Napalm /Spv
2008
Captain Morgan's Revenge
About This Album
As movie stars like Erroll Flynn and Johnny Depp have proven time and time again on the silver screen, pirates never go out of style; so what better motif to adopt for your brand new heavy metal band than that involving the at once romantic adventures and bloody chronicles committed to legend and history under Jolly Roger? Of course grizzled metallic veterans and lawless buccaneers alike will quickly inform you that Scotland's cunningly named Alestorm aren't even the first of their kind, but merely the apprentice cabin boys serving under the original pirate metal pioneers, Germany's Running Wild, who were sailing the briney blue way back in the distant 1980s. Yet, surely the seven seas and all their available booty can support more than one swashbuckling crew of scallywags, and Alestorm, to their credit, stow away both a bottle of rum (or twenty) and a barrel of laughs on their rowdy maiden voyage, 2008's Captain Morgan's Revenge. Actually, a sense of humor is probably more of a necessity than a privilege, given the quartet's relative inexperience, still coalescing musicianship, and somewhat uneven songwriting skills, which sees them flogging synthesizer-infused power metal of varying quality with the likes of "The Huntmaster," "Death Before the Mast," and "Terror on the High Seas,"; or else plundering familiar sea shanty melodies for drunken galley chants like "Of Treasure" and an album closing rendition of their national anthem, "Flower of Scotland.
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