Interesting song for a start. Look, long story short - Nanowar of Steel are a heavy/power metal band from Italy that are basically Weird Al Yankovic of the genre. Their band name itself is a pun, combining a mockery of the names of the bands Manowar and Rhapsody of fire. Their style is basically high quality heavy metal with goofy lyrics that poke fun of the overly seriousness with which many many bands are perceived to present themselves with. While adding a throwing random lyrical and musical pop culture references all over the place. The thing is that these fellas know what they’re doing and they take things quite seriously, actually. While the lyrics are parodying every imaginable thing, their music is a 100% tribute to the style. “Disco metal” is the little brother of another successful song they had 5 years ago, called “Norwegian Reggaeton “ and it was brilliant. If you’re familiar with the Norwegian black metal genre, the satanic imagery, and the general aesthetics of it, you’ll have a good time with this one. I can recommend every official video they’ve put for the past 5 years. There’s plenty of material to think about As Nanowar state about themselves: “We’re the only metal band that doesn’t play only metal”. Disco metal is their latest video, that was released 4-5 days ago. Great song by a great band, enjoy the ride and cheers
@@hansele666 True, but it's still a pretty good comparison. But instead of keeping the melody, Nanowar keeps the style, and does excellent style parodies.
@@DarioServenti Actually no, in origin that was the code word to stop the alien robot to destroy our planet in the sci-fi movie The Day The Earth Stood Still/Ultimatum alla terra made in 1951 (a remake was made in 2008 with Keanu Reeves) and then quoted in Army Of darkness 😉
As usual in the Nanowar's songs there a lot of quotes,puns and jokes here too...here are some...first of all,some of the Nanowar players are dressed as The Vampire,The Mummy and the Werewolf etc. (at 01:23 of the official video you can see him owling...),well these are quotes of the italian horror metal band Death SS (no nazi...it means In Death Of Steve Sylvester,their singer and leader) whose musicians go on stage dressed like that since 1977; Sign of the strobelight be our guide is a clear quote of the Manowar song Sign Of The Hammer (be my guide) and Cult of The Damned is another Manowar quote of the song Guyana (the cult of the damned) , a song about the mass suicide committed in 1978 at Jonestown wit 909 casualties...both songs were released in 1984. Disco Inferno is a famous disco song released in 1977, Reek of Putrefaction (1988) is an album by Carcass and it's considered a milestone in the death metal/grindcore genre,This Is The Ritual of The Nigth is a quote of Corona's song The Rhythm Of The Night (1995) while Follow The Reaper is an album released in 2000 by the finland metal band Children Of Bodom...but of course there is more!!!
we should create a website listing all the references and Easter Eggs in the recent NoS songs; Valhalleluja and Norwegian Raggaeton contain lots of them.
Welcome in the tunnel. EVERY NoS song is full of cinematic and musical references. Try their songs: -Barbie Milf Princess of the Twilight -Ironmonger -Norwegian Reaggeton -Vahalelujia - Winterstorm in the Night - And then I noticed that she was a Gargoyle -I'm heavy - Uranus Good luck😃
You have an entire world of great metal and great lyrics from one of the craziest metal band ever... and p.s. they're italian! Welcome to the family! 8:07 it's a quote from the Divine Comedy, masterpiece written in 1300 by Dante Alighieri, most importat poet of every time and father of the italian language. Those lines come from Canto VII of Hell. The next lines "pape satan aleppe" have many possible interpretations... :P 8:22 "C'è da spostare una bara... è un diesel... la vogliamo spostare o no?" = "There's a coffin to move... it's a diesel... do we want to move it or not?"... of course it's a pun of the usual situation when a speaker says that there's a care to move ^___^ 9:00 = Scatman, What is love by Haddaway and This is the rythm of the night by Corona
NoS have been churning out great, funny songs and videos for 20 years, they have a huge backlog of great stuff on yt, please do some more reactions! I can guarantee you will never be bored! :D
But then it was used in the movie Evil Dead as a "magic formula" (klatu verata nikto) to unlock the hellish power from the forbidden book "Necronomicon" (H.P. Lovecraft reference). The problem was that Ash, the main character, could never remember the sentence correctly, so he ended up messing the summoning and threw himself into an evil dimension.
While obviously genius, there have been other "Disco Metal" songs before, although usually with less comedic approach but more actual covers. Check out Therion - Summernight City (Prog Metal ABBA cover) or Turisas - Rasputin (Folk Metal Boney M cover). Allthough they are more in the vein of the Amberian Dawn album you mentioned (alltough still a bit more disco-y). On the other hand if you want more of comedic disco/electric metal, check out Electric Callboys like... everything :D MC Thunder, MC Thunder Part 2, Hypa Hypa, (and also Saltatio Mortis - Hypa Hypa Folk Metal cover of it), Pump It, We got the Moves, Arrow of Love, Is anyone up, My Own Summer... I could go on :D
