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An Iconic Marauder Metal Band By Any Other Name... |
While in Washington D.C. last weekend, I was idling through the Washington Post Express. Towards the back, tucked unobtrusively into a corner, where newspapers often keep their apologies for previously printed mistakes, was the Corrections section containing a single guilty admission:
If your veins course with blood or your lungs swell with oxygen, you no doubt find your mind full of questions, and your soul aquiver with nervous excitement. You are not alone.
In the [what I can only imagine to be] cutthroat world of heavy metal outfits who further specialize themselves through association with classic marauder icons, this has to fall under the old "any press is good press" idiom.
Let's get the obvious straightened out.
THIS is Alestorm:
And THIS is Tyr:
That settled, you are probably wondering if they're real. Well you can bet your grog bucket they are. What say you to some links of ultimate proof?!
Behold, Alestorm: http://www.myspace.com/alestorm
Behold, Tyr: http://www.myspace.com/tyr001
Oh, and if you happened to notice that some of the members of Alestorm are sporting kilts, there is an unexpectedly thrash-t'Och!-ular reason. Turns out, they aren't just a pirate-metal band. They are a SCOTTISH pirate-metal band! Ergo, kilts.
Now by Odin's hammer, do the right thing and have a listen to choose your favorite.
"In Thursday's Weekend Pass, a photo of the pirate-metal band Alestorm was used instead of the Viking-metal band Tyr."
If your veins course with blood or your lungs swell with oxygen, you no doubt find your mind full of questions, and your soul aquiver with nervous excitement. You are not alone.
In the [what I can only imagine to be] cutthroat world of heavy metal outfits who further specialize themselves through association with classic marauder icons, this has to fall under the old "any press is good press" idiom.
Let's get the obvious straightened out.
THIS is Alestorm:
And THIS is Tyr:
That settled, you are probably wondering if they're real. Well you can bet your grog bucket they are. What say you to some links of ultimate proof?!
Behold, Alestorm: http://www.myspace.com/alestorm
Behold, Tyr: http://www.myspace.com/tyr001
Oh, and if you happened to notice that some of the members of Alestorm are sporting kilts, there is an unexpectedly thrash-t'Och!-ular reason. Turns out, they aren't just a pirate-metal band. They are a SCOTTISH pirate-metal band! Ergo, kilts.
Now by Odin's hammer, do the right thing and have a listen to choose your favorite.
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