Midnite Madness CCI—Black Church (of Real Metal)

 

"How much pain can you take?"

OBITUARY:
1. DIOCLETIAN - NEX/DECIMATOR
2. OBSESSION - ONLY THE STRONG WILL SURVIVE
3. MUTILATED - CABALISTIC CRYPTOGRAMS
4. KILLJOY - DEMISE OF HUMANITY
5. CHARGED G.B.H - DEAD ON ARRIVAL
6. EXHUMED - COITAL MUTILATION
7. AGRESSOR - BLACK CHURCH
8. GOAT SEMEN - APOLOGIA TERRORISTA
9. RATT - U GOT IT
10. MORTEM - MUTILATED CORPSE
11. CATHEDRAL - A FUNERAL REQUEST 

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 III

Very little to say about this one, as it is, for me anyways, one of the best death metal demos/releases ever. Just download it and kill everyone in sight.

MASSACRE (USA) - Chamber Of Ages [1986]
1. Chamber of Ages
2. Clangor of War
3. From Beyond
4. Symbolic Immortality

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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.

DISCLAIMER: If you own the recording and want it removed, please do not be an internet snitch and make a DMCA claim, just email me or leave a comment and I will remove it. Thanks.

Maniac Monday LV - Epicvs Metallicvs III

That's right, the temple of truth that is Maniac Monday returns with a third instalment in the Epicvs Metallicvs series. I had to open with a track off the new Teitanblood such is its ferocity, and it promptly set the tone for what is surely one of the heaviest shows in a while, albeit with a few lighter moments, hehe.
Thanks again to all who listened in live, and to all the bands I featured for making these great, epic tracks. I will return on April 14th, 2014, with maybe something a little less gargantuan. Maybe...

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Maniac Monday, obituary V - Killling Technology

Thanks to all who tuned in for the vinyl mix last nite, apologies for the technical difficulties. I actually wanted to play pretty much just music with little to no chat this time, but only one working turntable and no working AUX meant me having to play off one deck, talk nervously while trying to cue the next track, and pretty much stressing unnecessarily—hard work, but was all good in the end.
Next show, I said, would be punk, hardcore, crust, metalpunk, and the like, so tune in for that on the 23rd of this very month.
Click here to hear the battle of me versus technology and here's a pic of me (actually) going nuts in the studio last nite, mid-battle, haha.

Interview with Hord of Occvlta

Interview with Hord, one of the brothers playing in the majestic Occvlta. Demo after the interview. They are no longer playing the Live Evil aftershow, but the main festival on the Saturday...

AFITFOG: So, how did you find out that you had been chosen as one of the lucky few of Fenriz's Band of the Week to make it to be playing Live Evil festival?
Hord: We haven't been chosen. True Satanists are not chosen by anybody, they choose themselves! Mark of the Live Evil bookers sent me a mail because he wanted to buy our shirt. In response, I told him we must play at Live Evil. Then he must have been really scared and offered us to play the aftershow party, as the rest was booked. At least this is my story of it, and Mark won't be interviewed, ha!

There is an array of talent from almost every continent in the world playing the festival, do you think the metal scene is as strong as it was in its hey-day, or perhaps even better?
To me, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Immortal and Celtic Frost are the centre of the black metal universe. They wrote the strongest music and changed my live. When I was a teenager I didn't like black metal at all, but when I grew older my heart must have been poisoned enough by all the shit around, to feel it. When I heard "In the Shadow of the Horns" once again, after years I thought, "Fuck! Oh yeah!" Then I thought, "Fuck!" again, and then I lit up a smoke! They started the fire, we just keep the church burning. So I don't think there is any music strong like this nowadays. But it's just like good books. It takes at least 10 years to say it is a timeless masterwork or just trendy zeitgeist. But let's wait for Ghost's record!

Indeed! So, as a result, everyone nowadays cites usually 80s or 90s bands as their influence. With everyone already taking influences from the past, do you think the new crop of bands will influence bands in the future?
Absolutely. The train keeps a-rolling! Morlocks like me will always dig in the mailorders for the obscure bands. But, I actually don't care about the future, I'm stuck in the past. I listen to Roy Orbison and the Music Machine.

Who is the track "Where is the Winter" about/aimed at?
Thanks for that question. When I wrote the lyrics I thought a lot how to answer it, but I never thought somebody would ever ask, ha ha. It's about duality of mankind. On one side, I want every true metalhead to project his hatred about trendy posers onto it and sing along with me about how much we hate the posers. On the other side, I'm taking the piss out of all these propaganda attracted hordes of true metalheads because I can't stand it.

Germany was a portal of many great metal bands in the 80s, but is somewhat less-so nowadays, what bands do you rate from your homeland?
Well, there are a few! Metal-punk addicts will enjoy Choke Thirst Die. They already broke up, but will release a single on Iron Bonehead Prod. Division Speed is great, though I have to admit that I liked thir first singer more. Sorry, Hunter! Black Salvation is a nice new psychedelic doom band we play with in Berlin in December. And I just bought the Ascension record. Not old school at all, but great black metal. Also listen to Ketzer, Hellish Crossfire and No Empathy.

This may sound like a gay question, but is there any sort of connection between you as brothers when you play? Like a kind of telepathy?
No, not really. We are northern German's and truly: empathy is not our cup of tea.

Is being in a band with your brothers ever problematic?
Well, not IN the band, but Urgh not being in the band anymore, that actually IS problematic because Occvlta is us three! We can't understand his decision, but we have to respect it. He is an idiot, but a very nice one! The asshole even refused to play Live Evil with us! Maybe everybody needs to send a mail to www.myspace.com/kneipe and tell him he must return!

Alright! Lastly, are you working on any side projects? Can you speak for the others? Is Succubitch coming back?!?
No, none of us is in any other bands at the moment. Succubitch is gone with the wind and I'm afraid there will be no way back, but actually, the Occvlta you will see at Live Evil is the same guys as the late Succubitch, plus me.

Occvlta (Germany) We Command The Wolves (2010)

1. Black Wind Desecration Horde
2. Staring at the Lake
3. Blood Messiah
4. Witch Was Dead
5. Metal Chain
6. Where is the Winter

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Interview with Sadomancer of Deathhammer

Deathhamer, if you have been following my advice, are one of the best thrash bands out there. Not just of the new crop, ever. Why, just this month I gave them a 9 for their new record, Phantom Knights, in the most recent issue of Vice. It also made Cover of the Month, to which Sadomancer—one half of Deathhammer—said, "Ah, that is cool as hell! Can we drink Champagne with Katy Perry now???" They are coming to London to play Live Evil festival real soon, and also the pre-show at Catch, where he's looking forward to meeting some "drunk sluts". Anyway, I caught up with him for a full interview. Well, actually, I sent the questions about two months ago and got it back recently, but it was worth it.

AFITFOG: How does it feel to be a part of the Live Evil festival?

Sadomancer: To share the bill with some of the coolest underground metal acts around like - Körgull the exterminator, Ghost, Salute, Natur, Speedtrap, and our friends in Obliteration and Nekromantheon - is something I look forward to with great joy. Also, seeing Vulcano is gonna be a memorable event for sure. We planned to go to Live Evil anyway, so it was perfect that they wanted us on the bill.

What bands are you psyched to see?
I think ALL the bands have something great to offer (not ONE bad band on the bill!), but I am dying to suffer a sonic metal overkill by Körgull The Exterminator because that's probably my favourite newer underground band nowadays. Their Dogs of War album is pure metal essence. Ghost and Vulcano is also gonna be very exciting.

What would you like to tell the people of London prior to your first shows here?

Expect nothing but total destruction! I have switched from drums to guitar (bored of playing drums live) and Kick from Nekromantheon is gonna destroy the drums (he is Norway's answer to Gene Hoglan), so it's gonna be even MORE violent than before! Prepare to be crushed under the hammer of death.

Where did the concept of Deathhammer come from?

The desire to play this music came from our pounding metal hearts. The "concept" of playing true metal comes from within and should not come from anywhere else. This is our call.

When did you decide to start the band? Was it because of the then influx of bad thrash bands that became to flood the scene?

We started the band in fall 2005 because we had some songs which we thought were good enough to release. I was only 15 years old so we hadn't heard that many other new underground thrash acts at the time, we only listened to the good ones anyway (Witchtrap, Sauron etc). Basically, we just wanted to play like Celtic Frost and Kreator. We noticed some Norwegian bands around at the same time as us which quickly found out playing thrash wasn't the cool thing to play anymore and broke up. Such trendy bands should never pester the scene in the first place, so it's sad they got to release demos and play gigs, but what can you do (except for wait and see who stands when the smoke clears). I didn't hear about bands like Municipal Waste until a couple of years ago and I don't care about them at all 'cause I'm not very into that kind of thrash (for crossover-thrash I'd rather listen to Wehrmacht or D.R.I.). I like my thrash to be about violence and destruction, not Turtles and toxic baseball hats!

I know this is a fairly generic question, but what is your inspiration?
Our inspiration comes from living a life of severe intoxication, listening to metal and banging our skulls, obscure voids, the Japanese black metal Gods Sabbat, movies like The Beyond (horror/macabre movies in general) and everything evil and morbid. The most important songs for Deathhammer's sound I guess would be "Total Desaster" (Destruction), "Tormentor" and "Bonebreaker" (Kreator) and "Sacrifice" (Bathory). The Bathory feeling is the holiest of all there is.



Which bands do you think are bringing the right sound to the table nowadays?

There are plenty of great bands around nowadays, luckily. Bands like Körgull The Exterminator (which we will release a split with in the coming future), Vomitor, Ghost, Witchtrap/Nightmare, Natur, One tail, One Head, Black Majesty, Obliteration/Nekromantheon, Obsidian Sea, Demon's Gate, Slingblade, Negative Plane, Rust, Salute... Well, too many to mention actually. Long live the new flesh!

Where the FUCK did you get that wailing banshee shriek heard on the new album?

Salsten always drinks a lot of geitemelk (goat milk in English) before the vocal sessions, so maybe that's the key.

The album took a while to come through, but at one point last year you were said to be releasing a full-length titled, Onward To The Pits, is Phantom Knights the same project renamed?

No, this is a another recording. We recorded Onward to the Pits, but we will re-record it soon with the equipment we recorded Phantom Knights with. We'll also add more songs we didn't manage to include on the old recording. We had some problems with the mixing of Onward... so we thought it will be best to just re-record the whole fucker. We also have a bunch of old and new songs ready for a third full-length assault and some unreleased old recorded songs which we will use for some selected splits. Hell awaits!

The album in parts has a more black metal sound than on your previous releases, was this intentional?

Not intentional as in "let's make this release more black metal than thrash this time", but when we had recorded all the songs (10 in total) we had one called "Supporter of the Cause" (which will be on the "Nekrothrash" 4-way 7" split on Duplicate soon), which we left out because it is more traditional thrash than the dark vibe present in the other 9 songs. I guess we were determined to make this release a hellish one. Our next attack will probably be a mixture of both thrash and black metal though, like on the "Savage Poser Hunt" demo tape.

What bands/records/songs were you looking to emulate?

Our gods are Sodom, Kreator and Destruction! But we don't imitate other bands or rip them off, that would of course be a losers thing to do.

Who does all the songwriting, and when and where are the songs written?

We both write songs and we make them separately on electric axes in our homes. We usually write lyrics to our own songs but on Phantom Knights I wrote the lyrics to a couple of Salsten's songs too. Anyway, the credits are written inside the booklet for those interested.

What are your thoughts on the current music scene, metal and otherwise?

There will always be good stuff if you really have the interest to search and dig deeper, but I'm not finished with searching the 70s and 80s yet, and that's my main concern for now. Darkthrone and Burzum released the best metal albums this year and I'm also expecting the new Körgull album to destroy everything. I don't follow any music scene except for the metal scene, but I just heard the new Lady Gaga single and I have to say, it's pretty good.

Tell me where you see the future of Deathhammer heading?

Heading out to the highway! We will release more albums and desecrate more stages hopefully. I'm really eager to record a new album, so let's hope it doesn't take forever.

What other projects are you guys working on (Ghoul-Cult, Black Magic, Faustcoven etc.)?

Ghoul-Cult was never our band, but me and Salsten joined the live line-up for a few gigs, which went great. There was some talk about Ghoul-Cult releasing a new 7" with a old song re-recorded that never got released called "Bulletbelt Blitzkrieg" and maybe a cover, but it's probably never gonna happen. About Black Magic, I was up at Jon's place far up north last month and recorded our debut album called Lucifers Legacy. Expect nothing but total evil! We are not involved with Faustcoven, but I think they maybe will record their new album in my basement (where the Deathhammer records and the Black Magic demo was recorded), so let's wait and see. I have heard some songs and it sounds really gloomy and heavy. Salsten is involved with a obscure band called Goofer, and they recorded a demo at my place a while ago. Myself, I'm involved with a couple of projects which I have worked on for some years now and will finally record something very soon.

Below is my own tape rip of The Rotting Demos comp from last year, comprising all the demos plus two new tracks for the release that aren't on anything else. Scans of the sleeve etc. are in the folder too.

Deathhammer (Norway) The Rotting Demos (2009)



1.Blasphemy
2.Deathbangers
3.Graveyard Necromancy
4.Evil
5.Return of the Hammer
6.Tormentor
7.Demonz in Leather
8.Witchfukker
9.Possessed
10.Metalattentat
11.Bestial Slaughter

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