Battle Metal Raise your swords

Warlord

Warlord

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Does anyone around like Battle Metal. It is the essential music to listen to if you just love fantasy and of course fighting in battle. Well, I suppose not much old stlye sword battling is around much more so just listen to it your bedroom turn it up loud and feel your blood rush through your veins as you charge your enemy with the might of an elephant. Well just let me know if you are sword wielder and check out these really cool bands. Turisas(named after a finnish god of war), Ensiferum (think it means sword wielder in latin or norwegian or something), Korpiklaani(more folk metal but are still cool) and loads of others I just haven't found yet.
 
I haven't heard any of those bands, but I listen to some metal with lyrics about historical battles, mythological cycles, and other fantasy related themes.

Some of the best:

Solefald - Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Pt 1
not released yet, but I've heard it, and it'll be out soon. Brilliant rendition of the Asatru mythology into music.

Enslaved - Eld
black metal album that starts off with 793 (Slaget om Lindisfarne), which is the best song on it. It's about the first viking raid (the battle of Lindisfarne during the year 793, as it were) and quite epic and rousing.
 
They sound good. Havent heard of them at all but i will check them out. If you like historical battle metal check out Iced Earth's Gettysburg. They are my favourite band with Turisas running in close second. Have you heard of Manowar? Probably. Warriors of the World and The Fight for Freedom are really cool songs and although the other songs on Warriors of the World arent great they are worth buying the album. Battle Hymns sounds like its pretty good as well.
Bye bye :)
 
I most listen to power metal (Blind Guardian, Edguy, Helloween...that kind of music) but I heard of only one band that you could classify as power metal and i really recommend it to anyone who likes metal...the band is called Bal-Sagoth.
Great music great lyrics ( Conan mythology) and the guys pose around with big swords...what more do you need ;)
 
Faust, I love Bal-Sagoth! I bought their first album, "A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria" about four months ago, and I must say it is a masterpiece! The music is so epic, dark, and creepy! Yes it is based on Robert E. Howard's mythology of Hyperborea and Valusia, (the worlds in the Conan and King Kull sagas) but it is also based around the mythologies of H.P. Lovecraft (the Cthulhu Mythos) and Lin Carter (the world of Lemuria from the Thongor saga). In fact, besides being largely inspired by Howard, taking their name from one of his stories, "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth", the band admitted that their biggest inspiration was H.P. Lovecraft.
And from what I've seen and heard of their albums, they get even better later on, becoming epic in scope to the point of Star Wars, where their albums are not just focusing on one world or land, but a myriad of worlds, with epic space battles involved, alien species, Cosmic Gods, futuristic technology, and magic. The music improves to, in that, whole still keeping true to its melodic black metal roots, it kind of changes to the heroic, epic, sword and sorcery sound of Rhapsody.
 
The way Bal Sagoth base all their music on made up fantasy worlds is cool. Its not just the music to discover but loads of different worlds and all. I remember seeing one of their songs on a magazine and its called "The splendour of a thousand swords gleaming under the blazon of the Hyperborean Empire" and I was like what the Hell :confused: I just didn't know what they were on about. I found out later anyway on the beloved Internet when I checked out their website to see if I could listen to their songs AND find out what the hell the Hyperborean Empire was. I soon dicovered anyway but the thing is - I didnt like their songs, dont know why but they didn't do anything for me so I was sorta pissed off after discovering a band who based their music on fantasy worlds and i didn't like it. OK, maybe I picked a bad song :eek: but it didnt grab me like the way the likes of Iced Earth or Turisas do.
Also, I'm from Ireland as you probably know already and I was getting a bit annoyed when I couldnt even find any Irish metal bands (for national pride :rolleyes: ) but then I found this absolutely brilliant website called (I think)Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal or something like that and it has thousands of bands on it and I found about 20 Irish which sorta reassured me but you can find anything there so when youre bored of Bal Sagoth or whoever you can check it out. I'm not at all sure of the name though. I forget these things.
By the way, I got my nickname from the Turisas singer.
Bye Bye
WARLORD
 
terminus est said:
A good metal webpage listing bands by country:

www.metal-archives.com

Not the one I that found a while ago but nevertheless metal archives is just as good if not better even.
Bye Bye
Warlord

PS The Warlord commands thee to take up arms and wreak a vengeance on popular music. Slay all in your way, take no prisoners and show them your power. You are not soldiers, you are not officers, you are not no ordinary fighting force. You will not retreat from impossible odds and you will not die so easy. YOU ARE WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah :rolleyes: Got a bit carried away
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Yeah Dude
Well "technically" they are Black Polka Metal, But hey they still totally rock.
 
Finntroll is one of my favorite bands ever! They're playing at B.B. King's in NYC in January i think, i want to go so bad. Have you ever heard Rhapsody?
 
I heard Unholy Warcry on a magazine sampler CD. Not bad, Bit cheesy. Not half as good as Turisas, Iced Earth, Korpiklaani, Ensiferum & all them all the same. C. Lee's intro talk was interesting :cool: . What land is he talking about though, a Rhapsody made up land or what.
 
Warlord said:
I heard Unholy Warcry on a magazine sampler CD. Not bad, Bit cheesy. Not half as good as Turisas, Iced Earth, Korpiklaani, Ensiferum & all them all the same. C. Lee's intro talk was interesting :cool: . What land is he talking about though, a Rhapsody made up land or what.
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I've never heard of Turisas, Iced Earth, or Korpiklaani. I have some of Ensiferum's stuff, and it's pretty badass. Unholy Warcry's a good song. They're coming out with their first live CD that looks really good.

Their CDs are based on the Chronicles of Algalord which they call 'Dreamlands.' Members of the band have written various parts. Read on their website www.mightyrhapsody.com, it's alright.
 
And I thought I was the only person to base music on my own fantasy worlds. :mad:
 
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