Nanowar of Steel
| Nanowar of Steel | |
|---|---|
 Live at the Rockharz Open Air (2018) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Rome , Italy |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal , power metal , hard rock |
| founding | 2003 as a nanowar |
| Website | https://www.nanowar.it/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Potovotominimak (Carlo Alberto) | |
Electric guitar , keyboard , background vocals |
Mohammed Abdul (Valerio Storch) |
| Gatto Panceri 666 (Edoardo Carlesi) | |
| Uinona Raider (Alessandro Milone) | |
| Mr. Baffo (Raffaello Venditti) | |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Sir Daniel (2003) |
Drums |
Lerd'rummer (until 2006) |
Nanowar of Steel is a comedic Italian heavy metal band from Rome . Founded in 2003 as Nanowar , a corruption of the band Manowar , the name was changed to Nanowar of Steel in 2006 , alluding to the Italian power metal band Rhapsody , which had to change its name to Rhapsody of Fire after a legal dispute .
The music group set itself the goal of parodying the metal subculture, including various subgenres and clichés , especially true metal , as the seriousness of many performers would be perceived by them as silly.
Band history
After two demos, Nanowar of Steel released their debut album Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! via the online music service Jamendo under the Creative Commons license. The group chose the same distribution channel for the follow-up album Into Gay Pride Ride . The popularity in Italy increased and in 2013 they cooperated with the pseudo-political fun movement Feudalesimo e Liberta , which campaigns for a restoration of feudalism .
After all previous releases were self-distributed, their fifth studio album, Stairway to Valhalla , was released for the first time in 2018 by a label, Audioglobe. The band is now signed to Napalm Records .
Musically, they always parodied well-known metal songs such as Master of Puppets (as Master of Pizza ), Emerald Sword (as Emerald Fork ) or The Number of the Beast (as The Number of the Bitch ) or created their own songs with nonsense texts, in various, also parodied metal and hard rock styles, which the band complements with well-known pop hooklines or pairs with foreign music styles . Norwegian Reggaeton , released in 2019, parodies the Norwegian black metal scene, musically mixing hard rock with reggaeton . Barbie - Milf Princess of the Twilight , with Fabio Lione as a guest singer, imitates the style of Rhapsody of Fire , the song And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle imitates the power ballads of the 1980s, Uranus the glam metal . Valhallelujah mixes power metal and gospel and satirizes the genre's usual enthusiasm for Nordic mythology as a declaration of love to IKEA . Angus McFife from Gloryhammer also starred in this song and played Odin in the music video.
Fabian Bernhardt from metal.de recommends Nanowar of Steel to those who “are too tired of comparable bands” and praises the band for their “subtle portrait of an entire genre”. Although musically “well done”, the humor divides minds: “It is this deep nonsense that draws its humorous effect out of desperation. You laugh because there's no way out. A barrage of perfidious planned nonsense. "
Discography
Demos
- 2003: True Metal of the World
- 2003: Triumph of True Metal of Steel
Albums
- 2005: Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!
- 2005: Triumph of True Metal of Steel - 2005 True Edition
- 2007: Made in Naples (live album)
- 2010: Into Gay Pride Ride
- 2014: A Knight at the Opera
- 2018: Stairway to Valhalla
EPs
- 2015: Tour-Mentone Vol.I
Compilations
- 2007: Promotional Compilation 2007
Singles
- 2018: The Call of Cthulhu
- 2019: And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle
- 2019: Norwegian Reggaeton
- 2019: Valhallelujah ( feat.Angus McFife )
- 2020: Sneeztem of a Yawn
Web links
- Official website
- Nanowar of Steel at Discogs (English)
- Nanowar of Steel at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fabian Bernhardt: Nanowar Of Steel - Stairway To Valhalla - Review. In: metal.de. November 2, 2018, accessed May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ BYE editor Matthias: Nanowar Of Steel - Stairway To Valhalla | Review. In: burnyourears.de. BurnYourEars Webzine, October 12, 2018, accessed May 24, 2020 .