The Keeper and Seer playing on top, 15 feet in the air and the Weaver on the lower level surrounded by lights and effects. The taste of shock and surprise was sweet. While audience attention was on the main stage, we slowly pulled out on a double decker mobile stage off to the side of the crowd. We were scheduled to play the main stage area. What’s your most memorable live show, so far, and what made it special?
If you click that, prepare for face melt.Ĭurrently honoring our plane of existence with their Awakening Tour, meanwhile continuing their battle to prevent the Great Shadow from consuming all life, Magic Sword answered some questions for us, albeit in laser-etched stone, still smoking from their touch. All you need to know about the 8-bit, skyscraping epic “Legend of the Keeper” can be found in Magic Sword’s GoPro Done In One session. “The Curse” sports the type of wailing electric guitar lines plaguing Neil Schon’s dreams “Uprising” manages to remain head-nodding and complex in equal measure. In just three tracks, Magic Sword’s recent “Legend” EP, on Size Records, heralds a new dedication to fully digested influences and dramatic timing wielded like … well, a magic sword. Cue airborne footage of the mountains surrounding Loch Ness. An elegiac “In the Face of Evil” runs on heroic guitars, while “Journey’s End,” the final track on “Volume 1,” renders a wistful tone with minor key Moog-ish melodies and go-large kettle drums, not unlike Enya covering the theme to Stranger Things. “The Way Home” was snapped up by Hotline Miami 2, so prepare to hear their music all over video games in the future.
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On Magic Sword’s re-released full length, “ Volume 1 ,” via Tender Loving Empire, tracks announced themselves with weaving keyboard figures or ominous, oscillating basslines. Like Daft Punk, they’re successful everywhere, from outdoor raves to small rock clubs. Nonetheless, around as long as current teenagers have been alive, Daft Punk isn’t playing at anyone’s house much anymore, and to fill that void, Magic Sword’s live show goes large with lights and beats, replicating their studio constructions with whammy-bar guitar and in-your-grill drumming. Zoom, notorious for a 2013 viral video featuring him literally popping his eyes out of their sockets (a condition known as proptosis) in time to Daft Punk.ĭaft Punk is certainly an inspirational touchstone for Magic Sword, although Magic Sword don’t completely share Daft Punk’s booty-shaking beat fetish. For a promo video in 2014, a hyperbolic screed aligned with Magic Sword’s comic book plotlines was delivered by Britain’s John Doyle, aka Mr. Magic Sword’s strategy is similar, and no less fun. Gwar has long disguised their marketing degrees behind alien costumes Nation of Ulysses entertainingly remained in political character during interviews. In performance, they remain masked and cloaked. Those pseudonyms are all that’s easily known about Magic Sword’s personnel. Enlisting Boise, Idaho based artist Shay Plummer, Magic Sword’s mythology lands with intriguing comic book installments, in which a ‘magic sword’ figures prominently and plotlines feature band member slash characters like the Keeper of the Magic Sword, the Seer of All Truths, and The Weaver of all Hearts and Souls. They’re also a full experience – a 360 degree roundhouse of live spectacle, fictional identities, and illustrated accompaniment on the page.
For one thing, they’re uniformly vocals-free.
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Magic Sword may have materialized momentarily to witness synthmetal’s earliest incarnation, but they aren’t content to only update with touches of Kavinsky -esque synthesizer and modern-pedal guitar shred. ” Or, if you professionally crate dig: Neal Schon and Jan Hammer’s “Untold Passion ” album. ” Ronnie James Dio’s “ Rainbow in the Dark. To wit: The soundtrack for the film “ Heavy Metal. Around 1981, synthwave and pop-metal had a one-night-stand.
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