Now we want you to listen to F.... With an a anchor with Alestorm and then try not to singalong in chorus 😜

If you want a good laugh you have to look at the alestorm song "Fucked with an Anchor"

Pirate Metal is a legitimate genre of metal

If you want more Scottish silly metal, try Gloryhammer and their tracks "Unicorn Invasion of Dundee" or "Angus McFife". Good clean (well) fun

Haven’t heard Alestorm in about a decade. This song’s a lot goofier than I remember them being; I thought they were just a bit tongue in cheek. Still, a very fun song and I love comedy metal bands like Psychostick. Also, the animation in this was incredibly well done; very fluid like rum lol 😂

The brains behind Alestorm, Chris Bowes, actually has three bands, each with a different theme. There's obviously Alestorm which is pirate metal, and he sings and plays the keytar. He plays the keyboard in Gloryhammer, which is a powermetal band which tells a futuristic sci-fi story following the Kingdom of Fife (The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee is a fun song). His newest band is Wizardthrone, which calls itself extreme wizard metal. I don't have a recommendation for that one, but they've only got one album out thus far.

It´s pirate party time!

Is there any TOOL coming up in the near future?

Electric callboy is another silly, fun, catchy metal band. Check out 'We got the moves' by them.

7:07 I'm so Glad You had Fun with this One ALESTORM never gets Old. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

they take a lot of inspiration from folk music they've even done covers of some 1960s folk songs like Flower of Scotland and Henry Martin by Joan Baez

If youre looking for more Scottish metal, Hellripper is a one-man band from Aberdeen that does indeed rip Hell. "The Nuckelavee" is a recent career highlight with his most explicitly Scottish lyrics.

Fyi. When you watch their videos. Turn on closed capitons. They hide some hidden gems among them.

I'm sorry but if you need to see just how Scottish Alestorm is, you need to hear about their adventures with Dread Captain Fannybaws :D

There are a million and one serious songs and metal bands out there, and they are great, but music is about feeling and happy, fun, silly are just as valid an expression as any deep introspection thought provoking attempts to change the world.

You should watch it again with subtitles enabled... they hide some epic fun in those...

You should check out Austrian Death Machine for another silly band, all their songs are about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies 😆

Comedy metal bands are some of the best, with ones such as Alestorm, Electric Callboy, lawnmower deth, Attilla and, of course, Brojob. Everything needs some lightness to counteract the dark seriousness, and metal is no different.

I forget which album it's on but Alestorm do a very good rendition of 'Flower of Scotland'.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS BAND !!!!!!! 😎🥳🏴‍☠ ( ALL HAIL THE RUBBER DUCK !!!!! 🍻🦆)

There were many pirate captains who sold their souls to the Divell for such trifles as bullet invulnerability, incredible luck and so on... But there is only one, who made a deal with Old Harry in exchange for a keytar and a pair of ears that allow him to add some ten knots to speed while sailing a broad reach. All hail cap'n Christopher Bowes!

Yes! Wayyy late to this video but… such is life! I personally think the best album is Sunset On The Golden Age with the title track and 1741 being the best tracks off it… but it’s just great music and such a load of fun! Glad you had a great time! 🤘

2:55 When I Hear the Words SCOTTISH PIRATES & METAL in the Same Sentence, I KNOW what to Expect. 🤣

YOU can see Alestorm live on 3rd March 2024 Glasgow

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THAT WAS FUN ! Soo good! Talking serious and un-serious music: what is the noble task of music? In my book: to bring joy to the people. @ Melisa: are you familiar with Clanadonia? They are from Scotland, too. Try to find i.e "Hamsterheid", played live in the streets. Greetings from the far north of Germany!

Alestorm is amazing, very first song I ever heard by them I heard in my local pool hall and was thoroughly surprised by the vocals, 1741 The Battle of Cartagena. by far one of my favorites def recommend it will surprise you

My favorite Alestorm song is “Nancy the Tavern Wench”.

Off-topic, but you asked. The stereotypical pirate we all think of is mostly from one person. Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Dianey's Treasure Island. He used a west country accent for his character and the image stuck.

If you want some other Pirate Metal to check out which is not as "goofy", try Lagerstein & Visions of Atlantis.

You wanna hear somethin that will rock ya? Beast in Black- Blind & Frozen. Your're welcome

It's not just Scotland. Their guitarist is Hungarian, so of course they made a song "Magyarorszag" about living the pirate life in the landlocked country of Hungary.

Hi Melissa you need to watch The Sensational Alex Harvey Band if you want a good Scottish rock band or Hocus Pocus by Focus if you want any earwax removed

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Your next adventure on the high seas should include Death Throes of the Terror Squid

Alestorm is we're on the way home fra work and need something lighthearted what for to listen to loudly. It's also brilliant when you're having a party as well, as long as there aren't sensitive types about.

i know you reacted to this months ago, but you REALLY need to watch this song again with the captions ON thank me later

Alestorm is always good fun. Although, if I'd have chosen one from their more recent, super goofy stuff, I'd have gone with "F**ked With an Anchor."

Spinal Tap. Any song. Although Bitch School (not in the film but released a few years later) is a classic! One of my all time favourite films. Love it!

That was a pretty cool video. Whenever I think of rock bands from Scotland, the first two that come to mind are Nazareth and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Both of them are more hard rock than heavy metal, but they are both amazing. If you have never heard of them, you should definitely give them a listen. Cheers! 🥃

I don't think I know of a bad song by Alestorm, but I couldn't help thinking that if I were to pick a song to introduce this band to someone new it would not have been this one by a long shot. There are FAR more epic songs that I would have suggested first like "Keelhauled", "Drink", "Mexico", "Tortuga", "Fannybaws", and "Shipwrecked!" I WANT TO SEE YOUR REACTION TO THESE!

Hi from France, this song is great, I have a allbum full signature of this band.

Other fun Alestorm songs: Keelhauled, Mexico, Nancy the Tavern Wench, Fucked by an Anchor, Questing upon the Poopdeck, can't really think of a song I don't like from them.

For another comedy band, I'd love to see you react to Valhalleluja by Nanowar of Steel. It’s wild 😂

Oh you definitely need to listen to Fannybaws by Alestorm. You must be the only reactor that would get all the references.

I feel like having a beer 😂

The artist who did that also made one of a song from the TV cartoon “Donkey Kong Country” known as “pirate’s scorn” Also done by alestorm, a cover at least… it’s pretty good

My favorite band. Please check the songs by them: Drink, Keelhauled, Fannybaws and Mexico

See them live sometime. They're a hoot. There are only drinking songs. People jumping around.

Alestorm is a fun band, although i do prefer the musical arrangement of the first few albums a little more then some of the newer sound

Well, I'm in love.

These are one of my favourite bands they are so good 🤘🧙‍♂️

There has always been space in the metal community for this. Literally since metal was invented. I still remember Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun from the 90s. In fact I might still even have the CD 😛

you've discovered the lyrical genius that rhymes "the alcohol is free" with "the alcohol is free", congratulations

5 o'clock on a friday? you're starting late lol

If you like pirate metal, listen to Pirate Queen. They're pretty decent

If we want comedy try Lawnmower Deth!

Try Keelhauled. It's a hoot.

If you want fun then you also gotta check out some electric callboy

Oh, come on, Melisa! How could you become MORE scottish??? Red hair, freckles and bagpipes? For real, if you become more scottish, we need english subtitles! 🤣

Being a Scottish musician myself if say f’d by an anchor or Drink! Are better songs, but this is alright 😄

Please throw old Alestorm fans a bone a do a song form the first 4 records back when they were a least semi serious. Such a huge fan of black sails and back through time. I just don’t get this new stuff

Funny and epic perhaps God is just a bubble in our beer.

A great reaction, but you should've done Fucked With An Anchor!

So not a Scottish band as such but a band that you might not be familiar with that a lot of their songs are based on Scottish history is Grave Digger. This is one of my favourite versions of the song Rebellion because it has my all time favourite singer Hansi Kursch of Blind Guardian fame but his band demons and wizards also has one of my absolute favourite songs Fiddler on the Green. Grave Digger are underrated and deserve more exposure. So let me expose you to them. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsiqhrqUt7OdpWQ.html

You like pirate metal? You like animation? You like hard partying? Then you NEED the antidote to this very song, _SOBER_ by Nanowar of Steel! Sorry, not Scottish (actually Italian), but three out of four ain't bad. (Warning: some bleeping may be required.) And then you can watch _Valhallelujah..._

Right, now here's a fun story. The singer (Christopher Bowes) is my ex boyfriend (2010-2013). AMA

If you really want metal and pirates you have to listen to you oadres of that genre Running Wild

Ye need to hear Fannybaws

⚓🙏 please by Alestorm

You haven't lived until you've seen them perform this live with Captain Yarrface dressed as Britney Spears while the lass who won the meat raffle sits on stage being pumped full of booze.

Although I do not care much for Alestorm's latest two albums, there is no doubt they have a fix spot on my party playlists. Good fun should never be locked out of the metal scene. Just look at Steel Panther, and lately Nanowar of Steel. Ah, and also if you want it darker I recommend Belzebubs "Cathedral of Mourning" (fantastic comic/animation awaits thee).

Third comment in a row but fuck it. There has been arguments amongst the metal community since the first bands started to stray away from the classic and go in the direction of sublime and the ridiculous. One of the most maligned bands that splits the crowd when it comes to metal heads is Manowar. They don't write the comedy lyrics but what they sing about is often viewed as ridiculous or kitsch but essentially birthed the Scandinavian metal genre (some call it Viking metal.) From those kinds of roots you saw the advent of bands like Dream Evil who went hard into the fantasy metal. You get these shifts and trends in the metal world. The boomer metal crowd always seem to malign anything that isn't classic but there is a fairly substantial niche with bands like psychostick and genre straddling bands like electric callboy. You've got that absurdity that is Dethklok which is extreme comedy metal and they had their own whole cartoon with some of the most ridiculous metal and the most ridiculous animation. In one episode they did a song that was coffee jingle and people were like getting brutally killed as they are singing the song and the song is ridiculous, the antics are ridiculous but it's such incredible musicianship that Dethklok, even as something of a parody shreds with the best of them. You also have Powerwolf who sing about religious werewolf soldiers and have religious themed songs such as "resurrection by erection" and "coleus sanctus" amongst others. Again the lyrics are absurd but the arrangement and the vocal delivery is utterly sublime. Powerwolf demonstrate how to do that really well and still be taken seriously in the metal community. I don't think it would be fair to say writing comedy lyrics is harder than say a ballad or something but to write good comedy lyrics delivered with superb musicianship is a different skill set and not really comparable. Take psychostick and NSFW, the whole song is literally a dude singing the word fuck but it's the way they develop the musicianship behind it. You have Austrian death machine which is essentially an Arnold Schwarzenegger themed parody/tribute metal band. You have alestorm and I think it is the way they deliver the lyrics that makes them so good. Any other band singing songs like that would probably not hit the same way.

Great reaction! If you like animation that much, a good next selection could be from Deathklok, the Batmetal trilogy: 1. Batmetal 2. Batmetal Returns 3. Batmetal Forever (in that order) You'll have a great time ;)

They are live fucking awesome. If you wanna see some more fun videos then whatch Mexiko because that video is a cool arcadegame style when they wash a donkey.

Alestorm are amazing and just as good live, but this was not a great representation. You need to checkout the following songs, Drink, Alestorm (the clip has midgets😊), F#cked with an Anchor (this is a must), Mexico And yes, I turn 50 in a few months and loves me some animation, 🤘

Man, I've seen them at festivals plenty of times and I've always thought of them as a gimmick band. The only two bands that I cab think of that pull of the comedy with metal are Strapping young Lad and Gwar.

Bad News......Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall in a spoof metal band. Possibly better than the mighty Tap.

Wouldv won eurovision

Humor in metal, naaah. OK, maybe a bit. Maybe Steel Panther. "Death to all but(t) metal" (full length video), "Community Property" or "Glory Hole" are as pathetic and hilarious as a glam metal parody can get. These guys are hilariously funny and so real at the same time, that Mötley Crue obviously don't like them, because they are like Freudian mirror to them. Steel Panther is a therapeutical treatment for frustrated metal musicians that need more sex and fun in their lifes. (A bit like if Twisted Sister and Spinal Tap had a baby and fed it with cocaine. )

It's good but you really wanted to start with Fannybaws. Fannybaws I tell you. Fannybaws FA - NE - BAWS