Here’s a new track from the album to hold you over till the big one drops.

(In The) Wasteland

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Thanks for the support…. keep it heavy!

We dug into the archives, and pulled out a couple of classic metal cover tunes that we tracked WAY back for fun – Saxon’s “Dallas 1PM“* and the Rods’ “Let Them Eat Metal“. A couple of great tunes from bands that have definitely influenced the Blade. With the help of our good buddy and engineer  Cole St. Denys, we dusted ‘em off, mixed ‘em up and they’re right here waiting for you…. it’s a free download. Pass it on. The songs are in MP3 format (CBR 320kBit)

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Saxon -”Dallas 1PM” – from the album “Strong Arm of the Law”
Saxon are an English heavy metal band, formed in 1976 in Barnsley, Yorkshire. As front-runners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, they had 8 UK Top 40 albums in the 1980s including 4 UK Top 10 albums. Saxon also had numerous singles in the Top 20 singles chart. Between 1980 and 1987 Saxon established themselves as one of Europe’s biggest metal acts, they also had success in Japan and in the USA. In Japan, the single “Motorcycle Man” stayed in the charts for over 5 months. They still tour heavily and regularly. Their latest tour is their largest in the UK since the late 1980s. Saxon have sold more than 13 million albums worldwide and heavily influenced bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Sodom and Running Wild. They are renowned for their live act and are considered one of the finest live performers of the metal genre.

The Rods – “Let Them Eat Metal”
The Rods are an American heavy metal band formed by David “Rock” Feinstein (guitar and vocals), Garry Bordonaro (bass and vocals) and Carl Canedy (drums and vocals).

Feinstein had first come to mainstream attention after playing in Elf, with his cousin Ronnie James Dio. The Rods sound differed considerably from Elf, adopting a more traditional heavy metal sound compared with the blues-rock sound that Elf preferred. Their first album was originally released independently as Rock Hard in 1980 and the following year the band was signed by Arista Records, who reordered the album tracks and released it simply titled The Rods. In 1984, The Rods made their fourth studio album “Let Them Eat Metal”. Carl Canedy is also a producer of heavy metal bands, and his credits include Anthrax’s Armed and Dangerous and Spreading the Disease, Exciter’s Violence & Force, Overkill’s Feel the Fire, and Possessed’s Beyond the Gates

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*Guitar solo on Dallas 1PM by Andy Parks.
 

MotoConcepts is a leading manufacturer of performance accessories for the motorsport industry including motocross, supercross, motorcycle, ATV racing and recreational riding. We’d like to give the MotoConcepts team of Tommy Hahn, Kyle Chisholm and Christophe Pourcel a “BLADES UP!” and wish ‘em huge success throughout the 2011 season!

Stay tuned here at Blade headquarters, as we’ll also be making another announcement in the coming weeks about Savage Blade music and your TV screen…. wicked.

MotoConcepts: Welcome To The Outdoors Part 1

Brody Wilson: Welcome To Unit

Marc-Andre Hamelin developed his unique guitar style from influences such as Annihilator, Rush, Metallica, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden. While growing up in the northern city of Whitehorse Yukon, Marc-Andre found his passion for playing guitar and began his musical career by diving right into the northern music festival circuit. He found success with previous bands Pro Decibel and Hammerhead with which he recorded 3 albums and toured in western Canada . In 2007 he moved to Nelson BC to continue to tour and record music, as well as study studio/live engineering.

Marc will be making his live debut with the Blade on May 28th, 2011 at the SpiritBar in our hometown of Nelson, BC. See ya’ll there… in the meantime, check out Marc’s official introduction on Video Update Vol. II

We’d like to thank Mike “The Gretl” Hodsall for his tour of duty with the Blade, and wish him all the best in his newest projects – a Pantera tribute band, and his original deep-groove funk act, “Circle the Wagons”.

Canadian true/traditional metal band, Savage Blade, have descended upon Serpico Audio Studios in Nelson, BC to begin recording final vocal tracks for their forthcoming release, entitled “Angel Museum”. This will be the band’s highly-anticipated second full-length album, following up on 2009′s “We Are The Hammer”. Although firmly entrenched in the same classic sound and style of their first release, “Angel Museum” signals a growth in the band’s collaborative songwriting, arrangement and production efforts. Intense, progressive, thrashy, epic. Wicked. Although no official date has been set, the band are on track to have the album completed and ready for release in late 2011.

Savage Blade In the Studio – Video Blog

As we slug it out in Serpico, we’re going to post ongoing video updates from the studio. Good clean fun. For the most part. You’ll get to hear from the guys, and get some audio teasers of the new songs as well.

Check it out here