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• The Human Abstract – Procession Of The Fates
• Hatebreed – Destroy Everything (Live)
• Architects – Always
• The Sword – Fire lances Of The Great Hyperzephyrians
• Pantera – 5 Minutes Alone
• In Flames – Alias
• Children Of Bodom – Smile Pretty For The Devil
• Five Finger Death Punch – Way Of The Fist
• Gojira – To Sirius
• All That Remains – Chiron

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Heaven And Hell

• UNDEROATH – DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES (Premiere)
• LAMB OF GOD – WALK WITH ME IN HELL (live)
• DRAGONFORCE – HEROES OF OUR TIME
• CARNIFEX – ANSWERS IN MOURNING (Premiere)
• WHITE CHAPEL – THIS IS EXILE
• OZZY OSBOURNE – BARK AT THE MOON
• THE SWORD – FIRE LANCES OF THE ANCIENT HYPERZEPHYRIANS (Debut)
• SHADOWS FALL – FOREVERMORE
• HATEBREED – I WILL BE HEARD (live) (Premiere)
• HEAVEN AND HELL – THE MOB RULES
• MESHUGGAH – BLEED

Click ‘Read More’ to watch the four videos that are premiering or debuting tonight, if you haven’t seen them already online.

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Metallica with Down and The Sword:
October 21 – Glendale, AZ Jobing Arena
October 23 – Albquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
October 25 – Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
October 26 – Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
November 1 – Portland, OR Rose Quarter
November 3 – Salt Lake City, UT Energy Solutions Arena
November 4 – Denver, CO Pepsi Center
November 6 – Omaha, NE Qwest Center
November 8 – Moline, IL iWireless Center
November 9 – Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
November 17 – St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
November 18 – Tulsa, OK BOK Center
November 20 – Houston, TX Toyota Center
November 22 – Little Rock, AR Alltel Arena
November 23 – New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena

Metallica with Lamb of God and The Sword:
December 1 – Seattle, WA Key Arena
December 2 – Vancouver, BC GM Place
December 4 – Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
December 7 – Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
December 12 – Ontario, CA Citizens Bank Arena
December 13 – Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
December 15 – San Diego, CA Cox Arena
December 17 – Los Angeles, CA The Forum
December 20 – Oakland, CA Oracle Arena

Metallica with Machine Head and The Sword:
January 12 – Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
January 13 – Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
January 15 – Washington, DC Verizon Center
January 17 – Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
January 18 – Boston, MA TD Banknorth Center
January 26 – Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
January 29 – Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
January 31 – Newark, NJ Prudential Center

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How many bands like The Sword were never really even heard of until Guitar Hero 2 came out. DragonForce sales soared after Guitar Hero 3 and the band even admits that Guitar Hero 3 is probably what made them bigger. Even some of the older bands have gained new fans from the Guitar Hero games. Some kids never even heard of half the bands on there. After they played them and discovered that they liked them I guarantee they did one of two things. Either illegally downloaded the song of bought it legally.

I have no problems if they try to hit up the video game developers for more money if it is going to the bands, but if it’s just lining the pockets of the assholes at Warner Records then I think it’s B.S.

Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman drew comparisons between MTV’s launch 25 years ago or Apple Inc’s iPod launch five years ago, and today’s video game companies like Activision Blizzard Inc and Harmonix, a unit of Viacom Inc.

“The amount being paid to the music industry, even though their games are entirely dependent on the content we own and control, is far too small.”

Notice that word…’Control’.

Image Source: Warner Music Group logo from WMG.com

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Favorite 5 Albums of 2008 so far

1. Cavalera Conspiracy
2. Firewind – The premonition
3. Testament – The Formation Of Damnation
4. Children Of Bodom – Blooddrunk
5. The Sword – Gods Of The Earth

Black Tide Light From Above get’s an honorable mention

Most Anticipated Albums To Come

1. All That Remains – Overcome
2. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
3. The Acacia Strain – Continent
4. Light This City (No title yet)

Best Album that went under the radar

1. Byzantine – Oblivion Beckons

It’s a shame they disbanded.

Albums I’m Ready To Be Disappointed By

1. Metallica – Death Magnetic
2. Trivium (No title yet)

I’m really hoping the Metallica album is good, but I have hoped that since 1990. The way Trivium is talking, I don’t know what to think of this upcoming release. I wasn’t a big fan until The Crusade. Call me crazy but it was great to hear a band that actually sound like Metallica should.

Albums that I’m already disappointed by

1. Judas Priest – Nostradamus

I’ve only heard about half of disc one and I’m really not feeling it…we’ll see. I’ll do a better review of the album later on.

Albums I Refuse to Buy

1. Disturbed – Indestructible

Not a big fan and the new single annoys the shit outta me!

Best Lesser Known Band

1. Soldiers Of Scrape

Check ‘em out! Soldiers Of Scrape Myspace

Unsigned Bands that Deserve a good record deal

1. Absolute Vengeance
2. Blood Loss

There may be some things I forgot but these are a few that I could think of off of the top of my head. Remember, these are things that I have liked. I’m not discrediting any other bands besides the ones I already did on the list, which was very few. I said it before and I’m saying it again…2008 is a great year for metal.

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In Return features 7 songs. None of them over 4 minutes long but every song is a heavy blow to the ear drums. You can check out Torche on the embedded widget below. Some of the tracks on the playlist are off of the In Return EP. Check them out.

Track Listing For In Return Torche Myspace Torches Home Page
1. Warship
2. In Return
3. Bring Me Home
4. Rule The Beast
5. Olympus Mons
6. Tarpit Carnivore
7. Hellion

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You may have noticed that not a whole lot was going on here at Metal Martyr yesterday. There was good reason. I went to see The Sword last night in Raleigh, NC. Let me tell you, if your a fan of The Sword and you have not went to a live show yet, GET THERE!

Opening up the show was a band from Philadelphia, Pa called Stinking Lizaveta. They were a three piece band that did mostly instrumental stuff with a dude in his 40’s with a scullet with a little patch in the middle playing guitar and singing a little bit, a woman drummer another guy playing an electric upright Bass guitar. They had a funky garage band sound that was really cool I didn’t get to hear much of them as I was late.

Next up was Torche. A band with members out of Miami and Georgia. They were LOUD! I think they’re sound was all fucked up because you could not hear the vocals and the bass was overwhelming everything…except the drums. The drummer, Rick Smith was beating the living shit outta those skins. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has to change skins every other show. Now they didn’t sound all that good last night but I bought a cd/vinyl on the way out and it sounds great. I blame their sound man for a shitty set up. Anyway they kind of have southern sludge sound to it. Check out their myspace

Now, all bullshit aside. The Sword came on quick and got their stuff set up and just started rockin the place and sounding great. You know those bands that sound just as well live as a studio recording? The Sword is one of those bands. The crowd was diggin every song and every now and then between songs some chum would yell “Freya“, but that’s expected. They did play it at the end and the crowd went ape-shit. These guys put on an awesome live show. Thanks to Sneak Attack Media for getting me there. Check out the pictures below.

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The Sword is headed out on the second leg of the Gods Of The Earth tour, this time taking out Torche and Stinking Lizaveta. The tour will make it’s way down the east coast, ending up in Houston, TX. After that, they’ll be playing this year’s Bonnaroo Festival followed by a short European tour with Metallica.

THE SWORD ON TOUR

05.09.08 – Ft Worth, TX – Lola’s +
05.10.08 – Memphis, TN – Hi Tone +
05.11.08 – Nashville, TN – Exit / In +
05.12.08 – Covington, KY – The Mad Hatter +
05.13.08 – Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick +
05.14.08 – Columbus, OH – Ravari Room +
05.15.08 – Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel +
05.16.08 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church +
05.17.08 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg +
05.18.08 – Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs +
05.20.08 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theater +
05.21.08 – Savannah, GA – The Jinx +
05.22.08 – Tallahassee, FL – The Beta Bar +
05.23.08 – Gainesville, FL – Common Grounds +
05.24.08 – Orlando, FL – The Social +
05.25.08 – St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre +
05.26.08 – Atlanta, GA – Lenny’s +
05.27.08 – Birmingham, AL – Bottle Tree +
05.28.08 – Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon +
05.29.08 – Houston, TX – Rudyard’s +
06.12.08 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
07.16.08 – Bergen, Norway – Koengen City of Bergen Festival *
07.18.08 – St. Petersburg, Russia – SKK Hall *
07.20.08 – Riga, Latvia – Skonto Stadium *
07.22.08 – Bologna, Italy – Parco Nord *
07.23.08 – Bucharest, Romania – Cotroceni Football Stadium *
07.25.08 – Sofia, Bulgaria – Levski Stadium *
07.27.08 – Istanbul, Turkey – Inonu Stadium *

+ w/ Torche & Stinking Lizaveta
* w/ Metallica

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