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Prologue
(You can just skip all this and go down to where I start reviewing the tracks if you want. I'm rambling here.)
Ridiculous Scotland-focused power metal band Gloryhammer is coming back at me soon with a new CD, and I'm pretty hype to find out what the third chapter in their ongoing saga is gonna be. I'm so dang hype I actually pre-ordered, and this is the first time I've ever said that about a CD.
(CDs were shiny discs with information and/or music printed on them, kids. Ask your parents.)
As long as I was on Amazon throwing money at the musical-industrial complex, I figured I'd pick up something else to bump up my shipping status to "free" and also because I'm really into goofy power metal lately. By this I mean, I like a band that takes their music seriously but not necessarily themselves seriously. I'm looking for strong, driving music with some lore and thought behind it, not a new religion to follow or a debate class on what "real" metal might be.
With that in mind, I picked up "Masters of the Multiverse", CD number 4 by the Austrian band "Dragony", operating on three lines of thought:
A: I really liked their name. It's very ... dragon-y.
B: They were favorably compared to Gloryhammer in many writeups I googled,
and C: The track list of this CD looked Interesting to me.
By Interesting, I mean... well, let's finally talk about this disc some.
Intro
"Masters of the Multiverse" is a very fandom-focused CD. Six tracks of eleven are directly referencing other media properties, two more MIGHT be doing that, and one is a straight-up cover of an eighties song big in its fandom.
This is not really uncommon in the kinds of metal I listen to. Megadeth's "Five Magics" directly referential to the novel "Master of the Five Magics", Nightwish is constantly namedropping fantasy stories, Blind Guardian have an entire album dedicated to Tolkien and several other songs that weave in and out of genre fiction like "The Dark Tower", and ... heck, actual people I know have gone down this road.
What I'm sayin' here is that the kind of metal I listen to is a big ol' elf nerd festival, but they're talented elf nerds.
So what I'm going to do with this is go track by track, give my thoughts on the song itself, point out what it's referencing and whether you could tell from an outside standing start, and ... that's it, no score. If this interests you, you can find it (on Spotify if you like!) and score it yourself. I'm not gonna stop you.
( Let's begin. )
(You can just skip all this and go down to where I start reviewing the tracks if you want. I'm rambling here.)
Ridiculous Scotland-focused power metal band Gloryhammer is coming back at me soon with a new CD, and I'm pretty hype to find out what the third chapter in their ongoing saga is gonna be. I'm so dang hype I actually pre-ordered, and this is the first time I've ever said that about a CD.
(CDs were shiny discs with information and/or music printed on them, kids. Ask your parents.)
As long as I was on Amazon throwing money at the musical-industrial complex, I figured I'd pick up something else to bump up my shipping status to "free" and also because I'm really into goofy power metal lately. By this I mean, I like a band that takes their music seriously but not necessarily themselves seriously. I'm looking for strong, driving music with some lore and thought behind it, not a new religion to follow or a debate class on what "real" metal might be.
With that in mind, I picked up "Masters of the Multiverse", CD number 4 by the Austrian band "Dragony", operating on three lines of thought:
A: I really liked their name. It's very ... dragon-y.
B: They were favorably compared to Gloryhammer in many writeups I googled,
and C: The track list of this CD looked Interesting to me.
By Interesting, I mean... well, let's finally talk about this disc some.
Intro
"Masters of the Multiverse" is a very fandom-focused CD. Six tracks of eleven are directly referencing other media properties, two more MIGHT be doing that, and one is a straight-up cover of an eighties song big in its fandom.
This is not really uncommon in the kinds of metal I listen to. Megadeth's "Five Magics" directly referential to the novel "Master of the Five Magics", Nightwish is constantly namedropping fantasy stories, Blind Guardian have an entire album dedicated to Tolkien and several other songs that weave in and out of genre fiction like "The Dark Tower", and ... heck, actual people I know have gone down this road.
What I'm sayin' here is that the kind of metal I listen to is a big ol' elf nerd festival, but they're talented elf nerds.
So what I'm going to do with this is go track by track, give my thoughts on the song itself, point out what it's referencing and whether you could tell from an outside standing start, and ... that's it, no score. If this interests you, you can find it (on Spotify if you like!) and score it yourself. I'm not gonna stop you.
( Let's begin. )
