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A super long time ago, when I was living in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a kid from the local punk scene put out a compilation CD that featured mostly shitty midwestern punk but through some weird turn of events also included this incredible hard-rock song called “Chainsawar” from a German band named Carnage. It was a really melodic Motorhead ripoff, with lyrics that were ESL enough to be awkward but understandable enough to make it clear that the song was about a biker gang engaged in chainsaw-based warfare in some kind of postapocalyptic wasteland. They rode “horses made of steel” and there’s a line about a “sexy denim rodeo” that was a favorite among the cult of “Chainsawar” fans that quickly sprouted up around town. Sadly it’s not on the Internet somehow, though there is a cover by Kalamazoo band Berwer that does it justice.
