Pirate metal icons ALESTORM have just released a new live performance video for the song “Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship”, featuring footage from their 2021 UK/Ireland tour and including hilarious backstage footage! The video showcases exactly why ALESTORM needs be experienced live: chock full of incredible energy and synergy with the most engaged audience for miles – giant rubber ducky included.
In other news, ALESTORM just entered the studio to record their seventh studio album, Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum – stay tuned for updates!
ALESTORM on the new clip: “Back in December, we managed to defy all the odds and do a massive tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, playing 11 huge shows to tens of thousands of fans, culminating in our biggest ever headline show at the Brixton Academy in London. While we were on the road, we also filmed a bunch of footage on and off the stage, so we thought we’d stick it all together into a big fun music video featuring one of our favorite songs from our previous album, called “Zombies Ate My Pirate Ship”. Thanks to everyone who came to see us during these tough times, and extra special thanks to Loretta Lovely, who performed the female vocal parts ‘live’ on stage with us. OH WOW!”
Starting out at small shows somewhere in Eastern Scotland, the “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” ALESTORM have since conquered festival stages throughout the world and countless album charts – most recently with their latest album, Curse of the Crystal Coconut – which landed at #1 on both the US Top New Artist Albums and Current Hard Music Albums charts, in the Top 10 on the official Scottish and Swiss album charts, and peaked 12th on the German chart. Their sound, which is now more precisely described as “Pirate Metal”, avails itself of folk, power, and heavy metal influences. If wearing a pirate hat while singing crazy songs about getting drunk and stealing ships sounds like your thing, then ALESTORM is your kind of party.
Pirate Metal Icons ALESTORM have extended their worldwide record deal with Napalm Records for three more albums! Napalm Records has been alongside ALESTORM since their early days – starting with their debut album Captain Morgan’s Revenge back in 2008. Since then, the band around founding member and singer Christopher Bowes have built a stellar career, reigning as one of the biggest and most important bands in the genre.
The band also just entered the studio to record their seventh album, which will be called Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum! Continuing the work with their long-time producer Lasse Lammert once again – this time at Middle Farm Studios in Devon, England. The album will see the band back in full force and sailing the seven seas in no time this year. Stay tuned for updates on the upcoming album!
Get the full ALESTORM experience and watch their live show in Tilburg from 2019 HERE:
Starting out at small shows somewhere in Eastern Scotland, the “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” ALESTORM have since conquered album charts (their last album, Curse of the Crystal Coconut, ended up in the Top 10 of the official Scottish and Swiss album charts and peaked 12th on the German charts) and festival stages throughout the world. Their sound, which is now more precisely described as “Pirate Metal”, avails itself of folk, power, and heavy metal influences. If wearing a pirate hat while singing crazy songs about getting drunk and stealing ships sounds like your thing, then ALESTORM is your kind of party.
Alestorm guitarist Máté “Bobo” Bodor has completed work on his debut solo album “Oh Wow!’ to be released on 26th November 2021 via H-Music Hungary. Máté has been an integral part of Alestorm in the last 6 years, playing on the albums “No Grave But the Sea” (2017) and “Curse of the Crystal Coconut” (2020) and also formed the band All But One with Heaven Shall Burn drummer Christian Bass and singer Joe Carter-Hawkins. He has used the free time given by the lockdowns to write and record his first instrumental solo album, which he recorded with bass player Soma Schiszler (of the 2018 Eurovision participant band AWS) and drummer Márk Maczák (Leander Rising, AMIGOD). The album is now available for pre-order, and the first song and music video is out now, check out “The Forgotten Ones” below!
“The idea of an instrumental solo album was born around 4-5 years ago, but the continuous touring with Alestorm and Leander Kills has made it unrealistic to make time for it, so it remained a vision only, for a long time. After we’ve completed work on the 2020 Alestorm album and I got home, the first Covid lockdowns started immediately. Because of that I was stuck at home, and for the first time after 5 years I’ve felt I have nothing to work on. In May 2020 I’ve deliberately started working on instrumental songs, initially one or two at a time, to see where this is going. I’ve completed the songs and recorded the demos all by myself, but eventually I found myself constantly coming up with new ideas and completing new ones. I thought I should do this only as long as this “natural flow” is there, and I will stop as soon as I feel it’s forced. By the end of the year I’ve completed the songwriting part of the project.
With the finished demos I’ve contacted Soma Schiszler (AWS), who I toured together with before, so I knew he was a professional producer and is very adapted when it comes to guitar music. Together we have started discussing this album more seriously. We’ve started working with Márk Maczák, who recorded all the drums by the end of spring, so the second half of summer was about recording all the other instruments. The main concept was not to involve many people so that I could supervise the whole process and I can learn from it to improve my skills for the next albums. Eventually Soma and I recorded all guitars and bass over a few weeks. The album was also mixed and mastered by Soma.
I really wanted to make an instrumental album that is not about “over-playing it for the sake of over-playing.” The main aspect was to deliver songs with good, well-built structures, and not some kind of improvised mass that someone just played something on top of. The order of songs was not changed, they can be heard in chronological order so there is an arc to the album that can describe my feelings of that one year period. If I had to characterize this album, I’d say I’ve managed to put together songs with a certain “feelgood / travelling” mood where there are only technical / complex parts where it’s really needed and has a place naturally.
The main concept behind the album’s cover art was to include as many of my favourite things in life as possible: guitars, sea animals, basketball and donuts. Basically these are the things that make me happy, so it was clear these are the elements to make my dream world from. Polish artist Aleksandra Klepacka made this imaginary idea into reality, who had an extremely good perception of what was in my head, and delivered the basic design for the album in merely a few days.”
Máté is a Hungarian guitar player, known as the member of the internationally touring pirate metal band ALESTORM, the melodic metalcore band ALL BUT ONE and formerly of Hungarian metal band LEANDER KILLS.
Máté started touring at a young age with various bands internationally supporting bigger bands in the UK scene. After joining the power metal band WISDOM they were part of multiple major tours across Europe with acts such as Sabaton, Powerwolf and Eluveitie.
Joining ALESTORM in 2015 brought on more performing around the globe on a much larger scale. The band has since played main stages at most of the biggest festivals in the world such as Wacken, Summer Breeze, Hellfest, Graspop, Heavy Montreal etc. All accompanied by tours in Russia, Australia, South America, Asia, the United States and Canada. Máté continues to tour and record with ALESTORM around the world, whilst also using the 2020 lockdown as a means to work on his first instrumental solo album set to be released on 26th November 2021.
Máté has been endorsed by Ibanez guitars since 2016 and mostly plays his LA Custom Shop “Bobo” model, loaded with EMGs. Since the relationship with Ibanez and EMG started, Máté has done two workshop tours around Europe to promote their products.
The world’s favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, ALESTORM, are taking you on a wild, wet ride across the seven seas with their new live album/DVD/BluRay, Live in Tilburg, out today via Napalm Records!
In finest ALESTORM manner, world’s favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew gathered 3000 people in Tilburg’s sold out Poppodium to all sing along to their eloquent smash hit “Fucked With An Anchor”! With dozens of millions of streams across all streaming platforms, “Fucked With An Anchor” is an absolute fan favorite – as the Tilburg’s crowd impressively demonstrates!
Watch “Fucked With An Anchor” from ALESTORM’s Live In TilburgHERE:
Excellently produced and mixed by the renowned Lasse Lammert, who has already been involved in ALESTORM’s studio albums Curse Of The Crystal Coconut, No Grave But The Sea, Sunset On The Golden Age and many more, Live in Tilburg features an amazing mix of ALESTORM’s most beloved hits like “Drink“, “Mexico”, “Alestorm”, “Hangover”, “The Sunk’n Norwegian” and of course, “Fucked With An Anchor”.
The live album is available on splatter-colored double-LP with a slipmat and a patch, as well as on mint colored and golden colored vinyl. The special edition of Live in Tilburg comes in a wooden box, along with a CD+DVD, a mediabook and a 7-inch vinyl featuring two new acoustic ALESTORM cover songs! Live in Tilburg’s immersive experience is the true definition of what ALESTORM is all about – an endless fountain of foot-stomping, riff-busting, piratical singalong fun. A must-have for all the filthy landlubbers out there!
Live in Tilburg Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Keelhauled 3. Alestorm 4. Magnetic North 5. Mexico 6. Over the Seas 7. The Sunk’n Norwegian 8. No Grave But The Sea 9. Nancy the Tavern Wench 10. Rumpelkombo 11. 1741 (The Battle of Cartagena) 12. Drunken Sailor 13. Hangover 14. Pegleg Potion 15. Bar ünd Imbiss 16. Captain Morgan`s Revenge 17. Shipwrecked 18. Drink 19. Wolves of the Sea 20. Fucked with an Anchor
The world’s favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, ALESTORM, are taking you on a wild, wet ride across the seven seas with their new live album/DVD/BluRay, Live in Tilburg, out May 28, 2021 via Napalm Records! Today, the wild bunch releases another song off the Live-DVD from their tremendous show in Tilburg, Netherlands!
ALESTORM makes the instructions for Tilburg’s live crowd very clear: „Drink“! This fist-pumping fan-favorite is a heavy metal powerhouse and the bands most successful single of all time. 36 million views on YouTube and 30 million clicks on Spotify make this song standout – and the new version comes with a very authentic live production!
Watch “Drink” from ALESTORM’S Live In TilburgHERE:
Excellently produced and mixed by the renowned Lasse Lammert, who has already been involved in ALESTORM’s studio albums Curse Of The Crystal Coconut, No Grave But The Sea, Sunset On The Golden Age and many more, Live in Tilburg features an amazing mix of ALESTORM’s most beloved hits like “Drink“, “Mexico”, “Alestorm”, “Hangover”, “The Sunk’n Norwegian” and of course, “Fucked With An Anchor”.
The live album will be available on splatter-colored double-LP with a slipmat and a patch, as well as on mint colored and golden colored vinyl. The special edition of Live in Tilburg comes in a wooden box, along with a CD+DVD, a mediabook and a 7-inch vinyl featuring two new acoustic ALESTORM cover songs! Live in Tilburg’s immersive experience is the true definition of what ALESTORM is all about – an endless fountain of foot-stomping, riff-busting, piratical singalong fun. A must-have for all the filthy landlubbers out there!
Live in Tilburg Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Keelhauled 3. Alestorm 4. Magnetic North 5. Mexico 6. Over the Seas 7. The Sunk’n Norwegian 8. No Grave But The Sea 9. Nancy the Tavern Wench 10. Rumpelkombo 11. 1741 (The Battle of Cartagena) 12. Drunken Sailor 13. Hangover 14. Pegleg Potion 15. Bar ünd Imbiss 16. Captain Morgan`s Revenge 17. Shipwrecked 18. Drink 19. Wolves of the Sea 20. Fucked with an Anchor
The world’s favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, ALESTORM, are taking you on a wild, wet ride across the seven seas with their new live album/DVD/BluRay, Live in Tilburg, out May 28, 2021 via Napalm Records!
Tilburg’s hyped up crowd loses its mind when ALESTORM kicks off the live version of the unofficial pirate’s anthem “Keelhauled”! The crazy live version of one of their most successful singles to date – with about 25 million streams on both Spotify and YouTube – marks a highlight at each ALESTORM show, while every crowd on the planet shouts the lyrics out loud!
Lead singer & keytarist Christopher Bowes about “Keelhauled (Live In Tilburg)”: “Oh wow! We’re all really excited for the physical release of our live DVD “Live in Tilburg”. In case you haven’t watched it on YouTube yet, here’s a clip featuring the first song so you don’t have to sit through the entire miserable 90 minutes!”
Watch ALESTORM’s “Keelhauled (Live In Tilburg)” HERE:
Excellently produced and mixed by the renowned Lasse Lammert, who has already been involved in ALESTORM’s studio albums Curse Of The Crystal Coconut, No Grave But The Sea, Sunset On The Golden Age and many more, Live in Tilburg features an amazing mix of ALESTORM’s most beloved hits like “Drink“, “Mexico”, “Alestorm”, “Hangover”, “The Sunk’n Norwegian” and of course, “Fucked With An Anchor”.
The live album will be available on yellow double-LP with a slipmat and a patch, as well as on mint colored and golden colored vinyl. The special edition of Live in Tilburg comes in a wooden box, along with a CD+DVD, a mediabook and a 7-inch vinyl featuring two new acoustic ALESTORM cover songs! Live in Tilburg’s immersive experience is the true definition of what ALESTORM is all about – an endless fountain of foot-stomping, riff-busting, piratical singalong fun. A must-have for all the filthy landlubbers out there!
Live in Tilburg Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Keelhauled 3. Alestorm 4. Magnetic North 5. Mexico 6. Over the Seas 7. The Sunk’n Norwegian 8. No Grave But The Sea 9. Nancy the Tavern Wench 10. Rumpelkombo 11. 1741 (The Battle of Cartagena) 12. Drunken Sailor 13. Hangover 14. Pegleg Potion 15. Bar ünd Imbiss 16. Captain Morgan`s Revenge 17. Shipwrecked 18. Drink 19. Wolves of the Sea 20. Fucked with an Anchor
Catch ALESTORM on tour in the UK & Ireland with GLORYHAMMER and AETHER REALM this winter:
Chief Shock Video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Ads
Visionary artist KIMMO KUUSNIEMI's ANCIENT STREAMING ASSEMBLY (ASA) have released “Aurora Nuclearis”, a powerful 12-minute audiovisual experience, dedicated to the Late Keyboardist Esa Kotilainen. - Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi's Ancient Streaming Assembly - 'Perpetuae Memoriae', ft. Tuomas Rounakari + Steve Di Giorgio - Click image to watch the video
Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 