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Alestorm (Music)
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Alestorm | |
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Alestorm is a power/folk metal band from Scotland and their main gimmick is the pirate theme of their music. Arr!Formed in 2004 under the name Battleheart, they released a bunch of EPs (The first of which, Battleheart, gave rise to the term 'True Scottish Pirate Metal', parodying the term 'True Norwegian Black Metal') before signing themselves to Napalm Records and rechristening themselves Alestorm.From there, their popularity increased rapidly and has stayed relatively consistent and they tour very regularly, despite them being a Revolving Door Band who now live in different countries to each other.Not to be confused with Halestorm. | |
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Once Upon a Time | |
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Once Upon a Time: "In a time men knew the meaning of fear!" the opening lines of "Huntmaster". | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Their second album is noticeably heavier and more aggressive than their first, and the third follows suit. Come the fourth, though, they started to lean more on sillier songs, to the point that their fifth album can more or less be considered a piratical heavy metal comedy album. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Interestingly enough, we're never told exactly why the perpetrator is being keelhauled in "Keelhauled." We pretty much just have the narrator's word for it that he did something bad. The video seems to imply that he stole some of the captain's money... | |
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Redemption Quest | |
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Redemption Quest: "Magnetic North" is a minor example. The singer wants to go "far beyond the ice and snow" for redemption. | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black | |
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A Lighter Shade of Black: Evil as the pirates are, they did save the world. Twice. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age: The song "Sunset On The Golden Age" which is about facing the end of a golden age. It's a tad vague what age they're referring to, but it can be interpreted as the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. The lyrics do leave the implication that another golden age may come in the future. | |
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The Quest | |
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The Quest: Lots of these, including a track by the same name. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The pirate from "Wooden Leg Part 2" cuts off his head and replaces it with a wooden prosthetic to try to escape the spirits haunting him. He dies. | |
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Hollywood Tourette's | |
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Hollywood Tourette's: The pirate in "Fucked with an Anchor" has been cursed to be incredibly foul-mouthed by a witch doctor. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Played straight throughout Back Through Time. "Treasure Chest Party Quest" contains this wonderful set of lines: | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: After the protagonist of the Wooden Leg saga gets his vengeance on the people who cut off his arms and legs and claims the limbs as his own, evil spirits visit to detail how his Japanese arms and Spanish legs are now cursed. The arm curse is outlined in Japanese and the leg one is delivered in Spanish. "Fannybaws" features the line ‘nou haud yer wheesht ye glaikit cunt, or else he’ll pump yer maw’; Scots for ‘now be quiet you stupid cunt, or else he’ll fuck your mum’. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Back Through Time ends with "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid". (7:45) Sunset on the Golden Age ends with "Sunset on the Golden Age". (11:26) No Grave But The Sea ends with "Treasure Island". (7:48) | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_2f551929 | comment |
Ode to Intoxication: "Rum", and the cover song "I Am A Cider Drinker", "Drink". | |
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Metal Band Mascot | |
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Metal Band Mascot: Two: A zombie-ish pirate and a pirate rat, who appear in all three covers. According to Christopher Bowes, they're called Jimmy McFucknugget or Cum Guy, and Barry Shitpeas respectively. Ghost Pirate: Jimmy. Hook Hand: Jimmy again, except for "Black Sails at Midnight" where he has a trident. | |
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A Pirate 400 Years Too Late | |
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A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: A few of their songs are sung from a modern perspective, like "The Sunk'n Norwegian", about how hard it is to find any place good enough to be a modern pirate. | |
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Grim Up North | |
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Grim Up North: "Magnetic North" is about a Pirate crew questing to "Magnetic North" and subsequently facing a frozen sea, and probably dying along the way. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_35a858b3 | comment |
Cluster F-Bomb: "Fucked With an Anchor" is an entire song that consists of a pirate with Hollywood Tourette's threatening to shove an anchor up the arse of the Witch Doctor that cursed him. The chorus of the song provides a good example, shown under Lyrical Dissonance. "Shit Boat (No Fans)" has every verse start with "your pirate ship can eat a bag of dicks". And just about every sentence contains a swear word. | |
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Pirate Song | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_35e8c2b3 | comment |
Pirate Song: A pirate-themed Power Metal band that patterns its songs after these, with sea shanty beats and lyrics about the golden age of piracy and warfare. And sometimes sillier things like stealing beer. They have also made Cover Versions of other famous pirate songs, like "You Are a Pirate", "Barrett's Privateers" and "Wolves of the Sea". | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_396e1c2a | comment |
Face Death with Dignity: The pirate crew in "Captain Morgan's Revenge". Thanks to the curse of their dead captain, they've all been captured and are due to be hung from the gallows. So they decide to take one last swig of rum and call it a day. "Rage of the Pentahook" features a Humanoid Abomination with the titular Pentahook. The lyrics paint the Pentahook as The Juggernaut who can't be stopped. So the singer decides that if the Pentahook's coming for them, they might as well go down with a little pride. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: During the Live At Summer Breeze 2015 CD for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Captain Morgan's Revenge before the segue into "Drink", Christopher mentions that the group isn't there to "stick potatoes inside the bottoms of the concert goers sexy girlfriends and make them feel inadequate", stating it's happened before. Elliot then quips "yup", leading to Christopher to say "Jesus Elliot". | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: The pirates of "Back Through Time" are gleefully aware of the overkill involved in using 17th century firepower against 10th century Vikings. The first and only raid of the titular crew of "Barrett's Privateers" goes this route. | |
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Escaped from Hell | |
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Escaped from Hell: The Huntmaster. "Out of the bowels of hell he sailed, wielding a tankard of freshly brewed ale!" | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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One interpretation of the pirates as described under Adaptational Heroism is that the pirates started off as Nominal Heroes at best and then slowly pulled one of these becoming heroes for real. | |
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Wretched Hive | |
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Wretched Hive: A lot of these tend to show up in the songs, such as the cafe in "Nancy the Tavern Wench" and the inn where "That Famous Ol' Spiced" is apparently served, not to mention the titular tavern known as "The Sunken Norwegian." | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: "Man the Pumps": | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Their music videos started displaying this in 2020, due to the COVID pandemic making it harder to produce proper music videos using a larger film crew. Gloriously averted with the 2022 video for P.A.R.T.Y, which is splendidly animated. | |
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You Dirty Rat! | |
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You Dirty Rat!: One of the bands mascots is a undead rat. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: One of the verses of "Pirate's Song" is "I've killed and I've shot, and reddened the cold tears of children with blood!", driving home just how much of a Retired Monster our protagonist is. The subject of "Rage of the Pentahook" will "eat your kids". The narrator also notes that "one time he shot a baby - with a gun!" | |
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Cool Versus Awesome | |
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Cool Versus Awesome: No one is safe from pirates, including vikings, ninjas, alien squids and sea monsters. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: "Back Through Time" features 17th century pirates deploying cannons against Vikings. Curb-Stomp Battle ensues. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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The song "Treasure Chest, Party Quest" is a deliberate example, with Leaning on the Fourth Wall humor about selling out and a trashy music video intended to scare off fans that take the band too seriously. | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: A sizeable number of their songs talk about people who go on quests but end up dying brutally along the way. Such as: "Death Before the Mast", "Magnetic North", "To The End Of Our Days", "Leviathan" and so forth. "Wooden Leg Part 2: The Woodening" has this. The pirate manages to get revenge on the men who mutilated him then uses Hollywood Voodoo to attach their limbs to himself. But the magic he uses awakens a curse that causes the limbs to be possessed by the spirits of their original owners. The spirits drive him to insanity and suicide by chopping off his own head. | |
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Revolving Door Band | |
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Revolving Door Band: You don't even know the half of it... the revolving door nature of the band's lineup is possibly a very big reason as to why the band have noticeably changed musically over the years. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
The video seems to imply that he stole some of the captain's money... | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: For the last chorus of "Rum", Elliot Vernon sings the lead vocals as well as handling the main keyboards while Bowes crowdsurfs (and usually tells the audience to "take him to the bar"). | |
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Honorary True Companion | |
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Honorary True Companion: On Crystal Coconut, hurdy-gurdiest Patty Gurdy is filling this role. There have been loud calls for her to officially join the band, but she has her own thing going on. | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: "Chomp Chomp" features a mob of alligators (along with other crocodilians) that devours a ship's crew in gruesome fashion, leaving the narrator the Sole Survivor. | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Elliot is very good at them. | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: Plenty of their songs have this at the chorus, even on the records! | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Well. Fannybaws ('He's a fearsome pirate') Leviathan The Pentahook The Terrorsquid Possibly Captain Morgan, depending on the context. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Implied at the end of the music video for "Drink" where one of the pirates (Chirstopher Bowes) is shown wearing a suit and having dinner with the very family they'd terrorized earlier. One interpretation of the pirates as described under Adaptational Heroism is that the pirates started off as Nominal Heroes at best and then slowly pulled one of these becoming heroes for real. | |
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Sequel Song | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_6298c177 | comment |
Sequel Song: "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid" is a sequel to "Leviathan", as both songs feature a beast called "Leviathan" and follow some sort of chronology. "Leviathan" has the pirate crew hunt down an ancient beast of yore to battle it, but lose the battle and the beast escapes after slaughtering most of the crew. "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid" concerns the Crew's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the beast, and the second round of the battle. "Surf Squid Warfare" is a sequel to "Back Through Time", where the pirates travel into the future to fight undead squids from space. "Wooden Leg Part 2: The Woodening". | |
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The Mutiny | |
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The Mutiny: Kicks off "Captain Morgan's Revenge". When the pirates make the captain walk the plank, he pronounces a dying curse upon them all. | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: "The Huntmaster" ends by quoting the English translation of the poem inscribed on bottles of Jägermeister, which itself is the German word for "Huntmaster". | |
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Life Will Kill You | |
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Life Will Kill You: "Swashbuckled". Admiral Nobeard was so fat he was reputedly invulnerable to sword and gun. How did he die? He choked on a pretzel. | |
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Gargle Blaster | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_67edaf78 | comment |
The pre-choruses of "Pegleg Potion". Probably as a result of drinking said pegleg potion.... | |
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Insane Admiral | |
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Insane Admiral: Or Captain, but with the same purpose. In "1741 (The Battle of Cartagena)", the Captain sails against the Spanish despite overwhelming evidence that he's going to lose, and so he dooms himself and his crew to a Last Stand. | |
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Location Song | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_705148cf | comment |
Location Song: "Mexico" is about Mexico. The pirates travel there because the wenches are a-plenty, the alcohol is free, the party lasts all through the night, and the alcohol is free. "Tortuga" tells the story of a pirate fleeing the Royal Navy, who doesn't help his case by stealing a ship (and murdering the crew) and heading for the titular legendary pirate stronghold. | |
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Retired Monster | |
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The clearest example is "Pirate's Song", which describes a Retired Monster of a pirate elaborating on his numerous crimes and how he doesn't feel an ounce of remorse. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: A lot of Alestorm's songs go past the 6 minute mark. "Captain Morgan's Revenge" (6:49), "To the End of Our Days" (6:22), "Chronicles of Vengeance" (6:24), "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid" (7:45), "1741 (The Battle of Cartagena)" (7:18), "Sunset on the Golden Age" (11:26), "To the End of the World" (6:43), "Treasure Island" (7:48)... Essentially, it's at least Once An Album. | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_74ee1c2d | comment |
Out-of-Genre Experience: When the titular monster awakens, "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid" abruptly becomes a Dimmu Borgir song. Their cover of "Hangover" features a brief rapping portion by the bassist of Lagerstein, tourmates with Alestorm. "Tortuga" features a rap section by Captain Yarrface of Rumahoy. Recent albums have songs featuring snatches of chiptune, notably "1741" and "Mexico", which both lead off with it. This is blown up macro-sized with the '16th Century' bonus CD of Crystal Coconut, where every song is redone in chip and the vocals bitcrushed. As an added bonus, the chiptune portion of the original "Wooden Leg Part II" is inverted and delivered with some quite nice acoustic guitar. The acoustic version of "Come to Brazil" on Seventh Rum features some Zappa-esque turbo saxophone, and it works. | |
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Brave Scot | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_76ecc890 | comment |
Brave Scot: Christopher Bowes' heavy Scottish accent does give this feeling to most songs. | |
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Gaia's Vengeance | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_7831b670 | comment |
Gaia's Vengeance: Suggested as the origin of the “dendrophagic horde� that ate the titular ship of "Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship". According to legend, grim and frostbitten druids invoked this trope—through a pact with roaming zombie hordes to eat stolen wood, the forest would reclaim its own. | |
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Sudden Name Change | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_7833feeb | comment |
Sudden Name Change: The band's undead rat mascot seems to be called Barry Shitpeas or Scurvy Steeve, depending on who you ask. | |
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Rock Beats Laser | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_79974fb8 | comment |
Rock Beats Laser: 17th Century pirates halt an alien invasion of space squids in "Surf Squid Warfare". | |
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Bolivian Army Ending | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_79a0e313 | comment |
Bolivian Army Ending: The narrator of "Death Before the Mast" has his ship boarded by the navy and he knows there's no way he'll survive against their forces, but he is determined to keep fighting them for as long as possible. | |
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Song of Song Titles | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_7acca961 | comment |
Song of Song Titles: "Drink" name-drops several past Alestorm songs. | |
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SkyPirates | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_7d24907e | comment |
Sky Pirates: "Heavy Metal Pirates" seems to be about them ("We're the Heavy Metal Pirates, we sail across the sky!") | |
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Talk Like a Pirate | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_7e5f2db2 | comment |
Talk Like a Pirate: Naturally. Mostly done in short bursts rather than entire songs, but early albums lean into this more heavily. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_80204ff5 | type |
Verbed Title | |
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Verbed Title: "Keelhauled", "Shipwrecked". | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From "Keelhauled": And done again in "Rage of the Pentahook": and | |
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Large Ham | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Christopher Bowes definitely qualifies. In concert, he'll say things like "When I say go, everyone, rip off your clothes and start having sex with that guy dressed as a shark!" completely seriously. This isn't even getting into his musical bombast and how he bellows the beautifully ridiculous shit he writes with a completely straight face. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_8409a385 | comment |
"Wenches and Mead" is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_851dda8f | comment |
"Rage of the Pentahook" features a Humanoid Abomination with the titular Pentahook. The lyrics paint the Pentahook as The Juggernaut who can't be stopped. So the singer decides that if the Pentahook's coming for them, they might as well go down with a little pride. | |
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Badass Boast | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Many of them feature this, but perhaps the most memorable is "Back Through Time", specially the chorus: 'We're on a quest to kick your ass' ("Pirate Metal Drinking Crew") | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The songs are aware they are talking about a bunch of selfish, petty and murderous thieves. The clearest example is "Pirate's Song", which describes a Retired Monster of a pirate elaborating on his numerous crimes and how he doesn't feel an ounce of remorse. "Fannybaws" is about a pirate of the same name, described as a fearsome scoundrel and lawbreaker. Yet the lyrics portray him as incredibly awesome, too. "Bar Und Imbiss" is a first-person account of the ransacking of a bar and kidnapping of the bartender's ugly wife somewhere in dark Thuringia. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_8a07e085 | comment |
Denser and Wackier: They slowly became a band more about Fun Personified over time. They went from dressing like pirates in their concerts to dressing in wacky outfits◊. Their concerts also include a giant inflatable duck onstage. While they still sing about pirates and piracy, and also do covers of old maritime songs, there's been more songs about drinking and general buffoonery since they went Denser and Wackier. There's even a song about Time Cube. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: While they do sing about the joys and adventures of piracy, Pirate's Song is a rather deconstruction of the whole romantic pirate, showing the singing protagonist as a ruthless monster who lost all his glory in his old age. And in general, most of the pirates in their songs that get a story end up in a bad way due to their life of crime. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_916e610 | type |
Rhyming with Itself | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_916e610 | comment |
Rhyming with Itself: Subverted. The initial lyrics from "Shit Boat (No Fans)" were "You'd better give us all the money in your treasure chest / Or Kristoff's gonna take a shit on your fucking chest" before the band was advised to tone down the song. Played straight in "Mexico", where one part has two lines both ending with "the alcohol is free". "Big Ship Little Ship" has one section where "boat" is rhymed with "boat". | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_9657fe0f | type |
Transformation Sequence | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_9657fe0f | comment |
Transformation Sequence: In the video for Shit Boat, Chris gets one before kicking the shit out of the pirate crew in a rather fetching gown. This is subverted shortly thereafter when he whips it off to continue fighting/dancing in the buff. (Don't worry, it's all animated.) | |
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-0.3 | |
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Little People Are Surreal | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_96d1b224 | comment |
Little People Are Surreal: A midget shows up in "Shipwrecked", in a hallucination. They also have midget doubles portray the band in their "Alestorm" official music video that have the band proper fight them. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_9bcd82c0 | type |
Took a Level in Badass | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: "Leviathan" and "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid" concern the same crew. In the first the monster slaughters them with impunity, but in the second the crew takes revenge. The chorus makes it clear: The chorus in the first song is about the beast's fearsome slaughter, the chorus in the second is the crew's Badass Boast. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_9c5ed17 | type |
Singing Voice Dissonance | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_9c5ed17 | comment |
Singing Voice Dissonance: Bowes' natural voice is much softer than his guttural harsh tone in the songs. This is also evidenced in his various 'Christopher Bowes at the Organ' side-mini-albums. | |
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One-Man Army | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_9e943076 | comment |
One-Man Army: The Huntmaster vanquishes a considerable number of people single-handedly. Fannybaws is a fearsome pirate who defeated the mighty terrorsquid all by himself. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_a448674 | type |
Gratuitous Latin | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_a448674 | comment |
Gratuitous Latin: Ominous Latin Chanting is used for the outro of "Magellan's Expedition" as follows: "Spatium portibus fictus, venenum coetus unum, vox imperium capulus machina, nitidissimus de omnium algae, circumnavigandum infinita quest." Which isn't as impressive when fed through a Latin to English translation: | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Present in Black Sails At Midnight, where from the blood-pumping and bombastic "Keelhauled" we go to the somber and depressive "To The End Of Our Days". Also in Sunset On The Golden Age, after the silly and ridiculous cover of "Hangover" the album goes to the title track, which is eleven minutes long and one of the few grim and serious Alestorm songs. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_ab8f31bd | type |
Equal-Opportunity Offender | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_ab8f31bd | comment |
Equal-Opportunity Offender: Cannonball, from Seventh Rum. Doesn't matter what bits you have, Alestorm has you covered. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_abad2931 | type |
Horrible History Metal | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_abad2931 | comment |
Horrible History Metal: They ventured in this genre with "1741 (The Battle of Cartagena)", about the battle of the same name. | |
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Hookers and Blow | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_ad786c6b | comment |
Hookers and Blow "Wenches and Mead" is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin. "Treasure Chest Party Quest" has Christopher Bowes say the band has sold out, and they're now "in it for the money, the hookers, and the blow". | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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"Surf Squid Warfare" is a sequel to "Back Through Time", where the pirates travel into the future to fight undead squids from space. | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: Shit Boat (No Fans), is a shorter music video that is entirely animated, featuring animated versions of Christopher and the rest of the band. P.A.R.T.Y. is a music video featuring skeletal pirates performing the song. The animator for that video, Alex Henderson, also made a video for Pirate's Scorn. The band liked it so much they hired him to make the video for P.A.R.T.Y. | |
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Sea Monster | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_b1c7f430 | comment |
Sea Monster: Leviathan, the Terrorsquid. | |
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Take That! | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "Swashbuckled" is a playful repartee at Alestorm's friends, fellow pirate band Swashbuckle, in response to the latter's "We Are The Storm". "Scraping the Barrel", off of Back Through Time, is a response to some of the band's criticism as being a "gimmicky band" that will eventually become dry. Their response? "If you don't like it, go start your own band." The song "Back Through Time", concerning a ship of pirates that travel through time and wind up fighting and defeating a ship of vikings, is clearly a jab at the many bands that sing about vikings and Norse Mythology. The 7-second long "Rumpelkombo" is this. Once, Alestorm was touring with Grave Digger, and they were basically the opposite of Alestorm: old, cranky, and hated drinking and partying, so the entire tour pretty much consisted of Grave Digger hating Alestorm. During an interview, the lead singer, Chris Boltendahl described Alestorm as a "rumpelkombo," which basically means "group of rowdy idiots." Well, Christopher Bowes then decided to write the really quick song where the only word is "rumpelkombo," but then credited the lyrics to Boltendahl, thus giving him a royalty check every month that's a couple of cents from Alestorm, reminding him of the band. The song "Treasure Chest, Party Quest" is a deliberate example, with Leaning on the Fourth Wall humor about selling out and a trashy music video intended to scare off fans that take the band too seriously. | |
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Forced Transformation | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
Forced Transformation: Happens to the female protagonist in the video to "Magellan's Expedition". After she takes on a giant rubber duck with twin swords and an assault rifle, it promptly blasts her with eye lasers that turn her into a duck. | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_b9fc31d3 | comment |
Victoria's Secret Compartment: In the video for "Shipwrecked", several of the wenches are shown secreting coins in their cleavage. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_ba6cf869 | comment |
Similarly in "Back Through Time" the pirates are presented as unrepentant murderers and thieves engaging in Rape, Pillage, and Burn on the defenseless Vikings. Come 'Surf Squid Warfare' and it's mentioned they 'saved the past from Vikings'. Considering that most of their songs are told from the POV of the pirates themselves, this makes a degree of sense. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Jimmy cracks one of these at the covers of "Black Sails At Midnight", "Back Through Time" and the "Leviathan" solo cover. Well, he is an undead pirate with no lips and a mean Kubrick Stare. | |
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Walk the Plank | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_bdfb07bf | comment |
Walk the Plank: In "Captain Morgan's Revenge" and "Keelhauled", in the latter case as a pretext to something far worse. In Sunset On The Golden Age they now have a track named "Walk the Plank". | |
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Folk Metal | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c230739a | comment |
Folk Metal: Their primary musical style, combined with a heavy amount of Power Metal. From Sunset On The Golden Age they started incorporating elements of Metalcore into their sound, as well as occasional bits of Chiptune. | |
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Hook Hand | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c25bfd17 | comment |
Hook Hand: Jimmy again, except for "Black Sails at Midnight" where he has a trident. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c25c7890 | comment |
P.A.R.T.Y.: The subtitles have a bit of Fun with Acronyms, wondering what P.A.R.T.Y. stands for and inviting viewers to post their answers in the comment section, with the best answer "winning a year's supply of ham". | |
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Curse | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c2e295cd | comment |
Curse: Shows up a few times in their songs. "Captain Morgan's Revenge", Captain Morgan, forced to walk the plank, curses his mutinous crew to "death or worse". The curse on the treasure in "Of Treasure" as well. We're not told explicitly what it is, but apparently it's quite terrible. The pirate singing in "Fucked With an Anchor" has been cursed with Hollywood Tourette's by a witch doctor. In "Wooden Leg Part II" we see how the protagonist's new limbs have been possessed: | |
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The Need for Mead | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c2e6a2 | comment |
The Need for Mead: "Wenches and Mead". Also "Mead From Hell". | |
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Ass Shove | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c45c9fcd | comment |
Ass Shove: What the singer in "Fucked With An Anchor" is planning to do to the witch doctor who cursed him. With an anchor. Apparently Elliot was involved with a potato and someone's girlfriend's bottom, as mentioned by his and Christopher's comments from Summer Breeze 2015. | |
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Ghost Pirate | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c54522c3 | comment |
Ghost Pirate: Jimmy. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Several, including a brief retread of the theme from Pirates of the Caribbean in "No Quarter", the use of "with a bottle of rum and a yo-ho-ho" in "Keelhauled" and the theme tune to ChuckleVision in "Buckfast Powersmash". The Huntmaster quotes the verse from the poem Weidmannsheil by Oskar von Riesenthal on bottles of Jägermeister (Huntmaster): They also reference Running Wild in "Scraping the Barrel". One of the band's two mascots, the pirate rat Barry Shitpeas, shares a name with a character from Charlie Brooker's works. In the music video for Fucked with An Anchor Gareth can be seen playing a bass with Prince's logo on it. Chris has admitted that parts to the lyrics of Pegleg Potion (specifically "I sail the seas of Scrub-a-Dub Island" and "always [on the] search [for] treasure") are stolen from the description on a bottle of "Matey" bubble bath. Yes, really. In the video for Big Ship Little Ship, Chris briefly invokes Freddie Mercury in Queen's I Want to Break Free video. Curse of the Crystal Coconut contains several to Donkey Kong. The track "Pirate's Scorn" is a cover of a song from the Donkey Kong Country TV series, the title of the album is almost directly the name of an episode from the same show (replacing "Legend" with "Curse"), and the album artwork features a Crystal Coconut from Donkey Kong 64, a gorilla skeleton wearing a tie, a few Kremlings, a TNT barrel, and a DK Coin. In The Battle of Cape Fear River: one of the ways Blackbeard might die is projected to be a 'shotgun in the bum'. asdfgfa is one of Chris Bowes' many side projects. The video also references Indiana Jones as Elliot resorts to using a cutlass when his gun fails to fire, and taunts another of the bandmates who promptly shoots him dead. | |
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: "Leviathan" sets up for this in its sequel, "Death Throes of the Terrorsquid". | |
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Cover Version | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_cff53786 | comment |
Cover Version: Many. "P is for Pirate" is one with slightly modified lyrics (it is now pirate-themed instead of cookie-themed). "You Are a Pirate", "Barrett's Privateers", and "Wolves of the Sea" are the most famous of their covers. They also did a version of "In the Navy". Suffice to say, if there's a nautical-themed song, a nautical-themed children's song, or a children's song that can be piratified, Alestorm stands a good chance of covering it, often hilariously. There is also their version of "I Am A Cider Drinker", originally by The Wurzels (which was itself a parody of George Baker's "Paloma Blanca"). Many of the modern-genre songs the band covers have a suitably nautical twist to the instrumentation; for example, "Bassline Junkie" has a jaunty squeezebox line in place of the crunchy bass. Sunset on the Golden Age features a cover of Taio Cruz's "Hangover". Curse of the Crystal Coconut features a cover of "Pirate's Scorn" from the Donkey Kong Country cartoon. The album is also named after the Crystal Coconut from the same show. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: "Midget Saw" (which is about a group of pirates who saw a man's legs off after he kills a monkey) and "Wooden Leg" (about a man who loses his legs to a pair of Spanish broadsides, and then loses his arms to a Samurai in a Bar Brawl). | |
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Jolly Roger | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_d3f14c68 | comment |
Jolly Roger: They feature their own version of the Jolly Roger, solely replacing the skull with one stylized after their mascot, Jimmy McFucknugget (basically What If? Cthulhu became a pirate instead of an Elder God), as seen, for example, on the cover of 2014's Sunset on the Golden Age. | |
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Hollywood Voodoo | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_d8085f48 | comment |
Hollywood Voodoo: The pirate in "Wooden Leg Part II" decides he's going to replace his inadequate wooden limbs by killing the people who are responsible for the loss of his originals, taking their arms and legs and sticking them back onto himself. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_da4a8208 | type |
Progressive Instrumentation | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_da4a8208 | comment |
Progressive Instrumentation: "Buckfast Powersmash" has the sequence guitar > drums > keyboards > bass > voice. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: "Fucked With An Anchor" opens with an very upbeat tune... and these lyrics: | |
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Intercourse with You | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: "Questing Upon The Poop Deck" is most certainly not about a type of sexual activity. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Well, he is an undead pirate with no lips and a mean Kubrick Stare. | |
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Bad Guy Bar | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_e069fae8 | comment |
Bad Guy Bar: The Sunk'n Norwegian. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_e18675e6 | type |
Word Salad Lyrics | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_e18675e6 | comment |
Word Salad Lyrics: The pre-choruses of "Pegleg Potion". Probably as a result of drinking said pegleg potion.... "Sunset on the Golden Age" has poetic-sounding, but mostly nonsensical lyrics. The second verse appears to be an Expospeak Gag describing how hamburgers are made. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_e3c20140 | comment |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: "Pegleg Potion" is set in "the land of Sgriubh-á-dubh", a superficially Scottish Gaelic version of the nonsense word "scrubadub". | |
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Gorn | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: The lyrics to "Midget Saw": | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Some characters in songs, like the Huntmaster and the narrator in "Chronicles of Vengeance". | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_ee7fca3d | type |
Silver Fox | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_ee7fca3d | comment |
Silver Fox: The eponymous "Nancy The Tavern Wench", "A lovely bar-maiden/She may be old/But her beauty ain't fadin'." | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_f1492605 | type |
Redemption Equals Death | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: The protagonists of "Magnetic North" mention to be seeking redemption in the titular location, but the song frequently notes they'll most certainly die along the way. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_f2a5f7f2 | type |
Expospeak Gag | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_f2a5f7f2 | comment |
"Sunset on the Golden Age" has poetic-sounding, but mostly nonsensical lyrics. The second verse appears to be an Expospeak Gag describing how hamburgers are made. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_f47bdd2a | type |
Violent Glaswegian | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_f47bdd2a | comment |
Violent Glaswegian: When it comes to the band's darker and more brutally hilarious songs, Chris' bombastic Scottish accent paints a pretty vivid image of this. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_f56aeb67 | type |
Alien Invasion | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_f56aeb67 | comment |
Alien Invasion: "Surf Squid Warfare" is about a invasion of space squids, which the pirates have to travel to the future to battle. | |
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| Alestorm (Music) / int_f5fe65a3 | type |
Heavy Mithril | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_f5fe65a3 | comment |
Heavy Mithril: Lyrically, Alestorm are typically more grounded than the average Power Metal band... but when they go for the mithril, they go hard for the mithril. | |
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Friendly Rivalry | |
| Alestorm (Music) / int_fbd5fda1 | comment |
Friendly Rivalry: Alestorm has this going with Captain Yarrface of Rumahoy, with Yarrface typically talking trash about Alestorm in a tongue-in-cheek way in his lyrics and Alestorm getting revenge on Yarrface in their latest video "P.A.R.T.Y." by blowing up his island. However, it's all in good fun as Rumahoy has toured with Alestorm and Yarrface has made special guest appearances in their other videos like "Tortuga". | |
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"Mexico" is about Mexico. The pirates travel there because the wenches are a-plenty, the alcohol is free, the party lasts all through the night, and the alcohol is free. | |
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Titled After the Song | |
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Titled After the Song: Inverted with "Alestorm", a song titled after the band. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: Watching their music videos on YouTube with captions turned on will often yield some random funny bits thrown in for a laugh. Shit Boat (No Fans): When the last few lines of the song start a singalong section (complete with bouncing duck icon), the subtitles finish with a suggestion to "Follow the bouncing duck, everyone!" before ending. Pirate Metal Drinking Crew: Each instance of a dog barking is replaced with a mismatched animal noise, namely "meow" and "oink". The last few lines of the song even has the subtitles say, "Ach, what's the point - if you haven't figured out what the lyrics are at this point there's no hope for you anyway." Magellan's Expedition: During the guitar solo, the video takes a bizarre turn as the female protagonist approaches a giant rubber duck with laser eyes, swapping out her twin swords for an assault rifle, prompting the subtitles to suggest that the video might not actually be a historically accurate representation of said voyage. P.A.R.T.Y.: The subtitles have a bit of Fun with Acronyms, wondering what P.A.R.T.Y. stands for and inviting viewers to post their answers in the comment section, with the best answer "winning a year's supply of ham". The Battle of Cape Fear River: Lyrics are written for the guitar solo. Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum's subtitles feature a twofer: an embedded recipe for what appears to be Baked Alaska, followed by the first few lines of Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son before the writer cuts himself off with " - wait, shit. Wrong band, sorry!" In Voyage of the Dead Marauder during the solo we're given a "Fun Frog Fact" about the Alaskan Wood Frog and its ability to hibernate completely frozen for months at a time by using its own urine as a natural antifreeze. The post-video scene also throws in silly frog-themed lyrics over the chosen preview songs. | |
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Bragging Theme Tune | |
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Bragging Theme Tune: "Heavy Metal Pirates." | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Someone in the crew got the brilliant idea to use a scientific term for the behaviour of the antagonists of 'Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship: 'dendrophagic' describes the habit of eating trees. And, it would seem by extension, wood in general. | |
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