Report from LA!! We are not lost!!

It all started with Pipes landing in LA on 7/10/08.

This is a major dude from the Great White North! Friday night was the Summer Slaughter Tour at HOB in LA. A place where Capt. and I visited. Night started out at Saddle Ranch of course, remember pork sliders Capt.? All the boys were there, friends of course(see pics)! There were some major players there, highlights were the mighty Vader, they killed the place. Kataklysm was awesome and so was Black Dahlia Murder (held their own!). The night travelled on and we met some buds from Divine Heresy, Asesino, and other killer bro's! Everyone hung at the show and converged to the Rainbow Room (yeah you've heard of it?). It has been insane, words can't describe show on Sunday! I'll post that one later. Hold onto your seats!
Just check out some cool pics from here!

Reaching the port...

Sailors...
Port waters are temporarily off-limits to CARRACHO vessels. Get yourself a WIRED raft and try to dock to the new experimental harbour... The coordinates are the same, but don't get lost! The new waters may be treacherous...

Cheers!

MANOWAR•Erathshaker Fest DVD Audio Rip

Until last month, I really belived that Iron Maiden's Live After Death DVD was the best ever live performance record on earth and the only video disc (together with the movie Tha Name of the Rose) I would bring with me on the ship excaping Port Royal on the day of Armageddon... Now, I'm steel-certain that there is one more: Manowar's The Absolute Power (Earthshaker Fest 2005, Geiselwind, Germany)!

I put my hands on a copy during my trip to L.A., last month, and, believe me, you couldn't dream to spend better your pieces of eight! Unique packagin, over 6 hours of footage filmed in full HD quality with 27 cameras; multiflap Digipak with 12 page booklet, first full-length headliner concert recording featuring all band members – past and present - playing together. Plus over 4 hours of bonus content (full 5.1 Surround Sound of course). You have to see the majestic work done to put this concert together! And the tunes...! Oh, men... Awesome! The most incredible live set a Manowar fan could ever imagine: 28 pieces from Sign Of The Hammer to The Crown And The Ring!
I couldn't resist! I have to admit it: I really hate watching METAL dvd and videos! Don't have that much patience. So I decided to undertake the burden of ripping it and re-tagging it for mine and yours audio enjoyment! And believe me, you WILL ENJOY it! Yes, well, freaky Manowar sometimes like to pull songs end far too long... and more than once they manage to suck out of your mouth a "Oh, hell cut this crap here...!" But that's the only bad point you can find in it (together with the absence of "Fighting the World" and "Blow Your Speakers tracks"... I very much liike them). The rest is REALLY pure ass-kicking METAL... and you'll love the vocal performance of Adams! That guy is amazing!

Get it before the link expire, 'cause you're not going to find it anywhere else! (And when you seed it on torrent - bacause I know you'll do it, you scum of the earth!) - pay tribute to the Captain and to Port Royal... or I'll have your ass for my sharks breakfast

HELLHOUND (JPN)

While waiting for some report from BEAVER & POT-HEAD (alias Pipes and J13), still missing in action during their METAL raids in L.A., I will keep you company with some Japanese tunes of people I know personally.

HELLHOUND•Tokyo Flying V Massacre (2006). 100% freaky Jap metal heads, playing in modern time old school f*cking cool & kicking metal. Explicitly inspired to EXCITER, their decleared mission is to be the defenders of the true metal! So, "aged" headbangers, believeme: you will have an awesome time listening to them, both in record or live! And since they are about to relase a new album (Sept.) and to start a new series of gigs that, beginning with the live house behind the Port, will bring them as far as Germany and France (take a look at the prgrams below... hell I'm really pissed I can't check them out in Europe too!), you HAVE to give them your support too and buy their shit!

I mean, did you see??!! Did you see with what a mythological people they are going to play with in Würzburg? Nasty Savage... Tokyo Blade... Artillery...!!!

CARNIVORE and EXODUS

Two more pieces of eight for your treasure chest!

Carnivore•Omonymous (1985): freaky funny album and a must-have for any serious headbanger! If you like old Venom, you certainly like them. This copy is the Metal Mind Productions re-release (May 19, 2008, for in Europe and July 8 in the USA): digipak limited 2,000 copies (no: 0918!) on golden disc, digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. Differently from what I read somewhere, it does not feature the band's "Nuclear Warriors" demo as bonus tracks. Indeed it's the same as the 2001 re-issue. But it's awesome anyway.

Exodus•Bonded By Blood (1985): same year of good music... just like vine. First and must-have piece of this historic thrash institution! This is the Century Media 1999 limited "Silver" Edition, with restored blue cover and 2 live bonuses. The original cover. Later, the album was rereleased on CD with just the logo and album name set against a black and red crowd shot. This reissue
includes two bonus live tracks, with Steve "Zetro" Souza on vocals (recorded live in London on March 8,1989): 10. And Then There Were None [4:51] 11. A Lesson in Violence [3:26]
Have fun!

Hoist Anchor and Set Sail

Yes that is correct a certain someone from the Great White North will be stopping into LA for a series of shows with Johnny 13.  Yes thats correct Big Pipes has set sail and will be docking in Los Angeles tomorrow.  The shows are always legendary and here are some samples:

Of course Johnny has magic planned for the Mayhemfest on Sunday!!  Stay tuned for full details!  BTW, Five Finger Death Punch is there on Sunday!

J13

TORTURE SQUAD and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

"Stay hungry" singed Twisted Sister...
And I'm. Extremely hungry. Particularly of f*cking kick-ass tunes as those proposed by these two bands. Lately I've got my iPod full of juicy novelties, but after a few tracks here is where I constantly finish by returning. Too much fun!

Torture Squad, Hellbound (2008). Very talented Brasilian quartet playing a razor-sharp thrash with frequent technical death metal-like rushes and tempo changes (thrash voice). Very clean sound, pounding drum and killer arpeggios. You can't get bored with it! They've been around since a while... my bad I didn't know them earlier. Besides, they've been so kind to reply to the Cpt. greetings (so buy their shit!):

«Hi Roger, this is Castor, bass player of Torture Squad!
Domo Arigato... I am trying to speak japanese...hehe
That´s really nice to know that you´re enjoying our new album!!!
We wish we could play in Nihon asap!
Sayonara and take care!
Castor»

Five Finger Death Punch, The Way of the Fist. What to say? I loved them since first listen (much in debt to J13, who introduced them to me). Groovy sound; not properly thrash; not properly core; nor death... There's much variety: energy, riffs, melody, speed, growls, clean singing... And lyrics are cool too! Hell, it's L.A. guys! It has to be good!!! Ah, a note: this version is the 2007 limited edition. Tracks 11-14 are bonus. On 2008 edition 11 and 12 are replaced by two previously unrelesed tracks.

Get them before the link expires!