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20 Years Ago: EMPEROR release Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

The new album is more aggressive, but it's also more beautiful and nicer in other ways. Lyrically, it's not so one-sided, and the same with the vocals: there are more atmospheres on the new album. You can say, perhaps, that In the Nightside Eclipse is more whole, as...

8 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Emperor

32 Years Ago: ABATTOIR release Vicious Attack on Combat (LA Speed Metal)

It did really good. It was a really strong album but because the band lacked support it went nowhere, but it did break the band into the metal scene and showed what the band was all about. Of course this second album is much better, it's still ABATTOIR...

7 July 2017

• Tags: Abattoir Heavy Metal History

24 Years Ago: BLASPHEMY release Gods of War

There wasn't any kind of a plan really, it was just a collection of leftover songs and a few newer ones that Black Winds wrote on his own. I think maybe Black Priest had to do with some of them too but he didn't stay in the group...

6 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Blasphemy

26 Years Ago: MORBID ANGEL release Blessed are the Sick

It's a real good album, I like it a lot. It represents two years and we've grown a lot. We've learned a lot about songwriting, what works and what doesn't and how it all comes together in the studio. I'm real happy with it, it's a nice solid...

5 July 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Morbid Angel

31 Years Ago: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM release Doomsday for the Deceiver

The power chords raise the dead,People come alive banging their heads! FLOTSAM AND JETSAM released their debut on this day in 1986. Doomsday for the Deceiver is the only FLOTSAM AND JETSAM album with Jason Newsted. Following Cliff Burton's death in September that year METALLICA auditioned new bassists,...

4 July 2017

• Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam Heavy Metal History

22 Years Ago: ISENGARD release Hostmorke on Moonfog

As I said, we don't give any interviews and we don't want to talk about anything, especially the Isengard album which is not an especially interesting piece of music. Fenriz speaking just over a year prior to Høstmørke. Vinterskugge and DARKTHRONE's Transilvanian Hunger were soon to be released. And...

3 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Isengard

33 Years Ago: CIRITH UNGOL release King of the Dead

It's going to be a million times more radical. People aren't going to know it's the same band. The lyrics are much more intense and the music is heavy.Everyone had a part in choosing the songs for the first album, and the fan mail we've received reflects public...

2 July 2017

• Tags: Cirith Ungol Heavy Metal History

25 Years Ago: IMMORTAL release Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

Recorded during April at Grieghallen, IMMORTAL released their debut LP - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism - on this day in 1992. Above the mountainside and into cryptic winterstorms forever...

1 July 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Immortal

26 Years Ago: GRAVE finish recording Into the Grave at Sunlight Studio

HYPOCRITE spent two days at Sunlight Studio recording their first demo Ruler of the Dark in June 1991. The day after they finished, GRAVE arrived to record their debut LP, Into the Grave. The band had moved from Visby, Gotland to Stockholm that January. For Your God Recording...

30 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Grave

33 Years Ago: KILLING JOKE live at Roskilde Festival

Time to draw some strength from KJ... Fantastic set from KILLING JOKE at Roskilde, the annual music festival in Denmark. Roskilde is roughly equivalent to Glastonbury in size and origin (1971). Tape of the original TV broadcast on this day in 1984. Friday night, the first of the three...

29 June 2017

• Tags: Killing Joke Punk History

24 Years Ago: BLASPHEREION finish recording their self-titled demo (Belgian Death Metal pre-ENTHRONED)

This day in 1993 was the last of two BLASPHEREION spent in Hautregard Recording Studio, Liège - Belgium. The three tracks recorded became their self-titled demo. This came after their 1991 LP Rest in Peace (a very early Osmose title). BLASPHEREION was formed out of MORBID DEATH (86-91)....

28 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Enthroned

30 Years Ago: NAPALM DEATH and RIPCORD live in Belgium

Saturday 27 June 1987Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium6 PM150 Fr (Belgian franc) NAPALM DEATH headlining on this day in 1987 with support from RIPCORD and EARDAMAGE. The venue was Netwerk in Aalst, northern Belgium. Netwerk opened in 1981 as an independent socio-cultural centre hosting music and art events. The building...

27 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Napalm Death

46 Years Ago: Aus Hamburg, LUCIFER'S FRIEND mit Ride the Sky (Beat Club)

Beat Club was a music and culture programme produced in Bremen, West Germany during the mid-1960s to early 70s and broadcast on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen. Each approx-monthly episode was an hour long and featured live performances, videos/studio dancers and short films and interviews usually focusing on an aspect...

26 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Mountain

34 Years Ago: VOIVOD play their first ever gig

Voivod live 25 June 1983, all the Motorhead covers Piggy, Away, Blacky and Snake! Live on this day in 1983, Saguenay QC, Canada about 7 months after forming in November 1982. VOIVOD played 4 original songs at their first gig: "Voivod", "Condemned to the Gallows", "Blower", "Voivod" (reprise!),...

25 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Voivod

24 Years Ago: DARKTHRONE release Under a Funeral Moon

Recorded in June the previous year, Peaceville released the iconic Under a Funeral Moon on this day in 1993. We didn't care really much for the albums at the time, we all agreed that the rehearsals we did was the most important thing. We actually rehearsed a lot......

24 June 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Darkthrone

34 Years Ago: LAIBACH interviewed by TV Tednik (with English translation)

LAIBACH's infamous TV Tednik interview was broadcast by RTV Ljubljana on this day in 1983. Following the broadcast Slovenian authorities banned all public appearances. They also banned the use of the name LAIBACH. ...in June 1983, the group made their first television appearance in an interview on the...

23 June 2017

• Tags: Laibach Punk History

27 Years Ago: INCUBUS rehearse in Tampa, FL

UPDATE: Many thanks to Mark LaVenia for writing to correct the details below! The bassist in this video is a different Mark:"The Mark in the video jammed with the Howard brothers for a period, but was never a formal member. I do see my amp and RAT pedal in...

22 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History

31 Years Ago: CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER live in a Bel Air backyard

UPDATE: the band sent us a correction: Actually this party was after “Convicted” was released. We played so we could get some money to get up north to play 2 shows.Just FYI. The gig date is correct, on this day in 1986, but the "days before the release..."...

21 June 2017

• Tags: Cryptic Slaughter Heavy Metal History Punk History