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So you're a big fan of fantasy. You've read all of J. R. R. Tolkien's works and you play Dungeons & Dragons on a regular basis. However, you also want to be a musician but find Filk and other such genres way too mellow for you. So, what does one do? Join the exciting field of fantasy-based Heavy Metal! Yes, metal is not just about Satan. Sometimes it's about Sauron. Your band can put out a couple songs with lyrics all about ancient prophecies and epic quests, and everyone will be too busy rocking to your awesome guitar solos and killer drumbeats to care. Power Metal is probably the most common genre for this type, but there are others, like Viking Metal, Gothic Metal, Folk Metal, Black Metal and Symphonic Metal (which is why you can be skilled in instruments other than the typical rock ones). It can even be multiple such genres at the same time, such as Symphonic Power Metal. However, not all power metal bands fall under this trope (especially many American power metal bands) as the subgenre is also known for its similarities to speed metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. In the late '60s and early '70s, at the birth of heavy metal, fantasy-themed lyrics were not uncommon for rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep. During this era, fantasy-themed songs generally tended to be folksy or psychedelic in their sound, due to the hippie generation's fascination with Tolkien. In the mid-to-late 70s, Rainbow, fronted by Ronnie James Dio, ran under a consistent fantasy aesthetic while playing some of the heaviest rock of its day, thus serving as a Trope Codifier for fantasy metal in particular. Some Christian Rock falls into this. Named after the fictional metal Mithril from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Nerdcore is the Rap counterpart. See also Elvish Presley. Compare and contrast Cyber Punk Is Techno for the music common for science fiction and Nature Metal for metal associated with nature-themes. |
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Bolt Thrower, whose entire second album Realm Of Chaos and various other songs do this for Warhammer 40,000 There are lots of bands that do songs for 40k: Astrosoniq has "Red unz go Fasta" and "Doomrider". Sabbat has a much faster and heavier version of 'Blood For The Blood God' — that was on a flexidisk on the cover of White Dwarf magazine no.95 (Nov 1987). |
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Yngwie Malmsteen, while considered a foreground character in neo-classical metal, has always had at least one Heavy Mithril-song on every album. One of his album covers has him fighting off a dragon with his guitar. | |
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Dream Theater veer into this territory in some of their later albums. "In the Presence of Enemies, Pts I & II" is a good example. | |
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Not only did Blind Guardian do the theme for the second game in the Sacred series, they have NPC avatars in the game who put on a concert that you attend, wherein they play the game's song. An extended version of the song is also the first track on their album At The Edge of Time. | |
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Metallica, with their 9-minute instrumental "The Call of Ktulu", which derives its title from the famed Lovecraft story. (albeit changing the title to how it's supposed to be pronounced) They'd go back to Cthulhu decades later with "Dream No More". "The Thing That Should Not Be" is also inspired by one of Lovercraft's Great Old Ones. "Of Wolf and Man" off the Black Album is about, you guessed it, werewolves. They returned to the theme with "Am I Savage?". "All Nightmare Long" on their 2008 album Death Magnetic, which is about The Hounds of Tindalos. There seems to be some confusion on James Hetfield's part. You don't avoid the Hounds of Tindalos by staying "with angels". You avoid them by staying away from ''angles''. |
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Lollipop Chainsaw has the first part of Stage 6 set to a rocking tune played by Dragonforce. | |
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Versailles vocalist/frontman Kamijo is a fan of vampire mythos in general and The Vampire Chronicles in particular. It shows. Many (if not most) of their songs reference vampires or other related fantasy concepts (amusingly enough, most of the rest of their discography consists of love songs). "AFTER CLOUDIA" was specifically written about a scene in Interview with the Vampire. | |
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A rarer sci-fi variation can be seen in the credits of Homeworld, where the song "The Ladder (Homeworld)" by Yes recaps the story of the Kushaani's epic voyage to their original homeworld, Hiigara. Notably, while it's done as a rock ballad, the lyrics are reminescent of a cryptic ancient chant straight out of a mythic retelling of their famous journey. | |
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What if Mighty Thor wielded an axe instead of a hammer? You get Valhallen, the Viking god of rock, from the "Justice Friends" shorts on Dexter's Laboratory. | |
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Vengeance (The Pact) was originally written for Heavy Metal to accompany the Taarna story, but was never used for the film. | |
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They Have also based a song on The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, The song is called The Fall Of Gondolin. | |
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Parodied in Achewood, in which serial killer Nice Pete and burnt-out hard rocker Lyle form a band named "Mister Band." Their output falls squarely in this category. Lyle, being more of a traditional metal fan, becomes resentful of this. | |
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The death metal band Tomb Mold are prominently inspired by Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series, even drawing their band name from an item in the former game. Other songs inspired by the games include "Merciless Watcher", "Clockwise Metamorphosis", and "Abysswalker", while their other songs have more general cosmic horror themes. | |
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The whole Barbarians are Metal thing is parodied in the Scandanavian CGI film, Ronal the Barbarian, especially the song "Barbarian Rhapsody". | |
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Hammerfall. Notably, several of their song titles are lifted directly from A Song of Ice and Fire, such as "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" and "Take The Black." | |
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Kevin in F is for Family is a huge fan of the fictional band Shire of Frodo, which leans heavily into the medieval-fantasy theme with their music and presentation. Kevin is royally pissed when their opening act at a concert is almost immediately booed off stage to make way for the headliner act (an expy of Led Zeppelin that, unlike the real band, seemingly doesn't have any of this influence). | |
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Unleash the Archers are heavily influenced by various Dark Fantasy novels, The Black Company being one of frontwoman Brittney Slayes's favorites. Their specific subject matter varies, with the concept albums Apex and Abyss specifically telling the story of an immortal warrior who is spellbound to serve the commands of whomever speaks the incantation to awaken him from his mountain lair. | |
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A common style in the Ys soundtracks. | |
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Rhapsody of Fire. Everything they have ever done involves some fantasy element. They are much nerdier than Dragonforce. DragonForce uses fantasy imagery because it's cool. Rhapsody composed a five-album long fantasy story. It's a Real Men / Roleplayers comparison, really... They're on their second multi-album story now, with The Atoner from the previous story as the protaganist. And they got Christopher Lee to provide narration, even! Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a complete ten-album chronicle of the wars of a distant land. |
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The French Black Metal group The Great Old Ones, as one might expect from their name, writes songs based on the Cthulhu Mythos. | |
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Guilty Gear is a magical fantasy world in which characters named after Hair Metal and Thrash Metal bands from The '80s destroy each other with attacks named after various songs. | |
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Æther Realm's "The Magician", which describes a novice magician having a Heel Realization about the dark nature of the group he's joined and fleeing into the mountains to gain the strength to defeat them. | |
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The entire "black side" of Queen II (which includes "Seven Seas of Rhye", "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke", "Ogre Battle", and "My Fairy King" from their second album. Related, "'39", which is more space opera. And of course, there's the cheerfully campy scifi classic "Flash!", from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. Also, the cover art for News of the World◊, by SF illustrator Frank Kelly Freas. "Princes of the Universe", from the Highlander soundtrack is one of the purest examples of Heavy Mithril around. |
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Electric Wizard makes frequent references to fantasy and horror literature. Their album "Let us Prey" has a quote from "The Outsider" on the back cover and a list of authors cited for "lyrical inspiration" in the booklet, which includes H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith among many others. | |
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Rush The entire later half of the 70s was Heavy Mithril with Rush, with at least one fantasy-based song per album, culminating in Hemishpheres, which side A is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy concept album, culminating in a song about Trees arguing, and an instrumental trip through a Alice in Wonderland-esque nightmare. Their catalog from this time period could be the soundtrack for any given Final Fantasy game. On Fly By Night- "By-Tor & the Snow Dog" (a battle between good and evil in near Rock Opera form) "Rivendell" (Obviously about Elves) On Caress of Steel - "the Necromancer" a moody song about triumph over, well, the Necromancer, and "The Fountain of Lamneth" 2112- The title song (which takes up the entirety of Side A) is based, very loosely, on Ayn Rand's Anthem On A Farewell to Kings, the title song (loosely, it's about vague evil kings. They could be talking actual historical Kings, or fictional ones), Cygnus X-1, about a trip through a black hole, serves as a prologue to a song that culminates in a part 2 on another album (the aforementioned Hemishpheres) which is a Mount Olympus-based fantasyland in the literal sense (and metaphorically about the id, ego and superego), and "Xanadu", a song about a quest for eternal life gone wrong, loosely based or inspired by the Coleridge poem Kublai Khan. Moving Pictures- "Red barchetta" is set in a future where at least some kinds of cars (fast ones anyway) have been banned. |
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"All Nightmare Long" on their 2008 album Death Magnetic, which is about The Hounds of Tindalos. There seems to be some confusion on James Hetfield's part. You don't avoid the Hounds of Tindalos by staying "with angels". You avoid them by staying away from ''angles''. |
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Manowar - The heavy metal band that sings about how glorious metal is, how glorious Vikings are, how glorious Norse gods are, how glorious fighting is, and how glorious Vikings fighting for heavy metal Norse gods is. They're also of the opinion that the Norse Gods made heavy metal. | |
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British Post-hardcore/alt rock upstarts Fightstar seem to have a big obsession with Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is evidenced in songs like "Shinji Ikari", "NERV/SEELE", "Unfamiliar Ceilings" and in "Lost Like Tears In Rain." In fact it's frequently commented that the cover art for their debut album is very similar to the ruins found in the aforementioned series. | |
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Vocalist Jon Chang also has another band called Gridlink where he continues this trend, including songs like "Asuka" (about a character in Evangelion) and "Jenova" (after a character in Final Fantasy VII). | |
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The Past Doctor Adventures novel The Devil Gobins From Neptune features a band called Glandring the Forehammer. Invariably referred to in the text as "Glandring the Forehammer ('It's from The Lord of the Rings, man')". (Except it isn't, exactly; the sword called Glamdring is also known as the Foe-Hammer.) | |
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Mandy (2018) is a gigantic love letter to this. It's a Sword and Sorcery film transplanted into an '80s Fantasy Americana setting, and the score by Jóhann Jóhannsson is heavily inspired by metal, with Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) having contributed to it and metal producer Randall Dunn having co-produced it. To top it off, King Diamond also wrote and recorded an original song for the soundtrack. | |
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Ronnie James Dio pioneered the genre with Rainbow, with such songs as "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves", "Stargazer", "Kill the King" and "Gates of Babylon". When he sang for Black Sabbath in the early 80s, he brought the theme with him, and he would still often feature it on his solo career later on. On the tour for the Sacred Heart album, Dio would kill an animatronic dragon with a sword as part of his stage act. | |
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Agalloch frequently write about mythology and folklore, and also have a 21 minute song based on Faust, which directly takes lyrics from the play and features samples from Jan Svankmajer's film adaptation of the story. Behold. | |
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Angus McSix. Power Metal about swashbuckling Science Fantasy adventures through space against an evil arch demon, what's not to like? | |
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Orcs Must Die! features a high-octane soundtrack that also incorporates pipe organs. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Inverted in the prequel On the Origin of PCs. Roy finds a pack of villagers who beg him to save them from some bad-tempered orcs who are hanging around and won't leave. It turns out that the orcs are teenagers who are camping there to await an upcoming rock concert... in a Mithril setting. | |
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Bal-Sagoth. Everything they do sounds like the works of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, or H. P. Lovecraft put to heavy metal. And their name is from a Howardian story. | |
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Parodied in This is Spın̈al Tap with the song "Stonehenge." | |
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Monuments' second album, The Amanuensis, has a storyline set in a fantasy world inspired by Battlestar Galactica and the Samsara cycle, with a Shout-Out to Harry Potter in the song "Horcrux" (the character has to deliver a piece of himself to the "gatekeepers" of the Garden of Sankhara". The storyline and lyrics were entirely created by vocalist Chris Barretto, who is very much One of Us. | |
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Rage love to write songs about H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King and so on. | |
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Soulmass is another band that only writes about Dark Souls, to the point of starting an album off with dialogue from the Emerald Herald in Dark Souls II and putting a bunch of Dark Souls characters on their album cover. | |
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Behemoth have quite a few Heavy Mithril songs, as well as many about Satanism, torture, Thelema, and general grimness. | |
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Nekrogoblikon has the Labyrinth based Prince of the Land of Stench. | |
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Alestorm and Running Wild make Pirate metal. | |
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GloryHammer's first album Tales from the Kingdom of Fife is an Affectionate Parody of this sort of music. It starts with Evil Sorcerer Zargothrax invading Scotland with an army of undead unicorns. The second album Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards is set in the grim darkness of an alternate version of 1992, and parodies space settings such as Warhammer 40,000. | |
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What happens when Dungeons & Dragons meets Heavy Metal and manga epic? Bastard!! (1988) | |
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Referenced in The Venture Brothers where Brock Samson defends Led Zeppelin by saying they're "all about love, and longing! ... yes, and, and hobbits too." | |
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There are many bands based on Harry Potter, called Wizard Rock (Wrock for short). And now there's Time Lord Rock (Trock for short), as well. In particular, Doctorin' the TARDIS, a mash-up by The KLF, which reached #1 in the UK in 1988. Uriah Heep paid tribute to The Doctor back in 1972 with "Traveller in Time". Chameleon Circuit loves this genre. In particular, 'Exterminate, Regenerate' and 'Blink.’ Chameleon Circuit is this genre. Not only are all of their songs (and their band name) centered around Doctor Who, but they are pretty much responsible for Trock resurfacing on the internet in its modern form; they did not invent it, contrary to popular belief. There is an album of The Lord of the Rings metal/rock by a Polish band called Drużyna Trzeźwych Hobbitów (The Fellowship of Sober Hobbits). |
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The grindcore band Discordance Axis are a bunch of sci-fi and anime nerds who have written songs based on Philip K. Dick novels, Berserk, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Many of the songs on their last album The Inalienable Dreamless reference Evangelion in particular, with songs like "Angel Present", "The End of Rebirth", "Pattern Blue", and "The Third Children". In addition, a couple of songs on The Inalienable Dreamless feature lyrical references to Watership Down and The Culture (one song is actually named after Use of Weapons). Vocalist Jon Chang also has another band called Gridlink where he continues this trend, including songs like "Asuka" (about a character in Evangelion) and "Jenova" (after a character in Final Fantasy VII). Also influenced by Discordance Axis is the Scottish band Gendo Ikari, whose first EP is called Unit 1note Warning: Album cover is NSFW. |
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The rock opera version of Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter featured Mary Hopkin in the title role, and Christopher Lee as the King. He also provided narration; his is the first voice you hear. | |
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Canadian deathcore act Brand of Sacrifice bases their entire lyrical concept around Berserk. | |
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Korpiklaani, from Finland. Many songs reference elements of Finnish paganism, such as the "God of Wind" and "Spirit of the Forest". Their song Wooden pints is about "little men from underground", probably dwarves. | |
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Sentenced's North from Here has several songs about The Kalevala, as well as a song called "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". | |
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His Name Is Alive's album Tecuciztecatl is a Concept Album inspired by old giallo and Hammer Horror films about a woman pregnant with twins, one of whom is The Messiah and the other The Antichrist, who must seek the help of a demon-hunting librarian to save her soul. | |
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Maryland-based progressive power metal band, Master Sword mostly do songs about The Legend of Zelda series from which they got their name. | |
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Alcest's 2016 album Kodama is an entire Concept Album based on the film Princess Mononoke, making them probably one of the only metal bands to write about a Studio Ghibli movie. | |
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Sound Horizon: Just about the only band to ever make a Symphonic-Prog Rock Opera about Grimm's Fairy Tales. | |
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Heavy Metal: The Blue Öyster Cult album Fire Of Unknown Origin was composed to be the soundtrack for the film. Iltimately, only the song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (written by Michael Moorcock) made it into the film, though the song "Vengeance (The Pact)" off the same album is a blatant retelling of Taarna's story. | |
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The Swedish group Sabaton is best known for music about military history, but they started out writing in this genre (their intended first album, Metalizer, suffered Executive Meddling, and the band switched labels for their Horrible History Metal breakout hit Primo Victoria). In particular, the song "Shadows" on the album Fist for Fight is about the Nazgul from The Lord of the Rings. "Birds of War" from the same album is about Warhammer 40,000. On a lesser note, "Sparta" from their later album The Last Stand, which is ostensibly about the historical Battle of Thermopylae, includes a number of Shout Outs to the movie 300. | |
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"The Gathering" by Delain is about Magic: The Gathering. Also, Charlotte has stated point-blank that "Turn the Lights Out" is about Death of the Endless. | |
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Stormwitch album War of the Wizards is based on The Lord of the Rings, but (according to The Other Wiki) the copyright issues at the time forced the band to change the names of the characters (for example; Aragorn to Aaron). | |
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The Eagles did what for them was a strangely out-of-character instrumental track called Journey of the Sorcerer. This might have remained an obscure oddity, except that in 1979, a then-obscure BBC radio comedy-drama was looking for a theme tune where the royalties were not going to break the bank. Douglas Adams loved this tune and thought it was just odd and atmospheric enough - as well as relatively cheap to use. Expecting his radio comedy show would last for six episodes and no more, performance rights were acquired. And thirty-five years on, the The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy 1978 is still synonymous with this theme music... | |
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Finntroll, similarly from Finland, utilize a unique version of this trope, combining the rabid anti-Christianity of their black metal predecessors with the nastier elements of the folkloric troll, often to darkly comic effect. | |
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RuneScape: The Shadow Colossus, the music track played when you fight Raksha, a shadow anima-infused TRexpy. | |
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Savatage. They had a weird combination of fantasy and space opera early on, but "Sirens," "City Beneath the Surface," "Hall of the Mountain King," "Hounds," and "The Unholy" all qualify (and are from four different albums). Prior to "Streets," they thrived off Heavy Mithril, space fantasy, and rock anthems. | |
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Tuomas produced a solo project mixing a variety of styles in the form of a concept album based on The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck | |
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If you're Catholic and don't take your religion that seriously, and like vampires and werewolves, then Powerwolf will be right up your street. | |
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Along with war themes, Jag Panzer also have their fantasy lyrics. They also released a concept album based on Macbeth. | |
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"The Unburnt" by Myrath is about Mother of dragons. | |
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The post-grunge band Breaking Benjamin's song, Home, is based on The Wizard of Oz. | |
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3 Inches of Blood practically thrives on this trope to the point where if their lyrics were sung by anyone else, they would be mocked for being narmtacular while 3 Inches of Blood make people raise the horns and head bang. Destroy Destroy Destroy adds towering, Lord Of The Rings-esque symphonic arrangements for extra hamminess, but with an album called Battle Sluts, they're clearly not as serious about it. (Stylistically, by the way, they're American power metal with harsh vocals.) |
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Australian band Portal (no, not the game) base their music and image entirely on Lovecraft's works. | |
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The Alan Wake games feature Poets of the Fall's Fake Band the Old Gods of Asgard, who combine Norse Mythology with Cthulhu Mythos imagery in an eighties metal package, and aid the hero through The Power of Rock. | |
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From Helloween came Gamma Ray, founded by Kai Hansen. Could probably be described as Space Metal....mostly. Though there's also horses from other stables. Like rather Troperrific The Winged Horse. Sort of Return To Fantasy. | |
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Fall of Efrafa are a post-metal band who write exclusively about Watership Down. The vocalist has another post-metal band called Light Bearer that writes about His Dark Materials and another band called Pnakotus, after a city of the Great Race of Yith in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time". | |
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There's a band called Winterfell, taking its name from A Song of Ice and Fire. | |
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Several of Lovebites' songs might qualify, but it's often difficult to tell if the fantastic elements are meant to be literal or metaphorical. Three unambiguous examples are "Winds of Transylvania" (the OP of Vlad Love), "Spellbound" (about the myth of Medusa), and "M.D.O." (based on the "Ressurection" arc of Phoenix. | |
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The Magic: The Gathering set Kaldheim invokes this aesthetic on purpose. Much like Brütal Legend, the setting intentionally invokes fantasy by way of a heavy metal album cover. The set features demon berserkers, undead roaming the frozen north, and Norse-inspired gods and monsters, all adorned with skulls aplenty. | |
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Fear Factory. Most of their lyrics have a science fiction focus (especially of the Robot War kind). | |
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Nightwish: Many songs qualify, including "Elvenpath", "Wishmaster" (which directly references Dragonlance and The Lord of the Rings), "Escapist", "Return To The Sea", "Nightquest" (which is also a brief history of the band), "7 Days To The Wolves" (based on The Dark Tower), and "White Night Fantasy". Their earlier material has more overt Heavy Mithril than their more recent music. "Fantasmic", named for a Disney Theme Parks show, is all about the Disney Animated Canon complete with a quote from Beauty and the Beast. "Storytime", which takes the concept meta, since it's about getting lost in a fantasy novel. "Escapist" as well, though it only references the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Nightingale". "Weak Fantasy" is just as meta, but rather than being about loving the Fantasy genre, it's about the poor quality of Science fiction novels, namedropping War of the Worlds. Tuomas produced a solo project mixing a variety of styles in the form of a concept album based on The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck "Edema Ruh" from Endless Forms Most Beautiful crosses over with Heavy Meta. The song is ostensibly about the Edema Ruh, a society of traveling bards and entertainers in The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss. This is a description that also applies fairly well to Nightwish itself. |
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van Canto. Hero Metal a Capella. | |
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Almost all albums by the black metal group Summoning are based on the Tolkien universe. Some of their songs take additional inspiration from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion. Their song Mirdautas Vras has lyrics IN ORCISH THE BLACK SPEECH OF MORDOR (which orcs sometimes speak but is different from orcish). Which fits Michael Gregor's growling vocals perfectly. |
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Sonata Arctica. Usually about wolves, when they're not doing lyrically dark yet poppy-sounding "love" songs about very damaged people. Or some combination of the two, as in "The Ruins of My Life". |
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Their name appears to have come from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. | |
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The Rhyme of the Nibelung by Baddd Spellah featuring MC Frontalot, might be an edge case, but it's about someone going to see The Ring of the Nibelung, and mentions a lot about the plot. | |
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While Nile has songs based on Lovecraft, most of their songs instead take influence from Egyptian mythology, perhaps in an attempt to distinguish themselves from all the Viking metal bands. | |
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Related, "'39", which is more space opera. And of course, there's the cheerfully campy scifi classic "Flash!", from the Flash Gordon soundtrack. | |
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Slipknot's debut album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. has songs relating to Werewolf: The Apocalypse as Anders Colsefni, lead vocalist on the album was a fan of the game. However, Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat has a much different style to the rest of the bands discography and following line-up changes, the current band currently considers it only a demo. | |
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Another WoW example: One of their April Fools' Jokes was to introduce the Bard class, and depict him as a hair-metal guitarist whose abilities you invoked by playing notes on a Guitar Hero-esque highway. | |
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Russian band HMKids is a band solely dedicated to making songs inspired by the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer universes (though the main focus is on Warhammer 40,000). | |
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Dethfrog by Bad Dudes is a Heavy Metal song about Frog. | |
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Final Fantasy X has this with Otherworld. There's also the Black Mages, a band headlined by Nobuo Uematsu that played heavy rock covers of Final Fantasy songs. They have since been succeeded by the Primals, who do covers of songs from Final Fantasy XIV. |
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And now there's Time Lord Rock (Trock for short), as well. In particular, Doctorin' the TARDIS, a mash-up by The KLF, which reached #1 in the UK in 1988. Uriah Heep paid tribute to The Doctor back in 1972 with "Traveller in Time". |
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Edguy is a symphonic metal act that uses metaphorical lyrics that allude to metaphysical and social themes, often expressed using esoteric or hermetic expressions that tend to give their songs a kind of classical epic feel that is very much in line with power metal. "Vain Glory Opera" is perhaps their best known album, but they've done a lot of other songs. That is, of course, when they're not singing about screwing stewardesses on an airplane lavatory. The symphonic metal band their singer put together, Avantasia. They've put out a metal OPERA, which might as well be written by Tolkien. |
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And spin-off band Star One is even worse. Not only is the band named for Blake's 7, but their song "Intergalactic Space Crusaders" is a Filk Song, complete with the two singers essentially playing the parts of Blake and Avon. Star One also cranked out songs about Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, Star Wars...you name it, they've probably got a song for it. | |
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Epica, name derived from the Kamelot album of the same name, combines some Heavy Mithril with lots of social commentary. Their target of choice is usually organized religion, which one album calls the "Divine Conspiracy" to enslave humanity. They also released a concept EP of songs inspired by Attack on Titan, whose soundtrack composer was heavily influenced by Epica to begin with. | |
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Early Black Sabbath made the occasional foray into the genre, with "The Wizard" apparently having been inspired by Gandalf the Grey, and "Behind The Wall of Sleep" being titled in reference to a Lovecraft story. | |
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One of the more famous examples, the stoner metal band Kyuss was originally called the Sons of Kyuss. Sons of Kyuss are an undead monster from the original AD&D Fiend Folio, with Kyuss being their horrific worm-god. (And yes, the band got the name from the monster, not the other way around.) In 3.5 they went by the name Spawn of Kyuss (the monster). Which would be a more badass name for a band. Maybe a tribute band? |
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Blind Guardian practically is this trope. Most of their catalogue is about either Tolkien ("Lord of the Rings," "Harvest of Sorrow") Moorcock ("Journey Through the Dark," "Quest for Tanelorn"), George RR Martin ( "A Voice in the Dark," "War of The Thrones), or Stephen King, specifically The Dark Tower ("Somewhere Far Beyond," "Carry the Blessed Home"). | |
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Lordi might count. They sing metal, they dress up as monsters and at least some of their songs have a fantasy-ish theme. More than fantasy, Lordi's songs usually have a horror theme, often directly referencing stereotypical horror tropes common in movies - in no particular order: Creepy Doll "Forsaken Fashion Dolls", Depraved Dentist "Doc. Sin Is In", I'm a Humanitarian "The Chainsaw Buffet" (which gets a bonus for added coolness of the chainsaw variety), Serial Killer and The Collector of the Strange "Deadache", and many many others. Hard Rock Hallelujah and Bringing Back the Balls To Rock are songs about being monsters, inspired by The Power of Rock. |
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Brütal Legend is this trope brought to life, combining Hack and Slash, Real-Time Strategy and The Power of Rock. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show has Daffy Duck: The Wizard, a song about Daffy doing mundane, everyday things while juxtaposed with scenes of epic battles and Daffy being an all-powerful wizard. | |
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Iron Maiden likes to write songs based on old books or movies, but only two are based on fantasy works, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Isle of Avalon. And forfantastic horror there are tracks like "The Number of the Beast" and "Dance of Death". | |
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The Polish group Vader performed "Sword of the Witcher" for the compilation album The Witcher: Music Inspired by the Game, which was packaged with the bonus materials alongside the official soundtrack. | |
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In League of Legends, two of the skin universes have a band specializing in this style of metal consisting of six (formerly five) members called Pentakill. The Pentakill universe features them in their full metal glory, while the music skins universe sees a more mundane version of Pentakill that ended up inspiring some of the K/DA members. (In the more gonzo original lore of the game during the Journal of Justice era, the band was canon in the *main* universe, with the band's gathering of members being a minor Journal storyline.) The band received two free albums released by Riot—Smite and Ignite in 2014, and Grasp of the Undying in 2017. |
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French Death Metal band Yyrkoon named themselves after Elric's antagonist cousin from The Elric Saga. | |
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Kamelot: Their albums Epica and The Black Halo are concept albums based on the story of Faust. "The Shadow of Uther" and "Once and Future King" are about King Arthur. The song "Across The Highlands", also on Karma, seems heavily influenced by Highlander. | |
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Several songs by early Genesis. | |
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Had Epidemia never put out any song except "Fëanor," it would have been enough. | |
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Chainsaw Suit noted on "geek rock (nerdcore)" bearing the usual risk of invoking coolness. | |
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Iced Earth and Blind Guardian combined to make Demons & Wizards. Among other things, they have an entire album dedicated to Stephen King's The Dark Tower, however Hansi Kursch has stated that many of the songs have more than one meaning, and are more related allegorically, such as songs about Captain Ahab which reflects Roland's quest. | |
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"Princes of the Universe", from the Highlander soundtrack is one of the purest examples of Heavy Mithril around. | |
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Norwegian band Keldian base a large number of their songs on the Hyperion Cantos, and their most recent album has the song Life and Death under Strange New Suns, which is based on Mass Effect. | |
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Dark Sarah's entire discography tells the continuing story of the supernatural misadventures of a woman named Sarah after she's left at the altar by her fiancee and plots revenge, leading her into a hell-like dimension. | |
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And now something different: Irish folk-rock band Horslips were trail-blazers in marrying traditional Irish music to rock instruments and rhythms. Two of their records, The Táin (based on the the Táin Bó Cuailgne) and The Book of Invasions (based on, what else, the Book Of Invasions) set Irish mythology of the Mithril Age to music, largely updated Irish folk standards with new lyrics based on the myths, re-arranged for rock band plus traditional instruments. Blending traditional Irish music and modern rock instrumentation on both traditional and electric instruments, this band is credited with being the father of the Celtic Rock movement. | |
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Many songs qualify, including "Elvenpath", "Wishmaster" (which directly references Dragonlance and The Lord of the Rings), "Escapist", "Return To The Sea", "Nightquest" (which is also a brief history of the band), "7 Days To The Wolves" (based on The Dark Tower), and "White Night Fantasy". Their earlier material has more overt Heavy Mithril than their more recent music. | |
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DragonForce. They're slowly moving away from this trope, though. There are one or two songs on their latest album that aren't about epic battles for glory and honor. |
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