Hour of Power 02/28/14

1. The Astronomer Pig (The Earls of Mars / Self-Titled)
2. Nothing Hill (Salem's Pot / N.A.) PRE
   Videos 3-5 by Vitasound Projects from the album 'American Werewolf in London'
3. The Slaughtered Lamb
4. Beware of the Moon
5. David
6. Lex Lucifer (Assblaster / Blastphemy vol II: Veni Vidi Blast!)
7. Chased and Caught (Domadora / Tibetan Monk)
8. Borracho campaign video
9. The Ballad of Hannah Dustin (Ichabod / Merrimack) PRE
10. Burning In Hell (Electric Citizen / Sateen) PRE
11. Our Mother Ash (Greenleaf / Trails & Passes) PRE
12. The King In Yellow (Hornss / Demo)
13. Sometimes I'm Happy (Black Sabbath live instrumental jam)

Hour of Power 02/21/14

1. Narrow Minded Bastards (The Graviators / Motherload) PRE
2. Holy Sons (The Socks / Self-Titled) PRE
3. Resurrect the Throwaways (Foghound / Quick, Dirty & High)
4. Easy Come, Easy Go (Foghound / Quick, Dirty & High)
5. Blacksnake (Sungod)
6. The Paladin (Pilgrim / II: Void Worship) PRE
7. Rare Eagle (Dwellers / Pagan Fruit) PRE
8. Undertaker (Demon Head / Demo 2014)
9. V (Green Asylum / Zero)
10. Heart of Stone (Slow Green Thing / I)
11. On The Warpath (The Smalls / To Each a Zone) 1992

PRE = Preview / Not Yet Released

Hour of Power 02/14/14

1. Foehammer (Conan / Blood Eagle) PRE
2. Nine Princes In Amber (Ogre / The Last Neanderthal) PRE
3. Mommy (At Devil Dirt / Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución)
4. Kings Highway (Scorpion Child / Self-Titled)
5. Black Helicopters (Gaggle of Cocks / Low Class Trendsetter)
6. Torres De Silencio (Akuma / For the Beloved Bones)
7. A Very Old Ghost Behind the Farm 'La Came Crude' teaser
8. As The World Burned (SOL / And The Mouth of Time is Open)
9. Fly Trap (Fight Amp / Birth Control)
10. Ananta (Yama / 7" single) PRE
11. Black Crypt (John Gallow)
12. Dopelord new album teaser
13. Season of the Sun (Dirt Wizard / No Son of Mine)
14. Thoth Amon (Wizard Union / Smoking Coffins)

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power 01/31/14

1. Elementary Man (Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell / Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em) PRE
2. See That My Grave Be Kept Clean (The Electric Revival / Pirate Radio)
3. Rhetoric of No (Indian / From All Purity)
4. Fever (King Mastino / We Refuse To Sink)
5. Piece of Mind (13eaver / Self-Titled)
6. Rob Delaney & Matt Pike (Back & Forth Episode 23)
7. The Maloik [live] (Buzzherd / On Sinking Ships ... Rats Drown)
8. Madam Elbib [live]  (The Great Electric Quest / N.A.) PRE
9. State Flag Blues (The Heavy Company featuring Pat Harrington / digital single)
10. Dying Days (Screaming Trees / Dust)
11. Forever My Queen (Pentagram / First Daze Here)

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power 01/24/14

1. Thundersnow in Venice (Blood Red Water / All the Ills of Mankind)
2. Empty Sky (The Devil Rides Out / Ugly Creatures)*
3. Tango Decadence (Kamchatka / The Search Goes On) PRE
4. Stuck (Occult Wisdom / TBA) PRE
5. Charge of the Witch Goddess [live] (Black Majik Acid / ST)
6. Ocular Terror [live] (Black Majik Acid / ST)
7. Judgement - Final Rites (Fosforus / Annihilation of the Absolute) PRE
8. Wake Me (Sungod / ST) PRE
9. Super Sluts from Outer Space (Blackwitch Pudding / Taste the Pudding)
10. The Endless Void (Moosataur / ST)

*This is the culmination of a long project in which The Devil Rides Out released a unique film clip for all 5 songs from their 'Ugly Creatures' EP.  Find the other videos on the links below:

1). Ugly Creature

2). Empty Sky (see above)

3). Burn Again

4). The Righteous Walk

5). Blood River

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power 01/17/14

1. Forbidden Zombi Ritual (Destroyer of Light / Bizarre Tales Vol. 2) PRE
2. Surrealist Appearance (Radar Men from the Moon / Strange Waves Galore) PRE
3. Ethereal Riffian 'Aeolian' Promo PRE
4. Blood Like Cream [Live on Letterman] (Red Fang / Whales & Leeches)
5. The Lasting Dose [Live] (Crowbar / Sonic  Excess In Its Purest Form)
6. The Wounded Kings 'Consolamentum' teaser PRE
7. Legends [iphone demo] (Dryasdust / TBA) PRE
8. Swamp Machine 'Mondo Magic' preview PRE
9. Avaritia (Tempel / On the Steps of the Temple) PRE
10. Apsara (Nibiru / NETRAYONI: Ritual I The Kaula's Circle)
11. The Hidden Masters (The Sword / Apocryphon)

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power 01/10/14

1. Some Kind of Sorcery (The Socks / ST) PRE
2. Black Magic Woman (Black Coven / Demo) PRE
3. Slice of That Vibe (Groan / Ride the Snake EP)
4. Give Graviation To the People (Black Space Riders / D:REI) PRE
5. Spirit of the Cult / Darkest Day [live] (Devil)
6. In Through Glasses (Warp Riders / Astral Plane EP)
7. Young Wisdom (Black Wizard / Young Wisdom)
8. Secret Sect (Demon Eye / Leave the Light) PRE
9. Fuzzy Belly (Moosataur / ST)
10. The Haunter of the Dark (Bretus / The Haunter of the Dark [outtake])* PRE
11. Acid Violet Land (Chains / Violet Wizard) PRE
12. Squall [teaser] (Ichabod / Merrimack) PRE

*This is an outtake from the album sessions and though it is the title track, will not appear on the upcoming album itself

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power 01/03/14

1. Forevermore (Old Man Wizard / Unfavorable)
2. What's Eating Harry Lee (The Heavy Co. / The Uno Dose E.P.) PRE
3. Angel Savior In the Cannibal House (Doctor Cyclops / Oscuropasso) PRE
4. Witness a New Low (The Bad Guys / Self-Titled)*
5. Canfield [live] (The Midnight Ghost Train / TBA) PRE
6. Horse 44 [live] (Gaggle of Cocks / American Trash)
7. The Coffin (Violet Temple / Violet Temple of Doom) PRE
8. Ring of Fire (Violet Magick / The Story Of ...) PRE
9. Satan Woman (Amenti Rover / Self-Titled E.P.) PRE
10. Salutation (Harvest Bell / Wheel of Foretaste E.P.) PRE
11. Rise of the Royal Reptile (Sonic Mass / All Creatures Strange)

*Thanks to Ron from the band Mount Fuji for the tip!!

 PRE = Pre-Release / Not yet available

Hour of Power: BEST VIDEOS OF 2013

Here are my 14 favorite videos released in 2013.  It was hard culling a great list down to a single, essential hour of videos because there were at least two hours worth of memorable ones.  These are the ones I like best.  I've run them down in chronological order of release and I'll give my reasons for liking each one as we go here ...

1. Frankenstein Pays The Rent (The Mangled Dead / Hate Humans) - Just a fun, campy, no budget video.  The best moment is when the monster rides by the bus stop on a skateboard and takes the guy's obviously fake hand off as he goes.
2. U Turn (The Quartet of Woah! / Ultrabomb) - There's nothing flashy about this video, just four guys jamming on a sound stage.  What makes this video stick out for me is the rambunctious energy of the guys in the band.  Impressive performance.
3. Bruce Lee (Indian Handcrafts / Civil Disobedience For Losers) - There's no disliking this video, that's just all there is to it.  A good retro feel here for this faux chop sockey flick.  The Canadian duo actually make a good job of it acting the parts too.
4. Torn Apart (Valient Thorr / Our Own Masters) - This video puts a smile on my face.  Valient Thorr sit in cubicles, long hair, beards and tattoos in button up shirts and ties acting freaked out by the office worker whose decided he's had enough.  Guys quietly peaking over a sea of cubicles makes me LOL as the kids say (Lucas laughs).  Good conclusion to the storyline too.
5. Dune (Beastwars / Blood Becomes Fire) - This was just an amazing animated video.  Visual stunner here, Beastwars are quickly developing a reputation as having excellent visual representation of their work to go along with the amazing music.  Astronauts and dinosaurs, what more needs be said?
6. Sons of the Soil (C.F.A. / Managed By The Devil, Brought To You By The Grace Of God) - This was another fun, silly video.  The Tacoma trio do the Dorf thing here and hilarity ensues.  Good energy and a lot of good fun.
7. Waiting for Saturn (Bison, Bison / ST) - It's kind of a toss up between this and "Bruce Lee" for my favorite clip of the year.  This video is a tribute to John Carpenter's They Live complete with alien masks and extended fight scene.
8. Goodbye Gemini (Blood Ceremony / The Eldritch Dark) - This one gets the nod for the nice retro flavor here.  It really feels like an obscure occult horror film from the seventies with the poor image quality and vintage clothing.
9. Shrouded (The Body / Christs, Redeemers) - This was one of the most enigmatic videos I've ever seen, if for no other reason than the song this video supports isn't really all that musical.  It's just a whole lot of static, but it creates an incredibly intense atmosphere and it all builds to the stunning conclusion.  Feels like a found footage snuff film.
10. The Bearded Fool (Old Man Wizard / Unfavorable) - Here we go with another fun one.  The guys in Old Man Wizard have shot (or are shooting?) a video for every song on their six track debut album and they're all different.  In this one OMW get their medieval thing on meeting the dastardly challenges of dread witches and piss poor video editing.  It's mad, brilliant stuff.
11. Branch Davidian Compound (Cold Blue Mountain / ST) - This one I just liked the concept.  The band gets together and jams in a house.  The camera voyeuristically watches from outside the window in moments here and there creating a cool perspective.  What seems normal from the inside, seems strange from the outside.
12. Slave the Hive (High on Fire / digital single) - This was a strange one indeed, just a strange concept.  A Jacob's Ladder feel to this one with anthropomorphic bunny's etc. substituting for the demons in the psych ward.  Cute when animated, the stuff of nightmares in live action.
13. Palm Reader (Castles / Fiction or Truth?) - Nothing too flashy in this one, yet again.  What I like about this video is the energy and enthusiasm of the band.  Walking down a Belgian back alley in business suits, the band headbangs, air guitars and air drums to their own song which may seem egotistical to some, but I like the idea that the band isn't too cool to totally geek out about their own creation.  It makes me enthusiastic about their music, because they are.
14. Wasted Wails (Hydromedusa / digital single) - This was just brilliant.  VHS shot for that genuine retro feel, the concept is nothing special, just the band jamming in a green room with psychedelic images projected behind them, but the video has two thing going for it: it's got a great soundtrack and a good vibe.

Hour of Power 12/21/13

1. BabeGhostWitch (blackQueen / March of the Obsidian Triumvirate) 2012
2. Wasted Wails (Hydromedusa / The Rats Have My Mind) 2012
3. Ugly Mug (Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals / digital single) 2013
4. Gorgon (Sandrider / Godhead) 2013
5. Let Your Dragon Fly (Pet the Preacher / The Cave & The Sunlight) 2014
6. Seven Years (The Great Electric Quest / Chapter II EP) 2013
7. Rise From Your Grave (Ten Foot Wizard / Return to the Infinite) 2013
8. Blackfinger promo clip
9. Dead Generation (The Warlocks / Skull Worship) 2013
10. Son of the Morning [live 11*23*13] (Brimstone Coven / ST) 2012
11. Some Kind of Sorcery (The Socks / ST) 2014
12. Talis jam track 2013
13. Holy Diver (Dio / Holy Diver) 1983

Hour of Power 12/14/13

1. Palm Reader (Castles / Fiction or Truth?) 2013
2. Sweet Remain (Vista Chino / Peace) 2013
3. Prophet (Truckfighters / Universe) 2014
4. Blood Like Cream (Red Fang / Whales & Leeches) 2013
5. Tango Decadence (Kamchatka / single) 2013
6. Harmonomicon (Intronaut / Habitual Levitations) 2013
7. CЯEATURA (Black Majik Acid / Sermons of the Dead split w/ Merlin) 2013
8. The Only Truth (Bretus / ST EP) 2009
9. Am I Alone (Slow Heart / TBA) 2013
10. Totality (Sheavy / Moons in Penumbra) 2014
11. Rhetoric of No (Indian / From All Purity) 2014
12. Triumph and Power (Grand Magus / Triumph and Power) 2014

Hour of Power 12/06/13

1. Slave the Hive (High on Fire / single) 2013
2. Dragon Witch (Glowsun / Eternal Season) 2012
3. King Stuste (Wood Wall / Wood Empire) 2013
4. Golden Sun (Spirits of the Dead / Rumours of a Presence) 2013
5. Shame (Jucifer / за волгой для нас земли нет) 2013
6. 120 Days (Ilsa / Tutti il Colori Del Buio) 2013
7. Raildriver (House of Harkonnen / Vol. 7) 2005
8. Siege of Jerusalem (Stone Dagger / cassette single) 2013
9. Lo Sound Desert trailer 2012
10. Untitled [live] (Geezer) 2013
11. Freelance Fiend [live @ Roadburn 2012] (Leaf Hound / Growers of Mushroom) 1971
12. Wreckage (Space Mushroom Fuzz / Stealing Some Time) 2013
13. Sinistra (Wounded Giant / Lightning Medicine) 2013
14. The River (The Tea Party / Splendor Solis) 1993 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 11/30/13

1. She Cried Wolf (Horisont / Time Warriors) 2013
2. The Frown (Isaak / TBA) 2013
3. Boneflower (Avatarium / ST) 2013
4. Child of the Bear [unmixed studio version] (Ichabod / Merrimack) 2014
5. Romeo Must Never Know (Ken Mode / Entrench) 2013
6. Concrete (Batillus / Concrete Sustain) 2013
7. Pegasus (Intercostal / ST EP) 2012
8. Of the Flock [live] (In the Company of Serpents / Of the Flock) 2013
9. Dark Days [live] (Uzala / Tales of Blood & Fire) 2013
10. Fir [live] (Bardo Pond / Peace on Venus) 2013
11. Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden / Badmotorfinger) 1991 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 11/23/13

1. Exordium (animated short) 2013
2. The Vampyre of Time & Memory (Queens of the Stone Age / ... Like Clockwork) 2013
3. Bullets & Graves (Corrections House / Last City Zero) 2013
4. Battalion of Zero [live at Housecore Horror Fest] (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals / Walk Through Exits Only) 2013
5. Abysmal / 8 Dead (In a Mobile Home) [live] (Hollow Leg / Abysmal) 2013
6. Shroud Eater [live in Savannah, GA] 2013
7. Champions (Sandrider / Godhead) 2013
8. Ancient Light (Mountain Witch / Cold River) 2013
9. The Blood Is Cold (Dozer / Vultures EP) 2013
10. Frown Curve (March the Desert / Waves on the Moon EP) 2013
11. Cosmic Communion (Brimstone Coven / II) 2013
12. Groundman (Terra Firma / Harms Way) 2001 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 11/16/13 (playlist)

1. Celestial Coronation (Black Skies / Circadian Meditations) 2013
2. Low Tide (Kylesa / Ultraviolet) 2013
3. Attract Me (Daily Thompson / Demo) 2013
4. Sleeps in Burning Hills (When the Deadbolt Breaks / Drifting Towards the Edge of the Earth) 2013
5. Moonhorse (Avatarium / ST) 2013
6. Devil Man (Blues Pills / Devil Man EP) 2013
7. Black Moon (Tombstones / Red Skies & Dead Eyes) 2013
8. Ovi [Live at Roadburn '13] (Seremonia / Ihminen) 2013
9. Wraiths (Crypt Trip / ST EP) 2013
10. The Willow (Doctor Smoke / Demo 2013) 2013
11. Broken Soul (Steve Sylvester / Free Man) 1993 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 11/09/13

1. The Bearded Fool (Old Man Wizard / Unfavorable) 2013
2. Realms (Beastwars / Blood Becomes Fire) 2013
3. Branch Davidian Compound (Cold Blue Mountain / ST) 2013
4. Come Samhain (Zodiac / single) 2013
5. Robotic Invasion (Fu Manchu / 7" split single w/ MOAB) 2013
6. Slave the Hive (High on Fire / single) 2013
7. My Wife (The Who / Who's Next) 1971
8. The Healer (The Brimstone Days / The Healer) 2013
9. III III III (Götterdämmerung) (Doublestone / Wingmakers) 2013
10. I've Come For It All (Borracho / Oculus) 2013
11. Tropic of Capricorn (Black Capricorn / Born Under the Capricorn) 2013
12. Age of Bootcamp (Eyehategod / split 7" single w/ Soilent Green) 2002 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 11/02/13

1. Shrouded (The Body / Christs, Redeemers) 2013
2. Curtain (Portal / Vexovoid) 2013
3. Women of Doom (Groan / Ride the Snake EP) 2013
4. Our Cult Continues! (Cardinals Folly / Our Cult Continues) 2013[?]
5. Ten Lizardmen & One Pocketknife (Devil To Pay / Fate Is Your Muse) 2013
6. Time Gets Carried Away (Space Mushroom Fuzz / Stealing Some Time)
7. Rancho Deluxe (Motordrone / ST) 2013
8. Goblin's live score of Suspiria [clip] 2013
9. Xolotl (Manthra Dei / ST) 2013
10. The Bearded Fool (Old Man Wizard / Unfavorable) 2013
11. Existence Is Punishment (Crowbar / ST) 1993

Hour of Power 10/26/13 (playlist)

1. Goodbye Gemini (Blood Ceremony / The Eldritch Dark) 2013
2. Children of the Sun (Nightstalker / Dead Rock Commandos) 2012
3. Heartbreaker (Motörhead / Aftershock) 2013
4. Loner (Black Sabbath / 13) 2013
5. Golachab (Saturnalia Temple / Impossibilum EP) 2013
6. Go Blind (Shooting Guns / Brotherhood of the Ram) 2013
7. Ride to Ruin (Hollow Leg / Abysmal) 2013
8. Conscience (At Devil Dirt / Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución) 2013
9. Evil Eye (Fu Manchu / The Action Is Go) 1997 'classic clip'

And a special bonus:
10.  Cooking Hostile with Phil Anselmo Episode 1 2013

Hour of Power 10/19/13 (playlist)

1. Mouths of Madness (Orchid / The Mouths of Madness) 2013
2. Rabbits (Thinning the Herd / Freedom from the Known) 2013
3. Lord of Sumo (Mountaineater / ST) 2013
4. The Obscurantist Fiend [The Beast Pt. I] (Blaak Heat Shujaa / The Edge of an Era) 2013
5. Lost Soul (Glowsun / Eternal Season) 2012
6. New Stone (Parasol Caravan / single) 2013
7. Cassock (Windhand / Soma) 2013
8. I Drink Your Blood (Fangs of the Molossus / ST) 2013
9. Re-Animator Theme (Richard Band / Re-Animator OST) 1985 'classic clip'

Hour of Power 09/21/13 (playlist)

1. The Chairman (Truckfighters / The Chairman EP) 2013
2. Hacia el 6to Sol (DemonAuta / Caminando en la Luna EP) 2013
3. Lament Code (Demon Lung / Pareidolia EP) 2012
4. The Integrity (The Rising Sun Experience / Beyond the Oblivious Abyss) 2013
5. Blood Like Cream (Red Fang / Whales and Leeches) 2013
6. Dead Friends (Doomriders / Grand Blood) 2013
7. Full Moon at Noon [live 09/14/13] (Goatess / ST) 2013
8. Spider Stole the Weed (Curse the Son / Psychache) 2013
9. Lotus Jam (Beelzefuzz / ST) 2013
10. Dead Rising (Church of Void / Dead Rising) 2013
11. Counterfeit God (Black Label Society / Stronger Than Death) 2000 'classic clip'