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Clandestine Cuts Vol. 3 #4 - The Best Demos And EPs From Around The Metal World
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Is independent, unsigned, and underground metal what you seek? Weary traveler of the metal world, rest a while here. Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from these bands, the heart and soul of metal music. These musicians are slaves to their passions, and their blood keeps the metal machine alive and turning. Support them with a simple listen, and discover the future. This issue features music from Evilhorse, Enmity, Ancient Ascendant, 00y 18, Enceladus, and Red Rebel Patriots.
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Helloween, Gamma Ray - London, England, 16th April 2013
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Over five years ago Helloween and Gamma Ray embarked on the first Hellish Rock tour; the first tour to bring together these two bands that have shared so much history with each other. As with 2008 the UK has to make do with just the one London date, and so we have to embark on that pilgrimage saved for only the special shows such as these.
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Ghost B.C. - Ogden Theater, Denver, USA - 18th April 2013
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A couple of month ago when Ghost B.C. announced their Haze Over North America tour I was actually rather surprised on the choice of venue for their Denver gig. Last time the Swedes were in town (January 2012) they performed at the 500-seater Marquis Theater and this time they opted for the rather large Ogden Theater with a capacity of around 2000.
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Clutch: Earth Rocker World Tour, Portland, OR, March 30, 2013
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On the night before the show I witnessed the Metal Alliance, a concert featuring a bunch of bands I listen to regularly. Had they been a more militant alliance, there's no telling how far down Burnside (the street where the show was) they could have gotten, shredding and burning and pillaging and partying and the like.
Alas, they haven't been militarized yet. Burnside survived. A thoroughly good thing in the long term, if you ask me, because it was just a few blocks down the same street that Clutch played the night following. And Clutch is a rock and roll force of nature. Plain and simple. Every time I've seen them, they put on one of the best shows I've seen. It was the case in '07 when I caught them on their Beale Street tour at the rowdy, now disappeared Outlaw's bar and grill, then again when I caught them on their Heard It Before thing, then it happened more or less again, as I'd hoped, with this most recent show of theirs. They age like wine, these guys.
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Sonata Arctica - Nottingham, England, 14th April 2013
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A strangely warm Sunday evening, and the Nottingham venue had a very laid back feel about it. Spring may have finally arrived, along with the first date of Sonata Arctica's mini UK tour.
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Ensiferum, Týr, Heidevolk and others - Denver, USA - 30th March 2013
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Paganfest - America Part IV; and the pillage started in Denver, CO. A somewhat unusual town to start a tour and not many bands choose the Mile High City to begin their North American run, but hey - beggars can't be choosers. Especially since the headliner Ensiferum hadn't been in town for almost five years.
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Visions From The Darkside - Metal Talk Radio - 15th April 2013
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This week we dissect the brand new metal feud between The Atlas Moth and Emmure, metal merchandise, what is the best thing your band can make to reach your audience. Also, Godless hates Volbeat, and will tell you why their new album sucks. Plus headlines, and our typical insanity.
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Progventure Part 8: Steven Wilson - Huxley's Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany, 21.03.2013
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In the times of the on-going non-existence of Porcupine Tree, one has to wonder if the band will be coming back at all in the near future. Especially if you take into account how Steven Wilson is faring as a solo artist. He's just released his third album that has sold really well. He's got a stable live band going for a while now. More impressive, though, is the fact that 2/3 of his recent European tour has simply been sold out. That is impressive. And doesn't it make you think that instead of dying for another Porcupine Tree concert, his solo gig might actually be worth checking out?
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Visions From The Darkside - Metal Talk Radio - 8th April 2013
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Godless and Chuck breakdown the new Manchester law protecting metalheads, punks, and goths from violence, the reunited Infectious Grooves, and the latest Clutch release, plus headlines and the average stupidity you have come to know and love every week.
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Progventure Part 7: Dianoya, Jolly, Riverside - Biebob, Vosselaar, Belgium, 19.03.2013
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Having seen Threshold and company just two days earlier at the same venue, I was rather curious to find out how this would turn out and compare to the previous show. Would the venue sound as great as before? Would Riverside draw in more people than Threshold? Would it be at least as awesome? To be honest, what I was becoming more interested in was to know whether Biebob is indeed an excellent place for great gigs. Any guesses?
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Metal Alliance in Portland
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I'm no photographer. Cameras bother me from both sides of their aim and, I know for sure now, they should be bothered when I'm around too. I had to lone wolf it to this show (with someone else's camera). You're going to see some blurry shit, see-through people, red eye and the like.
So, you know, warning issued.
The show was in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom, right across Burnside from a pretty large EMI and just a couple blocks from the famous Powell's City of Books. Went into the evening feeling fuzzy and urbane, used some slot machine earnings to buy a plump bag of old metal discs and books, the sun was finally out, sky was blue, got to tip my hat at some necktie types, got some good coffee, had a beer and watched the Ducks fight Louisville admirably, walked past a Whole Foods twice and almost gave some money to an elderly homeless woman. It was all very zestful. That area of Portland during spring is exceedingly, obnoxiously pleasant.
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Visions From The Darkside - Metal Talk Radio - 1st April 2013
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Happy Easter Everyone! This week we have a special episode for you. Headlines, of course, and whether you should advertise for your band members online, but we also asked Metalmaster Steve from Christian metal show "Faster for the Master" to come and debate the validity of supplanting God into metal, and things get a little heated...check it out and throw in your two cents.
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Progventure Part 6: Cryptex, Enochian Theory, Threshold - Biebob, Vosselaar, Belgium, 17.03.2013
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Do you hear it? No?! Well, I do! Every once and a while the calling can be heard. And when it is heard, the time has come to spread your wings, to rise up and fly, to soar beneath the golden globe and above the silver clouds, to fly high, to travel far. This is the time to see destinations yet unseen, to visit places yet unvisited. This is the time when masters of the holy electric instruments, the commanders of the intricate melodies, and the illusionists of simple complexity are calling for passionate like-minded gatherings known as concerts. Or, in other words, once in a while, it's a prime time for another Progventure for me.
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Clandestine Cuts Vol. 3 #3 - Awesome New Demos & EPs
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Is independent, unsigned, and underground metal what you seek? Weary traveler of the metal world, rest a while here. Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from these bands, the heart and soul of metal music. These musicians are slaves to their passions, and their blood keeps the metal machine alive and turning. Support them with a simple listen, and discover the future. This issue features music from new bands Witch Ripper, Euclidean, Second Grave, Devil's Rage, Siren's Dawn, and Olde Growth.
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Castle - The Highline Bar, Seattle, USA, 29th March 2013
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Castle rocked the American west coast before heading to Europe! Catch their tour if you can. Believe me.
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Visions From The Darkside - Metal Talk Radio - 25th March 2013
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They're back! After a couple weeks off, Godless and Chuck rejoin the fray with coverage of South By Southwest (SXSW), talk about the Summer tour announcements, and whether the Kvelertak album Meir is the perfect metal album, plus headlines and more stupidity with which you can sing along.
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