🎶 Alestorm - The Storm (from the album "The Thunderfist Chronicles") 🎶.

Why is this song so good? IDK what it is but I've listened to it multiple times today... (also the lyrics could totally be form some supervillain theme song).

#alestorm #piratemetal #music

Been completely obsessed with pirate symphonic metal the past week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFkGE6e4TEs

#visionsOfAtlantis #metal #symphonicmetal #piratemetal

Pirate metal goes cyberpunk today, with this Melodicka Bros cover of Alestorm. It's Fridaaaaaaay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGAdVpVD8fs

#FridayMetalCovers #Metal #PirateMetal

Ok, time for Alestorm.

A few albums back I was a huge fan of this band. ‘Sunset on the Golden Age’ and ‘No Grave But the Sea’ are deadset classics.

‘Curse of the Crystal Coconut’ was still really good, if maybe a step down.

Then there was drama with a leaked chat full of offensive mysoginist and racist comments. Eventually those involved apologised. Apologies are good, but it does cast a shadow over things.

Next album ‘Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum’ seemed more strained and “try hard”

After all that, I did see them live this year and honestly it was a great show.

Anyway, let’s see how this year’s album goes.

#Alestorm #PirateMetal #Metal

Terra Atlantica – Oceans Review

By Kenstrosity

I had almost forgotten about German four-banger Terra Atlantica since I last covered them five years ago. Once my memory refreshed, I recalled what compelled me to snag Age of Steam in the first place: my love for steampunk. Far from the most dedicated—and perhaps even farther away from the best—piece of media based on that universe, Terra Atlantica nonetheless did sound appropriately grounded in a world propelled by superheated water. But their songwriting was too inconsistent to make a big splash with this sponge. With follow-up Oceans in tow, is their hope that Terra Atlantica will hoist my sails properly this time?

With a new lead guitarist, Terra Atlantica finds themselves armed with a more folk-driven base that sends their sea-faring stories even further into open water than ever before. Veering into jaunty pirate metal territory, Oceans boasts a wide variety of baubles and decorative deviations scattered around their cookie-cutter power metal foundation. Terra Atlantica’s unusually reedy vocals carry over from the last record, evoking a certain Muppet-y personality that I don’t hate, but which many could. Canned strings and horns make a resurgence as well, pushing Oceans deeper into symphonic territory. In short, Oceans is as cheesy a power metal record as can be without being Fellowship, only without even half the songwriting acumen.

In fact, songwriting is Oceans’ greatest downfall. Numbers that could’ve been great on their own merit find themselves stranded by downright infuriating choices. The greatest offenders are “Hoist the Sail,” ruined almost immediately once Terra Atlantica cribs the legendary “The Rake Hornpipe” for an overlong bridge and solo; and overblown closer “Oceans of Eternity,” which once again copies and pastes more than one segment from a piece of well-known classical music1 to pad its runtime without doing anything meaningful with them. Outside of those rage-inducing moments, though, there’s still very little substance to Oceans. Due to its dogged reliance on basic genre building blocks and banal lyrics, Oceans is effectively wall-to-wall tropes and fairytale pirate stereotypes (“Back to the Sea,” “Where My Brothers Await,” “Land of Submarines”).

Indeed, Oceans reminds me of a metallized The Muppet Treasure Island soundtrack, minus that masterpiece’s compositional excellence. Nonetheless, flashes of brilliance give me some hope that Terra Atlantica have the potential to write showstoppers worthy of positive comparisons to that iconic OST. “Raven in the Dark,” for example, might be the album’s strongest whole song, pumping a stadium-ready melody and boasting a sticky chorus and fun hair-metal solo. “Caribbean Shores,” too, maximizes its fun factor with a novel bit of tropical songwriting not often heard in power metal, unless you are Twilight Force. Additionally, I do appreciate the injection of real heft and a vaguely thrashy personality in “Turn of the Tide.” If these novelties and convincing attributes were integrated more successfully into a greater portion of Ocean’s runtime, the record would feel quite a bit different than what metal fans have been taught to expect from the symphonic power scene.

Unfortunately, Terra Atlantica only reinforce what metal fans learned to dread. To wit, a dearth of musical creativity in relation to material density, an overt abuse of classical standbys in the place of what should be original material (or at least a creative use of reference), and clear and present stereotyping in writing, theme, and lyrical content. What little hints of potential Terra Atlantica leave for listeners across Oceans’ relatively tight 49 minutes do not make up for the burden of uninspiring, sometimes outright annoying, material offered. Steer clear of this if you know what’s good for you, lads!

Rating: Bad
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Scarlet Records
Websites: terra-atlantica.de | facebook.com/terraatlantica
Releases Worldwide: September 26th, 2025

#15 #2025 #Fellowship #FolkMetal #GermanMetal #Mozart #Oceans #PirateMetal #PowerMetal #Review #Reviews #ScarletRecords #Sep25 #SymphonicMetal #TerraAtlantica #TwilightForce

Today be #TalkLikeAPirateDay so AHRRR, post yer best pirate metal covers, for #FridayMetalCovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6WHvqqeRw

#Metal #PirateMetal

Nachm Urlaub erstmal das neue Hurley Album anhören

Mr. Hurley und die Pulveraffen feat. Warkings - All Hail The Captain

https://song.link/de/i/1807283014

#nowplaying #piratemetal