RIPSAW [LIVE AT WACKEN OPEN...

Early 2007 four dedicated Dutch Metal musicians from a small town called Nederweert established RIPSAW. The band is heavily influenced by classic Metal bands such as Sacred Reich, Slayer, Metallica and the mighty Pantera. RIPSAW strives to make tracks that would stick to the classic energy that so many Metal heads of the past decades swore to bang their heads to. The music has a catchiness and a groove that would blow the socks of anyone who were to cross through the pit.
Without any hesitation RIPSAW jumped right into the rehearsal studio with the now set-in-ink line-up: ROVE hitting the bass strings while filling the microphone with a powerful voice. DUKE on guitar, shredding his way through the high speed devastating riffs of RIPSAW. Also on guitar, they brought BRUCE in to toss out the unique and mad grooving melodies of metal. And to play the hell out of his drumkit and lay beats that would snap your neck, AL is there.
June 20th 2007, RIPSAW released their first promo cd. An assault of a pure form of Metal from the 80's and 90's, this 4-track clearly states that RIPSAW is ready for battle. Promised to the success of their work in various other bands like Maggots, Red Zone Cuba and Powerslave, their plan was to take over any venue possible, and in the summer of 2007 for the first show RIPSAWtook it to extremes with a stage performance of full on velocity and utmost power. After that First show, more followed pretty damn soon.
In early 2008 they entered the Dutch Wacken Metal Battle and to make a long story short.RIPSAW won the battle and played live at the Wacken open air 2008 festival for a shitload of people and at the same time releasing their 6-track Live E.P ''Skullbashing Battles'' as a souvenir to anyone that would come down to one of the band's gigs. Back from Wacken RIPSAW wasted no time and continued to play shows in Holland, Belgium, Germany and a Northern-Ireland mini-tour.
The first part of 2009 the band locked themselfs up in the RIPSAW studio for a couple of months to write some new material, not to many shows were performed during this time with the exeption of a few summer gigs to keep in shape. The band is now working on the UPCOMING FULL-LENGTH DEBUT ALBUM that will see the light of day in 2010!
RIPSAW stands for hard working dedication power and strength, the indestructibility in the chains of true Metal a couple of shots of whiskey and some beers, and definitely a badass party for all you folks out there! Get ready to be skullbashed by the awesome stage fits of RIPSAW!
Reviews (In Dutch):
"Zeer overtuigende nieuwe band" - Aardschok magazine
"Ripsaw stampt lekker groovend door" - Zware metalen
"Zulk trash talent loopt er in Nederland niet rond" - Festivalinfo.nl
"Pakkende riffs en regelmatig ook een krachtige groove" - Metalfan.nl
"Muziek is hard, strak, technisch waterdicht en historisch erg goed onderbouwd" - 3VOOR12/limburg