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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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