Haven’t heard Alestorm in about a decade. This song’s a lot goofier than I remember them being; I thought they were just a bit tongue in cheek. Still, a very fun song and I love comedy metal bands like Psychostick. Also, the animation in this was incredibly well done; very fluid like rum lol 😂
You should definitely check out their most recent couple of albums it's not all comedic and goofy, they go back and forth a lot. Definitely more goofy then the original albums though so I understand where you are coming from lol
if you haven't listened to this since this video go back and watch the video again with the CC turned on, don't look for other lyric sites go with the cc it's meant to be used you won't regret it.
The brains behind Alestorm, Chris Bowes, actually has three bands, each with a different theme. There's obviously Alestorm which is pirate metal, and he sings and plays the keytar. He plays the keyboard in Gloryhammer, which is a powermetal band which tells a futuristic sci-fi story following the Kingdom of Fife (The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee is a fun song). His newest band is Wizardthrone, which calls itself extreme wizard metal. I don't have a recommendation for that one, but they've only got one album out thus far.
If youre looking for more Scottish metal, Hellripper is a one-man band from Aberdeen that does indeed rip Hell. "The Nuckelavee" is a recent career highlight with his most explicitly Scottish lyrics.
It's not just Scotland. Their guitarist is Hungarian, so of course they made a song "Magyarorszag" about living the pirate life in the landlocked country of Hungary.
There were many pirate captains who sold their souls to the Divell for such trifles as bullet invulnerability, incredible luck and so on... But there is only one, who made a deal with Old Harry in exchange for a keytar and a pair of ears that allow him to add some ten knots to speed while sailing a broad reach. All hail cap'n Christopher Bowes!
Comedy metal bands are some of the best, with ones such as Alestorm, Electric Callboy, lawnmower deth, Attilla and, of course, Brojob. Everything needs some lightness to counteract the dark seriousness, and metal is no different.
There are a million and one serious songs and metal bands out there, and they are great, but music is about feeling and happy, fun, silly are just as valid an expression as any deep introspection thought provoking attempts to change the world.
Exactly. Music should be fun more than anything. I love a great political or social message being spread through art, but sometimes I need to turn my brain off to chaos of the world and just have a good time.
@thatmelisakelly So what does P.A.R.T.Y. stand for? Peter Alcorn's really tasty yogurt? Pirates are really terrible yachtsmen? People's association of rhinoceros tickers (Yucatan)?
Alestorm is we're on the way home fra work and need something lighthearted what for to listen to loudly. It's also brilliant when you're having a party as well, as long as there aren't sensitive types about.
I can’t listen to it, my dude. I will almost certainly start Civil War, because it will make me feel like such a Scottish patriot, but I will start a movement to have Scotland cut in half a Hadrian’s wall, so we’re not connected to England anymore. 😆 🏴
Alestorm is amazing, very first song I ever heard by them I heard in my local pool hall and was thoroughly surprised by the vocals, 1741 The Battle of Cartagena. by far one of my favorites def recommend it will surprise you
Off-topic, but you asked. The stereotypical pirate we all think of is mostly from one person. Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Dianey's Treasure Island. He used a west country accent for his character and the image stuck.
The artist who did that also made one of a song from the TV cartoon “Donkey Kong Country” known as “pirate’s scorn” Also done by alestorm, a cover at least… it’s pretty good
Yes! Wayyy late to this video but… such is life! I personally think the best album is Sunset On The Golden Age with the title track and 1741 being the best tracks off it… but it’s just great music and such a load of fun! Glad you had a great time! 🤘
I don't think I know of a bad song by Alestorm, but I couldn't help thinking that if I were to pick a song to introduce this band to someone new it would not have been this one by a long shot. There are FAR more epic songs that I would have suggested first like "Keelhauled", "Drink", "Mexico", "Tortuga", "Fannybaws", and "Shipwrecked!" I WANT TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO THESE!
Hi Melissa you need to watch The Sensational Alex Harvey Band if you want a good Scottish rock band or Hocus Pocus by Focus if you want any earwax removed
THAT WAS FUN ! Soo good! Talking serious and un-serious music: what is the noble task of music? In my book: to bring joy to the people. @ Melisa: are you familiar with Clanadonia? They are from Scotland, too. Try to find i.e "Hamsterheid", played live in the streets. Greetings from the far north of Germany!
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Ah I was looking for this Alestorm song for you. Hopefully will make you proud to be Scottish. 😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ICz-dJanoWY.html
Spinal Tap. Any song. Although Bitch School (not in the film but released a few years later) is a classic! One of my all time favourite films. Love it!
I think I will do a spinal tap tune and luckily I don’t think I’ve heard this one! Thank you my dude 😊👍 I’ll credit you in the vid for the suggestion ❤️
There has always been space in the metal community for this. Literally since metal was invented. I still remember Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun from the 90s. In fact I might still even have the CD 😛
That was a pretty cool video. Whenever I think of rock bands from Scotland, the first two that come to mind are Nazareth and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Both of them are more hard rock than heavy metal, but they are both amazing. If you have never heard of them, you should definitely give them a listen. Cheers! 🥃
Other fun Alestorm songs: Keelhauled, Mexico, Nancy the Tavern Wench, Fucked by an Anchor, Questing upon the Poopdeck, can't really think of a song I don't like from them.
Or the Bad News version of Bohemian Rhapsody… for a slightly deeper cut! If you do listen to that one bear in mind it was Brian May playing the guitar parts!
You haven't lived until you've seen them perform this live with Captain Yarrface dressed as Britney Spears while the lass who won the meat raffle sits on stage being pumped full of booze.
@@SoulSingerDiscovers I forgot to mention that the festival was held at a brewery called Pirate Life. I know it's all too insane to believe so you can fact check it! Froth and Fury 2022 in Adelaide.
Although I do not care much for Alestorm's latest two albums, there is no doubt they have a fix spot on my party playlists. Good fun should never be locked out of the metal scene. Just look at Steel Panther, and lately Nanowar of Steel. Ah, and also if you want it darker I recommend Belzebubs "Cathedral of Mourning" (fantastic comic/animation awaits thee).
Great reaction! If you like animation that much, a good next selection could be from Deathklok, the Batmetal trilogy: 1. Batmetal 2. Batmetal Returns 3. Batmetal Forever (in that order) You'll have a great time ;)
So not a Scottish band as such but a band that you might not be familiar with that a lot of their songs are based on Scottish history is Grave Digger. This is one of my favourite versions of the song Rebellion because it has my all time favourite singer Hansi Kursch of Blind Guardian fame but his band demons and wizards also has one of my absolute favourite songs Fiddler on the Green. Grave Digger are underrated and deserve more exposure. So let me expose you to them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PbzSWcRM9u0.html
Oh, come on, Melisa! How could you become MORE scottish??? Red hair, freckles and bagpipes? For real, if you become more scottish, we need english subtitles! 🤣
You like pirate metal? You like animation? You like hard partying? Then you NEED the antidote to this very song, _SOBER_ by Nanowar of Steel! Sorry, not Scottish (actually Italian), but three out of four ain't bad. (Warning: some bleeping may be required.) And then you can watch _Valhallelujah..._
Man, I've seen them at festivals plenty of times and I've always thought of them as a gimmick band. The only two bands that I cab think of that pull of the comedy with metal are Strapping young Lad and Gwar.
Please throw old Alestorm fans a bone a do a song form the first 4 records back when they were a least semi serious. Such a huge fan of black sails and back through time. I just don’t get this new stuff
Third comment in a row but fuck it. There has been arguments amongst the metal community since the first bands started to stray away from the classic and go in the direction of sublime and the ridiculous. One of the most maligned bands that splits the crowd when it comes to metal heads is Manowar. They don't write the comedy lyrics but what they sing about is often viewed as ridiculous or kitsch but essentially birthed the Scandinavian metal genre (some call it Viking metal.) From those kinds of roots you saw the advent of bands like Dream Evil who went hard into the fantasy metal. You get these shifts and trends in the metal world. The boomer metal crowd always seem to malign anything that isn't classic but there is a fairly substantial niche with bands like psychostick and genre straddling bands like electric callboy. You've got that absurdity that is Dethklok which is extreme comedy metal and they had their own whole cartoon with some of the most ridiculous metal and the most ridiculous animation. In one episode they did a song that was coffee jingle and people were like getting brutally killed as they are singing the song and the song is ridiculous, the antics are ridiculous but it's such incredible musicianship that Dethklok, even as something of a parody shreds with the best of them. You also have Powerwolf who sing about religious werewolf soldiers and have religious themed songs such as "resurrection by erection" and "coleus sanctus" amongst others. Again the lyrics are absurd but the arrangement and the vocal delivery is utterly sublime. Powerwolf demonstrate how to do that really well and still be taken seriously in the metal community. I don't think it would be fair to say writing comedy lyrics is harder than say a ballad or something but to write good comedy lyrics delivered with superb musicianship is a different skill set and not really comparable. Take psychostick and NSFW, the whole song is literally a dude singing the word fuck but it's the way they develop the musicianship behind it. You have Austrian death machine which is essentially an Arnold Schwarzenegger themed parody/tribute metal band. You have alestorm and I think it is the way they deliver the lyrics that makes them so good. Any other band singing songs like that would probably not hit the same way.
They are live fucking awesome. If you wanna see some more fun videos then whatch Mexiko because that video is a cool arcadegame style when they wash a donkey.
Alestorm are amazing and just as good live, but this was not a great representation. You need to checkout the following songs, Drink, Alestorm (the clip has midgets😊), F#cked with an Anchor (this is a must), Mexico And yes, I turn 50 in a few months and loves me some animation, 🤘
Humor in metal, naaah. OK, maybe a bit. Maybe Steel Panther. "Death to all but(t) metal" (full length video), "Community Property" or "Glory Hole" are as pathetic and hilarious as a glam metal parody can get. These guys are hilariously funny and so real at the same time, that Mötley Crue obviously don't like them, because they are like Freudian mirror to them. Steel Panther is a therapeutical treatment for frustrated metal musicians that need more sex and fun in their lifes. (A bit like if Twisted Sister and Spinal Tap had a baby and fed it with cocaine. )
As always Martin, you find a way of explaining something to me that makes it super interesting. I’m definitely gonna react to some more comedy metal bands, but you had me at Spinal Tap frankly. I’ve seen that film about 40 times and I still think it is one of the funniest films Ever. Hope you’re keeping well my dude. Currently trying to snatch a little pockets of time to read some of your writing. Looking forward to being able to tell you about what I think about your brain baby 😊
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Oh, that's great. Yeah, time is always rare, take your time. I'm OK, just a little bit less active the last weeks, learning guitar, and to make it not too easy, 7-string, fanned frets, LOL. A musician's life without having seen Spinal Tap is possible, but pointless. 🙂 Great, that we have so much in common, in terms of views and opinions. I wish you a great weekend!