Goblin Island

Imagine if you found a band that, aside from having awesome kickass riffs, wonderful solos, and all around wonderful music, had a sense of humor. That is exactly what Nekrogoblikon is.

The album starts off, right from the get-go, with a very healthy sense of humor with the unforgettable words “Wow, Hey Tim!” “What is it Nicky?” “What is that thing in the sky?” “AAAHHHH!!” From there it only gets better.

This album is very folky in its general feel, and has a lot of great keyboard passages playing with everything from pirate songs to christmas carols. The songs are mostly based on heavy, somewhat brutal, death metal riffs, that, somehow, mesh quite nicely with the keyboards to form a sound that’s not quite death metal, and not quite melodeath, and yet still not quite symphonic, yet not quite not. The sound here is very hard to place. Everything here is very melodic, yet the riffs would not feel totally out of place on a good old fashioned DM album. I believe that the closest thing soundwise that I’ve come across is Arch enemy, but that is still a major stretch.

All in all, though everything meshes together nicely to create a wonderful assortment of goblin themed tomfoolery and catchy melodic riffs. The solos are especially good, as the guitars are quite epic, yet at the same time funny.

Half the fun of this album is in the lyrics. With tales of goblins attacking pirates on the seas, causing Armageddon on Christmas day, and enslaving trolls, you can’t help but laugh.

Also, it ends in a goblin-themed heavy metal remake of the power rangers theme.

And Techno.

Dear sweet Satan, send these people on tour with Finntroll!!!