#Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex

[corono-of-ntikirra]

Can we talk about the Robot Prince of Auchtertool?

Like, such a conceptually cool character, presumably made by the Brothers of Crail, and appearing on the album art. Only to get Astral Dwarves of Aberdeen treatment.

Still better than the Questlords of Inverness, they retroactively no longer exist, similar to the Glaswegian Time Crystals that have the memorial for those who died in 1992 during the battle between Angus XIII and Zargothrax.

Anyways, enough rambling, back to the fact there’s just a Robot Prince that exists, and may be somehow related to the king referenced in On the Wings of a Rainbow who blessed that Angus with robots. We don’t know which Angus that is, or where. It could be XIII, or V in 1993 are my two theories. I would lean more towards XIII in the Terrorvortex. I hope Chris is proud of the Robot Prince of Auchtertool because that’s the second group/person I’ve gotten really attached to who might never reappear. God I love Gloryhammer, it’s so silly.

[hakcordero]

Gloryhammer

[metalcultbrigade]

Gloryhammer - Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex 32/05/2019

[electricpentacle]

I listened to The Chronicles of the Black Sword and Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex and they are fookin awesome! good recs. Songs of Distant Earth is next 🤘

I do love a good unhinged SFF concept album!

Gloryhammer's other three albums are also installments in the cracktastic power metal history of Fantasy Scotland, and are tremendously listenable.

All Hawkwind is good Hawkwind, but "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "Space Ritual", and "Doremi Fasol Latido" are my personal favourites for the New Wave SF vibes.

...and whilst we're on the trippy space concept albums, I also recommend the Mechanisms. "The Bifrost Incident" is my all time favourite Norse mythology cosmic horror queer murder mystery on a train.

[sidrial]

Pick 1 album and discuss.

If you don’t recognize any of these, listen to at least 2 first. I will add music 🎶 links in the comments.

#Alsmusiccafe

#Gloryhammer #OrdenOgan #BlueOctober #TheBeatles

Episode 327

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[thegenderdruid]

Took me a bit longer than I planned but I got there eventually. 2023 music awards time! As always disclaimer, this is awards for the music I personally listened to this year, if your favorite song or album isn't here it might be because I don't like it but much more likely I didn't know about or listen to it, this is a very self indulgent project about reflecting on the music I listened to this year.

With that said, I have been told by multiple different people that I have great taste in music and I truly stand by everything mentioned here being great music so I highly recommend checking it all out.

Also I will be providing minimal to no commentary because I'm bad at that sort of thing.

For album categories I've included each album's JAMS score which is a system I use to rank my favorite albums based loosely on the baseball JAWS statistic, currently the highest JAMS score for any of the 47 rated albums is 2.84, the lowest is 1.40, and the average is 2.07. Bear in mind that this is out of the albums I like enough to bother rating so a lower ranking within the rated albums is by no means a condemnation, all 48 albums are albums I like.

Standard categories:

Non-metal song of the year (songs that came out in 2023):

Winner:

Madeon - Gonna Be Good

Honorable mentions:

Gorillaz - Cracker Island

Dirty Heads - Rescue Me

100 gecs - Hollywood Baby

Tessa Violet - You Are Not My Friend

Portugal. The Man - Dummy

Dizzy - Close

Dizzy - Knock the Wind

Quite frankly this category was stacked as fuck, any of these songs could have won in a different year, there were multiple songs that could be here but I left off to keep this from being too long, absolutely great year for non-metal music I like. Speaking of which:

Non-metal album of the year:

Winner:

Dizzy - Dizzy (4/47, 2.6)

Honorable mentions:

Gorillaz - Cracker Island (10/48, 2.23)

Tessa Violet - My God! (23/48, 2.13)

Portugal. The Man - Chris Black Changed My Life (27/48, 2.04)

Metal song of the year:

Winner:

Gloryhammer - Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost

Honorable mentions:

Gloryhammer - Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy

Within Temptation - We Go To War

Delain - The Quest and the Curse

Angus MCSIX - Master of the Universe

Metal album of the year:

Winner:

Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife (2/48, 2.84)

Honorable mentions:

Within Temptation - Bleed Out (19/48, 2.16)

Delain - Dark Waters (13/48, 2.20)

Gloryhammer sweep, new album is GOATed

Music discovery categories:

2022 album I missed:

Winner:

Alec Benjamin - (Un)Commentary (20/48, 2.16)

I loved this guy's first album but was not into his second album and kinda forgot about him but one of his songs came on the radio and I gave him another look and it turns out he released this absolute banger of an album last year and now I'm a fan again

2022 song I missed:

Winner:

Alec Benjamin - Older

Honorable mention:

Lil Nas X - STAR WALKIN'

It turns out League of Legends released 2 all-timers last year instead of 1 like I originally thought 😅

Pre-2022 discovered album of the year:

Winner:

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (16/48, 2.19)

Honorable mentions:

Lorde - Pure Heroine (22/48, 2.13)

Gorillaz - The Now Now (25/48, 2.08)

Pre-2022 discovered song of the year:

Winner:

Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes

Honorable mentions:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication

Phil Ochs - The Bells

Bonus categories:

Best concert I saw live:

Winner:

Tessa Violet

Honorable mentions:

Dizzy

Gloryhammer

Bloodywood

Disappointment of the year:

'Winner':

ANGUS MCSIX - Angus McSIX and the Sword of Power (35/48, 1.88)

I had such high hopes for the former singer of my favorite band starting his own band in the same style and the singles were good but the rest of the album was such a disappointment, hopefully he keeps going and can improve though.

Top 10 albums by JAMS on this date:

Gloryhammer - Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (2.84)

Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife (2.84)

Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards (2.69)

Dizzy - Dizzy (2.60)

Dizzy - Baby Teeth (2.58)

Porter Robinson - Nurture (2.38)

Alec Benjamin - Narrated For You (2.36)

Blackmore's Night - Ghost of a Rose (2.33)

Batte Beast - Circus of Doom (2.24)

Gorillaz - Cracker Island (2.23)

Link to last year's edition:

[rocals]

tag u listen to power metal???? i don't listen to almost any power metal but you know what i do listen to on occasion? the album Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex by Gloryhammer. only power metal in my library so far, maybe i will expand someday. anyway stream galactic terrorvortex it's got LORE

it's not my fave subgenre but I do!! sometimes it all sounds the same but I like kamelot and sabaton... I will check it out o77 thank you for the reccomendation!!!

[judging-a-album-by-its-cover]

Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex - Gloryhammer ( 2019)

Artist : Dan Goldsworthy

[unicornandworkersrightsdefender]

A complete playlist of all Gloryhammer songs. It will be updated when the next album is released. Includes all symphonic versions.

[kyliafanfiction]

While I’m 100% positive this meme has been done, I couldn’t find it and I felt like making it.

[angusmcfifesteeth]

THE GOOD BOYS!!!

(I’ll do a piece with Zargothrax and Proletius to compliment it at some point...)

[magic-dragon-s-keep]

I made a tag yourself meme of the Gloryhammer characters. I’m green bean and cave dad.

[nobleelfwarrior]

You need friends because who else is going to introduce you to the Swedish Fantasy Power Metal band that is the new Homer?

[electricpentacle]

So I got this third hand because I don't do the Book of Face, but apparently Gloryhammer said on their Facebook that Zargothrax was born as a peasant in Auchtermuchty sometime in the early 600s.

I'm just thinking that would make so much sense of his vendetta against the peasants of Auchtermuchty. Growing up as the weird death-obsessed kid in a small town be Like That.

Also apparently the Zargothrax of the Terrorvortex dimension died at the age of 14 in an accident (details unspecified, probably involving trying to do something inadvisable to a unicorn). And thus Angus was spared having to deal with two of the bastard.

...not that two Zargothraxes would actually be able to cooperate in any way whatsoever. The Heroes of Dundee could probably just back off to a safe distance (like the Outer Hebrides), wait, and take bets on which one would be left standing.

Ralathor: "Don't underestimate either of them, Angus. Future Zargothrax has more magical experience and knowledge, but Present Zargothrax has the advantage of superior magical attunement to this timeline."

The Hootsman: " Shall I put you down for an outsider bet on Present Zargothrax, then?"

Ralathor: "... yes."

[slimy-alien]

Got really obsessed with Gloryhammer recently and I’d die for Angus Mcfife js