This is a short write up on a fun discovery I made Friday morning. I was making my coffee reading through some of the emails I got, and one from bandcamp jumped out. A great post-rock band 'God is an Astronaut' (the most post-rock of band names) released a live album! (link below to their video) I was curious if it was going to be on vinyl, so I went to their labels webshop to see. It doesn't appear to be (since I don't see a pre-order up for it) but what I found was much better.
HAMMER KING, is a German heavy metal group producing some of the purest cheese on the market. What hooked me in was their dope cover art for the upcoming release: Hammer King.
=> [jpg] Hammer King Album Art (from bandcamps cdn)
I didn't know Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got even more metal. But these guys aren't anything new, original, or breathtaking. They're exactly what you would expect from a European heavy metal band named HAMMER KING. Especially with tracks titled:
And that is just from their debut album, Kingdom of the Hammer King (Granted it appears to be a concept album about the Hammer King himself). Anything more I could say is perfectly encapsulated by this review on Encylopædia Metallum:
Hammer King. Hammer. King. King of the Hammer. How does it sound? Does it sound like Manowar? Good. Because you don’t even need to listen to one of Hammer King’s tracks to know what’s up. Manowar is up. Steel is up. And glory is up. Do you think you’ve seen it all? It actually doesn’t matter because Hammer King are by no means a revolutionary band who try to reinvent the wheel. Their goal, however, is “to play the truest heavy metal in this and all other worlds”.
=> [https] Review: Kingdom of the Hammer King
I would check these guys out. Listening to the tracks coming up on their next album is pretty metal. Do you like cheese? Do you like heavy metal with a mix of epic-fantasy power metal mixed in? I'll just say: next D&D game you know what is going to be playing in the background.
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