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The Living Legends, a loose collective of MCs and DJs in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, LA, Japan, and European countries, are unique for both their down-to-earth songs and method of the music business. Pursuing in the footsteps of California performers like Too Brief who produced a name offering tapes …

The San Francisco-based quintet Ludicra focuses on straight-ahead black metal (i.e., no gothic keyboards, pagan folk affects, or digital leanings) in a method influenced by rings such as for example Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Dodheimsgard, and Bethlehem. The group shaped in 1999 and includes guitarist John Cobbett (Hammers of Misfortune and god, …