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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Alestorm

Voyage of the Dead Marauder EP

(Napalm Records)

Riffing in the rigging. Scottish Alestorm's marriage of city-leveling metallic explosiveness and olde seafarers' sprightly airs is colorfully idiosyncratic to an epic degree. Through seven previous albums and before international arenas full of fist-thrusting devotees, the adventurous chord-slammers raised up towering adamantium slabs supplemented by swashbuckling gusto. In frontman/keyboardist Chris Bowes' full-lunged growling seethe the wraiths of a thousand rapacious buccaneers.

Recommended: "Voyage of the Dead Marauder" (feat. Patty Gurdy), "Uzbekistan," "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate," "Sea Shanty 2," "Cock"

Videos: "Voyage of the Dead Marauder" "The Last Sakatchewan Pirate" "Cock"

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