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Sunday, May 31, 2026
VAMPYR (GER) (OLD SCHOOL METAL MANIAC #6, 2013)
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
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THE CALIFORNIA JAM WITH BLACK SABBATH & DEEP PURPLE (1974)
California Jam was held on April 6, 1974, at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California. It was a highly successful one-day rock festival, with over 250,000 fans attended, making it one of the largest and most profitable concerts of the 1970s.
Attracted by a lineup featuring Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and several other bands that we will not cover here since they're outside the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal sphere.
Unlike other rock festivals such as Woodstock, the concert was not planned for release as a film or sound recording. However, the ABC television network (which was also a sponsor of the concert) broadcast several portions of the show as part of its In Concert series several months later. The audio portion of the show was also broadcast in stereo on FM radio stations, an early example of simulcasting. KLOS FM (then owned and operated by ABC) promoted and broadcast the concert around Los Angeles.
Deep Purple's California Jam performance was the first full-length music concert recording to be released and sold on video tape in the early 1980s.
Several performances from the show were eventually released on CD and video, both in bootleg and authorized form.
BLACK SABBATH
“We're just gonna go on and play our music, man,” Ozzy Osbourne tells a young woman reporter from ABC TV. “We don't go on and blow the stage up... we just go on and play our music man. Because that's what it's about.”
It's the afternoon of Saturday April 6, 1974, and standing on the tarmac at Ontario International Airport, the 25-year-old singer seems remarkably relaxed ahead of what will be Black Sabbath's biggest show ever. To be fair, this is partially due to the high grade cocaine Osbourne and his bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward had been snorting aboard the helicopter transporting them to San Bernardino County, but it was also due to the fact that, having had their spot on the the inaugural California Jam line-up confirmed just days earlier, Sabbath didn't have the luxury of over-thinking.
Just 48 hours earlier the quartet had been at home with their families in Birmingham, under the impression that their booking agent had removed them from the bill as a dispute between the co-headliners as to who should close the show threatened to derail the entire endeavour. It was only when the promoters informed Sabbath’s manager Patrick Meehan that the quartet’s non-appearance would result in a $250,000 lawsuit that Tony Iommi was tasked with waking his disbelieving bandmates in the dead of night to inform them that they needed to be in Los Angeles on the next outgoing flight.
"We didn't want to do the show, but our manager forced us to,” Osbourne admitted to Musician magazine in 1994. "He sent us over to America on economy class on the Friday.”
“Because we hadn’t seen one another for a couple of months, we hadn’t rehearsed," Ozzy told me in 2015. "I remember we had to do a run-through of our set in a hotel room with the guitars unplugged, without any amplifiers.”
“So then to fly in at the last minute to the biggest venue we’d ever seen was a bit nerve-wracking,” Tony Iommi told me that same year, recalling the gig that he described as "a bit hairy" in his autobiography Iron Man. “I remember being terrified, because it was being broadcast live on TV and radio across the States, and we knew that what we did on that stage was going to be documented and shown for the rest of our lives.”
“We couldn't really turn down such a high profile gig, however much I was enjoying my break back in England,” Geezer Butler recalled in his autobiography Into The Void, adding, “we knew we'd blow everyone else to death.”
Such was the noise which greeted Black Sabbath's arrival onstage that Bill Ward’s voice cracked as he attempted to cue in the band for set opener Tomorrow’s Dream, and he had to start the count a second time. But for the hour that followed, Sabbath barely put a foot wrong. “C'mon, let's have a party!” Ozzy squealed ahead of Children Of The Grave, and California's rock community were more than ready.
“I don’t really remember much about the day because I was coked out of my head,” Geezer Butler later told me. “We were all totally out of our skulls. But afterwards you think, Yeah, that wasn’t bad. We were a band that was given no chance, told to go and play ‘proper’ music, so days like that felt like we’d beaten all the odds.”
Interviewed after the show by the same ABC reporter who had greeted him at the airport, Ozzy Osbourne seemed genuinely awestruck by the reception the Birmingham band had received.
“I'm lost for words,” he admitted. “The kids just blow my mind, I can't believe it man, really. It was just like an ocean of people, and when all the people's arms were in the air... I'm just lost for words, baby, I really am.
“I'm just knocked out with it all. If every rock show, open air thing, could go half as good as this... this is what it's all about.”
“Our manager gave us each $1000 and put us back on the plane, economy class,” Ozzy recalled to Musician magazine. “Many years later, we found out we had received $250,000 for the show. Our manager, of course, kept it all."
/ By Paul Brannigan (Classic Rock / Lourder Sound)
ORIGINAL ABC BROADCAST (VIDEO)
(22 min)
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TRACKLIST
1. Before The Show
2. Children Of The Grave
3. Interview Witn Ozzy
4. War Pigs
5. Paranoid
6. Killing Yourself To Live
AUDIO/VIDEO HYBRID
(75 min)
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SETLIST
1. (Pre-show Interview)
2. Tomorrow's Dream
3. Sweet Leaf
4. Killing Yourself To Live
5. War Pigs
6. Snowblind
7. Sabbra Cadabra (Part 1, with Sometimes I'm Happy, jams, and solos)
8. Supernaut
9. Iron Man
10. Orchid
11. Sabbra Cadabra (Part 2)
12. Paranoid
Encore:
13. Embryo
14. Children of the Grave
15. Post-show Interview)
The complete concert, where there's no video, it's soundboard audio.
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DEEP PURPLE
Deep Purple's performance was one of the first with their third line-up, which included vocalist David Coverdale and vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes. Deep Purple was given the choice of when to go on stage, and chose sunset, thus pushing Emerson, Lake & Palmer to the last performance. Having assumed that, as with all festivals, the show would run late, they nonetheless delayed their appearance even when the festival ran ahead of schedule. Angry organizers tried to force Purple onstage, and threatened to cancel their performance. A quick thinking announcer told the crowds that Deep Purple would be on "soon". The band made concertgoers wait nearly an hour until near dusk. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said the agreement was always for Purple to go on stage at dusk, and that the promoters were violating that signed agreement. In spite of this delay, the show did not end up running late. At the end of Purple's set, Blackmore threw a guitar and a small speaker monitor into the audience, and suddenly attacked one of the network's video cameras (the camera had been getting between the guitarist and the audience) with a guitar. Later on, a "mishap" with a pyrotechnic effect caused one of Blackmore's amplifiers to explode, which briefly set the stage on fire. Purple left the concert area by helicopter to avoid a possible confrontation with Ontario fire marshals and ABC-TV executives. The damage to the ABC video camera, estimated to be $10,000, was settled by the band's managers.
THE CONCERT (VIDEO)
(55 min)
SETLIST
Intro
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Lay Down, Stay Down
Mistreated
Smoke On the Water
John Lord's Keyboard Solo
You Fool No One
Ritchie Blackmore's Guitar Solo 1
Blues Improvisation
No Fool No One (Reprise)
Ian Paice's Drum Solo
The Mule
Space Truckin' (Intro)
Space Truckin'
Ritchie Blackmore's Guitar Solo 2
THE INFAMOUS RITCHIE BLACKMORE "BURNING SPEAKER" INCIDENT
RITCHIE BLACKMORE ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA JAM
PART 1
PART 2
VADER ... THE HISTORY OF "MORBID REICH" (1990)
From Vader's official Facebook page.
"Morbid Reich" was recorded and released in 1990, and it changed the band's future in every aspect. This material also had a significant impact on the global extreme metal scene – including US extreme bands.
We have to go back to the summer of 1989, when Vader first presented their new material, "Necrolust," with a new lineup, at the "S'Thrash'Ydło" festival in Ciechanów. Mariusz "Mario" Kmiołek was the former drummer in the band Charon and editor of the metal zine "Thrash'Em All" (which was still published in Xerox format). Mariusz's meeting with Peter in Warsaw was the beginning of a story that continues to this day. Mario became Vader's manager and organized the release of "Morbid Reich" on the newly formed Carnage Records label. This cassette release soon became legendary. The beautiful color edition sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide, and the title itself saw countless reissues in all possible formats. The latest, beautiful edition was the High Voltage Rec. release (in four color versions, with plenty of extras) on CD and LP.
The track "Vicious Circle," as featured on "Morbid Reich," was the first ever officially released on Metal compilations. These were "Monsters of Death" and "Masters of Brutality."
Fans first heard Vader's new songs in Ciechanów at the next edition of "S;Thrash'Ydła," in Inowrocław and Sandomierz at local events, and at the famous Polish rock music festival in Jarocin in the summer of 1990. Vader also appeared outside of Poland for the first time in the band's history with the "Morbid Reich" material. This was in winter in Moscow – the capital of the slowly collapsing Soviet Union.
Most importantly, however, it was "Morbid Reich" that prompted the signing of a contract for their debut album with the then-legendary English label Earache Rec.!
Vader had to wait another two years for their first and very long-awaited album...
"Morbid Reich" was recorded and released in 1990, and it changed the band's future in every aspect. This material also had a significant impact on the global extreme metal scene – including US extreme bands.
"Morbid Reich" – Vader's second demo – was created during rehearsals at the "Docent" club (yes, the same club at the WSP university where Vader played a concert in the fall of 1985), the "Casablanka" club, and in a private home in the Dajtki housing estate in Olsztyn. The oldest tracks were, of course, "The Final Massacre"—already known from the "Necrolust" demo released in 1989—and "Reign-Carrion," a new, English-language version of "Trupi Jad," composed back in 1986-87. "Vicious Circle" and "Breath Of Centuries" were new tracks written in early 1990. "Chaos" was something completely different, something new, and at the same time something that shaped the inevitably upcoming debut album. The beginnings date back to the winter of 1989. The final version was literally hammered out during a recording session. This one took place again at the Polish Radio Olsztyn studio in the early summer of 1990—again under the supervision of Włodzimierz Iliaszewicz AND Ryszard Szmit. Peter recorded the intro to "From Beyond" and the intro to "Finał Massacre" on guitar, using (or rather, having fun with) a guitar synthesizer (probably a Rolland…). The entire five-track album was created in a total of four days of recording and mixing. And this is just a small part of the rich history of "Morbid Reich"…
The track "Vicious Circle," as featured on "Morbid Reich," was the first ever officially released on Metal compilations. These were "Monsters of Death" and "Masters of Brutality."
Fans first heard Vader's new songs in Ciechanów at the next edition of "S;Thrash'Ydła," in Inowrocław and Sandomierz at local events, and at the famous Polish rock music festival in Jarocin in the summer of 1990. Vader also appeared outside of Poland for the first time in the band's history with the "Morbid Reich" material. This was in winter in Moscow – the capital of the slowly collapsing Soviet Union.
Most importantly, however, it was "Morbid Reich" that prompted the signing of a contract for their debut album with the then-legendary English label Earache Rec.!
Vader had to wait another two years for their first and very long-awaited album...
DEATH (US) "CLUB CITTA, KAWASAKI, JAPAN" (SEPTEMBER 9, 1995)
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SETLIST
Spiritual Healing
The Philosopher
Suicide Machine
Crystal Mountain
Jealousy
Zero Tolerance
Lack Of Comprehension
1,000 eyes
Flattening of Emotions
Empty Words
Open Casket
Symbolic
Pull The Plug
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CATHEDRAL (SWE)
Short lived band active around the late 80's to early 90's.
Members:
Svante Widerstöm - Vocals (Arbogast, Sundown delay, Käpphästen, Fatal Tabasco)
Niklas Thorn - Guitar
Fredrik Falkerstedt - Guitar (Fraise, Fatal Tabasco)
Ola Magnusson - Bas (Blue Orange)
Patrick Fransson - Drums
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Members:
Svante Widerstöm - Vocals (Arbogast, Sundown delay, Käpphästen, Fatal Tabasco)
Niklas Thorn - Guitar
Fredrik Falkerstedt - Guitar (Fraise, Fatal Tabasco)
Ola Magnusson - Bas (Blue Orange)
Patrick Fransson - Drums
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The bands 1990 demo tape "Made in Sweden".
Friday, May 29, 2026
RECOMMENDED LISTENING: HIROSHIMA (SWE) "TASTE OF DEATH" [LP]
Genre: Heavy Metal
Year: 1984
Country: Sweden
Who would like this?: People who like the traditional early 1980's Hard Rock/Heavy Metal combination with a touch of the 1970's sound.. The album was released on the small Finnish label 'Kräk!' with next to no advertisement, so I personally didn't hear this album until the 2000's.
Notes: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock band from Stockholm, Sweden, that were active between 1982-1987. They released one demo tape, one 7" and one album.
SIDE A
1. Taste of Death
2. Rock 'n' Roll Priest
3. Lonely Room
4. Dreamworld
5. Down On My Knees
SIDE B
6. Midnight Fighter
7. Touch Me
8. Escape
9. Looser
10. Soldier of the World
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