Midnite Madness CCIV—Victims of Madness

"Wall to wall scattered noise
Headbangin' with the boys"

 OBITUARY:
1. AURA NOIR - MIRAGE FEAT. FENRIZ
2. PERSECUTION - RELENTLESS SLAUGHTER
3. ATTACKER - KICK YOUR FACE
4 LEWIATHAN - UPADEK
5. DISCHANGE - VICTIMS OF MADNESS
6. MÜTIILATION - ETERNAL EMPIRE OF MAJESTY DEATH
7. PHANTOM LORD - SPEED DEMONS
8. SINISTER - LASCIVIOUS DESOLATION
9. HEXX - TERROR
10. ANTICHRIST - SEVERED GOATS HEAD
11. AMEBIX - THE POWER REMAINS
12. HIGH SPEED DEATH - THE LAND OF NO RETURN

Midnite Madness CCIII—Death: The Eternal Law

 

"My name is Lucifer, please take my hand"

 OBITUARY:
1. BLACK SABBATH - BASSICALLY/N.I.B.
2. DEATHHAMMER - DIE ETERTNAL
3. SATANIC HELLSLAUGHTER - PRECEDENT SLAVA
4. STORMWITCH - SKULL AND CROSSBONES
5. MORBID SAINT - CRYING FOR DEATH
6. EXIT ORDER - STIL WATER
7. CARBONIZED - THIRD EYE
8. GILGAMESJ - REVOLUTION
9. ELBERETH - REMINISCENCES OF A LOST SOLITUDE
10. DARKTHRONE - HATE IS THE LAW
11. SEX PISTOLS - SILLY THING
12. SACRILEGE - KEY TO NIRVANA

Midnite Madness CXC—2000AD: THRASH

 

"Never stop banging your head
Bash the posers till they're dead!!"

OBITUARY:
1. DEATHHAMMER - TOXIC RADIATION
2. AURA NOIR - HADES RISE
3. FARSCAPE - THE CURSE OF THE LAST SOLSTICE
4. POWER TRIP - HERETIC'S FORK
5. CONDOR - MALEVOLENT CURSE
6. CORRUPT - MODERN WORLD HYPOCRISY
7. NEKROMANTHEON - ANNIHILATION SPREE
8. WITCHTRAP - COMMAND OF HATE
9. VULTURE - VULTURE
10. DEATHRONER - BLITZKRIEG
11. EVIL ARMY - RELENTLESS ASSAULT
12. ANTICHRIST - FALL OF TEMPLE OF SOLOMON
13. NOCTURNAL - RISE OF THE UNDEAD

Midnite Madness CXXVIX—2010-2019

As promised, the 2010-2019 show, playing some of the best of the past decade. Hell, even the extra hour here did not provide enough time to fit them all in, but between the previous show and the next one, it should give you a good idea just how good the past ten years of releases have been. For me, up there with really any decade sine the 80s. So many great bands, so many fantastic releases, but sure nobody reads any of this, so I am just going to say goodbye and see you non-readers again in four weeks time for the end of the year show.

Midnite Madness CXXVIII—Live Evil 2020

Late again posting, but early for Live Evil 2020, so there. Managed to squeeze twelve of the line-up's 20 bands into this hour-long show. You can find ticket info here at the Live Evil social media page. Hails to Marek for bringing the fest back, much appreciated! Line-up is as follows...

LIVE EVIL, JANUARY 2020

THURSDAY 16th BLACK HEART

Occvlta (Germany)

Parish (England)

Heavy Sentence (England)

Game (England)

FRIDAY 17th UNDERWORLD

Antichrist (Sweden)

Deathhammer (Norway)

Insane (Sweden)

Deathmace (England)

SAT 18th UNDERWORLD

Pagan Altar (England)

Saracen (England)

Black Viper (Norway)

Obnoxious Youth (Sweden)

Sacrilegia (Ireland)

Nocturnal Witch (Germany)

SUN 19th UNDERWORLD

Eternal Champion (USA)

Helvetets Port (Sweden)

Hellish Crossfire (Germany)

Asgard (Italy)

Thulsa Doom (Italy)

Mere Mortal (England)

Midnite Madness CXXVII—Allegory of the Grave

Definitely haven't already posted this yet, so here it is. Enjoy.

Midnite Madness CXVII—2018, PT. I

2018 was another fantastic year in the history of heavy metal, and this 60-minute, first-part round-up of the year's best pretty much proves this. Of course this is in no way a definitive 2018 list, but it's a good start at one, anyways.
Thanks to all the bands and labels for keeping the metal real, and to you (all 12 of you) for listening in. I will return on January 8th, for more MIDNITE MADNESS.

Midnite Madness CXI—Demo Entrails VI - 2000AD II (Altar of Death)

Back with another demo show, this time picking up from where I left off at show LVIII, with more 2000s-onwards bands/releases. All from tape this time, giving those MP3s a break. Alas, maniacs, I am back on July 25th for more Midnite fuckin' Madness, so "don't nobody go nowhere"...

Midnite Madness CVII—Painfully Awaiting the Nite

See you like-minded maniacs for more MIDNITE MADNESS on April 4th. Soon!

1986-6-6 Mix on Rádio Quântica

ALRIGHT. As promised, albeit a little later than I originally thought, here is my first guest mix (!), compiled for the maniacs of Rádio Quântica's Satan Made Me Do It show. Yes, I guess Satan Made Me Do it guys made me do it, but I had blast making this. It was actually supposed to be Midnite Madness 86, but it felt like an old Maniac Monday show, and those guys seems to love the old format, so I decided to give it to them instead.
Just demo tracks from 1986. Not an essential list or best of, etc, as I've played out a bunch of the really killer stuff, so just what I felt like playing at the time and what I haven't gotten round to blasting on my show. As all came from MP3s with varying quality, so sound may fluctuate from good to, well, kinda shit, but ALL killer tracks. You can listen below. Maybe if enough people want it solo, I can maybe upload it, but just enjoy it whatever (I am up in hour two).
Shouts to the guys again for being patient and appreciative and all-round good people, makes it all the more worthwhile. Who knows, maybe I will return next year with a 1987 demo mix for them... Kill the weekend!

A Fist in the Face of God presents... Too Fast to Die!!!—Sgt. Salsten's Raging Metal Mix!

Since Sergeant Salsten moved to Tasmania, his band workload has gone down, understandably (even though he is working on a speed metal project down there called Torpedo, shhh), and his time for making insanely cool mixes has increased. I've posted a lot of killer compilations on here over the years, and many have surprised with me with their selections, but Daniel's are something else.

First of all, he draws his own covers, and secondly, he usually sends what most people would consider two, maybe even three mixtape's worth of tracks, this one being no exception. I can't praise this one enough, but at over two hours running time it really shall separate the die-hards from the dabblers. I'll leave the the rest in his more than capable hands...

So Dylan asked me to do another mix and I thought this time I'll make one with only violent death and thrash metal. Some of the bands actually lean more towards speed or black metal, but most importantly it's all fast and ripping, no wimpy shit guaranteed! So grab a six-pack or two and break your neck with these intense tunes for a couple of hours if ya got the balls. This mix is way long so only for sick maniacs, thrash to the death cuz there is no tomorrow!

TRACKLIST:
1. Aggression (Canada) - "Blaspheming at the Altar" [1985]
2. Savage Death (USA) - "Legions of Doom" [1985]
3. Slaughter Lord (Australia) - "Die by Power" [1986]
4. Vellocet (Germany) - "Assassin on Attack" [1986]
5. Vomit (Norway) - "Armies of Hell" [1987]
6. Terminal Death (USA) - "Judge Death" [1985]
7. Kruiz (Russia) - "Poslednij Rassvet" [1987]
8. Invocator (Denmark) - "Dismal Serfage" [1988]
9. Debustrol (Czech Republic) - "Antikrist" [1990]
10. Mein Kampf (Japan) - "Speeder" [1985]
11. Disaster (Chile) - "Desquiciado" [2004]
12. Kreator (Germany) - "After the Attack" [1988]
13. Bombarder (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - "Speed Metal Manijak" [1991]
14. Spectral Birth (Australia) - "Frog of Fear" [1990]
15. Witchhammer (Norway) - "Curiosity About Death" [1990]
16. Leviathan (USA) - "Destructive Aggressor" [1987]
17. Korrozia Metalla (Russia) - "Чёрный террор" [1988]
18. Backwater (Germay) - "Rock Hard" [1984]
19. Vader (Poland) - "The Final Massacre" [1989]
20. Dorsal Atlântica (Brazil) - "Depressão Suicida" [1986]
21. Second Hell (Holland) - "Homicide" [1986]
22. Devastation (USA) - "Apocalyptic Warrior" [1986]
23. Xandril (Germany) - "Nearly Dead" [1988]
24. Evil Blood (Croatia) - "Kill with Napalm" [1986]
25. The Beast (USA) - "Pitbull Terror" [1986]
26. Metal Storm (Germany) - "Suicide Commando" [1987]
27. Pyöveli (Finland) - "Metal Forces" [2003]
28. VooDoo (Poland) - "Da Czadu VooDoo" [1987]
29. Casbah (Japan) - "Death Metal" [1986]
30. Dismember (Sweden) - "Substantually Dead" [1988]
31. Atomic Aggressor (Chile) - "Bloody Ceremonial" [1989]
32. Outrage (Germany) - "Into the Abyss of Belial" [1985]
33. Mutilator (Brazil) - "Evil Conspiracy" [1986]
34. Sodom (Germany) - "Live from Hell" [1984]
35. Acheron (USA) - "The Enochian Key" [1992]

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DEMOndays XII

ALRIGHT. One from the collection here, something I first heard thanks to Cato's inclusion of it on the Thrashing Rage Vol. III comp. from 2012. Apparently I played the very same track on a pretty ripping South American bands-only show later that year, here.
But anyways, back to Chile, where Occult hails from. Other than this and the what's on the Archives (nothing), I don't know anything about the band except it reminds me of Körgull The Exterminator or maybe Infernal Curse from Argentina or Damnation from Sweden. So yes, kind of Bathory-infused thrash. Killer stuff, all scans in the zip folder. No bootlegging!

Occult (Chile) Metal Darkness [2011]
1. Defenders of Black Steel
2. Supreme Power
3. Metal Darkness

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DEMOndays V

 A last little Live Evil post here in the form of the killer Bulldozer demo. That's right, there was a demo preceding the classic The Day Of Wrath début, but until 2013's The Exorcism compilation, it was "lost". According to Metal Archives, there was originally only three copies; one went to King Diamond, AC Wild (above) kept one, and the final copy went to Roadrunner, getting them signed. This demo is taken from that 2013 release compiling this demo that AC Wild "rediscovered" along with the Fallen Angel single that released the same year, 1984. Great early black/speed/thrash metal and you can see why it was a no-brainer to sign these Italian maniacs, as a good deal of the tracks are perhaps better than the ones on the LP. There is no cover, so I kinda knocked one up. I doubt King Diamond got one, but you never know...

BULLDOZER (Italy) - Demo 1984 [1984]
1. The Exorcism
2. Cut Throat
3. Welcome Death
4. Whiskey
5. Mad Men
6. Insurrection of the Living Damned
7. The Great Deceiver

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I am hoping to some degree this post will become "interactive". By this, I mean that most of my files are rips from the internet and some, as killer as the music is, are not very good/high quality recordings. Also, sometimes the artwork is incomplete or low-res. So, what I am asking here is for people to help improve these demos. If you have a better recording, higher-res artwork, info regarding the demo, etc, PLEASE either mail it direct to me here or simply add a link in the comment section. Go on.

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Midnite Madness LXXV—Metal Revenge

YES. Show 75. Thanks to all who managed to catch this week's show live and to those awaiting this very post. As always, you are who the show is for, so thanks for listening.
I will return like the darkness and evil itself as the clock strikes September 23nd with a Live Evil special, of some sort. That's enough for now, 'til then let the metal be your guide!

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Midnite Madness LXXIV—Recollecting The Beast

ALRIGHT. This month's show saw me recalling the best of the older AFITFOG mixes, some of which date back to 2009. I will be re-uploading these sporadically over the next days/months/years, so keep checking back for new links.
Thanks as always to you for listening and making last month's show was Number 1 in the Mixcloud Metal Charts (!?!), and to Flo for his killer new mix that will follow this post shortly. I will return with more darkness and evil on August 25th. I kinda feel an old school black metal show brewing, but then I have four or five ideas for shows ready to be devoured... In time!

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A Fist In The Face Of God presents... The Initiation—Carefully Compiled By Janny Ratten

Image by Jan Utecht

Jan from Occvlta is one those multi-talented people who, no matter what he seems to try his hand at (his artwork for a recent mix still kills me every time I see it), is perpetually great. I first heard his band, Occvlta, in the lead up to the very first Live Festival back in 2009, where legend has it he basically told the former organiser that they were playing the festival, no questions asked. I was helping out with interviews for the zine to accompany the festival, but finding them was tough, as, back then they weren't even listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum (Wikipedia for metal-nerds, basically), such was their relative newness.
So we got to the interview eventually, and Jan was the ideal interviewee. His confidence in getting a place at the festival (their first show, if I'm not mistaken, and first-up on the bill of what would be a legendary festival) wasn't unfounded. They fucking slayed.
Then, when VICE's music site Noisey was launched, I travelled to an Occvlta show in -16° Berlin, in December of 2010, to see them desecrate White Trash alongside infernal death-bangers, Deathhammer, and 80s Italian speed metallers, Fingernails. This performance was captured and features in their Noisey show. Jan had just had his first-born around he that time (hey, Grimur!), but as his lady and offspring were out of town for a few days, he put me and few other beer/weed/sweat-stinking metalheads up in his ludicrously cheap Kreuzberg apartment for a few nights, and the allegiance formed.

Jan (middle) in Berlin, 2010

Anyways, recent-ish-ly he did a mix for the prestigious Lodown Magazine, which is mostly made up of just weird stuff and no metal, and it reminded me, 'Hey, wasn't he supposed to do me a mix?' So here it is, all ready to be devoured, below a few words from Jan himself.

Well, this mix. What to say about it. In a way, it's a mirror of the metal I listen to and how I feel at the moment. Which is mostly black and heavy, haha. You'll find obscure stuff and songs you've probably known for ages, but I think that makes the MIX. Actually, I don't listen to "Life Eternal" that often, but it really is one of my absolute favourites. And then there is Winterhawk. Also a true masterpiece. I thought it sucks, when hearing it for the first time. Too much guitar. But I let time decide what I like, if I don't feel in the mood for something new, well, if the gods want, we are gonna meet again. There is so many great bands it took years for me to like/understand, and it feels so good to know that there is no hurry and a lot more. So who cares. A lot of the songs I was introduced to by friends or my brother. Hanging out with cool people listening to cool music ... on facebook, haha.

"Devil Eyes" and "Princess of the Night" I owe to my brother, Torm [Occvlta drummer]; Sapphire I owe to Tooth [drummer of New York band Natur], "Lady of Mars" to Marcelo [Evil Spirits], and Winterhawk I think was originally introduced to me by Henry [Yuan of Electric Assault Records], but it took a few years until Torben played it and then BOOM. There you go.

TRACKLIST:

1. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind (USA) - "Main Title 'The Shining'" [1980]
2. Aura Noir (Norway) - "Towers of Limbs and Fevers (Original Version)" [1994]
3. Mighty Sphincter (USA) - "Ghost Walking" [1985]
4. Isengard (Norway) - "Our Lord Will Come" [1991]
5. Darkthrone (Norway) - "As Flittermice as Satans Spys" [1994]
6. Kringa (Austria) - "Pearly Gates, Abhorrent Ascent (Unreleased)" [2015]
7. Mayhem (Norway) - "Life Eternal" [1994]
8. Mercyful Fate (Denmark) - "Devil Eyes" [1982]
9. Sapphire (England) - "Encounter" [1982]
10. Dark Star (England) - "Lady of Mars" [1981]
11. Saxon (England) - "Princess of the Night" [1981]
12. Winterhawk (USA) - "Free to Live" [1982]

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Midnite Madness LXIII - Unholy Forces of Evil III/O.O.O.O.O. feat. DJ Fenriz

AVE. Sorry for the delay in posting this latest offering, been having serious hard drive woes to the extent that this show almost didn't get made. But it did, and thanks to DJ Fenriz, it is a ripper. Thanks again to him for compiling this evil little 75-minute mix, which can be downloaded separately on the post below. He went for some newer stuff that I will admit to hoarding a bit myself for the final show, the annual end of year show.
The next show will be a Live Evil special on October 14th, and will feature tracks from all this year's participants selected by none other than LE mastermind and Amulet riff-wizard, Marek "Heathen" Steven. Beware!

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A Fist in the Face of God presents... O.O.O.O.O. - A Mix by DJ Fenriz

It's been almost three years since Fenriz—Gylve Nagell to the gods—sent me his last offering, the arrestingly cavernous "Slow Black Death", which he compiled for his 40th birthday.

A few months back, he told me he'd begun working on something "evil" for me, but it wasn't until I saw two recent mixes with his lovely wife Marte (one was for Lodown, and the other seems to have somehow vamoosed already), that I thought, 'Hey, how 'bout my mix, man?' To which he replied: "Keep pestering me for it." Which I did. Maybe two emails later he sent me this opus in the darkest arts of death and black metal, imaginatively entitled "Out of Our Own Orientation" – morbid visions, indeed. In his own words:

Obviously I went for the jugular immediately here and ferociously mixed a heap of evil ripping tracks together, then a little detour to Trondheim's bleaker side with the Black Majesty track before I head on off again. But then... there's the Goatwhore obscure intro thing, and suddenly I'm on a different vibe altogether with three majestic AND intricate longer songs at the end. The transmission concerning Quorthon's horses on top of the Bölzer outro came to me when I listened to the Bölzer track at work. Now let me rest.
- f e n r i z

TRACKLIST
1. Occult Burial (Canada) - “Occult Burial” [2013]
2. Abyssous (Germany) - “Burial Sea” [2012]
3. Protector (Germany) - “Apocalyptic Revolution” [1986]
4. Alchemyst (Germany) - “Kharon” [2013]
5. Quintessenz (Germany) - “Back to the Cult of the Tyrants” [2013]
6. Ruins (Germany) - “Chambers of Perversion” [2010]
7. Abysmal Lord (USA) - “Revelation” [2014]
8. Black Majesty (Norway) - “Thus Singeth the Sword of Curse, Key of Truth” [2009]
9. Sabbat (Japan) - “Witch Hammers” [2011]
10. Deathstorm (Austria) - “Awakening of the Dead” [2013]
11. Törr (Czech Republic) - “Exorcist” [1987]
12. Goatvomit (Greece) - Just some awesome intro they have on tape
13. Funereal Presence (USA) - “The Tower” [2014]
14. Bölzer (Switzerland) - “Labyrinthian Graves” [2014]
15. Bathory (Sweden) - The first 10+ bit minutes of the Blood Fire Death LP, you maniacs [1988]

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Maniac Monday LIV - €UROTHRASH ('N' SPEED METAL)

YES. €urothrash, indeed. Title is pretty self-explanatory, so enjoy this (almost) all-80s European thrash attack, should you have missed it last Monday.
Maniac Monday returns with more insanity on March 31st, 'til then, stay clean.

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Maniac Monday XXXIX - Blackthrashing Deathrifice feat. Swine MM Mix

ALRIGHT. Slight apologies for the delay in posting this—yes, I know it is almost time for another show—but the NTS guys only let me know yesterday that the internet swallowed up hour two of the show. So, last night I had some time to re-record the second hour in all its glory and "remaster" hour one also.
Big shout out to Tom Swine of Salute for providing a 30-minute mix in hour two consisting mainly of stuff I would never play, all of it great too, I might add. Here is the tracklisting for his mix—
1 HATEFUL ABANDON (UK) "Maze of Bastards" Liars/Bastards TBA
2 SCORN (UK) "Spasm" Vae Solis 1992
3 O.B.E.Y. (Israel) "Anger Hunger" Romance Of Misanthropy 2006
4 NIGHTSTICK (USA) "United Snakes" Ultimatum 1998
5 TOADLIQUOR (USA) "Gnaw" Feel My Hate - The Power Is The Weight 1993
6 QUARRY (UK) "Final Feast" Mass Flesh Silo TBA
7 ABSCESS (USA) "Goddess of Filth and Plague" Dawn Of Inhumanity 2010
8 AUTOPSY (USA) "Deathmask" Shitfun 1995
—which features at the top of hour two in the show. Either side of his mix I pretty much played what I did on the last show when I had Victor Whipstriker's mix on.
Next show is on Monday, August 26th and will be Maniac Monday's third instalment of the punk show Fight Back, where I will have a special guest in the NTS studio. 'til then, stay alive!

A Fist In The Face Of God Presents... Midnite Madness - 12th August 2013 by Nts Radio on Mixcloud