2017

• Tags: Black Flag Punk History

23 Years Ago: UNHOLY release The Second Ring of Power (and what about those Shape...)

First of all, there are different kind of shamans: some of them can SEE (like I do), some of them can change their shape, some of them can fly, some can heal etc. I can't change my shape, but I really can see&hear Allies when they arrive. At...

25 August 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Unholy

25 Years Ago: MESSIAH release Rotten Perish

After the success of the "Choirs of Horrors" debut on Noise Records we did, with a lot of rehearsing time, the follow-up record "Rotten Perish" as a conceptual record. Main topics being the description of people's tragic suffering from illness coupled with our critical opinion on religious thoughts...

24 August 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Messiah

24 Years Ago: ABIGAIL finish recording Descending from a Blackend Sky EP (Tokyo Black Metal)

ABIGAIL play fast and simple Black Metal. Their 7" EP on HSB Records as well as their split LP on Warmaster Records are incredibly fantastic.- Mirai Kawashima / Sigh interview, Psychopathological, 1993 On this day in 1993 Yasuyuki Suzuki (then also known as Barbatos, before he formed the...

23 August 2017

• Tags: Abigail Black Metal History

28 Years Ago: ONSLAUGHT release In Search of Sanity

Those were the best days of my life. Most people only dream of doing what we did, and don't forget we were only kids. We saw the world and met some great people. Playing pool with Stuart Copeland while I was recording the drums for Sanity was a...

22 August 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Onslaught

29 Years Ago: DEBAUCHERY record their last demo

British crust punk / metal of the late Eighties, a similar mix to bands like AMEBIX, HELLBASTARD, ONSLAUGHT etc. This three song demo, their last, was recorded on this day in 1988. Track list: "Shadow of the West", "Green & Pleasant Land", "Code of Silence". Their only album...

21 August 2017

• Tags: Punk History

37 Years Ago: MOTORHEAD live at Theatre Royal, Nottingham

Recorded live on this day in 1980 for Rockstage on 4 April 1981. The Rockstage programme, which aired on ATV (now ITV Central), presented gigs from Nottingham's Theatre Royal. This concert came after a European tour in February, March and some sporadic dates until July. After the Rockstage...

20 August 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Motorhead

22 Years Ago: DIMMU BORGIR live in Germany (pre For all Tid)

On this day in 1995, a Saturday evening, MAYHEMIC TRUTH and DIMMU BORGIR were playing the closing day of what would become Under the Black Sun, but in 1995 was simply Folter Open Air. Not all bands were filmed, but some footage has survived - watch below! Organised...

19 August 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Dimmu Borgir

34 Years Ago: RAVEN release All for One (NWOBHM Classic)

RAVEN released their classic All for One during this month in 1983. One of England's leading metal bands, All for One was their third album in three years, all great and all on Neat. Megaforce released All for One in the US and organised a American tour that...

18 August 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Raven