Bands such as Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Kreator were important influences on the genre's creation. īuilding from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s. The lyrical themes of death metal may include slasher film-style violence, political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime and science fiction. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking deep growling vocals aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques minor keys or atonality abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes and chromatic chord progressions. blackened death metal ( melodic black-deathĭeath metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.A steam train metal band though, that’d properly be weird. Exactly what it says on the hidden chest of tin. If the same person who asked me “ What is shoegaze?” followed that up with “ What is pirate metal?”, I’d answer as Admiral Nobeard answered: “ My guess would be pirates playing metal”. It’s not a niche neither as it’s not big enough (yet), nor is it attempting to reinvent the wheel. Nile, the death metal band that loves to sing about Ancient Egypt, Steel Panther and Kid Rock are all gimmicks too (Kid Rock actually might not be contrived at all, to be honest).Īll things considered, pirate metal isn’t even that strange. As the Admiral quite rightly pointed out, black metal (“ How many times can you write about Satan and it not be your gimmick?”), GWAR and Alice Cooper all contain gimmickry.
But while it’s weird, it’s certainly not alone in the metal sphere or the wider music world in having a contrived nature. Indeed, Admiral Nobeard, pirate metal is gimmicky. The country that made no colonial inroads into the Caribbean is definitely giving a healthy dose of vitality to this mode of music that Admiral Nobeard happily describes as gimmicky.
Not only did the nation spawn Running Wild, but it also gave Alestorm a #26 spot on the charts for their 2014 album Sunset on the Golden Age. Germany seems a rather healthy hunting ground – erm, secret cove? – for pirate metal. Swashbuckle has a respectable 24,000 likes on Facebook, along with over a million views of their only music video on YouTube, whilst Alestorm have just over 350,000 followers on Facebook, and several million views on each of their videos on the tube ( Keelhauled in particular has nine million). There doesn’t seem to seem to be much going around in the pirate metal world – though I’d love if it was there was an underground pirate metal scene – but both Alestorm and Swashbuckle seem to have a pretty healthy following. Indeed, lead guitarist Commodore RedRum said that the idea of a joke pirate metal band came about in a drunken conversation at 4am with Admiral Nobeard. Their more extreme version of metal also makes the whole pirate schtick a bit more humorous too they seem like they’re taking the piss a bit more than being seriously interested in pirates. frontman and bass player Admiral Nobeard) and the subtraction of keytars. They’re more or less Alestorm, with the addition of pirate stage names (e.g.
Well, to be honest, a steam train metal band can’t be that far off.Īnother pirate metal act that is making headway analogous to our man Blackbeard was 300 odd years ago, is American thrash metallers Swashbuckle. That would be the dumbest thing ever” he claims later in the interview. “ Oh no, I’m not some weird pirate fanatic”, he told (how’s that for a source eh?), “ I didn’t even want to be in a pirate metal band, I just wanted something to sing about”. Bowes interestingly adds that, as a kid, he was interested in steam trains. However, rather strangely, Alestorm and their frontman and founder Christopher Bowes seemingly fell into pirate metal.
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