Penumbra - Discography (1999-2007)
Penumbra are a French gothic metal band formed in 1996 by Dorian and Jarlaath. The band released three albums before a long period of inactivity, interrupted in 2007 by the release of new demo recordings, and again in 2014 when the band announced they were working on a new album.
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Black Countess Discography
Russian neo-classical gothic death metal band founded in early 90's by Ilya Polagushin as Interment. In 2011, Ilya Polagushin formed the band Splav, where he was a composer, lyricist, and recorded guitars, keyboards, and bass.
Black Metal band from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear U.K. founded in 1979.
With the release of their second album: Black Metal they gave birth and name to a genre: Black Metal, they also influenced the creation of other Extreme Metal styles such as Thrash, Speed and Death.
* By some, the band is considered to be a part of the NWOBHM movement, but according to Cronos words it wasn’t: "You think back to all those NWOHM bands at the time: They all sounded like someone else, with boring riffs and predictable lyrics. We didn’t want to be part of that, even if it meant people didn't like what we were doing at first, coz it was different".
Early age: Cronos created a band called Dwarfstar more rock / metal than punk and with the first signs of Satanic influences, writing song titles such as 'Sons of Satan', 'Bloodlust' and 'Welcome To Hell' and started incorporating pentagrams and dark satanic imagery.
1979 Conrad Lant a.k.a. Cronos (2) [Titan god from the Greek mythology that ate his children], was working at Impulse Studios in Wallsend he met Jeffrey Dunn a.k.a. Mantas (5). Cronos’s goal was to be in a band that plays original material not covers. He switched from rhythm guitar to bassist because the bassist left and stayed that way. At that time Clive "Jesus Christ" Archer was singer, but he was opposed to Satanism and that got him fired. Cronos tried the vocals and the rest of the band preferred him for singing.
1980 On October 10th, Venom recorded the first 6-track demo that got them signed with Neat Records for their first 7’’ ‘In League With Satan’ / Live Like An Angel - Die Like A Devil. Here it must be said that the initial mix of the tracks was made by a Neat engineer that he didn’t understand Venom’s sound and in result it didn’t really sound like them, so Cronos stole the initial tape and replaced it [before the pressing of the EPs] with one of his own mix!
1981 That same year, the band’s debut album, Welcome To Hell was unleashed [in 3 studio days], it wasn’t a true album but a collection of re-recorded demos with a sleeve, which is why there’s such a huge difference in sound quality between 'Welcome To Hell' and the next album.
1982 Having built a strong fan base among those who worshipped extreme metal, Venom returned [in 7 studio days] with their most important album: Black Metal with their original sound, Cronos shaped it as heavy as it could get.
1984 The band’s first UK live performance on June 1, was at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and became a sold-out event. At War With Satan album is released, idea started off as a story that Cronos wrote while he was still at school. It was going to be a Satanic Bible type idea that I wanted to have published as a novel, and then it turned into a concept album. The difference with other albums is that every song is linked into what went before, after all it was a story turn it into an album.
1996 the band reformed as the original line-up with Cronos back in the fold. A self-titled EP was released, followed by albums and the re-release of all of the bands' older classics.
Cronos (Conrad Lant) is the lead singer of the band, with the exception of Tony Dolan (Demolition Man) that handled vocals on 3 albums:
1989 Prime Evil
1991 Temples of Ice
1992 The Waste Lands
..More line-up changes happened, as Cronos left to follow a solo career [to return later again] and Abaddon was forced to re-recruit Mantas (largely missed by the fans) along with fellow British Atomkraft's Tony Dolan (who used the moniker 'Demolition Man' in Venom) and Al Banes, then, in 2014 former Venom members Mantas and Abaddon decided to start up a new band titled Venom Inc. later on, former Venom member, bassist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, was added to the line-up.
The story still goes on with live performances and new albums..
''Lay down your souls to the gods rock n' roll''
A death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in April 1988 (initially as Dismemberizer) by David Blomqvist (guitar), Robert Sennebäck (vocals, bass, guitar) and Fred Estby (drums).
Dismember recorded two demo tapes, "Dismembered" in 1988 and "Last Blasphemies" in 1989, after which the band split up as Estby joined Carnage and Blomqvist joined Entombed. After Carnage disbanded Estby, Blomqvist and Kärki reformed Dismember and recorded the "Reborn in Blasphemy" demo in 1991. Then Sennebäck came back and bass player Richard Cabeza joined the band. They were signed to Nuclear Blast and released the debut full-length"Like an Ever Flowing Stream" later in 1991. This was followed by "Indecent And Obscene" in 1993 and "Massive Killing Capacity" in 1995.
After the release of "Death Metal" (1997) Magnus Sahlgren replaced Sennebäck on guitar. Cabeza left the band before the recording of "Hate Campaign" (1999), which featured Sharlee D'Angelo on bass. Cabeza however came back in 2000, but left again after "Where Ironcrosses Grow" was released in 2004. For a while the band operated with one guitarist as Sahlgren left in 2003 and wasn't replaced until 2005 when Martin Persson joined. Founding member Fred Estby left the band in 2007 and was replaced by Thomas Daun. Band's last album to date, "Dismember", was released in 2008.
On October 16th 2011 Dismember announced that they had disbanded.In January 2019 the band announced the comeback of the original line-up.
Releases:
1988 - Dismembered (Demo) (192 kbps)
1989 - Last Blasphemies (Demo) (192 kbps)
1989 - Rehearsal (Demo) (192 kbps)
1990 - Reborn In Blasphemy (Demo) (192 kbps)
1991 - Skin Her Alive (Single) (320 kbps)
1991 - Like An Ever Flowing Stream (Re-Release 2005) (320 kbps)
1992 - Pieces (Re-Release 2005) (320 kbps)
1993 - Indecent And Obscene (Re-Release 2005) (320 kbps)
1993 - Live In Stockholm (Bootleg) (320 kbps)
1995 - Casket Garden (EP) (320 kbps)
1995 - Massive Killing Capacity (Re-Release 2005) (320 kbps)
1997 - Misanthropic (EP) (320 kbps)
1997 - Death Metal (Japanese Edition) (320 kbps)
2000 - Hate Campaign (Re-Release 2005) (320 kbps)
2004 - Live Blasphemies (DVD Audio) (320 kbps)
2004 - Where Ironcrosses Grow (320 kbps)
2005 - Complete Demos (Compilation) (320 kbps)
2006 - Live Montreal '06 (14-10-2006) (Bootleg) (192 kbps)
2006 - The God That Never Was (320 kbps)
2008 - Dismember (320 kbps)
2008 - Live Collection (Bootleg) (320 kbps)
2009 - Under Bloodred Skies (DVD-Audio) (VBR 176 kbps)
2014 - The Best of Dismember (Compilation) (320 kbps)
Style: Power
Country:Sweden
Format: 320 mp3
Size: 5.5 GB
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Agent Steel - Discography (1985-2022)
Agent Steel are a speed metal band from Los Angeles, California that was formed in 1984 by singer John Cyriis and drummer Chuck Profus. The band released two full length albums and one EP before ending in 1988. They were most notable for John Cyriis's high-pitched vocals, catchy songs, melodic riffs and fast tempos mixed in with their unusual (in heavy metal) UFO imagery. The band reformed in 1999 and has released three full length albums since.
History In 1983 a demo was released by a speed metal band named Sceptre which contained two future Agent Steel songs: Taken By Force and 144,000 Gone. The guitarist on this demo was John Camps who is believed to be John Cyriis, a founder of Agent Steel. Taken By Force also appeared on the Metal Massacre IV compilation from Metal Blade.
Destruction - Discography (1985-2022)
Country: Germany
Genre: Thrash Metal
Destruction is a German thrash metal band formed in 1982. They are often credited as one of the "Big Four" of the German thrash metal scene, the others being Kreator, Sodom and Tankard. In addition to helping pioneer black metal by containing several elements of what was to become the genre, Destruction was part of the second wave of thrash metal in the mid-to-late 1980s, along with American bands like Testament, Sacred Reich, Death Angel and Dark Angel.[2] For most of the 1990s, the band was not signed to a record label and was forced to self-produce their albums until they signed a contract with Nuclear Blast in the early 2000s.
Kreator - Discography (1985 - 2022)
Year: 1985 - 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: Germany
Format: Mp3
Size: 5.9 GB
Line-up
Ventor-Drums (1984-1994, 1996-present), Vocals (1984-1986)
See also: ex-Tormentor, ex-Ninnghizhidda
Mille Petrozza-Vocals, Guitars (1984-present)
See also: ex-Tormentor, ex-Voodoocult
Sami Yli-Sirniö-Guitars (2001-present)
See also: Barren Earth, Waltari, ex-Kyyria, ex-Brainwash, ex-In Rags, ex-Jimsonweed
Frédéric Leclercq-Bass (2019-present)
See also: Amahiru, Loudblast, Menace, Sinsaenum, ex-Maladaptive, ex-Memoria, Egoine, ex-DragonForce, ex-Heavenly, ex-Carnival in Coal (live), ex-Machine Head (live), ex-Sabaton (live), ex-Denied, ex-Gods of Hate, ex-Hors Normes, ex-Militia, ex-Sudel's Project, ex-Suxeed, ex-The Gust
Album list
Studio albums
1985 - Endless Pain
1986 - Pleasure To Kill
1987 - Terrible Certainty
1989 - Extreme Aggression
1990 - Coma Of Souls
1992 - Renewal
1995 - Cause For Conflict
1997 - Outcast
1999 - Endorama
2001 - Violent Revolution
2005 - Enemy Of God Revisited
2009 - Hordes Of Chaos - Ultra Riot
2012 - Phantom Antichrist
2017 - Gods Of Violence (Ltd.)
2022 - Hate Uber Alles
Compilations
1996 - Scenarios Of Violence
1999 - Voices Of Transgression
2000 - Past Life Trauma
2016 - Love Us Or Hate Us
2021 - Under The Guillotine
Live Albums
2003 - Live Kreation
2008 - At The Pulse Of Kapitulation
2010 - Terror Prevails - Live At Rock Hard Festival
2012 - Terror Prevails - Live At Rock Hard Festival, Pt. 2
2013 - Dying Alive
2017 - Live Antichrist (Promo)
2020 - London Apocalypticon - Live At The Roundhouse
2020 - London Apocalypticon - Live At The Roundhouse
2022 - Bootleg Revolution
Singles, EPs, Promos
1988 - Out Of The Dark... Into The Light
1988 - Out Of The Dark... Into The Light
1989 - Betrayer (Promo)
1990 - People Of The Lie (Promo)
1995 - Isolation (Promo)
1999 - Chosen Few
2016 - Violence Unleashed
2019 - For The Hordes (EP)
2020 - 666 - World Divided (Single)
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Biography
Di'Anno was the first project by Paul Di'Anno after he was fired from Iron Maiden. This group was originally called Lonewolf but after disagreement with a group already called Lone Wolf, they changed their name and ended up recording only one album under the simple moniker of Di'Anno. On the tour Paul refused to play any Iron Maiden songs (much to the dismay of the crowd), playing only their own songs and a few other covers (most notably Van Halen's version of the Kinks' "You Really Got Me," and "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". Having little success, the six-piece band disbanded shortly after they were done touring.
In 1998 Di'Anno teamed up with expat Brazilian guitarist Paulo Turin and lived in São Paulo during 2000. A new band was created initially under the banner of "Nomad" and featured an all Brazilian line up. Though unconected to the previous project, the name Di'Anno was used again and the style of music was more in line with the work he had done as Paul Di'Anno and Killers.
After only one album with this lin-up, Di'Anno returned to working under his full name.
Discography
1984 - Di'Anno
1984 - Flaming Heart (Single)
1984 - Heartuser (Single)
2000 - Nomad
Sodom is a German thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981. Along with the bands Kreator, Destruction and Tankard, Sodom is considered one of the "The Big Teutonic Four" of Teutonic thrash metal. While three bands (except Tankard) created a sound that would influence death metal and black metal, Sodom's early music style would greatly influence many late-1980s and early-1990s black metal bands more than others.
To date, Sodom has released fourteen studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums and six EPs. They achieved their first commercial success with their third studio album Agent Orange (1989), which was the first thrash metal album to enter the German album charts, where it reached number 36. Sodom remains one of the best-selling thrash metal acts of all time, having sold over one million records.
Sodom's original line-up consisted of Tom Angelripper, Bloody Monster, Arius "Blasphemer", and Aggressor. The band was initiated by Tom as a desperate attempt to get out of having to work in coal mines in his home town of Gelsenkirchen. Though the band became a real working unit yet only when Chris Witchhunter (Christian Dudek, originally from Essen) had joined the band on drums (replacing Bloody Monster), having had already experience in writing music in some of his previous school-projects and thus coaching the remaining two members how to write proper songs (Arius had also been fired from the band). Taking inspiration from bands such as Motörhead, Venom, Tank, Accept, Rainbow and AC/DC, the group continued as a three-piece in the Motörhead-fashion and released two demos which led to a record deal with Steamhammer. Aggressor left the band shortly before releasing the In the Sign of Evil EP (generally regarded as an important early black metal release), and was replaced by Grave Violator, who himself did not last long, and left following the recording of In the Sign of Evil. Michael "Destructor" Wulf was found as a replacement, after which the band went and recorded Obsessed by Cruelty, their full-length debut featuring music that was mostly in the vein of In The Sign of Evil. Wulf did not last in the band long, and later went and joined Kreator (where he also only had a short stint; he would later die after a tragic motorcycle accident in 1993).
For the most part, Sodom was at first not taken seriously, with various press sources describing them as "a second-rate Venom clone with semi-inventive lyrics". One member would change that. Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik came in to fill the guitar spot Wulf had left behind. Frank convinced Tom that thrash metal was moving beyond horror/occult/satanic themes of bands like Venom to embrace political, societal, and war themes. Tom was already interested in various wars yet remained a peacenik. New inspiration culminated into Frank's full-length debut with the band, Persecution Mania. The new lyrical approach and increased musicianship on the part of Frank gave the band great acclaim (as well as a gas-masked mascot Knarrenheinz, who appeared for the first time on Persecution Mania's cover). They soon embarked on a tour of Europe with the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner. After touring for the better part of 1987 and 1988, the band returned to the studio to make another album. The final product, Agent Orange, sold 100,000 copies in Germany alone. This made Sodom famous, giving them worldwide critical acclaim, and secured their place alongside Kreator and Destruction as one of the great Teutonic thrash metal bands. To this date, Agent Orange has sold more than any other German thrash-metal album in the world.
Problems were brewing inside of the band, however. Tom and Chris descended further into alcoholism. Furthermore, Frank had grown tired of composing music that his band-mates would often perform poorly live. Mille Petrozza of Kreator offered Frank a position with his band, after they lost their second guitarist, and Frank accepted. Angelripper went out looking for a replacement and found Michael Hoffman, formerly of German thrashers Assassin.
With this line-up, the album Better off Dead was released in 1990. During the South American tour however, Hoffman decided to stay in Brazil and was therefore forced to quit. Andy Brings replaced him, and a new album was recorded, Tapping the Vein, with more of a death metal sound. This proved to be the last album with the drummer Witchhunter: He was kicked out of the band, and Atomic Steif formerly of both Holy Moses and Living Death became his replacement behind the drum kit.
The group recorded the album, Get What You Deserve. The death metal influences were out; the influence of punk came in. Get What You Deserve had an arguably grotesque album cover (featuring a dead man shot and lying in his bed with a woman tied-up nearby), and many fans did not take to the band's new direction. This period also marked the beginning of less international visibility for the band as thrash lost its commercial viability for the remainder of the 1990s. Angelripper also started a solo career doing metal impressions of drinking songs, German schlagers and even Christmas-type carols. A live album was recorded of the tour in support of the resulting album called Marooned - Live.
Masquerade in Blood, saw the death metal influences return, as well as some groove metal elements kicking in, but still was pretty much in the same vein as their previous studio effort. It was released in 1995. Again another guitarist had to be found. The new choice, Strahli, did not stay very long with the band. He was arrested and imprisoned on drug-related matters, and the band had since lost contact with him, until January 2011, when they learned he had died in Düsseldorf. Atomic Steif also left and again Angelripper needed to search for new members. These were found: a guitarist in Bernemann and a drummer in Bobby Schottkowski. This line-up stabilized the band significantly and lasted until December 2010, when Schottkowski left.
The album 'Til Death Do Us Unite featured a controversial album cover, depicting a woman's pregnant belly and a man's beer gut pressing in a human skull together. This album marked the beginning of Sodom's return to thrash but was still more along the lines of a thrash-crossover sound and had much in common with bands like Suicidal Tendencies. It also spawned the song for which Sodom would make their most famous music video, the highly-controversial song "Fuck The Police." After this album, Sodom returned to the studio and released Code Red in 1999 which marked a full return to the Teutonic thrash metal sound of the 1980s, and it was met with praise from fans and press alike. A limited edition featured a bonus CD containing a tribute to Sodom album, Homage to the Gods. With 2001 came the release of M-16, a concept album about the movie Apocalypse Now, which took its title from the famed M16 assault rifle.
In 2003, a double live album was recorded in Bangkok, Thailand, titled One Night in Bangkok. A new album simply titled Sodom was released in 2006, in the same vein as M-16. The title was chosen - as Angelripper explained it - because every band needs a self-titled album, and the band had never released one. The album was delayed however, because the DVD Lords of Depravity took more time to compose than initially thought.
In 2007, Tom was asked by the record label Steamhammer for any tracks to be released on the In The Sign Of Evil EP. Tom believed there were, and the label floated the idea to Tom to get ex-members Chris Witchhunter and Grave Violator (real name: Franz Josef "Peppi" Dominik) to re-record the EP with the bonus tracks. The result became The Final Sign of Evil. Chris "Witchhunter" Dudek died on 7 September 2008 from liver failure after a long battle with illness.
In 2009, Sodom returned to the UK to play their first show in 20 years at Bloodstock Open Air.
In War and Pieces, Sodom's thirteenth studio album, was released in Europe on November 22, 2010, and released in North America on January 11, 2011. On November 30, 2010, it was announced that Bobby Schottkowski would be leaving the band, due to "personal and private problems" between Tom Angelripper and Schottkowski.[ On December 8, 2010, Markus "Makka" Freiwald was announced to be Sodom's new drummer.
In late January 2012, Sodom began writing their fourteenth studio album, which they planned to record in May 2012 for a late summer release. On December 17, 2012, the band announced the album would be released on April 29, 2013. The album is titled Epitome of Torture and features 13 tracks. The album was released in Germany on April 26, and in the US on May 7.
In November 2014, Sodom released the EP Sacred Warpath as a preview of their upcoming fifteenth studio album. The EP contains one original studio track, and live versions of three previously released songs.
In the early days Sodom's lyrics focused on Satanic and occult themes but war soon became their main subject. This led some people to think that the band was militarist, but on closer observation the reader would find the lyrics actually being anti-war. In an interview with Metalkings.com Tom Angelripper said: "Why are we writing about war? Because we don’t want war. We wanna describe how bad the war is." The chorus of the song Ausgebombt also gives a very clear message: "No trade with death, No trade with arms, Dispense the war, Learn from the past."
Current line-up :
Tom Angelripper (Thomas Such, Onkel Tom) - vocals, bass (Desperados) (1981–present)
Bernd "Bernemann" Kost - guitar (ex-Crows) (1996–present)
Markus "Makka" Freiwald - drums (2010–present)
Former members :
Guitar
Frank Testegen - (1983–1984)
Josef "Grave Violator" Dominic - (1984–1985, 2007)
Michael Wulf - (1985–1986) (later Kreator) (deceased)
Uwe Christophers - (on tour in 1986)
Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik - (later Mystic (Bra) and Kreator) (1987–1989)
Uwe Baltrusch - (on tour in 1989/1990) (also in Mekong Delta, later House of Spirits)
Michael Hoffman - (Assassin (Ger)) (1990)
Andy Brings - (later Powergod) (1991–1995)
Dirk Strahlimeier - (1995–1996) (deceased)
Drums
Christian "Witchhunter" Dudek - (1983–1992, 2007) (deceased) (see also Destruction and Bathory)
Guido Richter - (1993-1996) (later Stahlträger, Assassin, Sacred Chao, Holy Moses, Living Death, Brotós)
Bobby Schottkowski - (1997–2010)
This package contains :
Studio Albums :
1986 - Obsessed By Cruelty (Steamhammer Pressing)
1987 - Persecution Mania
1988 - In The Sign Of Evil + Obsessed By Cruelty
1989 - Agent Orange (2cd, 2010 Reissue)
1990 - Better Off Dead
1992 - Tapping The Vein
1994 - Get What You Deserve
1995 - Masquerade In Blood
1997 - 'til Death Do Us Unite
1999 - Code Red
2001 - M-16
2006 - Sodom
2007 - The Final Sign Of Evil
2010 - In War And Pieces (2CD Deluxe Edition)
2012 - 30 Years' War - CD 1
2012 - 30 Years' War - CD 2
2012 - Official Bootleg - The Witchunter Decade
2013 - Epitome Of Torture
EP, Demo:
1984 - Satan's Conjuration - Witchhammer [Demo]
1989 - Ausgebombt (Ep)
1991 - The Saw Is The Law (Ep)
1993 - Aber Bitte Mit Sahne (Ep)
2005 - The Sins Of Sodom
2014 - Sacred Warpath (VBR)
Japan Press:
1987 - Persecution Mania
1988 - Mortal Way Of Live
1989 - Agent Orange
1990 - Better Off Dead
1990 - Obsessed By Cruelty + Expurse Of Sodomy + In The Sign Of Evil
1991 - Sodomania
1991 - The Saw Is The Law + Ausgebombt
1992 - Tapping The Vein
1993 - Aber Bitte Mit Sahne
1994 - Get What You Deserve
1995 - Masquerade In Blood
1997 - 'Til Death Do Us Unite
1999 - Code Red
2006 - Sodom
2007 - The Final Sign Of Evil
2010 - In War And Pieces
Live:
1988 - Mortal Way Of Live
1994 - Marooned Live
2003 - One Night In Bangkok
Tribute:
1999 - Homage To The Gods - A Tribute To Sodom