#space 1992: rise of the chaos wizards

[insoucianceart]

Universe on Fire by Gloryhammer is 100000% Ashes O’Reilly coded and I will fight to the death on this hill

[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

[blastedking]

Is space 1992 Ralathor part of the Ralathor doubles ? Would love to see chill, small cape, fingerless gloves and sunglasses Ralathor in your style or maybe is he Stargazer in your universe ?

Yes! Absoutly he is tough I have to admit, his outfit has been adjusted quite a bit since it's first itteration. But yeah, the Stargazer was initially based on the Rise of the Chaos Wizard Video Outfit.

He used to have the sunglasses and gloves. Actually the gloves have kinda disapeared from Ralathor altogether due to Worldbuildung stuff. (unfortunat)

BUT the Sunglasses WILL actually return! Soon enough! xD

Sources/Links: [Video: Rise of the Chaos Wizard] [Image: All five Parts of Ralathor] [Image: Retrofitting the Hootsforce] [Image: Sunglasses!]

[haveyouheardmetal]

Pictured: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards, released in 2015

[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:

[goblinofthelaboratory]

what's your favourite band/album/song?

Gloryhammer has gotta be one of the big ones, Space 1992 is my favorite album by them, and then Rise of the Chaos Wizards is an absolute banger

[angus-mcfife-xiii]

Man, I'm doing a LOT to prep for this GloryHammer oneshot! I've got all the bonus tracks from Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards loaded up for background music. I bought a map. And now? I'm creating my first ever artificer (Ralathor) and panicking as I fly by the seat of my fucking pants trying to figure out how this works. Artificers are all homebrew, I'm learning. Which is great. Because lemme give y'all a little secret: Ralathor is 99% homebrew at this point. Dude's got the Legendary Enchanted Jetpack, a +3 laser pistol, and shifting armor. Because why the fuck not?

[beanbuned]

going to sound insane but does anyone know what album this guy is from. It was a power metal album. found it sometime in 2017, wasnt older then 2010 probbaly. Found it on youtube. cant remember much besides that, sorry.

e: Its from Glorryhammers 2nd album. "Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards (2015)."

Thanks to this dude on twitter. https://twitter.com/JoblessMatthew/status/1683626289813417984

full image bellow

badass

[metalcultbrigade]

Em 25/09/2015, o Gloryhammer lançava "Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards", seu segundo álbum de estúdio. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci8v8f2ABlC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kidpix-album-covers]

Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards (2015)

(requested by an anon)

[insoucianceart]

If I had a nickel for every time a dread incantation caused nuclear chaos in a sci-fi album, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[lord-of-shenanigans]

Quite possibly my favorite thing about Gloryhammer lore is the fact that Ser Proletius dies literally every album.

Tales from the Kingdom of Fife: dies peacefully sometime after the final battle

Space 1992: I'm pretty sure he dies in the final battle (correct me if I'm wrong)

Legends from beyond the Galactic Terrorortex: gets nuked 3 seconds after arriving on the battlefield

[nobleelfwarrior]

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

[heroesofdundee]

So THIS is what they’ve been hiding all along!

[magic-dragon-s-keep]

Ok but imagine if the Hootsman had brought other barbarians with him to America and they began settling in different states over the years, and you just have these barbarians with campy accents. Come 1992, a barbarian from the south goes to war and his wife calls in a Southern drawl, “y’all come back now, ya hear?” and he replies in an even thicker drawl, “I’ll be right back, sugar!”