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Iron Claw

Iron Claw is a band which formed in Dumfries, Scotland in 1969. The band was formed by original members Jimmy Ronnie, Ian McDougall, and Alex Wilson. They were joined by singer Mike Waller in 1970. Wilson, the group's bass guitarist, decided to form a band after seeing a Led Zeppelin concert in 1969 and the band was eventually named after a lyric from King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man". The band originally performed covers by blues rock artists such as Free, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After, and Taste but soon began writing and performing original compositions.

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Necronomicon

1) Necronomicon were formed in 1971 in Aachen, the Western part of Germany near the Belgium and Netherlands border. With an album title (Tips zum Selbtsmord) that means "How to Commit Suicide," Necronomicon's one album, from 1972, featured bleak progressive garage rock with long instrumental passages. With wailing acid guitar solos, dark organ swirls, and angst-ridden singing in German, Necronomicon has created a dark and powerful vision that blends psychedelic and progressive music with a proto-punk garage band sensibility.

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The Caning

Defiantly retro, ambitious, and with a cynical bite, The Caning sound like all of your favourite heavy rockers of the 70s, toying with classic rock clichés before turning them on their heads. Formed in Melbourne, Australia in late 2008, the band's vision is drawn from the progressive rock and proto metal that was the dominant commercial force in its heyday. After tentative live appearances at the start of 2010 and 2011 the band started to emerge in Melbourne's live scene in 2012. Their first single is in pre-production stage, with a release on vinyl and a promotional video to follow.

Read more about The Caning on Last.fm.

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