Metal and Nerds
Friday, August 13th, 2010I have finally cracked and will be buying a PS3 later in the year so that I can enjoy Tim Schafer’s latest title Brutal Legend. Darn you Mr Schafer!
In the meantime though I have discovered another combination of nerdy matters and heavy metal music. Now bands like Rush and Brock Samson’s favourite band Led Zeppelin have riffed of J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings books a few times in the past -
- would either of them have dared to write an entire album about the Silmarillion?
Blind Guardian did.
In fact they’ve gone one better and are about to release an album based on Robert Jordan’s interminable Wheel of Time series. They have also composed music inspired by Michael Moorcock and George R.R. Martin. I gotta say I’m impressed. Below is a track from the new album. The artwork featured comes from the Dabel Brother’s comic series based on Jordan’s The Eye of the World, with pencils by Chase Conley.



