Metal contains multitudes. It can encompass everything from Black Sabbath's speedy headbanging riffs, the guttural satanic screams of Norwegian black metal, the technical wizardry of Eddie Van Halen, ...

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If a pirate's life is the life for you, then last night you should've found your way to the back of an abandoned business park to swig rum, raise your cutlass, and bang your head with the small army ...

Alestorm are the band largely synonymous with the pirate metal sub-genre. Yes, pirate metal. If it wasn’t clear just how whacky and expansive metal sub-genres can get, pirate metal is a refreshing ...

Right now, Napalm Records is one of the labels leading the way in terms of putting out music by bands who are fun to drink to. Between pirate metal acts like Alestorm and insane party metal crews like ...

This Saturday, landlubbers beware: Peg-legged shipmates may soon invade your beer halls and cubicles. Yes, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day, on which every sentence ends with a hearty Arrr!

The keyboards swell, the guitar crests and falls, and the drums beat against the hull: hoist the sails landlubber, you're listening to Alestorm! On the fringes of power metal, Alestorm has, with ...