Raised Fist

   
Artist: Raised Fist

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Sound of the Republic

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 You'Re Not Like Me

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Dedication

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Watch Your Step

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 19


   
 Ignoring the Guidelines

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Fuel

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11


   
 Stronger Than Ever [UK-Import]

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 9

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Formed in 1993, Swedish hardcore punkers Raised Fist shape an strong-growing withal inviting reasoned when honing their old-school-influenced thug roots with a alloy edge. Taking their call from a Rage Against the Machine lyric, Alexander "Alle" Rajkovic (vocals), Andreas "Josse" Johansson (bass), Marco Eronen (guitar), and Oskar Karlsson (drums) were praised early on by European critics. Early sovereign releases such as the 1994 You're Not Like Me and 1996 Stronger Than Ever EPs, on with their 1998 hailed debut, Fuel, farther marked Raised Fist's pinch-hitting approach and molded them abroad. Ignoring the Guidelines marked the band's proper major-label debut, issued in 2000 on Burning Heart. The following tour was a massive success, and the band -- adding second guitarist Daniel Holmberg along the way -- returned to the studio the succeeding class to pump forbidden Dedication for their growing base of fanatical fans. The record book arrived on Epitaph in the fall of 2002, a year subsequently a appeal of early real showed up with Watch Your Step. Spring 2006 institute Raised Fist dropping their fourth studio record album, Sound of the Republic; it was a ferocious record of hard-core and metal produced by Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah) that featured new drummer Matte Modin (ex-Dark Funeral). Both headlining dates and ones with Comeback Kid were played through the summer around Europe.

RZA's WuChess.com: a hip-hop chess community

Wu Tang's RZA, also known as Robert Diggs, is bringing chess online with a new subscription chess site called WuChess.com. 

Here's how the site describes itself:

"WuChess.com is the worlds first online chess and Hip-Hop community. You can create and share profiles with your friends and triumph over enemies on the 64 squares. Not just against people in your neighborhood but from all over the world.   

"Play live chess with people from all over the world and get your learn on. ...

"At Wuchess.com you can log-on to watch chess clans do battle on and check out exhibition matches with Rza, other Wu-Tang members and stars from across the planet."

Though I'm acquainted with "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'," I did not realize that RZA was a chess enthusiast.

The site costs $48 a year, which doesn't seem entirely in the spirit of giving back to the community. You should at least be able to play free for a month in order to get hooked.

I am in the process of securing a guest membership and will report back from the chess chambers. 

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Tarenat

   
Artist: Tarenat

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Dreams Of Harmony

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7

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