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NOTE: My latest version is available here: http://andrewbuntine.com/articles/2008/11/27/witchhammer-13-available-now

Record Collecting is a hobby of mine. Well, perhaps an obsession. Infact, I feel somewhat comfortable in claiming that I have the best collection of obscure Czechoslovakian Heavy Metal LPs in Australia!

One of the best general resources for confirming information about bands (or discovering new ones) is undoubtedly The Encyclopaedia Metallum (or simply "Metal Archives" to most of us). When browsing a tradelist, distro listing, EBay, etc I find myself continuously jumping to said website. So I thought:

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Firefox Extension that allowed you to simply highlight a bands name (or keyword) on a webpage, right-click, select "Find at Metal Archives", and be presented with a nice listing of the results?! You could then select the results you wanted to see, and click "Ok". A new tab, linking to the bands profile, would be opened for each.

So this is exactly what I did. I decided to name the extension Witchhammer; a reference to the cult Czech band, Törr.

Witchhammer is currently in sandbox at the official Mozilla Add-Ons website, and should be available for download there soon. In the meantime, you can download it here: http://www.andrewbuntine.com/firefox/witchhammer.xpi

You will need Firefox 3.0 or above. I developed it on Linux, but have tested on Windows XP and found no problems. It also works fine on Mac OSX.

If you find any issues or areas for improvement, please feel free to email me!

Enjoy, thrashers!!