Have you listened to Hu yet? They are a metal band from Mongolia with a cultural thread in their music.

@heffatheanimal2200

Ай бұрын

Hells yeah. The Hu and Bloodywood

Great band. Very good live too. When I was young I used to hear older folks saying they knew they were getting old when the police started to look young. For me it was seeing bands like these guys and Vintage Caravan. When I heard both the first time I added their ages together and I was older than all 3 members in each put together😂😂. It is interesting as a metal fan to see how the scene has grown and how fans have happily taken on board music in different languages as well as the variance of tribal elements from where some of the bands come from. If someone had told me as a teenager that I would be listening to metal music from India, Greece, New Zealand, Brazil (and other South American countries) etc I would never have believed them. I love it. The putting together of different cultures musically is as tasty as haggis pakora!

Great band and as said very good live, you must search their set at Download with the Wheelchair mosh pit, so uplifting (pun intended)! Bloodywood up next if you want to continue the ethnic metal theme.

@NathanSeabolt

Ай бұрын

Bloodywood is rad as hell.

Chuck Billy, vocalist of Testament, is of Pomo Native American heritage, and he has written quite a few songs drawn from that. I think that he himself was recognised in an exhibition at the Smithsonian about Native American cultural influence, and the music video of the song Native Blood won an award at a Native American film festival. Anyway. Absolutely legend in heavy metal.

I enjoyed this! I'm a fan of this kind of "playing music using ancestry as a lens" and this is right down my alley. I know there are some death metal bands that lean into Aztec/Latin American history as their lens as well. I find it fascinating!

@TomahawkYT

Ай бұрын

Have you heard of Blackbraid?

@sVieira151

Ай бұрын

@@TomahawkYT I have! I haven't listened to the most recent full album but I liked some tracks off it

Great video, Melisa! I really loved hearing the Maori influence in this one. How about mixing Ancestry with Metal? (I'm putting a spin on it). I've been dying for you to do a reaction to HEILUNG! While not a metal band exactly (description below), they combine many vocal techniques (from throat singing & metal growls to soaring high nordic melodies) in many different languages. While many people start at their songs "Krigsgaldr" or "Anoana", I think their video for "In Maidjan" displays both throat singing and ethereal melodies. Please, please, please! Heilung is an experimental folk music band made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age, and Viking Age. Heilung describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe".

A few bits and pieces for you - they were very young when they put this out. I think the front two were about 16, and the drummer was 14 or 15. The tongue thing. Literally means "I am going to kill you and eat you so I can absorb your soul" or Mana. You pronounced the title perfectly. Rosie got "Maori" wrong tho - "Mao (like "Chairman Mao")-ree". You got it.❤ Yeah, the Haka is a war dance, but these days it seems more ceremonial, but still, any form of competition is a battle.

Righteous. I'm boppin to this making dinner. Die, Cabbage! Die! (Cleaver hacking). But seriously, what an awesome find you've brought us. Thanks

This is great music! Cool band! Really enjoyed it! I would highly recommend the songs Tribe and Soulfly, by the band Soulfly! Keep up the great work My Fine Scottish Lady! ❤❤❤

Cheers from Canada! I'm part kiwi and I've been loving these guys for a while. If you like Alien Weaponry you might like to try another Metal band from New Zealand called Shepherd's Reign. Their track Aiga is my favourite.

In addition to bringing back muskets, they also brought electric guitars, so... Great song, and the other ones from this band are also pretty good! If you're interested in mixing metal with cultural infulances, try middle eastern metal! Try some Orphaned Land!

Echoing the suggestion of Bloodywood that has come up.

this is the first song i heard from these guys, good band. you can find the translated lyrics pretty easy, google may even let you see both at the same time.

There is definitely different approaches to bring ancestry and historical events into metal content. Like when Bruce from Maiden writes songs like he writes novels, about war events. Or, like VERY differently, when Quorthon from Bathory dives into the Nordic viking mythology and religion, and turns from black metal to a totally different and new style, the dark and moody cold and hard environment of the Vikings - and tries to fight the sadness about the death of his son in real life with this. Or, very differently, these guys. Musically, I think they have quite something in common with Gojira. Coming from a country, that is not primarily known for great metal, right? OR their cultural history. So, they have an outsider position to start, and they can develop freely with not many national idols in metal, and much less competition than in e.g. Sweden, Norway, Germany or the UK and US. They are equally powerful and have a quite streamlined songwriting with simple but very effective elements, more going for a brutal mood than for virtuosity. Hook, not solo. Brutal, but tight. Working song structure due to rhythmic and dynamic arrangement, as you very correctly point out in your reaction. They used more of these elements than any crazy chord progression, which you might expect nowadays. No candy sweet modern rounded metalcore guitar sounds, but instead raw and more traditional sounds, with just a slight good modern twist in the production. And it works. Well-made. Of course, the video is outstanding, and is more like a short movie. And it's really fantastic, especially, because it is as different in ethnic expression, for most of the world, as aliens from another planet - yet very elementary human. People in a situation of life and death, very different language even in facial expression to threaten their enemies. Totally works. Yes, my dudette, I still enjoy all of your videos. All the best, a fantastic weekend in advance and a wet smoochie, you crazy gurt. ;-) See ya in the obvious places! 😝😇❤🤘🍻 🔥

As if the Māori needed any help being metal. Young bands like this give me hope, and learning about other cultures through music feels incredibly natural. Catchy, even :) Thanks for another great reaction!

This whole album slayed me when it first came out. Still love it and unreal how young they were at the time. thanks for the reaction, glad you enjoyed it.

A fun young band!

@thevilifyingforce

Ай бұрын

I forgot about the Gojira breakdown in this one!

One of the things that makes this kind of special is that it isn't only about the history and ancestry but Maori culture is still very much alive and present today. I love the passion these young guys have brought with their music.

All I can say is I wouldn't want to fight that little girl.

I like these guys and the video is so fascinating, don’t listen to there music a lot but always enjoy it when I do. I would like to suggest Bloodywood ( Indian Folk Metal) seriously good music and exemplary guys, their story is as amazing as the music they make ‘Gaddaar’ or ‘Machi Bhasad’ maybe, thank me later 😜

Hah, a Scot apologizing for mispronouncing a name will always be funny

really good but not the quality of Disko Disko Partizani