http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7675648&rws=%2Fhammers-of-misfortune%2Fmusic-videos.rssBased in San Francisco, power/fantasy, D&D, neo-classical, guitar-god-metal-poet-stylists Hammers of Misfortune may be somewhat obscure, but they wield no small amount of respect among metal fans interested in the fringes of the genre. Utilizing three vocalists (one female, one Shakespearean and one death-screecher) to assume various roles in their high-concept tales of violent redemption, time travel and impending apocalypse, guitarists/vocalists Mike Scalzi and John Cobbett weave stratospherically harmonized guitars into a dense wall of Iron Maiden-isms, druidic acoustic passages and piano tranquility, all of this amid surprisingly <i>un</i>convoluted storylines. Years of honing their craft yielded 2001's epic <i>The Bastard</i> on Tumult, followed by the supernatural riff-fest <i>The August Engine</i> in 2003 and <i>The Locust Years</i> in 2006, which came out on Cruz Del Sur. Scalzi also leads the similarly imaginative and unique metal band Slough Feg. - Mike McGuirkNew Wave of British Heavy Metalen720Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:11:58 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.7675648&rws=%2Fhammers-of-misfortune%2Fmusic-videos.rss Based in San Francisco, power/fantasy, D&D, neo-classical, guitar-god-metal-poet-stylists Hammers of Misfortune may be somewhat obscure, but they wield no small amount of respect among metal fans interested in the fringes of the genre. Utilizing three vocalists (one female, one Shakespearean and one death-screecher) to assume various roles in their high-concept tales of violent redemption, time travel and impending apocalypse, guitarists/vocalists Mike Scalzi and John Cobbett weave stratospherically harmonized guitars into a dense wall of Iron Maiden-isms, druidic acoustic passages and piano tranquility, all of this amid surprisingly <i>un</i>convoluted storylines. Years of honing their craft yielded 2001's epic <i>The Bastard</i> on Tumult, followed by the supernatural riff-fest <i>The August Engine</i> in 2003 and <i>The Locust Years</i> in 2006, which came out on Cruz Del Sur. Scalzi also leads the similarly imaginative and unique metal band Slough Feg. - Mike McGuirk