Feb 17, 2015
This week the Bards have invited long-time friend and listener Belghast to join them -- and to pick the topic for the show! Bel picked a fun and unusual theme: Rocking out with electric guitars. Do MMOs and rock mix? On this particular episode they do!
Episode 45 show notes
- Intro (featuring "Blue Turns to Grey" from Tabula Rasa, "Battle on the Big Bridge Reborn" from FFXIV, and "Prologue" from Castlevania SOTN)
- "Titan Battle Theme" from FFXIV
- "Alonewolf" from Rusty Hearts
- "Toko" from Granado Espada
- "Character Select/Map Load" from Heroes of the Storm
- "New Conglomerate Main Theme" from PlanetSide 2
- "Malicia's Finale" from DDO
- "Lucid Dreaming" from Aion
- What track did we like the best?
- Mail from Akiranon
- Outro
- Email the Battle Bards!
- Special thanks to Tesh for the Battle Bards logo!
- Battle Bards is part of The Gaming and Entertainment Network of podcasts
Sorry for some reason I thought Syl was from Sweden and would therefore know who Yngwie (pronounced ing-vay here in the US) was by default - he was recently inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. He bought the idea of mixing classical pieces into metal with electric guitar to the masses and spawned a genre known as neoclassical metal.
Here is an instrumental and a Viking themed song from his mid 80s releases:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blNQZc84Q5c&list=PL0t0vRFW28R-eIlp0M6qNyoPzvbPVgkJC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcwcxBf_fTE
Sorry for the mixup.
There were some good surprises in this show.
Thanks Syl for mentioning Viking Metal. I used to like/play a lot of Yngwie type stuff, but I did not know about the genre. I now have a new Pandora station - metal with flutes, who knew.