Scottish pirates Alestorm have dropped their 5th album, No Grave But The Sea, yesterday. To celebrate this new effort, a video for the song "Fucked With An Anchor" was released through Napalm Records YouTube channel. Check out the deep and meaningful song in the link below.
The music video was filmed in the studio while recording the album.
Profound to the core. A wonderful example of true poetic craftsmanship.
An unimaginable amount of hours have gone into writing lyrics to this song. I'm sure. (And probably a comparable amount of time into composing the music as well.)
Anyway, the song is funny, but Sex Pistols did it first and better:
The Sex Pistols weren't the firt to do it. But it is the best known version of Good Ship Venus and imo also the best. Oscar Brand already a version of it in 1952
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal
Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
Cheesy isn't a bad thing, but it has to be done right. It's hard to describe the difference; the stuff I like and the stuff I don't like would seem identical to an outside observer.
A bunch of Scandinavians singing about booze and trolls I love (and I do *not* mean Trollfest), but a bunch of Scottish dudes pretending to be pirates makes me cringe. Maybe "pirate metal" (a convenient descriptor, not a genre) would be able to be taken more seriously if it were true to what pirates were actually like. Instead of the Disney image of raucous parties, wenches, and jaunty tunes, what if it were about the harsh realities of living as murderous thieves on the high seas? That seems a lot more metal to me.
But I'm a hypocrite, I love me plenty of other cheesy metal, and opinions are like...well, you know.