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30 Years Ago: NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ATOMKRAFT, ONSLAUGHT and AGENT STEEL live in London

NUCLEAR ASSAULT were on Monsters of Rock a couple of days before to promote this event. They arrived in London on the 16th to play a non-tour gig with ATOMKRAFT at the Mean Fiddler. The tour officially started the next day: Burton, Newcastle and then Hammersmith Odeon (adding...

20 June 2017

• Tags: Agent Steel Atomkraft Heavy Metal History Nuclear Assault

28 Years Ago: KREATOR release Extreme Aggression (2017 Reissue Out Now)

Recording was complete by late March. After two shows in Greece, KREATOR travelled to England and between 15 April and 7 June 1989 played at least 37 dates across Europe. Kreator - Betrayer (Official Video) On this day in 1989 Extreme Aggression was released by Noise in Europe...

19 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Kreator

37 Years Ago: CRASS live in Bristol

Not a crystal clear recording but it is a great document of the times. This gig took place at the Trinity community centre on this day in 1980. £1 entry. Trinity centre is right by St. Pauls which saw race riots a couple of months earlier: Tensions were still...

18 June 2017

• Tags: Crass Punk History

21 Years Ago: FLEURETY record Vortex (Last-Minute Lies)

Following the release of Min tid skal komme in 1995 (Misanthropy Records co-released with Aesthetic Death), FLEURETY began working on new material. One of the earliest new songs was the killer "Vortex". The band sent a demo of "Vortex" to Misanthropy who refused the release, or as the...

17 June 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Fleurety

23 Years Ago: ESOTERIC complete recording Epistemological Despondency at Rich Bitch Studios

The most productive way of listening to it is whilst imbibed, upon perceptionally heightening drugs, in complete darkness, at a high volume. This portrays the music in it's complete form. Debut double-CD now available89 minutes of hateful, drug-influenced tortured doomA journey through the subconscious realms of pure hatred...

16 June 2017

• Tags: Esoteric Heavy Metal History

48 Years Ago: JETHRO TULL record their last Peel session

JETHRO TULL recorded their third and final Peel Session on this day in 1969 at Maida Vale 4. Engineered by Tony Wilson, produced by John Walters. The session aired on the Sunday night (7-9pm) Top Gear programme, 22 June. This is the full set, although we jump right...

15 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Jethro Tull

35 Years Ago: THE 4-SKINS release The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins

East End Oi! classic by the THE 4-SKINS, released this month in 1982. The second half of the LP is a live recording. For the mugs in Ealing 4-SKINS were an infamous live act well before the album due to the Southall riot in 1981: We played the...

14 June 2017

• Tags: Punk History The 4-Skins

44 Years Ago: PENTAGRAM record Hurricane b/w Earth Flight in Falls Church, VA

Some of the earliest PENTAGRAM material. Recorded on this day in 1973 at Bias Recording Studios in Falls Church, VA where they had put together a 5-song demo in March. "Released" in 1973 on Boffo Socko as either a very limited or just promotional single. Only "Hurricane" has...

13 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Pentagram

29 Years Ago: BOLT THROWER release In Battle There is No Law (Early Band History)

Total possession of the atmosphere! After receiving the Concession of Pain demo (September 1987), John Peel arranged for a session. They recorded 4 songs on 3 January 1988: "Forgotten Existence", "Attack in the Aftermath", "Psychological Warfare", "In Battle There is No Law". The session was broadcast on Wednesday...

12 June 2017

• Tags: Bolt Thrower Death Metal History

35 Years Ago: THE CURE end the Pornography tour in Belgium and almost split for good

The show was quite flat and, during the encore, Biddles came on and started singing 'Smith's a wanker, Tolhurst's a wanker, only Simon's worth anything in this band'. I was drumming, so I stopped, threw the drumsticks at the back of his head and told him to fuck...

11 June 2017

• Tags: Punk History The Cure

34 Years Ago: TANK release This Means War (NWOBHM)

Just Like Something from Hell Ward, Tucker, Brabbs & Brabbs! This Means War - TANK's third album - came out on this day in 1983, an early Music for Nations release. "Noce Szatana" from KAT's classic 666 bears a pretty striking similarity to TANK's "Just like Something from Hell"...

10 June 2017

• Tags: Heavy Metal History Tank

27 Years Ago: Metal Passion Party 3 (Beherit, Xysma, Frost)

Live on this day in 1990, Rovaniemi, Finland. The third Metal Passion Party featuring BEHERIT, XYSMA and FROST. Beherit - Full Set We have played quite few gigs, less than 10. Our last gig was with XYSMA (you know, quite cool gore-core from southern Finland) but mainly we've...

9 June 2017

• Tags: Beherit Black Metal History

25 Years Ago: SEANCE release Fornever Laid to Rest on Black Mark (Swedish Death Metal)

Formed by members of ORCHRISTE ("Sin" from this album was an old ORCHRISTE song) and TOTAL DEATH in 1990, SEANCE released Fornever Laid to Rest on this day in 1992. This was the debut SEANCE album, recorded and released within a year of their only demo, the extremely...

8 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Seance

27 Years Ago: TIAMAT (formerly TREBLINKA) release Sumerian Cry on C.M.F.T.

We have changed our name to TIAMAT because it does really fit our lyrics better. The Satanic image is to keep the Unholy Black Metal alive. Some people (in fact, alot of people) want to kill it but early Venom, Possessed, Destruction, Slayer, Sodom will forever live on...

7 June 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Death Metal History Tiamat

25 Years Ago: Fantoft Stavkyrkje Burns (Norwegian Church Arson 1992) Photos & Video

The first ancient monument to fall at the hands of Norway’s black metal underground was the 12th Century Stave Church in Fana, Bergen. Firefighters take a break after battling the flames. Foto: Arne Ristesund The church was destroyed by arson on Saturday 6 June 1992. A photograph of...

6 June 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Burzum

23 Years Ago: CENTINEX complete Transcend the Dark Chaos

CENTINEX recorded Transcend the Dark Chaos at Dan Swanö's Hellspawn/Unisound Studios over a weekend, finishing on this day in 1994. ...we recorded it during 2 days so it went pretty fast. We had a good time, but there was not that much alcohol involved in that recording though...- Martin...

5 June 2017

• Tags: Centinex Death Metal History

26 Years Ago: ENTOMBED release Left Hand Path

Also a big thank you to our musical influences - REPULSION, SLAYER, R.A.V.A.G.E., DEATHSTRIKE, AUTOPSY, CHRISTOPHER YOUNG and VOMIT (Norway). Left Hand Path (Official Video) ENTOMBED released their classic debut on this day in 1990. Most of the songs on 'Left Hand Path' are old NIHILIST songs and...

4 June 2017

• Tags: Death Metal History Entombed

20 Years Ago: SUMMONING release Nightshade Forests (ancient songs of olden gods)

Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountain or even further and to worse places? SUMMONING released Nightshade Forests - recorded during the late-1996 Dol Guldur sessions - on...

3 June 2017

• Tags: Black Metal History Summoning