The Hold Steady
Okay, I bought the CD "Stay Positive" recorded by the band "The Hold Steady" for reasons I do not wish to disclose.
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Wow! The lead singer sounds a bit like Bruce Springsteen, the lyrics are funny / ridiculous and the band does stuff that sounds like a cross between thrash and the latest REM CD. These guys really are different and engaging IMHO.
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Please no flaming. I'm an old fart trying to understand. Is this band anything special?
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Wow! The lead singer sounds a bit like Bruce Springsteen, the lyrics are funny / ridiculous and the band does stuff that sounds like a cross between thrash and the latest REM CD. These guys really are different and engaging IMHO.
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Please no flaming. I'm an old fart trying to understand. Is this band anything special?
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AWESOME.
Amon Amarth
Finsterforst
Ensiferum
Svartsot
Wolfchant
Viking Metal? I'll have to check it out.
There is something I've wondered about with regards to Vikings. They were famous for plundering and pillaging, yet I have yet to find anyone who can explain the difference between the two terms. To plunder AND pillage seems rather redundant.
And if you're going to be a viking, the order is important - rape first, then pillage. (this needs a smiley to convey the tongue-in-cheek factor, but phpBB's smileys are no good)
Also, I hope Pandora has Viking metal.
Pandora and Last.fm both have quite a bit of viking metal. Good stuff. I also highly recommend folk metal. I'm happy to throw out some band names if anyone is interested. There's also these:
List of Folk Metal Bands
List of Viking Metal Bands
These are pretty obscure subgenres for the US, so finding physical copies of the albums can be pretty tough. If you're the downloading sort, bittorrent is full of this stuff. It's about the only way I've found to sample the bands to see what I like. YouTube is also a good place to sample.
I'm not a metal head, and to me, what played sounded vaguely similar to the other genres of metal that my metalhead friends listened to in the 90s. Of course, that may be because Pandora can't distinguish between Viking metal and other forms.
Both viking and folk metal were "invented" in the mid to late 90s, but were pretty obscure untl the last 5 years or so. Good stuff and pretty unique -- particlarly folk metal -- but certainly not everyone's cup of tea. I'm pretty much the only one I know that listens to most of the bands I like.
Which bands did you check out? Let me guess -- Amon Amarth and Ensiferum? Those are the most popular bands in the list.
I'll play around with it some more when I'm in a metal mood. Middle of the day at work isn't a metal mood. Well, not most days.
Some Ensiferm songs I recommend:
* Blood is the Price of Glory
* Little Dreamer
* Lost in Dispair
* Iron
* Token of Time