After a successful sojourn of plundering ‘n’ pillaging across the US and Canada earlier this spring, Napalm recording artists ALESTORM will once again set sail for high adventure as part of this year’s HEATHENFEST AMERICA tour. Alongside Belphegor, Eluveitie, Vreid, and Kivimetsan Druidi, ALESTORM will bring their “True Scottih Pirate Metal” to stages across the [...]

In 2008, Scotland’s Alestorm took the international metal world by storm with their brand of likeable ‘Pirate Metal’ that mixed NWBHM, folk metal, Pirate shanty tunes and Running Wild imagery, even resulting in a US run with the Pagan Knights tour earlier this year.
Well, here is the follow up, and though I feel a tad [...]

Only 2 albums into their career, Scotland’s purveyors of “True Scottish Pirate Metal”, Alestorm hardly need any introduction. Their debut, the raucous, Captain Morgan’s Revenge, put the fun back into metal, and with the follow up, Black Sails at Midnight, the band have further upped the Pirate-y goodness. Chock full of brazen metal seas shanties of rum, women and plunder, the band seems destined to truly blow up on an international level, aided by the bands recent tour of the US. I caught up with the pleasant and portly pirate who plays guitars, Dani Evans to find out a little more about this group of amicable musical privateers….

So to coincide with the band’s current US Pagan Knights run with Suidakra and Tyr, Scotland’s purveyors of Pirate metal have given us a 4 song EP to tide us over until the next album, slated for a 2009 release.
The EP consists of 1 new song (the 6 minute title track), a reworked track from [...]

Often the press and promo sheets that come with albums for review are the greatest work of literary fiction since “A History of Great French Military Victories” came out. However in the case of Alestorm it simply says this:
‘Scottish Pirate Metal.’
I’d say that about covers it.
Formerly known as Battleheart, Scotland’s Alestorm (arguably the best moniker [...]