Alright, Veeky Forums, I want to make a metal-inspired fantasy setting, and I want to do it straight. Give me concept albums to draw inspiration from, like pic related, and movies/tabletops/games/books/etc. that are definitive "metal fantasy".
Alright, Veeky Forums, I want to make a metal-inspired fantasy setting, and I want to do it straight...
Oliver Jones
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Daniel Harris
Have you considered using Hail and Kill?
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Matthew Roberts
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Christopher Gomez
Gavin Russell
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller and the rest too
Nocturnus - The Key, Thresholds
Morgana Lefay - anything really
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic, Open the Gates, The Deluge, Masquerade
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire, the rest too
Summoning - pretty much all
Grayson Clark
This album was fucking awesome.
Brayden Phillips
save yourself some effort and steal brütal legend wholecloth
Eli Richardson
>Summoning
Middle-earth is already an established setting, lad.
Luke Carter
Skimming through it, it has some ideas and genre tropes I can take and run with for my own.
Thanks for the music. I'll be building a backlog to check out.
Brutal Legend looks too silly. I want a serious setting that takes heavy inspiration from metal, not a setting played for laughs.
David Cox
You should check out the King Diamond savatage and Helloween discography along with Rick Wakeman, Yes, Mastodon and Dio.
Some of their stuff is great for inspiration. Also flick through NOWBHM and classic metal cover art, its great stuff for tg
Michael Nguyen
>Too silly
Well you probably don't want this then.
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Metal is best when it doesn't take itself too seriously imo.
Isaac Parker
Warp Riders is a fucking insanely amazing album.
Elijah Morgan
The Sword is the cancer killing Doom metal.
Dominic Bennett
It's the OP image for a reason.
Will do. What's NOWBHM? A cursory google doesn't tell me a whole lot.
>Ghost
I can certainly lift concepts from it, but probably not whole-cloth.
As for playing it serious, personal tastes. I either like my stuff serious (although playing it straight can be a great source of comedy) or MAID-tier.
Michael Smith
I don't know why people still call them doom metal. They haven't been that since Age of Winters, which came out over ten years ago. They moved in standard metal, then tried some hard rock or something. They're not that popular, except with casual listeners, either.
Daniel Lee
Uncle Acid: Mind Control
Horisont: Oddesy
Justin Young
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If you want something a little more sci-fi.
Jace Long
I know pic related is cheating, but it's fucking awesome.
Eternal Champion
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Skelator (they are heavily inspired by Moorcock fantasy)
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Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I&II by Helloween
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Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Hunter Foster
Just google Frazetta. You're not going to find anything more metal to take inspiration from.
Liam Morales
Are Vektor's marketers shilling on Veeky Forums? I've been seeing that album posted on random boards for weeks.
Anthony Ramirez
Anything by Conan, especially Revengeance, Conan Vs Slomatics, and Horseback Battle Hammer
Tyler Lopez
I don't actually really like it, that style of vocals just doesn't do it for me, but the instrumentals are great and it is a solid concept album.
I only ever come to Veeky Forums though, so I have no idea about other boards and it's frequency of being posted.
Easton Nelson
I like that album and Vektor, but their first 2 albums are much better imo.
Adrian Wood
If you want some Sci-Fi shit check out Mechina's As Embers Turn to Dust albums/singles.
Jordan Nguyen
If you don't like Vektor's vocals, you should check out Voivod. They have great, inspring albums as well.
David Rodriguez
>drawing inspiration from concept albums
>not from the music itself
You are everything that's wrong with modern storytelling