VIKING METAL….FROM INDIA?
I saw Abigail Williams once last Summer and noticed they had a shirt that said “NORTH AMERICAN BLACK METAL.” And while I’m not much of an Abigail Williams fan, or a fan of the “trve kvlt blvk metvl” altogether, I couldn’t help but wonder about the shirt. Was it a joke? Or were they really trynna act like dey shit wuz bettah or sumtin’?
So now I wonder a similar question after reading an old post on Spinelanguage where I’ve just discovered a band called Age After Armageddon. They are a Viking Metal band. As if that weren’t dumb enough, they’re a Viking Metal band from no where near where Viking Metal is known to come from but rather….India. Because, ya know…who better to sing and teach us about Scandinavian ancestry than the good people of India? Is this band aware that people barely even take *normal* Viking Metal seriously, much less Viking Metal from the Far East?
Oh well, what do you think? Should I start pursuing my Latin music career now?
-Elise
