Just making my way through the stream and wanted to say THANKS for the mention! Cheers Phillip, Alan and Marty. Anyway, brilliant episode so far...back to it. Cheers!
Took my 17 year old daughter to her first concert the other night. Twilight Force and Glory Hammer. Twilight Force had Kristin Starkey on vocals, they were awesome. Very interactive and enjoyable show.
This is a really interesting topic. For me personally like Phil, I started with horror first. I am at the point in my life where that camp and over the top aspect to film and metal is a huge draw. I’ve always prided myself as loving trash art. I’ve spent my life defending it and it was a rough go when I was at art school, they almost beat it out of me. Boyish adolescence art my professors liked to call it Which brings me to the fact that Metal IS…immature, that it’s core. Immaturity and humor go hand in hand. From day one it’s been weaving tales of sex, money, motorcycles, dragons, wizards and warriors, the undead rising from their grave, atomic barren wastelands filled with cannibal mutants, intergalactic travelers waging war on planets, Lucifer and his demonic hordes ripping the souls from humanity, etc etc. not really serious topics at all. These topics that filled a teenage person’s mind from the comics or pulp novels they read to the Saturday matinees they watched, to the pornography they discovered in that mass stack of magazines they found in the woods. (we all seem to have that story) Why might you ask? Because the majority of the albums we love were made by people that were anywhere from 15 to 22 years old at the time. Think about it, most of our idols weren’t in their 40 or 50s when they made their magnum opus. Look, I’m not going to sit here and say metal isn’t serious and it doesn’t convey topics on real human suffering, the distribution of wealth, climate change, megalomaniac world leaders, and true mental pain and anguish, because it does. For me personally that isn’t what first attracted to the genre. Even bands that focus on real life events still do it in a larger than life grand way. There is a reason why the majority of the normal music listening world thinks our music is a joke, because of that level of immaturity and humor that is there. The power and aggression the music displays demands lyrics the go with it. If you can’t sit back and smile and giggle when you put on a Cannibal Corpse album and think it’s just childish trash then maybe, just maybe Metal isn’t the music for you or you really don’t get it’s core. But hey…there’s always U2 and Sting you can listen to. 🤣😉
little correction, Alessandro Conti of Twilight Force was never in Rhapsody of Fire, he was however part of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, and did some backing vocals on Turilli/Lione Rhapsody. He also had a collab album with Fabio Lione, the (almost) original Rhapsody singer. It's very simple and not confusing to follow.
As much as I enjoyed this episode, I feel like a lot of newer bands that incorporate comedy into their sound were left out. Bands like Psychostick, Party Cannon, Raised by Owls, Allegaeon (some of their music videos are hilarious), all deserved mentions. Makes me want to make a metal channel, but I don't collect physical media so much. Also wanted to mention a level of comedy missed with Anthrax's I'm The Man. The opening riff is Hava Nagila, adding to the levels of absurdity.
I’m not laughing at angus mcsix. It made my top 20 albums of 2023. Sword of power is an amazing record. I did have a big smile on my face the whole time I listened to the album because how good, fun, and epic the album was 😁
Here's one that is pretty humorous. There is a Finnish Power Metal band called Hevisaurus, and they write metal songs for little kids and dress up in dinosaur costumes. They aren't bad actually. What makes it funnier to me is that all of the lyrics are sung in Finnish.
Just making my way through the stream and wanted to say THANKS for the mention! Cheers Phillip, Alan and Marty. Anyway, brilliant episode so far...back to it. Cheers!
Took my 17 year old daughter to her first concert the other night. Twilight Force and Glory Hammer. Twilight Force had Kristin Starkey on vocals, they were awesome. Very interactive and enjoyable show.
Phil, you will 100% see me at Sci Fi on the Rock! Thats was some amazing news to hear! I live o ly a 20 minute walk from the convention center.
And this episode was indeed loads of fun the perfect tonic on a weekend after a week's grind at work thank you so much Marty Alan and Phil!😂
Glad Phillip is back on the show. Although I expected him to be more inebriated 😁
Best guest ever!
This is a really interesting topic. For me personally like Phil, I started with horror first. I am at the point in my life where that camp and over the top aspect to film and metal is a huge draw. I’ve always prided myself as loving trash art. I’ve spent my life defending it and it was a rough go when I was at art school, they almost beat it out of me. Boyish adolescence art my professors liked to call it
Which brings me to the fact that Metal IS…immature, that it’s core. Immaturity and humor go hand in hand. From day one it’s been weaving tales of sex, money, motorcycles, dragons, wizards and warriors, the undead rising from their grave, atomic barren wastelands filled with cannibal mutants, intergalactic travelers waging war on planets, Lucifer and his demonic hordes ripping the souls from humanity, etc etc. not really serious topics at all. These topics that filled a teenage person’s mind from the comics or pulp novels they read to the Saturday matinees they watched, to the pornography they discovered in that mass stack of magazines they found in the woods. (we all seem to have that story) Why might you ask? Because the majority of the albums we love were made by people that were anywhere from 15 to 22 years old at the time. Think about it, most of our idols weren’t in their 40 or 50s when they made their magnum opus.
Look, I’m not going to sit here and say metal isn’t serious and it doesn’t convey topics on real human suffering, the distribution of wealth, climate change, megalomaniac world leaders, and true mental pain and anguish, because it does. For me personally that isn’t what first attracted to the genre. Even bands that focus on real life events still do it in a larger than life grand way. There is a reason why the majority of the normal music listening world thinks our music is a joke, because of that level of immaturity and humor that is there. The power and aggression the music displays demands lyrics the go with it. If you can’t sit back and smile and giggle when you put on a Cannibal Corpse album and think it’s just childish trash then maybe, just maybe Metal isn’t the music for you or you really don’t get it’s core. But hey…there’s always U2 and Sting you can listen to. 🤣😉
This comment was awesome.
I really enjoyed reading it, thanks for writing it
little correction, Alessandro Conti of Twilight Force was never in Rhapsody of Fire, he was however part of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, and did some backing vocals on Turilli/Lione Rhapsody. He also had a collab album with Fabio Lione, the (almost) original Rhapsody singer. It's very simple and not confusing to follow.
As much as I enjoyed this episode, I feel like a lot of newer bands that incorporate comedy into their sound were left out. Bands like Psychostick, Party Cannon, Raised by Owls, Allegaeon (some of their music videos are hilarious), all deserved mentions. Makes me want to make a metal channel, but I don't collect physical media so much.
Also wanted to mention a level of comedy missed with Anthrax's I'm The Man. The opening riff is Hava Nagila, adding to the levels of absurdity.
Angus McSix!!!! We gotta spread the word!!
I’m not laughing at angus mcsix. It made my top 20 albums of 2023. Sword of power is an amazing record. I did have a big smile on my face the whole time I listened to the album because how good, fun, and epic the album was 😁
I am trying to purge Van Canto from my memory still but a banger of an episode.
I’m way behind on the Chromium episodes, is this Sony stuff he’s talking about on his channel or a different show?
Great show yeah Martin is brill but his taste is practically 100% opposite to mine on all forms of music lol
Pure Gold 😂
Here's one that is pretty humorous. There is a Finnish Power Metal band called Hevisaurus, and they write metal songs for little kids and dress up in dinosaur costumes. They aren't bad actually. What makes it funnier to me is that all of the lyrics are sung in Finnish.