Authors: Odin

_{This month Swedish doom metal band Candlemass is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of their first album, “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” in 1986. Part of that celebration is the release of a four-track EP called “Death Thy Lover”. The new EP was released via Napalm Records on 3rd June and I played the title track on the Friday NI Rocks Show on the same date.}

_{Ricky Warwick's double album, 'When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)' and 'Hearts On Trees', was released in February of this year.}

Today, Ricky returns with the official video for 'Schwaben Redoubt' premiering exclusively with War History Online. Ricky comments, "this is a song about a friendship found between two teenage lads from Ireland in a trench in Northern France on the morning of the 1st July 1916...a hundred years ago this year. One from the North, one from the South, who would on any other day hate each others guts but today all they have is each other, a shared fear of death and a shared name...Schwaben Redoubt was the name of the German position they walked towards that morning ....and into death.”