Great band name, good demo. Somewhere between speed and heavy metal – the German sound of the time (GRAVE DIGGER and others). Released on this day in 1985. Every night I hear thunder. The shadow, can’t you see? So one night I will follow. The dark side reigns in me. This song, Dead of the Night (guitar […]
T.O.M.B. live at Anticosmic Music Festival, Fete Music Hall, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
It was actually recorded and mixed in 5 nights and to be honest we were very naive about the whole studio recording thing, this can be seen when “tuatha” is compared with “kingdom”. There are certainly some great parts on the album but overall it really pisses me off when I hear it because the […]
BRATS began as a punk rock band in Copenhagen ’77. The earliest material is good but not remarkable. Guitarists Hank Shermann and Michael Denner (and briefly Carsten Van der Volsing) soon began incorporating their heavy metal influences – Judas Priest, Scorpions and UFO. They were never quite a punk band playing heavy metal but came close on Tame Me and […]
22 April 1996 – Deathrider Club – Moscow, Russia Song list: Perun’s Celestial Silver, Lunar Poetry, Carpathian Mysteries, And Winter Becomes. Lunar Poetry-era merchandise available from https://distro.todestrieb.co.uk (email us for info!)
Released ten years ago today, the follow up to the debut (mini) album. CD by THR, tape by SPR (a regular cooperation between those Swedish labels – Hakan and Andreas – at the time). We still have “II” available on CD and “I” available on tape in the distro. Aside from a compilation LP of […]
War, anti-christianity, death…the usual stuff, but I try to take a radically different approach to writing lyrics. I think so many bands settle with any old lyrical approach & are content with themes & ideas, rather than serious content. I try to write as though I were the person having the experience… that sort of […]
…the first two RUNNING WILD albums are perfection. With a similar feeling of heaviness and melody, and lyrics of Satanism, sorcery and fantasy, WARRANT presented their metal vision in ’85. The RW comparison is all compliment. WARRANT confidently created their own approach and it resulted in five killer songs. A precisely formed, leave-them-wanting-more length record. And when you do, flip to […]
SATANIC ART Norwegian Black Metal 1995 1994 and recruiting Fenriz: I don’t quite remember really. I think it was due to the company we shared at the ELM STREET ROCK CAFÉ (which was every BM person’s place of gathering back then), where he was a part of the conversatons Yusaf and I had about the […]
