Tag: satan
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Satan – Songs in Crimson Review
Formed in 1981, Satan were, for a brief period, the hardest and fastest of the NWOBHM bands releasing, in 1983, the magnificent Court in the Act. The promise the band showed back then was off the scale and many a young metal fanatic, myself included, assumed that they would be ‘the next big thing’. However, like…
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The First Wave of Black Metal… or was it?
Beginnings I remember the day well. An incredibly cold, steel grey day, Tuesday, 1st, December, 1981. I had struggled on to a freezing bus, faced a wind chill factor of -4C on the ferry, and then a twenty minute walk against the piercing wind. My purpose? To buy Venom’s Welcome to Hell on the day it was…