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Simon Rippin with Thanateros
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:44 pm
by oldnephilim
Simon Rippin is now together with Thanateros. For their upcomming
CD Tony Pettit also played bass for one song.
More to find here:
http://www.thanateros.net/
or here:
http://www.myspace.com/thanateros666
(listen to "dirty old town" - that's the way it should sound like)
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:47 pm
by squishy
Thank you kind sir
These nice folk metallers aren't Nazis, are they? A silly question, I know - still, I prefer to be on the safe side here
Skyclad, anybody?
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:48 pm
by oldnephilim
squishy wrote:Thank you kind sir
These nice folk metallers aren't Nazis, are they? A silly question, I know - still, I prefer to be on the safe side here
Skyclad, anybody?
A silly question for sure! Not every folk ( ? ) band is a nazi !
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:09 pm
by squishy
oldnephilim wrote:squishy wrote:Thank you kind sir
These nice folk metallers aren't Nazis, are they? A silly question, I know - still, I prefer to be on the safe side here
Skyclad, anybody?
A silly question for sure! Not every folk ( ? ) band is a nazi !
Course not. Them folk metal bands, however . . .
I'm being but half-serious of course. Still, as far as I know, Skyclad - being a decidedly left-wing band - is one of the few glorious exceptions to what could seem almost a rule. As, frankly speaking, that Thanateros (a silly name) thing seems to be. A glorious exception, I mean.
Ewan MacColl's cover is as silly as it is nice
The video, being thoroughly silly, has also its own very peculiar kind of, ahem, charm. If I gave it a chance, I think I could develop a soft spot for the-Pogues-done- stomp-metal-style stuff. Quite likable, it seems. Would almost
love them to have opened for the Nephs instead of that Pythia terror
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:19 pm
by oldnephilim
Would almost
love them to have opened for the Nephs instead of that Pythia terror
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For sure - agreed 100% ! - Maybe with Tony playing the bass !