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One of my favorite current metal bands (yes, I'm that stupid).
I grew up a metalhead, but as time passed I couldn't take the genre seriously anymore, specially because most subgenres became parodies of themselves.
But at the end of the 00s in came bands like Alestorm that played good (or at least decent) metal songs but didn't take themselves seriously, and that brought me back to the genre.
Nanowar of Steel is awesome even if you don't catch the thousands of metal references, but if you're in on the jokes it becomes SO much better.
Look up Diggy Hole. You're welcome.
Also, it's really sad that Nightwish went all female.
I just came across this by them, and it's absolutely hilarious. It's taking the piss out of Sabaton...featuring Sabaton. Amazin'.
Speaking of Joakim, I searched "ft Joakim Broden," and there was more than I thought. I'd already heard Van Canto's Primo Victoria, but hadn't seen that he did something with BABYMETAL too. There's also Grailnights - Pumping Iron, which I'd seen. I like that part of his whole thing is not taking himself too seriously.
Back to Nanowar, all their big ones - Uranus, Norwegian Reggaeton, Valhalleluja, and the like - all rock.
Sabaton are pretty good about letting themselves be the butt of the joke. It is part of the reason I like them so much. Personally, I have not been disappointed in my taste in modern metal.
There are plenty of the big boys like Powerwolf, Sabaton, Evergrey, STARSET, and Amaranthe that turn out hit after hit. Hell, I even like DragonForce as goofy as they can get sometimes (and they seem to have leaned into the fact they got famous from video games hard).
But even with smaller bands, I have plenty of ones I love. Beast In Black, All Good Things, Eclipse, Smash Into Pieces, Rave The Reqviem, and Nordic Union being some of my personal favorites.
Nice, I'll check out the ones I haven't heard of! All the ones I know that you did list I like, so I'm thinking the others will more or less follow the trend. Looking forward to it!
I was going to mention this to u/Hoodie_Fren too, but speaking of more tongue in cheek metal, have you listened to much Feuerschwanz? They're the perfect mix of irreverent and good. They do memey covers of things like Ding and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, and Dragostea Din Tei (yes, really), as well as less memey covers like their excellent Warriors Of The World United, as well as (I believe) originals like Memento Mori.
Actually yes. And I really like their cover of Warriors of the World. As for their originals, I kind of have them in the same field as Rammstein: I like the beat and the metal, but I dont know enough German to know what they are saying.
Although on the note of interesting things: Both STARSET and Smash Into Pieces I had funny interactions with for trying to figure out where they were from just on the first listen.
Starset, I thought they were a British band because the lead singer sounded similar to some British bands I had heard before. I look them up, and...nope, they are from Columbus, Ohio. Fine by me, I have always tried to find new American metal, because there isnt a lot of American power metal bands out there (most American is black metal, which is not up my alley at all).
Meanwhile, Smash Into Pieces I was convinced was from the Pacific Northwest, either Portland or Seattle. Even more so when I saw one of their music videos showed them driving across the Golden Gate Bride with their tour bus. And then I look them up...wrong again, they are Swedish. And have that fun thing where the singer sounds fine with no accent when he is singing, then has the thickest Swedish accent when talking normally. Turns out they are among the bands that loves the US more than Europe so that is why they have so much US stuff in their music videos. Which does make the lyrics for the chorus of their song Heathens kind of funny ("Show'em how we do it down South!"....you arent from the South?).
I can absolutely see that, I assumed the same when I found them. Fits in very well with American rock. Wake Up, All Eyes on You, etc. Lyrics and music videos both fit in very well with with 00's/'10's American music. Which I suppose in and of itself is a bit of a tipoff since they were like a decade or more later but, still. Definitely very American feeling.