The four members of the group met at studio R.D. for a three day session to finalize arrangements and bridges for the original compositions that will be offered on the "PILLAR OF FIRE" C.D. It was decided that rather than hurry the process, there would be sufficient time allowed before releasing "PILLAR of FIRE" in order to facilitate Tom Brennand's final production touch. The major balance of original material will be released on the "CRYSTAL MEN" C.D. due out in late 2008.

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WARPIG - "Warpig" CD '70/'06 (Relapse, Can) - Of course, everybody knows I'm an old fart and I don't make any bones about it. Sure I am! Hell, I don't mind telling the stories...I saw Kiss open for Sabbath, saw Judas Priest in a bar in a shopping center, saw Metallica play to 10 people in a watering hole in Anne Arundel County, Md. And with that, I love all the old music...all the real old stuff, mack, the dusty underground gems from the early '70's like Hairy Chapter, Silberbart, Totty, Socrates Drank The Conium, yeah that stuff. 9 out of 10 times it still floats my boat better than anything from the dreaded '90's & blase' oughties, so it's like Christmas to me when a label like Relapse comes along & makes a big deal about a disc like this one from Canada's WARPIG. Now if you were just going on the band's monicker, you'd probably think this to be a quick-jump-on-the-bandwagon Sabbath copy from back in the day. Well, you'd be wrong. Sure WARPIG have heavy guitar work. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to listen to something like "Tough Nuts" or "Rock Star" to appreciate the incendiary guitar or Rick Donmoyer or his gutsy vocals. Still, you get a whole different shade with the warm nearly Renaissance-like keys of Dana Snitch and tracks like "The Moth" and (yes!) "Melody With Balls"(!!!) will show you a band that was surely in the forefront of originality when that was a word that actually meant something. Truly, "Warpig" was one of the premier albums of it's time and it not only stands head & shoulders with any of the giants I mentioned above, but shows that there was a helluva lot more going on in Canada in the '70's than Rush. What's even cooler is the fact that the band actually reformed a couple years back and, with all the original line-up in place, are now working on what will be their 2nd album!!! Kudos go not only to this killer band but to Relapse for having the vision to release this kind of gem to the world. What's great about that is, with Relapse's reputation with younger people into extreme metal, a lot of those listeners will hopefully check this out and see one of the places the current heavy scene was spawned from. Great stuff.

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Salve a tutti!

il post di oggi è un disco che reputo molto bello! L'ho scoperto per caso ma devo dire che effettivamente è molto piacevole e non capisco come possa essere finito nel dimenticatoio! La musica proposta è figlia del periodo, quindi aspettatevi un sano hard rock alla Deep Purple, con qualche spruzzata di tocco oscuro alla Black sabbath...infatti vi allego insieme al disco un piccolo omaggio per mostrarvi come i purple effettivamente un qualche spunto da questo disco lo abbiano preso! Le canzoni che mi sento di consigliarvi sono sicuramente "rock star", "flaggit" e "advance am", una bellissima canzone strumentale, molto molto particolare...per quanto riguarda le altre tracce del disco l'unico consiglio è quello di sedersi ed ascoltare! Un gran bel disco...fidatevi!

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I’ve heard many different opinions about this rare album, mostly from people who were hearing it for the first time, spurting out influences from Deep Purple and Sabbath to Iron Butterfly and even Nektar...

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It seems that every shit-hole town in America has its own KYUSS and FU MANCHU clones, doing “that 70th thing”. Somehow the bellbottoms are cool again and so are the puffy shirts and shaggy haircuts. Oh how hard these kids try to reproduce what was cool over 30 years ago, yet how unaware most of them are to the worlds outside of SABBATH, FLOYD, and ZEPPELIN. Thanks to the corporate mindset of the show business industry, we are still constantly discovering albums by long lost bands that rocked harder than most of the better known acts of the day, the unsung heroes if you will, that paved the way for all that is cool in music today. Here brings Relapse another reissue of the obscure 70’s group of the cult status among the collectors, an overlooked piece of heavy metal history, and an excellent follow up to the PENTAGRAM releases. All who enjoyed the proto-metal of the US legends would do well to stay tuned for another lesson in rock.

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Warpig's formation came the same as so many other rural Ontario bands of the mid 60's. Guitarist/singer Rick Donmoyer toiled the late 60's in a number of groups, including The Turbines, The Kingbees (later The Wot) and Mass Destruction.
But by late '66 Donmore found himself looking for a new project, and hooked up with fellow Mass Destruction alumni Terry Brett on bass, Dana Snitch (keyboards/guitars) and drummer Terry Hook, all Woodstock natives. Endless practices in the Hook basement led to Warpig a few months later. With a mix of influences rivalled by few in the area, the boys soon found themselves a steady on the Toronto independent scene for the better part of the next two years.

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Rick Donmoyer (guitar,lead vocalist)
Dana Snitch (guitar, keyboards, vocals)
Terry Hook (drums)
Terry Brett (bass)

Warpig was originally formed in and operated out Woodstock Ontario under the leadership of Rick Donmoyer. Rick's first introduction to guitar was one his father brought home in hopes of learning but the guitar quickly disappeared again. He then sang in music class in public and Jr. High School but had no instrumental training until a couple of years after the passing of his father. Donmoyer, as a young teenager learned lap steel guitar. Soon the kid was playing tunes by The Ventures, The Surfaris and other 'Surf Bands' of that era. Rock and pop guitar licks on a "Hawaiian style" guitar was unheard of and his guitar teacher Richard Crotty was intrigued to the point that Donmoyer was hired as a student teacher. By 1964, the bug had bit and Rick formed and joined several bands, his first paying gig was with The Turbines while still in high school. Rick was later called on by soon-to-be friend and band-mate Jim Walker to follow a dream, quit their day jobs, and eventually form The Kingbees. Some time later with new member Terry Brett, classical guitarist turned bassist recently returned from living in Britain, the band was re-named The Wot.

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