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Posted by tekhammer at 2 April 2011

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The Sword have, after four months, released Night City — the third and final part of their trio of videos from Warp Riders.

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Part 1: Tres Brujas

Part 2: Lawless Lands

Posted by tekhammer at 29 March 2011

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Earlier this month, a very dedicated fan of Razorwyre made a trio of videos for their song Operation Market Garden. The song is off their EP (which is available on the Razorwyre website for free download) titled Coming Out.

The videos include footage off the movie A Bridge Too Far. They’re the same video, but one includes Polish subtitles, and the other includes German subtitles.

The English version:

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The Polish version:

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and the German version:

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Razorwyre are also working on a new album, so I’ll post more info as I get it.

Posted by tekhammer at 28 March 2011

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So how many copies of Candlemass‘ iconic album are we fans prepared to buy? Luckily for me I’m not a complete fanboy (honest), so I’ve only got one copy of it — and that’s the limited edition vinyl version — so it’s about time I had it on CD.

The 25th anniversary edition of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a double CD, the first of which is the album itself (with no indication of remastering), while the second disc is the album with commentaries by Leif Edling (the bassist/songwriter/founder). I’m a sucker for CDs with commentary. I’ve been a big fan of all the Darkthrone re-releases (and Fenriz’s legion of other bands) with their commentary tracks, so I think that a new trend is in motion in the metal world. Give it a few months and Metallica will realise there’s money to be made — um, I mean, they will realise the artistic integrity of commentary tracks — and jump on the bandwagon.

Epicus’ 25th anniversary edition is available for pre-order from Peaceville. It has a May 16th release date.

Posted by tekhammer at 24 March 2011

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Witchfinder General and I sat down over a month ago (after talking about it for a month before that) to write a dual review. That is, a record that we both review. The idea was to find an album or band that one of us liked and the other disliked, and write something that would come off with us duking it out until the person with the most punches won.

But it didn’t turn out anything like that.

There was a whole bunch of very recent stuff that we both enjoyed, so we decided to skip all that. So when he brought up the idea of Electric Wizard’s recent release — Black Masses — I had already determined that I wasn’t going to like it. I’ve heard a bunch of their older stuff before. Little tidbits here and there, mostly on YouTube, and it didn’t really grab me. I’m not into drone, and I’m not a stoner, so I figured, if I can’t tick any of the boxes, I’m not going to like it. But as it turns out..
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Posted by tekhammer at 24 March 2011

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The Accüsed, a crossover thrash band who have gone from hardcore punk to metalcore to thrash in their 30 year career have released a new video clip. The song is Hemline from 2009′s The Curse of Martha Splatterhead.

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Posted by tekhammer at 23 March 2011

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Oh hellz yeah. Quiet Riot, LA Guns, and Warrant are touring Australia and New Zealand over April/May.

Tour dates:

April 29 – The Palace – Melbourne, Australia
April 30 – Anu Bar – Canberra, Australia
May 2 – The Powerstation – Auckland, New Zealand
May 5 – HQ Complex – Adelaide, Australia
May 6 – Metro City – Perth, Australia
May 7 – The Tivoli – Brisbane, Australia
May 8 – The Metro – Sydney, Australia

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Posted by tekhammer at 23 March 2011

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Fenriz (of Darkthrone fame) has been running a Band of the Week for a while now on MySpace, and finally he has organised a real URL:

http://www.bandoftheweek.net/

Not too much on it at the moment, other than the list of bands being carried over, and even though I never followed the BotW on MySpace, I’m looking forward to this.

Posted by tekhammer at 18 March 2011

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Hilarious. During Manowar‘s soundcheck at a recent Cleveland, Ohio show, they managed to blow the power, affecting an entire city block. They had to bring in generators, as it took 24 hours to fix.

A video “field report” on the situation was posted:

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1639009538501

Of course, everyone knows that other bands play, Manowar kill. So I’d call that a win.

Posted by tekhammer at 17 March 2011

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Firewind have released a video for Embrace the Sun, from last year’s Days of Defiance album.

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And here’s the making of:

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Posted by tekhammer at 15 March 2011

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This is so wrong. Annihilator‘s Jeff Waters wrote a song for his kids. And now there is a video for it.

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