Category: Media

With the attacks in Paris I felt it would be appropriate to feature a song about French history. Namely a song about Napoléon Bonaparte. He was one of those fascinating men of history who seemed to stand up every time he was knocked down until he seized a permanent place in the history books.

We’re going to keep with the folk metal theme we were running with last week but this time we’re going to hit up Turkey.

Folk metal remains one of my favorite subgenres. For ages I’ve had no luck finding any Japanese folk metal bands. But I recently came across Wagakki Band, which has the nice combination of traditional Japanese instruments and modern metal instruments:

No site can have too many pirates:

When it comes to mythology I’m always a fan of the trickster gods and goddesses. They tend to be the most interesting and make otherwise dull stories interesting. Loki is a great example of this. Thor might be strong and Odin might be wise but Loki makes sure everybody is having a good time.

Rebellion released three excellent albums themed on Norse history of mythology. We’re going to be listening to the song about Loki because Loki is fucking awesome:

I’m feeling like some viking metal this week so, not surprisingly, we’re listening to Amon Amarth:

Megadeth has a new album coming out. I have to say that I haven’t been terribly impressed with Megadeth’s latest albums. They usually contained a couple of good songs along with a bunch of filler. Needless to say I’m not super hyped about this new album but the first song they’ve released from it, Fatal Illusion, is pretty decent. I’m not sure why Mustaine decided to add heavy effects to his voice and I really hope it doesn’t appear in every song but otherwise it has a pretty good sound. Have a listen and judge for yourself.

Ready to start the week off with some badass Swedish industrial metal? Yes? Good! Because that’s what we’re listening to.

It’s Labor Day so I wasn’t expecting to post much but decided to give you guys a Monday Metal to celebrate the official released of Iron Maiden’s new album, The Book of Souls. Since I had to drive back to my parent’s place this weekend I had plenty of time to enjoy the new album. It’s a masterpiece. Seriously. In my opinion the album rivals Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death.

Of all the songs Empire of Clouds, the 18 minute song that closes the second “disc” (I obtained my copy via Apple Music so no discs were actually involved). It’s about the ill-fated R101 airship.

Now you’re probably wondering where the song is. Good question! It seems YouTube’s copyright infringement algorithm has become exceedingly ruthless. I found one good post of the song but noticed it was taken down before this post was scheduled to go live. Since I really didn’t have time or desire to grab another song I decided to leave this post up as a testament to shitty copyright laws and a solid album that is worth your money.