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Village People’s 1978 anthem with its perky disco backdrop replaced with angry shredding by Andy Rehfeldt for some reason.
Ah, ’80s rock: the glam, the hair, the chlamydia.
Manowar (pics 3 & 4) we know, but can you name those other poodles?
From top: Tunnel Of Love; Vepri Suicida (Wild Boar’s Suicide) (thanks spudnik); Manowar (x2); Satan only knows (x2); Rhapsody Of Fire; Shotgun Messiah; Night Jamming Band and Stryper (thanks Cuilleog).
‘Yuve Yuve Yu’ – The Hu
Give it a minute to get going.
The tradcore stylings of Mongolian metallers The Hu Band, who combine Western rock played on traditional instruments like the horsehead fiddle [morin khuur], Jew’s Harp [tumin khuur] and Mongolian guitar [tovshuur]) with Tuvan throat singing.
Mmm. Pitchy.
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A stunning short created (without CGI) using macro photography of pigment, powdered iron, magnets and glitter by German filmmaker Roman De Guili with music by Son-J.
VIRCOLAC – Dublin death metal
What you may need to know…
01. Recalling early death-metal, VIRCOLAC is the convergence of a number of Irish metal veterans.
02. Emerging in late 2013, the four-piece’s debut release, Codex Perfida, released in November of 2014 and promptly sold out of its limited CD and cassette releases.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is The Cursed Travails of the Demeter extended-player, released last Hallowe’en in a split release between Sepulchral Voice and Dark Descent Records. Also available for digital download and on CD, vinyl sold out.
04. Catch them at the Siege of Limerick all-dayer festival, this Sunday, alongside 20+ more Irish and international metal bands, across all three stages of Dolan’s in Limerick.
Thoughts: Peddling trenchant tales of the horrific and heinous, VIRCOLAC do so with genuine aplomb.
Shardborne – Limerick prog/technical metal
What you may need to know…
01. At last, an excuse to talk about Limrock proggers Shardborne and their ridiculous array of riffs.
02. As well-known for tireless work in mucking in on metal events in Limerick as they are for their intricate, technical metal, the band emerged at the tail end of the last decade, releasing debut E.P. Aeonian Sequence in 2011.
03. Streaming above is the band’s debut album, Living Bridges, released in 2015 via Out on a Limb Records, and available for download on the band’s Bandcamp.
04. Catch them playing Fred Zeppelin’s in Cork in support of Guilty Optics‘ album launch this Thursday. €7 in the door, kickoff at 9.
Thoughts: One of the leading lights of Irish metal, a considered fusion of technical metal precision and prog-rock exploration.
Destriers – progressive hardcore from Dublin
What you may need to know…
01. Formed last year and already shod of their debut extended-player are Dublin hardcore outfit Destriers.
02. The lads would know about heft and delivering it with velocity: guitarist Shaun Cadogan is a former member of Cork hardcore lads Harboured,
03. Streaming above is the band’s debut, Cynosure, released last December. Available for streaming and free download from Bandcamp.
04. Making their Galway debut on April 8th, supporting Ilenkus on their hometown E.P. launch gig, alongside Corkmen Rest.
Thoughts: The Botch/Hydra Head Records comparisons are valid, taking the weight and angularity of the aforementioned and focusing it with a brevity bordering on vicious.
Graveyard Dirt – Donegal doom
What you may need to know…
01. Donegal trio Graveyard Dirt are venerable veterans of weighty riffage, as first seen on 1995 demo tape Of Romance and Fire.
02. Reuniting in 2007 after disbanding years previously, the band got straight to work on debut E.P. Shadows of Old Ghosts.
03. Streaming above is the band’s most recent effort, 2015 extended-player My Scourge, My Plague. Available for download solo, or in a discounted bundle with the band’s other digital re-releases.
04. Headlining Galway’s Walpurgis Night VI on Bank Holiday Sunday April 30th, at the Loft Venue, alongside a roll-call of immensely hefty bands, among them TOME, Owlcrusher, Soothsayer, and Genuflection (the artists formerly known as RITES).
Thoughts: Time-honoured and battle-tested doom-metal, seemingly unwearied by the passing of time.
Lovely, filthy metal from Clonmel boys zhOra, with new tune Jettatura.
Recorded live to audio and video in Hi-Tone Studios, Balbriggan, and realised at 50fps, one of the first Irish music vids to go over the 30fps standard.
The proof is in the pudding.