Abruptum is a black metal and dark ambient band from Sweden formed in 1989 by IT (aka Tony Särkkä), All (aka Jim Berger), and Ext.IT had already planned to create the band in 1987, but it wasn't until…
Venom's original personnel came from three different bands: Guillotine, Oberon and Dwarf Star. The original Guillotine featured Jeffrey Dunn and Dave Rutherford on guitars, Dean Hewitt on bass guitar,…
Absurd is one of the best-known National Socialist black metal band in Germany, classified as right-wing extremist by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz.
The band was originally found…
Sick of It All is an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1985 in Queens, New York.The band's current lineup consists of brothers Lou Koller on vocals and Pete Koller on lead guitar, Craig Setari on…
nacrusis' first demo, Annihilation Complete was voted Best Demo of 1987 by the readers of Metal Forces magazine and was later included in the publication's Demolition... Scream Your Brains Out! compil…
In 1987, the band released the Moshkinstein demo. On the strength of this recording, they were picked up by British thrash metal label Under One Flag (a subsidiary of Music For Nations) in 1988 who re…
Line-up soon expanded as Dariusz "Popcorn" Popowicz (lead guitar) and a drummer Piotr "Chomik" Kulk (shortly after replaced by Maciej "Ślimak" Starosta) joined the band. With this line-up the band wor…
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 mine…
Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in Richmond, California.Spanning a career of over 30 years, Exodus has gone through numerous lineup changes, two extended hiatuses, and the death…
D.R.I. (or Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) is a hardcore/metal band from the United States that formed in Houston, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Sp…
Sinister is a death metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, assembled in 1988, disassembled in 2003, and reassembled in 2005. They have released eleven albums and the new one "The Carnage Ending"…
Split The Abyss began in late 2007 with Woody Corsini and Max Kessler wanting to create a band that was like no other. Disappointed with the new rave of metal-core coming out into the scene left and…
Bosnian Death Metal Masters - Toxicdeath were formed in 2000. by Nele (guitar) and Suhi (vocal). After few demo CDs, band released debut "Contamination" in 2004. Lots of shows followed, many festiva…