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ashtar. - 2014-05-05

I like this, but not Alestorm. I think the Sontag point OZ brought up in poetv.com/video.php?vid=134181 applies here as well. Campy metal is only good when it's at least half trying to be serious.


Jet Bin Fever - 2014-05-05

I had no fucking idea this existed. You've added something important to my life today.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-05

OK, I'm going to have to take issue with Running Wild being called "pirate metal". They are not pirates. They are a power metal band with some pirate themed albums. We don't call Iron Maiden an Injun Metal band because of Run to the Hills, we don't call Blind Guardian a Hobbit Metal band because every other song is about Hobbits. NO! Consider this very song; it has nothing to do with pirates. They are not dressed like pirates, they are not singing about pirates, nothing. Compare and contrast with Alestorm, who live, drink, and shit piracy, until you wish they'd just shut up about it.


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

They are absolutely pirate metal, to the point where I'm pretty sure they're widely considered the first pirate metal band. This song happens to be not about pirates but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEk-NeRizMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbO_IDpQAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIx5aXxHmtY


THEY EVEN HAVE THE SOUNDS OF PIRATE BATTLE


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

"The term pirate metal was originally coined by German Speed/Power metal band Running Wild"

-Urban Dictionary (so it must be true)


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

Kind of like how The Cramps coined the term Psychobilly but only loosely fit into the genre that the term ended up being used for.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-05

The Cramps aren't psychobilly, any more than Running Wild is pirate metal. They may have first coined the term, but they are not pirate metal, and if THEY think they are pirate metal, then they are wrong.

I see your UrbanDictionary, and raise you Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Wild_%28band%29

Note the listings under the infobox heading, Genre. Heavy metal, speed metal, power metal. NO PIRATE METAL. Wikipedia is a more reliable and reputable source than Urbandictionary, and Wikipedia does not consider Running Wild to be pirate metal.

Furthermore, Running Wild apparently did not write any songs about pirates until 1988, over a decade after the band formed. Their "pirate phase" lasted a mere four years, and it was not even an exclusively-pirate phase; rather, they sang about "historically-based" subjects, including the War of the Roses and Waterloo (neither of which involved pirates).


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

The Cramps literally invented the term psychobilly to describe their music, though.

I don't know about Wikipedia, but I do know Running Wild were considered pirate metal by me and my metalhead friends in middle school and that's the ultimate authority.


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

Actually no we just thought of them as metal because it was the 80s.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-05

"Actually no we just thought of them as metal because it was the 80s."

Well there you go. QED.


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-05

I realized it was kind of stupid for me to be arguing that a band I like should be labeled with a genre I don't really care for.


ashtar. - 2014-05-05

They made metal songs about pirates. Therefore: Pirate Metal.
Don't make me edit wikipedia.


Architeuthis Tux - 2014-05-05

Despite using the handle EvilHomer, this user has never once demonstrated pure malign intent or a capacity for writing the Iliad. Clearly EvilHomer is NOT TRUE EVILHOMER.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-05

Actually, Evil Homer is basically just a goofy retard with maracas; he is neither literary nor particularly malicious:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=72994

So I could indeed be the true Evil Homer.


Architeuthis Tux - 2014-05-05

My point, she is made.


memedumpster - 2014-05-05

I like it.


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-06

All of their 80s albums are great.


Old_Zircon - 2014-05-06

I have a feeling they're probably still a good band, I just don't like the production on most newer albums of this sort of metal, so I've never paid attention to theirs.


Scrimmjob - 2014-05-06

Yeah, this is top notch.


Кotki - 2014-05-07

Nah, they're not a good band anymore unfortunately, their current stuff is terrible. But yes, their 80s' albums are all great, with Black Hand Inn being one of the greatest albums of all time ever.


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