[narlus]

this is pretty funny (haven't listened to the song yet):

http://linuspaulingquartet.blogspot.com/

 

[bjanga]

From that page:
Swordmetal is metal that doesn't suck and meets the following requirements. There must be guitar solos, preferably long awesome ones. The songs must be about: Swords, Battles, Fighting, Dragons, Wizards, Demons, Knights, Kings, Magic, Sorcery, Hellfire, Steel, Metal, War, Killing Servants, Storms, Lightning, Drinking Ale, Spilling Blood, Hammers, things like this. The most important requirement to turn an ordinary song into a sword metal masterpiece is that it has to sound EPIC! The type of song you would want to listen to if you were running across a battlefield swinging your warhammer, or standing face to face with a huge dragon about to gouge its eye out with your torch.


Any band who wishes to embrace the Way of the Sword must first come to understand it's code:
http://www.swordmetal.com/codes.php

I am listening to the song now. Its kinda meh. Definately popping out the Pepper and Ry Cooder CD's and popping in some Maiden and Mastodon though.

 

[Inclag]

3 Inches of Blood, are very sword metal

 

[JRB]

Where is Ciaran???

 

[skatetokil]

not metal, but godspeed you black emperor writes some epic songs.

 

[SK6]

Yeah, an interesting twist....not like its never been done though...

Hammerfall comes to mind...

 

[Ciaran]

Hmmm... I think I need to start a band... where's H8R?

The conversation on that page is hilarious...

Ramon: Poser. You are not sword metal!

Charlie: No no no... I"m really more "Sword Easy Listening" or "Sword Lite-Pop"... I like to make toes tap, put a soft sort of non-committal half-grin on people's faces, and provide melodies they may or may not remember for the rest of the whole goddamn day...

Ramon: Back to the sodden home from which ye came, Unferth! The thanes will not stand such unmetal chatter.

Charlie: Suit up, foul mouth-breather, and face the wrath of the mighty Benatar! Half comely lass of human ancestry, half bellowing bull with a penis of steel! Ye shall meet your fate, and it shall be piteous! Hell is for children AND sword metal nerds!!

It goes on and on.

 

[narlus]

i get the feeling that Hammerfall is probably serious, though...

the Linus Pauling guys are just doing this as a pisstake.

 

[Bullitrider]

 

[Fool]

 

[narlus]

did you know bug-eyed billy was a member of that band?

 

[The Toninator]

I never realized ManOWar was gay.

 

[BuddhaRoadkill]

3 Inches of Blood, are very sword metal

WTF?!?!? A friend just sent me some of that. It's like .. like .. I don't know what it's like. Newer Iron Maiden, only good? My ears are bleeding, make it stop.

 

[oly]

Bolt Thrower is Sword Metal.