Plans for a follow-up to Those Once Loyal were scrapped in June
2008 after the band were dissatisfied with the material they had
written. In a statement, they said that they would not release any album
unless they were convinced it was at least on par with its predecessor,
and as result any plans to record were "postponed indefinitely."
Despite this, they continued to play selected tours and one-off shows
until the unexpected death of drummer Martin Kearns in 2015, after which
the band was put on hiatus. On September 14th, 2016, the first
anniversary of Kearns' death, the surviving members ofBolt Thrower
announced on their official website that the band is no more.
The band took its name from a weapon in the popular tabletop strategy
game Warhammer Fantasy Battles. The lyrics and artwork of their second
and third albums were based on Warhammer Fantasy Battles, as well as its
futuristic companion Warhammer 40,000 with much of the art actually
being provided by the game's publisher, Games Workshop. Jo Bench is generally considered to be among the earliest female members of an extreme metal band.
Mercenary is the sixth album by the British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincoln, England, December 1997 to January 1998. The album was produced by Bolt Thrower and Ewan Davis. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 1998.
The cover painting is titled "Contact - Wait Out", which is also the first track on the next album, Honour - Valour - Pride.
"Powder Burns" is a continuation of the song "Embers" from The IVth Crusade, and leads into "The Killchain" on Those Once Loyal.
-Tracklist:
Side A 1. Zeroed 05:45 2. Laid to Waste 04:40 3. Return from Chaos 05:04 4. Mercenary 05:53
Side B 5. To the Last... 05:25 6. Powder Burns 04:45 7. Behind Enemy Lines 05:18 8. No Guts, No Glory 04:07 9. Sixth Chapter 05:42
46:39
-Line up:
• Jo Bench : Bass • Karl Willetts : Vocals • Baz Thomson : Guitars (lead, rhythm) • Alex Thomas : Drums • Gavin Ward : Guitars (rhythm).
Recorded and mixed at Chapel Studios (Lincoln, England), December. 1997 - January 1998.
Produced by Bolt Thrower.
Limited to 500 copies worldwide on black vinyl - it comes with a poster (reproducing the album's cover) *[this poster is wrong] and a sticker reporting: "COLLECTOR'S EDITION 180 gram black vinyl + giant poster Vinyl Re-issue"
At War with Satan is their third album released in April 1984. It is a concept album that tells the story of a war between Heaven and Hell which the latter side wins. It was touted as Venom's crossover into mainstream music, but failed to do so. Shortly after it went on sale, the HMV record chain withdrew the album from its shelves because of its anti-Christian content.
The inspiration for writing a track filling out an entire side of the record, according to Venom's bass guitarist and vocalist Cronos, came from Rush's 2112 album. "At War with Satan" is centred on a character named Abaddon (which is also the alias of Tony Bray, Venom's drummer), who is the guardian to the gates of Hell. Cronos started writing, in his school days, a story about "how Hell revolts and takes over the heavens and throws God into Hell", a story later fleshed out as "At War with Satan". The title track's imagery and storyline largely evokes the Book of Revelation and John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667–1674), filtered through a postmodern horror movie and pulp aesthetic.
With side A taken by the epic title track, side B offers the "three-minute scorchers" for which the band is best known. The metal journalist Malcolm Dome said that songs such as "Cry Wolf" showed how much Venom had matured in their songwriting without losing their edge. According to the AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia, the album's last track, "Aaaaaarrghh", is "possibly the funniest song ever recorded".
At War with Satan's packaging resembled the leatherbound sleeve of a bookcover. A hundred-page The Book of Armageddon with the entire story of At War with Satan was supposed to be published alongside the album, but it never happened. The Swiss independent distributor Disctrade tried to interest Venom in H. R. Giger's painting Satan I (1977) to no avail. It later became the cover art of Celtic Frost's second album, To Mega Therion (1985).
By the time At War with Satan went on sale, Venom had reached a crossroads in their career. Critics felt that their third album should have propelled them into the heavy metal mainstream, something which failed to materialize. Venom were also being threatened by thrash metal upstarts such as Metallica, who two months before At War with Satan's release were the opening act for Venom's Seven Dates of Hell tour (Roughly a year later Venom also took Slayer and Exodus on their North American Combat Tour). This was Metallica's first European tour, which included concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Aardschok Festival in the Netherlands.
The record was well received by major music magazines. "Proof positive that Venom are the best heavy metal band in the world", said Melody Maker's Neil Jeffries of the album. "It will definitely go down in Heavy Metal history as the ultimate headbang," claimed a Sounds reviewer of the title track. At War with Satan's entry on the "Where to Start with" section of the Kerrang! site says that this was the "last truly great record the Geordie three would make". Some criticism, though, was directed toward the album's production values, viewed as subpar.
The title track's merits divided critics. In the opinion of About.com's Chad Bowar, "At War with Satan" is at the same time "highly ambitious" and "bloated", but the song was "so over-the-top and so dramatic that it somehow worked" and made the album "an overlooked metal gem". The Allmusic review's tone was harsher: this concept piece was an "ill-advised anomaly", much of it "decidedly crap".
The rise of metal's popularity in the 1980s was paralleled by the political power gained by conservative organisations such as the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The Christian campaign against the "offensive" content of rock music carried out by certain political groups in America eventually crossed over to the United Kingdom. Venom became one of its early victims: HMV stopped selling At War with Satan in fear of legal action because of Britain's obscenity laws. The PMRC later included the title track of Venom's following album Possessed in their "Filthy Fifteen" list.
-Tracklist:
A1. At War With Satan B1. Rip Ride B2. Genocide B3. Cry Wolf B4. Stand Up And Be Counted B5. Women Leather And Hell B6. Aaaaaarrghh!
The Death Black Metal band Barbarian Prophecies was formed in 2000 after the fusion of the bands Barbarianth and Venomous Prophecies.
In the beginning they got a place in the underground scene editing a
demo called “Conquerors of the Wolfthrone” (2002), the Ep “War is
Inminent” (2005) and their first album, “Condemned Land… the War Begins”
(2009). But it was not until 2011 when, after got a stable line up,
they published their first fully professional record “Remember the
Fallen”, recorded and mixed in the prolific Sadman Studios (Madrid) by
Carlos Santos and mastered by Mika Jussila in the Finnvox Studios from
Helsinki. “Remember the Fallen”allowed them touring all over the
Spanish geography in several festivals, sharing scene with bands as
important as Napalm Death.
Napalm Death was formed in 1981 in West Midlands, England, often credited as pioneers of the grindcore genre. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent throughout the band's career since the early 1990s.
Their debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, has proven very influential in the global metal community. As one of the first albums to be described as 'grindcore', it introduced a new musical style which incorporated elements of hardcore punk and death metal, creating a noise-filled sound that uses heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, overdrive bass, high-speed tempo, blast beat percussion, vocals consisting of incomprehensible growls or high-pitched shrieks, extremely short songs and social commentary. The band is known for its anti-capitalist, left-wing political views and support for animal liberation.
SET LIST NAPALM DEATH (VIGO, 03/02/2013)
CIRCUMSPECT ERRORS IN THE SIGNALS EVERIDAY POX CAN´T PLAY, WON´T PLAY PROTECTION RACKET SILENCE IS DEAFENING THE WOLF I FEED MASS APPEAL MADNESS PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH LUCID FAIRYTALES CONTINUING WAR ON STUPIDITY DEAD DECEIVER ON THE BRINKS OF EXTINCTION UNCHALLENGED HATE NOM DE GUERRE SUFFER THE CHILDREN IN THE THRUTH BE KNOW NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF ----------------------------------- SCUM LIFE? THE KILL YOU SUFFER SIEGE OF POWER
Adorior, Death/Black Metal band formed in Sutton, UK in 1994.
Starting their first recording "Beyond the Distant Blue", released in 1996, they quickly signed a contract at Norway’s Head Not Found Records.
Adorior later recorded their debut album "Like Cutting the Sleeping" (1998), after problems with their drummer the band recorded a split LP: "Hater of Fucking Humans / Blood Bondage Flagellation" with Witchmaster, released by Agonia Records, Poland.
Following the blasphemy and vomiting with "Author of Incest" recorded by Necromorbus Studios, Sweden in 2005 and the most recent work with Terrorama: "Fucking in Fire / Conceived in Abhorrence" (2010).
"Adorior" is an expression in Latin meaning "to rise up to attack".
Jaded Lungs (Melissa Gray)
ADORIOR (UK) - SWR IX 2006, Portugal
From Reykjavík, Iceland hails the deathmetal quartet Angist, formed in 2009 by Edda and Gyða with Halli, Edda’s brother later joining in as bassplayer and with few changes in drummers. Angistreleased their two song demo in summer 2010 and a year later they had accomplished to play many high profile shows such as Iceland Airwaves, opening act for Heaven Shall Burn and L’esprit du Clan and get 2nd place in the Wacken Metal Battle (Icelandic log). Many interviews and reviews in magazines, newspapers, webzines and radio followed and the year 2011 ended with the release ofAngist’s EP, ''Circle of Suffering'', and a tour around France as an opening act for L’esprit du Clan.
Edda Tegeder Óskarsdóttir
ANGIST - SWR XVII 2014, Portugal
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult was called into its existence during the cold wintery months of 1997.
After the glorious days of early old school black metal had been infested by Gothic influences, and the betrayal of the Scandinavian forefathers - who apperently changed their allegiance, it was the intention of the two founding members Onielar (Vokills, Git.) as well as Ariovist (Drums) to call forth a band which would contribute it's music to the old traditional vein of black metal.
This line-up was reinforced by Velnias (Git.) who joined their ranks after approximately six unholy months. The position of the bass strangler stayed vacant since day one. Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult stands for own satanic and nihilistic beliefs, along with the conspiracy for raw black metal this spirit is carved deep into their hearts. Thus, it seems nearly impossible to find an individual which combines both the skill and the mandatory views of the occult. Only these individuals may join the Slaughtercult.
In the following months the darkened trinity put much effort, sweat and blood into their very first hymns. During this time many tried out for the open bass position, but all were slain, all fell down to be mere cannonfodder. As time passed by it got more clearer day by day that soon the ways of Ariovist and Slaughtercult would go into different directions. While his path led off into a more pathetic human direction - Slaughtercult kept heading straight forward towards the human rank and file in order to slaughter under the banner of blasphemy. Thus during the second half of the year 1999 the first official release ''The Pest Called Humanity'' was recorded.
Onielar (Yvonne Wilczynska)
Portuguese raw black metal band formed in year 2000 in Porto. Lyrical themes are about satanism, depression and darkness.
Split-up in 2011.
• Discography:
- Frozen Empire [Demo] (2004)
- Our Darkest Black Metal [Demo] (2005) - Colheita 2005 [Split] (2005) - Trilogy For Domination [Split] (2007) - 'Live in Praise Him fest' & 'Extreme Devotion Fest' [DVD] (2008) - United by the Black Flag [Split] (2008) - The Black Throne of Hell (2008)
- Live in Hellmaster Ritual [Live] (2009) - Our Darkest Empire [Compilation] (2009) - Reflected in Darkness... [EP] (2010) - 10 Years Worshiping Satan [Compilation] (2010) - S.A.T.A.N. (2010)
Naamah Satana (Vania)
INFERNAL KINGDOM - Sala Anoeta, Vigo 24.11.2007
In the early '90s,
Death-Metal got less popular, lots of Death-Metal fans switched over to
Black-Metal, Gothic and other atmospherically music. Sinister never
thought about playing other music than their favorite; Death-Metal. Some
years passed and the band released their mini-CD 'Bastard Saints'
(1996), and played a few live-shows. Several line-up changes followed,
and ledSinister to write their most aggressive brutal and intense album so far 'Aggressive Measures' (1998).
These time their presence in Death-Metal paid off. Death-Metal is back, where forSinisterit
never left. The response from fans and critics where good. Sinister
sold lots of albums and played lots of good shows, of which a short
US-tour and good festivals like Wacken open air, Milwaukee Metal fest
and Czech Dynamo blessed their way. Yet the cooperation betweenSinisterand vocalist Eric didn't work out very well, which lead to Eric's departure in August 1999.Sinisterwas
searching for a new singer. After some serious tryouts with different
singers, Rachel came out best and the band started concentrating on the
next record. 'Creative Killings' was released at Hammerheart Records,
September 2001. Shortly, after the release guitarist Bart decided to
quit the band. A replacement was found in Pascal. The album was promoted
with shows in Russia, Belarus and a 26 show tour across the rest of
Europe.
In 2002Sinisterdecided to join forces again with Nuclear Blast records. The result is the release of their album 'Savage or Grace'. The album was massively promoted through shows in Mexico, Columbia and a two week tour with Cannibal Corpse across Europe.
After a short splitSinisterreformed in March/April 2005 due to letters from the fans around the world.
