Oh Wow indeed. The Scottish grand maestros of pirate metal Alestorm have cast ashore a live performance for Zombies Ate Their Pirate Ship, off of their latest album Curse of the Crystal Coconut. This features footage from their 2021 UK/Ireland tour and including hilarious backstage footage! Alestorm have just entered the […]
Heavy metal is a genre whereby the integrity of the album is sacrosanct. Whereas popular music is often driven by singles, the satisfaction of listening to a stellar album straight through is something quite special. Within this sphere, opening tracks hold a special significance. Some albums prefer their opening tracks […]
You’re sat there one day, listening to your plain old traditional power metal, dreaming of a world where epic could be turned up to a gloriously new extreme. So you put on your favourite melodic death metal artist, and once again you are left with a sense of forlorn emptiness. […]
Rejoice defenders of the ethereal realm, Extreme Wizard Metal is back. Wizardthrone have released their second single Forbidden Equations Deep Within The Epimethean Wasteland. Try saying that after a few Sambucas. Harnessing the devastating energy of folk inspired melodic death metal – think Wintersun on interdimensional steroids. Wizardthrone‘s debut album […]
Mortal beings, the time has finally come. After generations of anticipation, the ancient prophecy has finally been realised. The mighty supergroup Wizardthrone have released their first single, and it’s totally not what I was expecting. Frozen Winds Of Thyraxia is a technical blackened melodic death metal odyssey, honed through light […]
Ahoy there Scumbags and Wenches, I be presenting thee the sunken treasure that is the Essential Guide to Pirate Metal. Worry not, I shall reluctantly be using contemporary English to write this guide. Taking a Russian-doll approach to metal classification (a sub-genre within a sub-genre), Pirate Metal is a sub-segment […]
After the turmoil the world went through in 2020, it is fitting to now look forward to 2021. I am cautiously optimistic that we will resume to some sort of normality this year. Either way we have plenty to look forward to. Like the proverbial Phoenix we have some new […]
You have no doubt been involved in a conversation where a version of the following question has been asked; “If you could only take 10 albums with you to a desert island to listen to forevermore, what would you take?” Which is just a fancy way of saying what is […]
