Yesterday was April Fools’ Day, the day of trolling. In recognition of this fine holiday I bring you metal from a band with troll in its name. Sorry, I’m all out of witty comments so that’s the best you’re going to get:
Tag: Heavy Metal
Monday Metal: Vaid Vaprust by Metsatöll
This week we’re going with some Estonian folk metal. I’d be lying if I said I knew what this song is about but that didn’t stop me from enjoying it immensely:
Monday Metal: Battlecry by Winterstorm
In my search for new metal I came across Winterstorm, a power metal band out of Germany. I must say I’m digging them so far so have yourselves a listen and see what you think:
Monday Metal: A Rose for Epona by Eluveitie
Without my knowledge Eluveitie went and released a new album, Helvetios. It’s a concept album covering the Gallic Wars from the viewpoint of the Helvetii. Solid would certainly be a descriptive word for the album and, strange enough, my favorite song on it is probably the least metal song on the album, A Rose for Epona:
Metal is the Best Mood Booster
Dayton’s veto left me in a sour mood so I need a mood booster. It is a fair bet that I’m not the only one who isn’t happy at the moment so I share the gift of awesome fucking metal with you in the form of Odin by Rebellion:
One can’t help but feel better after listening to that!
Monday Metal: Jester Realm by Twilightning
What have we here? Guitar? Check. Fast drums? Check. Fast vocalist who spends most of his time in higher octaves? Check. Synthesizer? Double check. Yes this week I bring you more power metal, this time in the form of a lesser known band who is no longer around called Twilightning. These guys remind me a lot of Edguy (that’s a good thing). It’s unfortunate that they only released three albums and of those only two were really power metal, still the first two were solid gold:
Oderus Urungus’s Presidential Endorsement
While I don’t give two shits about presidential endorsements I have to hand it to Oderus Urungus, he based his endorsement on his beliefs, not on who is or isn’t “electable”:
Do not vote for them, gather in mobs and attack them in their homes — drag them into the streets and impale them upon a gigantic wheel of over-sized knives, and this goes for Obama too!
I’d say he should watch out for the Department of Motherland Homeland Security (DHS) but I’m doubting they have what it takes to abduct Oderus.
Metalhead Arts and Crafts
I have to say when it comes to strikes I have all of them against me. Being a gun owner makes me unpopular in many circles, being a voluntaryist ostracizes me from most political circles, and being a metalhead leads to shit like this being funny to me (warning, not approved for the religiously sensitive):
The fact that I’m allowed out in public at all is a small miracle.
Monday Metal: Thor by Rebellion
I’m a huge fan of Norse mythology. While other cultures had mythology surround gods fighting one another the Norse took it to a new level. Thor carried a hammer around and smashed frost giants in the face with it, Loki pissed the giants off and they bound him in a cave with the entrails of his son, and the ultimate battle Ragnarök was to destroy the entire world. Is it any surprise that Norse mythology is the center of so many metal songs?
The band Rebellion did a third album history of Norse mythology and, fitting with the mythology, is entirely bad ass. This song is titled Thor and, as you can guess, is about the son of Odin himself:
The Only Map You Need
Are you curious about the evolution of metal? Would you like to see an interactive map that not only shows the evolution of metal, but also gives you sample songs from each of the many subgenres? If so you’re in luck because the Map of Metal does exactly that. Click on that link now, it’s very well done and really fucking cool.
For the most part my preferences stay in the center of the map with some northern travel into the black region from time to time.