Loading ...Night is over
Now it’s dawn
Your final day
Has begun
Hear the steps
On the floor
Hear the sounds
Of the opened door
Too proud to scream
Too proud to beg for mercy
You will die by the executioner’s hand
Under The Guillotine
Tears are running
Down your cheeks
As you see
The axe of death
You were a prisoner
Didn’t care about the rules
Now it’s time
To pay for the fools
TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
The band said he received his test results on Saturday (March 21).
According to TESTAMENT, Billy had “been feeling unwell” since returning home to the San Francisco Bay Area last week following the completion of “The Bay Strikes Back 2020”European tour with EXODUS and DEATH ANGEL.
Billy, who didn’t reveal if he had any idea how he contracted the virus, says he has been quarantined since arriving home.
TESTAMENT‘s full statement reads as follows:
“As many of you already know, after returning from the ‘Bay Strikes Back’ over Europe Tour last week, some of us in TESTAMENT have been feeling unwell and have made the decision along with our Doctors to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. As of yesterday morning, Chuck and [his wife] Tiffany Billy‘s tests have come back positive as well as some crew members.
“We wanted to reach out to everyone who has been supporting us and expressing concern to inform you that we are doing what’s right, and what’s safe, and have all been quarantining ourselves since our return home; since before we were even tested. We are of course concerned for our families, our friends, our crew, our fellow musicians, and our fans. We’ve reached out to support our fellow Bay Area Bands who are also being proactive in their own camps, staying quarantined and safe, and will speak on their individual situations if and when they are ready to.
“At this moment we are currently focused on staying safe and quarantined, resting, getting ourselves back to health, and of course, sending well wishes, prayers, and positive energy towards our friends who are also sick. We also want to send well wishes to all of our fans and supporters in this time of crisis. We’re taking all the necessary steps to stay safe at home and we ask our friends and fans to do the same. Please take care of each other, and stay healthy so we can continue to thrash in the not so distant future!”
EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt revealed earlier in the week that he was exhibiting all the symptoms of COVID-19.
Holt said that he and his wife underwent coronavirus testing on Friday (March 20) but added that they will have to wait “seven to 10 days” for results.
DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll has been in an intensive care unit at a Northern California hospital since Wednesday (March 18) after being taken “very ill” following the completion of “The Bay Strikes Back 2020” trek.
TESTAMENT, EXODUS and DEATH ANGEL canceled at least two shows on “The Bay Strikes Back 2020” tour due to the fast-spreading outbreak of the new coronavirus: February 25 in Milan, Italy; and March 11 in Hannover, Germany.
More than 329,000 coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide and more than 24,000 deaths so far, putting public health systems and emergency services under immense pressure.
The fatality rate of the new coronavirus is believed to about 1 percent. “It’s about ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes Of Allergy And Infectious Disease, said in congressional testimony on March 11.
U.S. officials have repeatedly urged Americans to heed what federal, state and local officials are asking of them in order to curtail the spread and dampen the impact of the virus on the population.
California recently estimated that more than half of the state — 25.5 million people — will get the new coronavirus over the next eight weeks.
A new CDC report has offered proof that younger adults are just as likely as anyone to contract the virus, with nearly 40 percent of COVID-19 cases found between the ages of 20 and 54.
“I think everyone should be paying attention to this,” Stephen Morse, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, told The New York Times about the study. “It’s not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that they’re young and healthy.”
Dave Mustaine said he is “100 percent” cancer-free during Megadeth’s concert at the SSE Arena in London Friday, January 31st.
Halfway through the band’s set, Mustaine told the crowd about his throat cancer diagnosis last year as Megadeth was recording their new album. “At first, I thought, ‘Am I afraid?'” Mustaine recalled. “And then I said, ‘No. I’m fucking pissed.’ And we stopped the record, we stopped everything.”
Mustaine said he underwent 51 radiation treatments and nine chemotherapy treatments after his diagnosis, noting that he was determined to beat the disease so he could play music again. October 16th, he went to go see the doctor, and he said, ‘You’re 100 percent free of cancer.'”
I filmed this video myself – I have to admit, I was a little choked up after watching the final moments of Slayer: November, 30th at The Los Angeles Forum. Tom Arrays gives an emotional farewell to the crowd in attendance.
There are some titles add from the Golden Age of Extreme Metal 1981-1992 This list is not my list and was originally posted here, but the formatting is so poor and the years on the records were incorrectly labeled 1981-1985. This is why I reposted it here.
Abattoir “Vicious Attack”
Accept “Restless & Wild”
Acid “Acid”
Acid “Manic”
Agent Steel “Skeptics Apocalypse”
Agent Steel “Mad Locust Rising”
Anacrusis “Screams And Whispers”
Angel Dust “Into The Dark Past”
Angel Witch “Angel Witch”
Angel Witch “Dr. Phibes”
Annhilator “Alice In Hell”
Anthrax “Fistful Of Metal”
Anthrax “Armed And Dangerous”
Anthrax “Spreading The Disease”
Anvil “Metal On Metal”
Anvil “Forged In Fire”
Anvil “Live In Concert”
Anvil “Worth The Weight”
Anvil Chorus “Thought Criminals” 1983 Cassette Album
Armored Saint “March of the Saint”
Artillery “Fear Of Tomorrow”
Artillery “Terror Squad”
Artillery “By Inheritance”
Athiest “Piece Of Time”
Athiest “Unquestionable Presence”
Attacker “Battle At Helm’s Deep”
Attacker “The Second Coming”
Bathory “Bathory”
Bathory “The Return….“
Bitch “Be My Slave”
Bitch “The Bitch Is Back”
Black Death “Black Death”
Black Flag “Damaged”
Black Flag “My War”
Black Flag “Slip It In”
Black Flag “Live ’84”
Black Flag “Loose Nut”
Black Flag “In My Head”
Black Sabbath “Mob Rules”
Blessed Death “Kill or Be Killed”
Blind Illusion “The Sane Asylum”
Bloodlust “Guilty As Sin”
Cacophony “Speed Metal Symphony”
Cage “Astronomy”
Candlemass “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”
Candlemass “Nightfall”
Celtic Frost “Morbid Tales”
Celtic Frost “Emperor’s Return”
Celtic Frost “The Mega Therion“
Celtic Frost “Into The Pandemonium”
Chastain “Mystery of Illusion”
Chastain “Ruler Of The Wasteland”
Chastain “The Seventh Of Never”
Chastain “The Voice of Cult”
Chastain “For Those Who Dare”
Cirith Ungol “Frost And Fire”
Cirith Ungol “King of The Dead”
Crimson Glory “Crimson Glory”
Coven “Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Destroys Souls”
Coven13 “Worship New Gods”
Crytptic Slaughter “Convicted”
Culprit “Guilty As Charged”
Cynic “Focus”
Dark Age “Dark Age”
Dark Angel “Darkness Descends”
Dark Angel “Leave Scars”
Dark Angel “Time Does Not Heal”
Darkness “Death Squad”
Darkness “Defenders of Justice”
Deaf Dealer “Keeper of The Flame”
Deaf Dealer “Journey Into Fear”
Death “Scream Bloody Gore”
Death “Leprosy”
Death “Spiritual Healing”
Death “Human”
Death “Individual Thought Patterns”
Death “Symbolic”
Death Angel “The Ultra-Violence”
Death Angel “Frolic Through The Park”
Death Angel “Act III”
Death Strike “Fuckin’ Death”
Ded Engine “Ded Engine”
Ded Engine “Hot Shot”
Ded Engine “Hold A Grudge”
Deep Switch “Nine Inches of God”
Destruction “Infernal Overkill”
Destructor “Maximum Destruction”
Détente “Recognize No Authority”
Diamond Head “Lighting To The Nations”
Diamond Head “Behold The Beginning”
Discharge “Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing”
Dream Death “Journey Into Fear”
Doctor Butcher “Doctor Butcher”
Exciter “Heavy Metal Maniac”
Exciter “Violence And Force”
Exciter “Double Play Classic” CD Megaforce/ Caroline
Exhorder “Slaughter In The Vatican”
Exodus “A Lesson In Violence”
Exodus “Bonded By Blood”
Exodus “Pleasures of The Flesh”
Exodus “A Lesson In Violence” Ultimate Revenge Soundtrack plus March 1986 Demo With Paul Baloff
Exodus “Another Lesson In Violence”
Exodus “Bonded By Baloff” A.L.I.V Remastered
Exorcist “Nighmare Theatre”
Exumer “Possessed By Fire”
Exumer “Rising By The Sea”
Fates Warning “Night on Bröcken”
Fear of God “Beyond The Veil”
Marty Friedman “Dragon’s Kiss”
Forbidden “Forbidden Evil”
Forbidden “Twisted Into Form”
Grave Digger “Heavy Metal Breakdown”
Grave Digger “Witch Killer”
The Great Kat “Worship Me Or Die”
The Great Kat “Beethoven On Speed”
Griffin “Flight Of The Griffin”
Hawaii “One Nation Underground”
H-Bomb “Coup De Metal”
H-Bomb “Attack”
Hades “Resisting Success”
Halloween “Don’t Metal With Evil”
Halloween “No One Gets Out!”
Halloween “No One Gets Out!” Molten Metal Records Version / “Vicious”
Hallows Eve “Tales Of Terror“
Heathen “Breaking The Silence”
Heathen “Victims of Deception”
Hellhammer “Apocalyptic Raids”
Hellion “The Black Book”
Hirax “Raging Violence”
Hirax “Not Dead Yet” CD
Holocaust “The Nightcomers”
Holy Moses “The New Machine of Liechtenstein”
Ice Age “Breaking The Ice”
Imagika “Imagika”
Imagika “Worship”
Imagika “And So It Burns”
Infernäl Mäjesty “None Shall Defy”
Infernäl Mäjesty “Unholier Than Thou”
Infernäl Mäjesty “One Who Points To Death”
Insanity “Death After Death”
Iron Maiden “Iron Maiden”
Iron Maiden “Killers”
Iron Maiden “The Number of the Beast”
Jag Panzer “Ample Destruction”
Jaguar “Power Games”
Judas Priest “Hell Bent For Leather”
Judas Priest “Unleashed In The East”
Judas Priest “British Steel”
Judas Priest “Painkiller”
King Diamond “Fatal Portrait”
King Diamond “Abigail”
King Diamond “Them”
Kreator “Endless Pain“
Kreator “Pleasure To Kill”
Liege Lord “Burn To My Touch”
Liege Lord “Master Control”
Malediction “Condamnés”
Manowar “Battle Hymns”
Manowar “Into Glory Ride”
Manowar “Hail To England”
Manowar “Sign Of The Hammer”
Manowar “Kings Of Metal”
Manowar “The Trimph of Steel”
Manowar “Louder Than Hell”
Manowar “Fighting The World”
Manowar “Kings of Metal”
Massacre “From Beyond”
Master “Master”
Macbre “Gloom”
Medieval “Cassette Album”
Medieval “All Knobs To The Right”
Medieval “Reign Of Terror”
Medieval “Medieval Kills”
Megadeth “Rust In Peace”
Mercyful Fate “Mercyful Fate”
Mercyful Fate “Melissa”
Mercyful Fate “Don’t Break The Oath”
Mercyful Fate “Live From The Depths of Hell”
Mercyful Fate “Curse Of The Pharaohs”
Mercyful Fate “The Beginning”
Mercyful Fate “Return Of The Vampire”
Mercyful Fate “In The Shadows”
Messiah Force “The Last Day”
Metal Church “Metal Church”
Metallica “No Life “Til Leather”
Metallica “Kill ’em All”
Metallica “Ride The Lighting”
Metallica “Master of Puppets”
Morbid Angel “Abominations Of Desolation”
Morbid Angel “Altars of Madness”
Morbid Angel “Blessed Are The Sick”
Morbid Angel “Covenant”
Morbid Angel “Domination”
Morbid Angel “Entangled In Chaos”
Mötley Crüe “Too Fast For Love”
Mötley Crüe “Shout At The Devil”
Motörhead “Ace of Spades”
Motörhead “No Sleep “Til Hammersmith”
Motörhead “Iron Fist”
Motorhead “Another Perfect Day”
Motörhead “No Remorse”
Motörhead “Orgsamatron”
Naplam Death “Harmony Corruption”
Naplam Death ” Utopia Banished”
Nasty Savage “Nasty Savage”
Nasty Savage “Indulgence”
Nightmare “Astral Deliverance”
Nuclear Assault “Something Wicked”
Obituary “Slowly We Rot”
Obituary “Cause Of Death”
Oblivion “Nemesis”
Onslaught “The Force”
Original Sin “Sin You Find You Out”
Overkill “Feel The Fire”
Ozzy Osbourne “Blizzard Of Ozz”
Ozzy Osbourne “Diary of A Madman”
Ozzy Osbourne “Tribute”
Pagan Altar “Pagan Altar”
Pagan Altar “Volume 1”
Pagan Altar “Judgement of The Dead”
Pantera “Power Metal”
Pantera “Cowboys From Hell”
Pantera “Vulgar Display of Power”
Pantera “Far Beyond Driven”
Pentagram “Pentagram”
Pentagram “Day Of Reckoning”
Pentagram “Relentless”
Pestilence “Mallevs Maleficarum”
Piledriver “Metal Inquisition”
Piledriver “Stay Ugly”
Possessed “Seven Churches”
Raven “All For One”
Raven “Live At The Inferno””
Razor “Exectuioner’s Song”
Razor “Evil Invaders”
Repulsion “Slaughter Of The Innocent”
Replusion “Horrified”
Riot “Fire Down Under”
Riot “Thundersteel”
Riot “Privilege of Power”
Ripper “….and The Dead Shall Rise
Rush “A Farewell To Kings”
Rush “Hemispheres”
Rush “Permanent Waves”
Rush “Moving Pictures”
Rush “Exit…Stage Left”
Rush “Signals”
Rush “Grace Under Pressure”
Rush “Power Windows”
Rush “Hold Your Fire”
Rush “Presto”
Rush “Test For Echo”
Rush “Different Stages—Live”
Sabbat “History of A Time To Come”
Sacrifice “Torment In Fire”
Sacrifice “Forward To Termination”
Sacrifice “Soldiers of Misfortune”
Sacrifice “Apocalypse Inside”
Satan “Into The Fire”
Satan “Court In The Act”
Savatage “Sirens”
Scorpions “Taken By Force”
Sentinel Beast “Depths of Death”
Sepultura “Beneath The Remains”
Skullview “Kings Of The Universe”
Slaughter “Strappado”
Slauter Xstroyes “Winterkill”
Slauter Xstroyes “Free The Beast”
Slayer “Show No Mercy”
Slayer “Haunting The Chapel”
Slayer “Hell Awaits”
Slayer “Reign In Blood”
Slayer “South of Heaven”
Slayer “Season In The Abyss”
Syris “Unseen Forces”
Tank “Filth Hounds of Hades”
Tank “Power Of The Hunter”
Tank “This Means War”
Testament “The Legacy”
Tension “Breaking Point”
Terrorizer “World Downfall”
The Gathering “Mandylion”
The Gathering “Nighttime Birds”
The Gathering “In Motion” DVD
Trouble “Live 1983” Cassette Album
Trouble “Psalms 9”
Trouble “The Skull”
Trouble “Run To The Light”
Twisted Sister “Under The Blade”
Tygers Of Pan Tang “WIld Cat”
Tygers of Pan Tang “Spellbound”
U.F.O “The Wild, The Willing, The Innocent”
Unseen “Terror”
Venom “Welcome To Hell”
Venom “Black Metal”
Venom “At War With Satan”
Vicious Rumors “Soldiers of the Night”
Vicious Rumors “Digital Dictator”
Vio-Lence “Eternal Mightmare”
Voi Vod “War And Pain”
W.A.S.P “Wasp”
Warfare “Pure Filth”
Warfare “Metal Anarchy”
Warfare “Mayhem, Fuckin’ Mayhme
Warhead “Speedway”
Warhead “The Day After”
Warlock “Triumph And Agony”
Watchtower “Energetic Disassembly”
Watchtower “Control & Resistance”
Witch Cross “Fit For Fight”
Witchfinder General “Death Penalty”
Witchfinder General” Friends From Hell”
Witchkiller “Day Of THe Saxons”
Zoser Mez “Vizier Of Wastland”
Do you have albums like this?
This new Sodom track was released this week from the forthcoming EP “Out Of The Frontline Trench”, which will be available on November 22nd, The band is planning to release a full-length album later this year or early 2020.
James Hetfield of Metallica has re-entered rehab, forcing the band to postpone a tour in Australia, New Zealand, and all appearances through the end of 2019. The next scheduled Metallica show is a March 28th benefit in San Fransico. The band has not stated what substance(s) James was abusing though it is widely believed to be alcohol.
A statement on the band website read…
“As most of you probably know, our brother James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years. He has now, unfortunately, had to re-enter a treatment program to work on his recovery again.”
https://www.metallica.com/news/2019-09-27-a-note-from-lars-kirk-and-rob.html
There has been an outpouring of support for James on social media wish him well in his latest round of recovery.
Who is the most profitable rock band of all time? Fox News says it is Metallica – clocking it at 1.4 Billion in concert tickets alone.
Metallica may be right behind another famous rock band, U2, who with their 360 tour in 2011 became the highest-grossing concert tour in history pulling in $736 million. But the metal band’s profits continue to grow putting them alongside the Rolling Stones and Taylor Swift.
Metallica, the heavy metal band from Los Angeles, circa 1981, has grossed over $1.4 billion touring over their almost 40-year career, according to Pollster, making them arguably the world’s biggest, most profitable heavy metal band of all time.
From Fox News…
Formed by vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, the group is known for fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive rock known as thrash metal.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/metallica-biggest-heavy-metal-band-of-all-time
Exhorder “Desecrator” Live In Los Angeles Sept 13, 2009 Exhorder plays brutal thrash metal classic “Desecrator” live In Los Angeles Sept 13 2009 on tour supporting the new album “Mourn The Southern Sky” – which drops this week on Nuclear Blast!
Earier this week Dave Mustaine said “doctors are feeling very positive regarding my progress” on Twitter and also on Megadeth.com. As of now, plus for the Megacruise are still on schedule.
I wanted to take a moment to give you all an update on the current status of my health. I’m almost through the last round of treatment and my doctors are feeling very positive regarding my progress. I want to thank all of you for the support and well wishes these last few months. I can’t express enough gratitude as it has made this hard road easier knowing you are in my corner fighting with me!
https://megadeth.com/news/2019/a-message-from-dave-mustaine/
Over the next few weeks my condition will be evaluated, and I will keep you posted on my progress as we get closer to the sailing date of the first Megacruise! We can’t wait to see you, and I know all of the other wonderful artists feel the same way. Let’s make this event one for the record books. Less than 30 days till we are Thrashing through the Pacific!
See you all very soon.
Dave
This is the latest update after Dave announced publicly he was battling cancer earlier this year.
Anything and everything thrash metal, black metal, hard rock and death metal!
Lizzy Borden – Love You To Pieces LP Metal Blade Records MBR 1043
Motorhead - Another Perfect Day 1983 1st US Pressing LP GWR Records PAL-1223
Carcass – Symphonies Of Sickness Orig. Picture Disc 1990 Earache MOSH18P
E-X-E – Stricken By Might LP 1987 Shatter Records PAL-1231
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends LP 1986 Combat 88561-8114-1
