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We're a band called ELECTRIC WHEELS OF CONFUSION. www.facebook.com/ewcband www.ewcband.bandcamp.com

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MONUMENT music video

Check it out! It has rock and primitive graphics!

https://youtu.be/LguFBe5GQZo

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NEW ALBUM OUT

So yeah, we worked on this thing we decided to call “Curmudgeon” and now it’s out. You can stream it on Spotify and other such places, then grab it on iTunes or our Bandcamp site (www.ewcband.bandcamp.com).

Curmudgeon is a hard badass of an album. Just hit “Electric Wheels Of Confusion” on the search fields and you’re good to go.

spotify:album:6GhkEUkEAD78bOd86sV190

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NEW SONG: Stud

Yeah, it’s song #2 from the new album Curmudgeon.

https://soundcloud.com/ewcband/stud

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Loud and live from Club Oranssi, Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland, 25/04/2015

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Not too big, but oh the noise they make...! #orange #orangeamplifiers #thursday #rig #heavymetal

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Waiting for Failure

SUPER EXCITED

I've been a fan of this band for way over 10 years. First listened to Fantastic Planet via some forum recommendation (I thought the topic "Fantastic Planet by Failure" was cool and that it would be about some dystopian ideas etc HA) and it's been heaven ever since. All their albums are musical excellence and I strongly recommend them to EVERYONE. Always. You can listen to their stuff on Spotify. spotify:artist:3grvcGPaLhfrD5CYsecr4j

Do check out their Pledgemusic site, it's chock-full of super cool stuff

www.pledgemusic.com/projects/failure

There's always a melodic influence from them that I think you can hear in our music. Plus the damned darkness of their lyrics.

- Antti

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Antti reviews: BUMMER - MILK IT LIKE A MOFO

Sometimes you like to get punished, right? Just admit it. You like to get your buttocks whacked with a stick and yelled mean things to. Fulfill that craving by simply listening to Bummer. They achieve this certain level of aggression with the strength of a cornered wild boar and pass on this power too.

Their EP Milk is a four song attack that I randomly found on Bandcamp. Fucking great music here. Evil riffs and ballsy, meticulous rhythm attack. The album sounds properly heavy and guitars are the dictators of the mix. The band leans more towards metal than noise rock in their playing style on this EP, with the latter being more like their overall attitude. The CD does have two sides though in my opinion, the first two songs being more tightly riff oriented and the last two having a slightly noisier & dirtier approach. Props for the cool effects on Phantom Limb.

Bummer keep the songs fairly simple with emphasis on the nasty vocal delivery. The singer has some delicious lines going on, for example ”YOU'RE ENTITLED TO NOTHING” on the first track ”Infinite Witches” and pretty much the whole of ”Estocada” which makes me both want to cry and murder every matador in the same time.

Bummer will kick your ass as it did mine and hey, that's fucking beautiful, right? I hear they are releasing new stuff soon and I'm VERY excited to hear more from them. These guys have a special energy.

Check more about them fast:

https://bummerkc.bandcamp.com/album/milk

https://www.facebook.com/BummerKC

-Antti Väärälä, 2015

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Antti reviews: DEATH'S SYMBOLIC IS a FUCKING LEGEND

Death's sixth album, released in 1995 by Roadrunner Records, thought by many listeners to be one of the band's strongest efforts. Now, almost 20 years later it can be easily verified that this album is a true legend and continues to delight metal & music fans again and again.

First thing you notice about this album is that it's HUGE. The opening riff is a tower in itself and the production of this album completely supports this. Everything is so clear and open. Symbolic was apparently recorded with the help of a bigger studio budget and this led to the album being so beautifully uncluttered. This being mentioned one might think that Symbolic would be less heavy or badass than earlier Death efforts – friends of honest metal be not afraid! In fact the album is as heavy as a fucking huge thing from unknown dimensions that opens it's gaping maw not to devour our planet but to scream some sense at us in a godlike monster voice.

When on the first track Mr. Schuldiner yells those now legendary starting words ”I don't mean to dwell” you'll most likely be either floored by his urgency and sincerity or run for cover behind your stack of force-fed corporate shite albums. I mean his voice truly comes from the balls and even deeper, from the soul. On ”Zero Tolerance” he tries to tell us that a serpent spews out fantasy while we reside in darkness (ignorance) with the sources of light (knowledge) compeletely under control of and abused by these said serpents. He was correct and it seems he had a terrible drive to stop the sleep we're in. We are kept in perfect control and we know only and exactly what we should know. Zero tolerance for that bullshit! This kind of anger and disgust comes through in the vocals department and the riffs and the music are the perfect backdrop.

Mr. Schuldiner keeps this urgency and feeling of importance all through the album. What many, many bands lack is a truly soulful vocalist who seems to be able to just go at it with full force not binding the performance to unnecessary rules of genre or expectations. Just listen to Perennial Quest, wrap your mind around the lyrics and tell me it's not amazing and unique in the world of metal and music in general too.

This album has many of Death's biggest tracks but the great thing about Symbolic is that it's a truly strong album in a whole and every song carries the album further. There's a decent amount of technicality and interesting arrangement choises in these songs and it seems there's always a cool solo or a kick ass riff around the corner. The bass work on this album was provided by Kelly Conlon and it pretty much follows the guitars in a quite standard way and it could be a bit less tame but there's more than enough awesomeness in the drum performance to make up for it. Behind the kit is technical drum god legend Gene Hoglan who also performed on the Death album Individual Thought Patterns. Some very stylish guitar soloing for Symbolic was provided by Bobby Koelble. His leads have a different approach from Mr. Schuldiner's and this adds a nice dimension to the album.

As for any closing superlatives - Symbolic is royalty and elite. Symbolic is strong and oozes this strength towards the listener to grasp and help expand the mind. If I went too deep into third-eye yin-yang bullshit for you and you just want to mosh to fucking awesome riffs and catchy choruses, then that's just fine and you can't go wrong with Symbolic either way! As a final note it has been said many times that this album is a good starting point for new fans interested in Death and Chuck Schuldiner's work and I too, being part of that group, deeply endorse this suggestion.

-Antti Väärälä, 2014

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Classic band shot

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Video for the song AWFUL THINGS

Angular, aggressive track from the upcoming 2015 release. FUCKING KILLER