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METAL ARCHIVIST & OLD SCHOOL METAL HEAD … OBSESSED WITH HEAVY * THRASH * DEATH * BLACK * DOOM * HARD ROCK *
Saturday, October 3, 2026
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VENOM ... TO A DESERT ISLAND
… to a desert island (with electricity) for the rest of your life, out of these down below! R.I.P. Cronos
WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?I say the same thing as I did on the Venom "Playing Right Now" post ... I bought this "blind" somewhere in 1983/1984, just because I had seen some fantastic photos of the band in the Swedish Music Magazine, OKEJ, and I fell immediately in love with it. The rough production, the chaotic music and the Satanic lyrics. R.I.P. Cronos.
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Friday, October 2, 2026
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MIXTAPE [1980’s OBSCURE METAL] (YOUTUBE)
For those of you who want to dig a bit deeper into what the 1980’s metal world had to offer, apart from the bigger names such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Accept etc etc.
I named it MIXTAPE [1980’s OBSCURE METAL]. The obscure part is of course in the eye (ears) of the beholder. Some might think that some names here is common knowledge, while others never heard about any of them.
Just enjoy, either here or on YouTube!
DIO IN SWEDEN (1984)
Courtesy of Michael Johansson, visit him here for more information and licensing his photos.
Michael Johansson: "No no...don't put too much cola in the vodka..."
I took this photo after a Dio concert at Olympen in Lund, Sweden back in October 1984. Vinny and Vivian having a chat with a couple of the Gothenburg girls... I forgot their names...
There was a whole clan of girls from mostly Gothenburg following the Purple family bands back then, and, Yes, I count Dio as 'Purple family'! I didn't see them at Kiss, Scorpions, Accept and such bands...
But when Rainbow, Whitesnake and Dio were in Sweden they were at all gigs 🙂
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/ Michael Johansson (saguaro.se)
PLAYING RIGHT NOW ... VENOM "WELCOME TO HELL" [LP] (1981)
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 1981
Country: England
Note: I bought this "blind" somewhere in 1983/1984, just because I had seen some fantastic photos of the band in the Swedish Music Magazine, OKEJ, and I fell immidietly in love with it. The rough production, the chaotic music and the Satanic lyrics. R.I.P. Cronos.
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Thursday, October 1, 2026
PLAYING RIGHT NOW ... KRAKEN "KRAKEN" [LP] 1987
Genre: Heavy Metal
Year: 1987
Country: Colombia
Note: This is just an amazing debut album from the Colombian band, Kraken. They formed in 1984 in Medellin and seems to be still going. For some unknown reason, I have never looked into their other albums. Anything someone can recommend?
BRAINDEATH (FRA) (ROT ZINE #1, 1990)
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CLIFF'S LAST GIG ... SUPPORT THE WORK
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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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KEEN HUE (SWE)
Heavy Metal band from Vansbro, Sweden. They were formed in 1982 and released a 7" single the same year and attended some rock competitions before changing their name in 1984 to ZOLTAN (the name of Draculas dog), a demo was also recorded this year. However they soon became KEEN HUE again and released two full-lenght albums. They also contributed with the song "Fly Away Honey" on the 'Rockbox (1989)' compilation and "Carry You Through Fire" on the 'Från Stjerna Till Skifs Vansbro 100 År (1990)' compilation.
The band was the opening-act for MOTÖRHEAD and HELIX in 1987 on tour in Sweden.
"OGRE KING" [LP]
This is the bands first full-length album from 1985.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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Monday, September 28, 2026
SLAYER’S FIRST CONCERT (1981)
Slayer's first public performance occurred at a Battle of the Bands competition at South Gate Park Auditorium in South Gate, California, on October 31, 1981. Admission was just one dollar. Jeff Hanneman recalled the event: "I was nervous as fuck before we went on, but as soon as we started playing, I loved it because I loved showing off. Once I got up there, I was like, 'Yeah! This is great!’”
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TERMINAL DEATH (US/IL) ”FACES OF DEATH” [DEMO TAPE] 1985
1. Terminal Death
2. Judge Death
3. Day After the End
4. Brain Tumor
5. Celestial Execution
6. Hacksaw
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RIDE INTO GLORY GUIDES: HOLD HIGH THE FLAME - A LOOK AT POST- NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL (NWOBHM)
This is a back-up article from the site RIDE INTO GLORY. The site is still up, but haven't been updated since October 2021. Since this blog is all about documented the classic Metal years, with focus on the 1980's scene, and in the case that the Ride Into Glory site is taken down, I want to preserve it. Mainly their excellent guides.
If the site is starting to be active again, contact me and I'll take this down.
Published by Marco on October 25, 2021
It would also mark the (semi-official) end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the very movement which sowed the seeds for much of the development that followed. A veritable eruption of new bands from the United Kingdom in the wake of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, UFO, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Led Zeppelin, Budgie, Motörhead and Judas Priest, in its earliest stages you could argue the bands under the NWOBHM banner shared significant stylistic overlap. However, before long that was not to be the case, and the acronym simply became a way to refer to a collective group of bands from the same region and time period, rather than any specific style or genre. (But if you want to argue Def Leppard, Witchfinder General, Cloven Hoof, Shiva, and Venom are essentially the same style of metal, by all means go ahead.)
If the etymology of the term is somewhat concrete, the time range is a more common topic of debate. Most people can at least agree on 1978 being the start (the term was originally coined by Geoff Barton in a review of an Angel Witch/Iron Maiden/Samson concert the following year), while the end point is a more contentious matter, with 1982, 1983 and 1984 all in the running. For the purposes of this article we’re going to go with 1984 as the stopping point, and pick things up starting in 1985 where the amount of releases from the U.K. tapered off dramatically.
You could write an entire encyclopedia about the NWOBHM. Fortunately, no one else has to since Malc MacMillan already undertook the Herculean task, and there’s no accolade high enough to do justice to said tome. (It should go without saying his book, The N.W.O.B.H.M. Encyclopedia, was an invaluable research tool for this article.)
So then, with metal exploding worldwide on an previously-unmatched level, with this article we’re taking a look at what happened in the wake of the NWOBHM. The goal here isn’t a fully comprehensive list of everything that eked its way out all the way down to rehearsals and audience-recordings of live sets. Instead, we’ve compiled a bunch of worthwhile releases from the biggest names on down through some hidden gems.
In the interests of keeping this to a manageable length, with a few exceptions we’re leaving out glam (Black Rose, Wrathchild, etc.) and the more hard rock-leaning bands (Tobruk, Ezy Meat, Spider, Nightwing, Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts, Mama’s Boys, etc.). Same for the releases recorded years prior but not released until later on, like the Tytan full-length, and – for more obvious reasons – we’re also leaving out the releases from the old guard bands who flushed everything in failed attempts to capture some of Def Leppard’s success. On the opposite end of the extremity scale from that, no thrash, grind, crust or death, either … no matter how Hell-ish that Sabbat flexi might’ve been at times.
… and no matter how good that final EF Band album was, they were still Swedish.
AUTHOR'S PICK
There’s a lot to get through ahead, so here’s a playlist comprising some favorites from the biggest names all the way on down to some more overlooked acts. Please note that this playlist is not ranked in order of “best” releases, but rather it’s put together to create a great listening experience!
Tank – “Reign of Thunder”
Iron Maiden – “Sea of Madness”
Cloven Hoof – “Reach For the Sky”
Blitzkrieg – “Inferno”
Masque – “No Light to Die By”
The Blood – “Incubus”
Charger – “Desperadoes”
Satan – “Key to Oblivion”
Tröjan – “Hypnotized”
Virtue – “High Treason”
Traitors Gate – “Devil Takes the High Road”
Omega – “The Dark”
Sacrilege – “Father Time”
Persian Risk – “Dark Tower”
Desolation Angels – “Evil Possessor”
Excalibur – “Haunted By the Shadows”
Tredegar – “Richard III”
Hammer – “Contract with Hell”
Full Moon – “Highlander”
Raven – “On the Wings of an Eagle”
Marshall Law – “Under the Hammer”
Elixir – “Son of Odin”
The A to Zs of the Post-NWOBHM
A
Angel Witch
April 16th
Atomkraft
Avenger
B
Badger Bell Band/Badger
Beg to Differ
Bitches Sin
Blackmayne
Blade Runner
Blind Fury
Blitzkrieg
Blood, The
Blood Money
C
Charger
Chariot
Chateaux
Cloven Hoof
Cobra
Cockney Rejects
D
Dealer
Deep Switch
Deliverance
Desolation Angels
Dragonslayer
E
Egypt
Elixir
Excalibur
Exocet
F
Fast Kutz
Full Moon
G
Grim Reaper
H
Hammer
Hell
I
Iron Maiden
K
Karrier
Kruizer
M
Marshall Law
Masque
N
Nemesis
O
Omega
P
Pariah
Persian Risk
Phasslayne
Praying Mantis
Predator
Preyer
Prowler
R
Raven
S
Sacrilege
Samurai
Satan
Satanic Rites
Scrubs, The
Sherwood
Shocksplit
Siege
T
Talan
Taliön
Tank
Tokyo Blade
Traitor’s Gate
Tredegar
Tröjan
Truffle
Tyga Myra
Tysondog
V
Venom
Virtue
W
War Machine
Warfare
Wild Pussy
Z
Zenith
Sunday, September 27, 2026
DAMIEN ”FACE THE DANGER” [MUSIC VIDEO] (2K RESTORATION)
Here we have an amazing music video by the Hard Rockers from New York. This is 1980’s kitsch through and through. Unfortunately the sound is ”muffled”, but it’s still glory for the eyes. Awesome!
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