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Old 06-12-2014, 06:01 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Nice! and Battle Hymns has just appeared in my journal.
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Old 06-12-2014, 10:38 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Nice! and Battle Hymns has just appeared in my journal.
I'm totally gay for you. And I've been slackin' on updating this thread. I've got a band I need to rave about but my laziness is even more epic than their music.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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I'm glad you're so happy to know me.
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Old 06-15-2014, 11:11 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Here are a few of my favourite Metal Epics.

Here's a great Folk Metal epic, from my favourite Folk/Viking Metal band.

Månegarm-Hemfärd - YouTube

Here's one of my favourite Power Metal epics, from my favourite Power Metal band.

Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence - YouTube

and here's a Black/Folk Metal epic from my favourite Canadian Metal band. (The uploading is poor quality, the production is better on the actual album.)

Catuvolcus - Litaviccos - YouTube
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Old 06-15-2014, 07:51 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Here are a few of my favourite Metal Epics.

Here's a great Folk Metal epic, from my favourite Folk/Viking Metal band.

Månegarm-Hemfärd - YouTube

Here's one of my favourite Power Metal epics, from my favourite Power Metal band.

Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence - YouTube

and here's a Black/Folk Metal epic from my favourite Canadian Metal band. (The uploading is poor quality, the production is better on the actual album.)

Catuvolcus - Litaviccos - YouTube
I love Blind Guardian, but the other two bands strike me as that kind of Ensiferum-style "battle metal" that started popping up after Turisas started getting big. That stuff always bored me. Turisas is pretty fantastic though.
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Old 06-15-2014, 08:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Warlord


Some of you here might have seen me raving about this band in recent months. I love this band. They're ****ing fantastic. They play heavy/power metal (eighties PM bands in general could be as much heavy as power metal) in a style that may not be particularly groundbreaking in 2014, but in the early eighties was probably cutting edge. I mentioned earlier when I talked about Sabbath that religion and fantasy in metal could have similar vibes and Warlord prove that. It would be very easy to assume they were another sword and sorcery band, but these guys were a straight up Christian band. This is probably why they're so epic. Any other band would have had fun with what they were doing and not quite pulled epic off, but these guys mean every word and put everything into their work and that emotion really transforms them into something more than just another cheesy power metal band.

*Note: Warlord only released an EP and one full-length before breaking up in the eighties, but have now reunited and recorded two more albums. While this rules, I am only really familiar with their eighties material, so I can't really speak about the newer albums. Hopefully I can come back and do something on the newer stuff later.




The thing that really makes this band epic is that this isn't euphoric gospel, it's a dark, apocalyptic plea for mercy. They aren't so much praising God as they are desperately trying to warn the rest of humanity of the threat to their immortal souls. This also comes across in the music. Even though Warlord generally stick to mid-pace there's just something frantic about the way they play. You really get the feeling they believe the end of the world is nigh and they don't have time to **** around. They need to get their point across now. I think these lyrics are pretty clear on that...


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Prepare for the final awakening
Prepare for the time it has come
Look to the heavens! A crack in the sky
The ending of time has begun
. . . and now all that you have is gone . . .



This song makes it pretty obvious what these guys think the Apocalypse will be like: nuclear war. Not exactly an original idea in 1983, but if one were religious enough to start their own band then the threat of nuclear war must have looked like an obvious sign of end times. This song is what made me realize how special this band was. The end, with the climactic, repeated appeal of "Save us! From ourselves!" is the perfect end to their Deliver Us EP. It really feels like the end of the world is happening two seconds ago and this is literally the last chance to repent and be saved.




This band really doesn't like Satan. But what really seems to piss them off is mankind's collaboration with him. In fact they get downright bitter when talking about it...


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With the fire burning in the air
The demons they danced
And drank from the chalice they shared
Nobody cared!

Thank Xenu I'm an atheist or this band would have me hiding under my bed. Metaphorically speaking of course, as I sleep on a mattress on the floor.
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I love Blind Guardian, but the other two bands strike me as that kind of Ensiferum-style "battle metal" that started popping up after Turisas started getting big. That stuff always bored me. Turisas is pretty fantastic though.
I don't know Turisas, but I don't think the comparison of either of those bands to Ensiferum is really fair. (Though I still like Ensiferum's first two albums and the two bands I mentioned.) They both have their own unique styles to me, and wouldn't fall under the knock-off sorts of bands I think you're alluding to.

Here're a couple songs each by them which I wouldn't really consider Ensiferum-esque.


Catuvolcus - La Colline de Chanturge - YouTube


Catuvolcus - Voyageurs des Brumes Pt. I & II (Lyric Video) - YouTube



MÅNEGARM | Vargstenen - YouTube


Månegarm-Dödens Strand - YouTube





Also, here's another epic Metal song I love.


Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon - YouTube
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Old 06-18-2014, 01:37 PM   #18 (permalink)
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A great metal band that i've come across in Sweden are called Chronus! They recently just released a music video! Have a listen to it!
Chronus - Vault of treachery is the video called on youtube! look it up! you won't get dissapointed
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