Category: Media

This week we’re doing some more new old school metal. Katana is a Swedish heavy metal band that started in 2005. Their music is very reminiscent of the early days of metal. Many of their songs remind me of Iron Maiden and you can’t complain when a band reminds you of Maiden. It was difficult to decide what Katana song to post so I ended up choosing the first one I listened to, Phoenix on Fire:

This is a song I came across randomly during one of my searches for new metal. Gallows End is a Swedish heavy metal band. I haven’t found much information beyond that but their music kicks ass and that’s all that matters:

This week we’re going old school with a song by Grave Digger. For those unfamiliar with Grave Digger (What the fuck is wrong with you?) they are a German heavy metal band that was founded in 1980. It’s hard to find a more pure heavy metal band and their song Rebellion is catchy as hell:

As an added bonus I’m also going to include Van Canto’s A Capella cover because it’s awesome:

It’s Monday morning meaning it’s time for another installment of Monday Metal. This week features of Finish power metal band by the name of Anthriel. Anthriel’s music is the standard power metal affair meaning the lyrics revolve around fantasy and features plenty of synthesizer. Enjoy:

Sunday night Station 4 hosted an absolutely awesome concert featuring Varg, Wintersun, and Eluveitie. In all honesty Eluveitie is the only band on that list that I listen to regularly but I enjoy a lot of metal live that I don’t generally enjoy listening to otherwise.

As expected Eluveitie did a bang up job. Instead of playing a smattering of songs from their various albums they played the entire Helvetios album. Since Helvetios was a concept album revolving around the Gallic Wars this approach made a great deal of sense. After playing through all the songs on Helvetios they also payed a handful of songs from other albums including Inis Mona. Because of the weather I arrived to the concert late and missed most of Varg’s act but did catch Wintersun, who did a pretty decent job.

In celebration of my first time seeing Eluveitie live this weeks’ Monday Metal entry will be featuring one of their songs and a song by Varg and Wintersun thrown in for good measure. First up is Uis Elveti by Eluveitie:

Next is Guten Tag by Varg (admittedly I don’t generally listen to this type of metal but the band was pretty entertaining live):

Finally I’m going to close this week’s Monday Metal with Starchild by Wintersun:

This week we’re doing something slightly different and traveling to the Middle East. Orphaned Land is a band that hails from Israel. I would classify the band as a combination of death and folk metal but they’re hard to categorize in all honesty. But don’t take my word for it, listen to it yourself:

Although a majority of the metal I post on this site falls under the categories of power and folk metal I will always have a soft spot in my heart for good old ’80’s style metal. Grand Magus is a band that I haven’t heard of before but has been around since 1996. Their music leads me to believe they were created a decade too late. Sit back and enjoy some old school sounding metal:

Insomnium is a band I never heard before Monday night’s Epica concert. They’re a melodic death metal band from Finland and were enjoyable in concert (even if I only caught the last half of their act):

Epica is going to be playing at Station 4 in St. Paul tonight so I’m picking on of their songs for this week’s Monday Metal entry:

Another week, another metal song. This week it’s Beyond the Sun and Far Away by Italian power metal band Vision Divine: