Because of a post I’m doing tomorrow remembering the bombardment of Middelburg then seventy years ago, I thought I’d do MEtal Monday today… We’re at “I”, so let’s have an Iron Maiden classic first, eh?
In Extremo is a band I discovered one night in 2006 or 2007 when I was idly zapping past some German channels and found a live registration from Wacken 2006. I don’t know what kept me, but it might have been the extremely loud bagpipes. It was brilliant though; turns out In Extremo is a folk metal band who take their inspiration from all sorts of traditional songs and take them up to eleven, as the selection below will show.
Spielmannsfluch:
Villeman Og Magnhild:
Vollmond:
Not everybody’s cup of tea perhaps, but I love the combination of traditional instruments and songs with metal.