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Artist: Korpiklaani Website: www.korpiklaani.com Track Name: Hunting Song Playback: wmv Download?: Yes As Eurovision has just come and gone, I’ve found another Finnish metal band to rival last years Eurovision winner Lordi. Korpiklaani are awesome. Just goes to show you don’t need bat wings to win me over. On a side note I picked the [...]

Artist: Uncle Fritz Website: www.myspace.com/yourunclefritz Track Name: Memory Man Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes Another find courtesy of the the tartanpodcast Sleepy Sunday (thanks Mark). Memory Man is the first track of Uncle Fritz’s (aka Fraser Stewart) sold out first album “Nine Songs”. It’s a beautifully evocative piece, just a guitar and some samples (gliss keyboard?). [...]

Artist: Cursed as Angels Website: www.cursedasangels.com Track Name: With Arms Tied Behind Playback: flash Download?: No Wow, Metal and all the sharp bits have been filed to a razor edge. Russ Edwards on drums is a legend, double pedal kick on steroids. With Paul Scott on bass, these two have the rhythm section down cold. [...]

Artist: Anathema Website: www.anathema.ws/ Track Name: Everything Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes Anathema have been around since the early Nineties. Scored a record deal in the 1992, in the mid Nineties the “heavy goth” influence starts to take over, some of the fans depart. During 1998 the band underwent many line-up changes ( they even got [...]

Artist: b-Shake Website: www.bshake.com/ Track Name: Insane Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes Brussels. Not exactly the center of rock and roll is it? (I will skip all the Zaphod Beeblebrox Belgium jokes). But it turns out we may be a tad hasty in our presumption. b-Shake are a tidy little four piece that has that tightness [...]

Artist: Cynicism Website: www.cynicism.del Track Name: Inhaling the Poison Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes I must be getting old (shock, horror), I am finding it hard to take this style of music seriously these days. I was listening to one of Black Sabbath’s million and one re-issues and on hearing Paranoid and Iron Man thinking to [...]

This is a slightly different format today. I basically discovered both of these bands over the weekend. First up is Cornelius. The video for Point of View Point was played on Rage on Saturday night and I found the music quite compelling. I looked up the band on the net and found a potted bio [...]