“Back in high school, a friend gave me a DIY cassette of the Warlock Pinchers,” he says. For his part, The Keeper was already a fan of a legendary Denver band of yesteryear. The band befriended such local acts as Bollywood Life, Crystal Ghost, Frugal Father, Brother Tiger and Rumtum, so connections with the Mile High City’s music scene have been in place for a while. The group’s earliest gigs outside of its home town of Boise included an appearance at the Underground Music Showcase in 2015. Magic Sword’s upcoming show in Denver will add one more notch in its ongoing relationship with this city. “We want the live show to develop in the future into more of a performance-art piece rather than just a concert.” “The way we perform has been influencing some of the new music,” notes The Keeper. We like to bounce ideas back and forth off each other as we’re creating, so they kind of influence each other.”Īs geek culture moves into the mainstream, Magic Sword could be one of the first acts to garner crossover appeal without the gimmick overshadowing the art. “The goal from the beginning was that the music would be the soundtrack to the comic book. “We read all kinds of comics when we were kids, but the darker comics had more influence,” says The Keeper. He’s referring to the comic book created by artist Shay Plummer following the recent reissue of the band’s 2013 debut, Magic Sword, Vol. It’s easier to get into the story when the characters from the comic are on stage rather than just a couple dudes.” I also think it helps the audience get into the story more. “I find myself taking on the character more as time goes by. “It’s kind of liberating,” says synth player The Keeper about performing incognito. The unabashed bombast of intricate guitar solos and dense synth melodies allows the music to transcend the band’s gimmick: performing in disguise, in the fashion of the Residents and Slow Magic. When Magic Sword debuted at Treefort Music Fest in 2013, no one but the band’s members could have known what the audience was in for: two space knights playing the kind of high-fidelity synth rock that embodies everything glorious about 1980s epic science-fiction movies.
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