Captain Morgan's Revenge - Alestorm

Alestorms first studio album under their new name, released in 2008, brings a whole nw meaning to power metal, with their new genre 'Scottish Pirate Metal'. Captain Morgans Revenge is one of my favourite albums from 2008, as it brought something new to my musical tastes. Id heard Turisas who were Viking Metal and didnt think much of them, so i was reluctant to buy this album, but a few recommendations from my friends swayed me towards it. After hearing The Huntmaster on a friends ipod however, i really got into them. The cheesy like melody you hear in every song is entertaining, aswell as the heavys riffs, brutal vocals and epic guitar/accordian solos. For me, the whole ...  Read the complete review

Alestorm have taken the metal world by storm and it's not really much of a surprise, as pirates are the in thing these days. I've always been a fan of the beer swilling, festered skulled chaps, so it's not much of a surprise that the band is to my liking either. Not the first metal band to have a pirate twist to them but perhaps the first from Scotland and certainly the first to issue a whole album full of tankard raising gems. The fusion of metal and folk music comes off fluently to give the album an awesome feel to it that reminds me of Nightwish in their prime but obviously with a vocalist with a pair of balls and a pirate theme. The lyrics appeal somewhat ...  Read the complete review

Having built up a predictable cult following for their self-styled brand of "true Scottish pirate metal" at numerous local gigs and across two impressive E.P.s, Perth's Battleheart changed their name to the more tell-tale Alestorm and recorded their first full-length album on Napalm Records, due for an eagerly anticipated January 2008 release. The notion of mixing speedy, raucous power metal with a pirate concept is nothing new, harking right back to Germany's Running Wild in the late eighties, but it's a particularly intelligent commercial endeavour in a decade that has seen trashy Hollywood blockbuster 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and its ilk capturing the ...  Read the complete review