About The Clansmen

Since 2000s — A Passion for Live Music

The Clansmen was born somtimes around 2000s, two brothers Gui and Morgan driven by the love for Metal music. It all started with Gui going to see Iron Maiden in Paris 99.9.9 and 00.6.14 and then buying the bootleg on Evilbay.

We then discovered the wonderful world of bootlegs and all his downsides, as many of us we started with lossy boots (without any knownledge about it) then we learned about lossless...

At first we were collecting only Iron Maiden bootlegs then we opened it to all the bands we liked back in the day (mostly heavy/power metal, some thrash bands...) and we made great friend all around the world, from Asia to South America and of course Europe.
Over the years we made dozen of snail mail trades, burning thousand of CDs (and some DVDs as well), going to the post office, waiting for postman to deliver the upcoming package... Good old times.

In February 2004, we started to record our own show, capturing Malediction and Adagio in Paris. This marked the beginning of a new chapter: we were no longer just collecting recordings made by others, but also contributing to the trading community.

Over the years, our collection has expanded to include many different bands, many different styles (like more thrash bands, some death metal, some black metal...), while our interest in audio and video recording, tape transfers and mastering has continued to grow. "Sadly" the trading game changed a lot and now we are only doing online trading, missing the snail mail trade days.

We both grows family, bought house, focused on our daily job and routine but still taping and trading. Sometimes we had some well deserved breaks because this is only a hobby but a time consuming hobby. Gui "left" the bootleg world a few years ago but we are still attending and taping shows together !

Back in the 2020s, we started to transfer shows on tapes or MD, digging some gems. Now this is offered as a service to anyone who wants our help.

Today, The Clansmen brings together our collection, our own recordings, the Clansmen Master Tapes and our transfers, the Clansmen Tapes Transfer, all driven by the same passion that started more than two decades ago.

We have great friends for twenty (!!!) fucking years or more, we grew up together, only to name a few : of course amico mio Gabriele from italy, Vitor from portugal, Miguel from Bolivia, Paulo from Brazil, Phil from the UK, Chris from France... many more