…can there be any doubt we’ll be hearing a lot more from them in the future?! (MMX)
No, and the new Age of Taurus album Desperate Souls of Tortured Times will be released at the end of May, 2013.
Desperate Souls of Tortured Times (CD)
Desperate Souls of Tortured Times (Vinyl)
Recorded live at Club from Hell, Erfurt, Germany – 20 April 2013
Murder in the Front Row: Brian Lew, Harold Oimoen
He only needed that one record to set a fire that influenced and inspired countless bands through thirty years of killer metal!!! A legend in our underground, he brought the punk to metal and changed it forever.
Running from shadows
Blinded by fear
The horror of nightfall
Is ever so near
I slowly surround you
As terror sets in
Are you afraid of the night
One more Record Store Day release available, but also an album that has been out of print for about 20 years now! Great German Heavy/Power Metal, arriving a few years after Helloween, Running Wild etc. but this has a killer early/mid eighties German sound!!
Full collection here
Warp Seven – a Million Times Gale Force Ten!!
I’m the bird of prey!
Black Legions collection update, new arrivals:
Vlad Tepes – Morte… Lune [1997]
Vlad Tepes – War Funeral March [1994]
Vlad Tepes / Belketre – March to the Black Holocaust [1995]
Vlad Tepes – Celtic Poetry [1994]
Vlad Tepes – Dans Notre Chute [1996]
Vlad Tepes – Into Frosty Madness [1995]
Vlad Tepes – The Return of the Unweeping [1994]
HA album number 3 is definitely on for this year. Prepare yourself for the coming months. Gather food and resources. H/A
Just close your eyes…
The demo you’ve been waiting for from the true masters of mayhem, featuring their new vocalist, Maniac: DEATHCRUSH. This is what you can expect to hear on the demo of the year: «Witching Hour», «Pure Fucking Armageddon», and a special intro by the master of mysticism, Conrad Schnitzler. This is THE demo of 1987 – death crushing heaviness churned into the frenzy of chainsaw velocity!
MAYHEM – DEATHCRUSH from the Todestrieb Distro:
CD Version
Vinyl Version
Vinyl Version (limited edition)
Patch
Badge
T-Shirt (Large)
You can stream Hateful Abandon’s 2011 LP MOVE in full over on Spotify. It’s been available through their software since release, but can now be streamed from this link anywhere: play.spotify.com/album/4tB8Rx5MMQIXqkOlyGpQJ8
Support the album:
CD version of Move is available here
All Hateful Abandon CDs/tapes/t-shirts etc. available here!
Be sure to visit Hateful Abandon Facebook page and V/M’s power electronics/noise project CPESD!
The increasingly popular (from 10 special releases in 2008 to over 400 last year) Record Store Day marks it’s sixth year this Saturday. Usually not much of interest relating to underground metal, and in general this year is no different, however some classic metal recordings are getting a limited edition vinyl release, so we have attempted to stock a few Record Store Day releases, all listed below.
Each of these are limited to 1000 worldwide, with only 250 made available to the UK.
Important to say, these are all legitimate copies, not from participating shops and resold (which happens a lot). We made sure these copies were ordered in only after physical shops took their stock.
Bolt Thrower – In Battle There is No Law (White/Black/Grey splatter vinyl)
Burzum – Burzum / Aske (White/Black/Grey splatter vinyl)
Burzum – Det Som Engang Var (50/50 White/Grey colour)
Burzum – Filosofem (Clear/White/Grey/Brown splatter vinyl)
Burzum – Hvis Lyset Tar Oss (White/Black/Grey splatter vinyl)
Judas Priest – British Steel (Grey/White/Red/Black splatter vinyl)
Mayhem – Deathcrush (Red/Black/White splatter vinyl)
Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Purple/Black/White splatter vinyl)
Megadeth – Killing is My Business and Business is Good (Blue/Yellow/Red splatter vinyl)
Motorhead – Bomber
Motorhead – Overkill
Venom – Black Metal (White/Black/Grey splatter vinyl)
Witchfinder General – Death Penalty (Red/Black/White splatter vinyl)
Some other Record Store Day releases that we will not be carrying, but are worth mentioning:
Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth
Dio – Holy Diver
Husker Du – Amusement (double 7″)
Jesus and Mary Chain – Psycho Candy
Killing Joke – Nervous Systum (CD)
Napalm Death – Leaders Not Followers
Napalm Death / Insect Warfare – Split
Nick Cave – Animal X
Opeth – Morningrise
Overkill – Live From Oz
Poison Idea – Filthkick E.P. (killer record, only 100 of these will make it over to the UK)
Rainbow – Rising
Roky Erickson – Mine Mine Mind / Bloody Hammer (hand numbered…4000 copies)
Slayer – Hell Awaits
Slayer – Live Undead / Haunting The Chapel
Slayer – Show No Mercy
The Fall – Sir William Wray
All but a couple are limited 500-1000+
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Just down the road, and 31 years ago, the second East Anglia Rock and Blues Festival took place in Mildenhall, Suffolk.
Held in the Mildenhall Speedway grounds on Saturday July 24th, the festival featured: Saxon, Magnum, Samson, Angel Witch, S.O.S.-Berni Marsden, and Stampede. It was attended by locals and a big group from the US Air Force stationed in RAF Mildenhall (still there and active) — the influence of these bands would be felt again back in the US the next year with the thrash explosion!
© Blaine Butler, ukrockfestivals.com
The Angel Witch set has been officially released by Mausoleum as “Angel of Death: Live at East Anglia Rock Festival”, and is available from us now. These recordings were previously released as “’82 Revisited” in 97.
Excellent sound quality!! The Witch rip through their set and the crowd are into it throughout!
Songs by Angel Witch: Gorgon, Nowhere to Run, They Wouldn’t Dare, The Sorceress, Evil Games, White Witch, Angel of Death, Angel Witch (the encore).
The UK Rock Festivals website has some great recollections and photos!
