Dialing up a bit of Manilla Road this Metal Friday, one of the most swordly-and-sorcerous metal bands ever.
I love the atmosphere of "Mystification." Mark Shelton sounds like an evil sorcerer out of a Clark Ashton Smith story here.
Through the winds of time
A poet found The Key
To The Elder Rhyme
Some call the song mystic
With tales of gore
And terror in the night
His words, no more,
Have kept me mystified
Someone in an online group posted that they fail to see the aesthetic connection between metal and S&S (?) Sarcasm doesn't always come across well on the internet so I hope this was a case of crossed wires ... otherwise this is a really bad take.
Mystification is basically Weird Tales with guitars.
Manilla Road also has a song called ... Queen of the Black Coast.
Manowar exists.
I've got nothing else.
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See Cirith Ungol using Michael Whelan artwork from Moorcock's Elric on the album covers. The S&S aesthetic has always been there from the earliest days of heavy metal. A very bad take indeed.
Yup... if you want to see more evidence just swing a dead cat. Not to mention heavy metal is the music of the outsider, ignored by commercial radio and the likes of Rolling Stone in its heyday. And the fans loved it for that.
The whole Mystification album is great! Definitely heavier and thrashier than their previous efforts, but it works really well.
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