William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Return to the Kingdom of Fife ; Year: 2023; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal I just cannot help but to love this band and their epic theatrics and larger-than-life cacophony that would be at home in any opera. Yeah, it might be camp and pretentious, but their delivery and singalong choruses really brings the listener/audience into the heroic tale.     Hear Holy Flaming Hammer Of Unholy Cosmic Frost on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: Mr. Mister - Kyrie     My song pick 2 years ago today: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Jerry Springer   My song pick 3 years ago today: Helloween - From Out of Nowhere   My song pick 4 years ago today: Black Sabbath - Lord of This World   My song pick 5 years ago today: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand   My song pick 6 years ago today: Band of Horses - Infinite Arms   My song pick 7 years ago today: Paris - Heart of Stone My song pick 8 years ago today:...

From: Return to the Kingdom of Fife ; Year: 2023; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal Time for another epic tale of adventure, heroes, and villainous wizards from the one and only Gloryhammer!    Hear Maleficus Geminus (Colossus Matrix 38B - Ultimate Invocation Of The Binary Thaumaturge) on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: Gentle Giant - Memories of Old Days     My song pick 2 years ago today: The Winery Dogs - Lorelei   My song pick 3 years ago today: Primus - Conspiranoia   My song pick 4 years ago today: Depeche Mode - New Life My song pick 5 years ago today: Yes - Time and a Word My song pick 6 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Commercial Traveler My song pick 7 years ago today: Jefferson Starship - No Way Out My song pick 8 years ago today: Cybotron - Parameters of Consciousness My song pick 9 years ago today: The Jimmy Castor Bunch - You Better Be Good (Or the Devil Gon' Getcha) My song pick 10 years...

From: Tales From The Kingdom of Fife ; Year: 2013; Genre: Power Metal Here is where the epic story told by Gloryhammer began! The evil wizard Zargothrax invades the Kingdom of Fife with a horde of undead unicorns as told in a dark prophesy. Our hero must now go forth and meet this foe in mortal combat as the tale is retold in power metal song!   Hear Anstruther's Dark Prophecy/The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Gerry Rafferty - Can I Have My Money Back?   My song pick 2 years ago today: Billy Joel - Vienna   My song pick 3 years ago today: Quasar - Logic?   My song pick 4 years ago today: Lenny Kravitz - Circus   My song pick 5 years ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Starlight   My song pick 6 years ago today: Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) - Ooby Dooby My song pick 7 years ago today: Fats Domino - I'm Walkin' My song pick 8 years ago today: Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My...

From: Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex ; Year: 2019; Genre: Power Metal Never seem like there is enough nanoseconds in a day to complete all of your work anymore, but still making time to post a song today. Whilst there's nothing "serious" about it, there is a load of epicness and high-energy metal music to blast you through a Monday.   Hear Legendary Enchanted Jetpack on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Pearl Jam - Animal   My song pick 2 years ago today: Parliament - [You're a Fish & I'm a] Water Sign   My song pick 3 years ago today: Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)   My song pick 4 years ago today: Raspberries - Tonight   My song pick 5 years ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Quick Change Artist   My song pick 6 years ago today: Spock's Beard - All on a Sunday My song pick 7 years ago today: Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer My song pick 8 years ago today: Bernard Wright...

From: Return to the Kingdom of Fife ; Year: 2023; Genre: Power Metal Loving this new album from Gloryhammer; got all of that over-the-top drama and story telling that I have come to enjoy. I would really love to see some of their records performed as full-on operas with all of the dressing and pomp. That is essentially what they are, heck, if it was back in the Classical or Romance period this would be opera in all its grandeur.     Hear Vorpal Laserblaster Of Pittenweem on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Megadeth - United Abominations   My song pick 2 years ago today: Sly & The Family Stone - I'll Never Fall In Love Again   My song pick 3 years ago today: Hawkwind - The Forge of Vulcan   My song pick 4 years ago today: Asia - Ride Easy   My song pick 5 years ago today: Three Dog Night - It's a Jungle Out There My song pick 6 years ago today: Larry Graham & Graham Central Station - Last Train My song pick 7 years ...

From: Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex ; Year: 2019; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal Was having some fun listening to some more epic fantasy-inspired metal from the one and only Gloryhammer. This was a bonus track off of their most recent album, and you can definitely hear influence of bands such as Iron Maiden on this one.   Hear On the Wings of a Rainbow on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Wishbone Ash - Drive   My song pick 2 years ago today: Queensrÿche - The Mission   My song pick 3 years ago today: C.W. McCall - Four Wheel Drive My song pick 4 years ago today: Black Sabbath - Neon Knights My song pick 5 years ago today: Savatage - Chance My song pick 6 years ago today: Megadeth - A Secret Place My song pick 7 years ago today: Wings - Live and Let Die My song pick 8 years ago today: Larry Graham & Graham Central Station - Are You Happy? My song pick 9 years ago today: Stone Temple Pilots - Creep My song...

From: Tales from the Kingdom of Fife ; Year: 2013; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal I just love the over-the-top aspects of this band; stories of epic glory and even bigger sounding music to go along with it.    Hear Quest for the Hammer of Glory on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - Nightmare Epiphany   My song pick 2 years ago today: Rod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing You   My song pick 3 years ago today: Lawrence Gowan - Moonlight Desires My song pick 4 years ago today: Boston - Used to be Bad News My song pick 5 years ago today: Rhythm Machine - Everybody's Chippin My song pick 6 years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - Fallen Angel My song pick 7 years ago today: Foo Fighters - These Days My song pick 8 years ago today: Hawkwind - The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon My song pick 9 years ago today: Oasis - All Around the World My song pick 10 years ago today: The Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is the Beginning Is ...

From: Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex ; Year: 2019; Genre: Power Metal Some might call Gloryhammer's music "cheesy," "pretentious" or "over the top," but I love it and it is beyond epic with the larger-than-life music and great tales of heroes and great deeds.   Hear Power of the Laser Dragon Fire on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Ian Anderson - Cold Dead Reckoning (2044)   My song pick 2 years ago today: Molly Hatchet - Good Rockin' My song pick 3 years ago today: Carmen - Bullfight My song pick 4 years ago today: The Outfield - Say It Isn't So My song pick 5 years ago today: Quarterflash - Take Me To Heart My song pick 6 years ago today: Carly Simon - You’re so Vain My song pick 7 years ago today: Clifford Nyren - Keep Running Away My song pick 8 years ago today: Mastodon - Blood and Thunder My song pick 9 years ago today: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - K.331 - Piano Sonata No. 11 My song pick 10 year...

From: Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex ; Year: 2019; Genre: Power Metal Sometimes it's fun just to let go and listen to some over done, cheesy, and just plain fun super hero/super villain power metal. It's always a good thing to feel like you are invincible after hearing music from the likes of Gloryhammer. Hear Masters of the Galaxy on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Gloryhammer - Legend of the Astral Hammer My song pick 2 years ago today: John Fogerty - Rockin' All Over the World My song pick 3 years ago today: Iain Matthews - Gimme An Inch Girl My song pick 4 years ago today: Marmalade - I See the Rain My song pick 5 years ago today: Maddy Prior - Long Shadows My song pick 6 years ago today: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Let Me Be the One My song pick 7 years ago today: Finntroll - Ett Norrskensdåd My song pick 8 years ago today: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV Anh. 117a, 117b - Polonaise in F Major (from Anna Magdalena Note...

From: Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex ; Year: 2019; Genre: Power Metal Brand-spanking-new Gloryhammer! This is the epic 12+ minute, five-part piece that closes out their just-released Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex album. The five parts are: I. Dundaxian Overture, II. The Battle of Cowdenbeath, III. Return of the Astral Demigod of Unst, IV. The Knife of Evil, V. Transmission ; such an awesome, epic story. Hear The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk My song pick 2 years ago today: Sky - Where Opposites Meet My song pick 3 years ago today: Jigsaw - Cry ('Til The Tears Run Dry) My song pick 4 years ago today: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Piano Concerto No. 1 My song pick 5 years ago today: Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline - Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue?) My song pick 6 years ago today: Soundgarden - Worse Dreams My song pick 7 years ago today: Hawkw...

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal Was listening to some of their music whilst out running errands and as usual it felt like a great pick for today. This one is very big and bombastic sounding with all the neat fantasy elements thrown in for good measure. Hear Legend of the Astral Hammer on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: John Fogerty - Rockin' All Over the World My song pick 2 years ago today: Iain Matthews - Gimme An Inch Girl My song pick 3 years ago today: Marmalade - I See the Rain My song pick 4 years ago today: Maddy Prior - Long Shadows My song pick 5 years ago today: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Let Me Be the One My song pick 6 years ago today: Finntroll - Ett Norrskensdåd My song pick 7 years ago today: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV Anh. 117a, 117b - Polonaise in F Major (from Anna Magdalena Notebook II ) My song pick 8 years ago today: Exist†Trace - Requiem My song pick 9 y...

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal Been thoroughly exhausted both physically and mentally over the last couple days; I'm definitely in need of something "out there" and "over the top" musically. Nothing fits that description better than Gloryhammer in my opinion; epic, in your face, and overtly pretentious, yep, the best medicine out there. Hear Universe on Fire on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Bon Jovi - Lay Your Hands on Me My song pick 2 years ago today: James Brown - Santa Claus Gave Me a Brand New Start My song pick 3 year ago today: The United States of America - Stranded in Time My song pick 4 years ago today: Boston - Can'tcha Say (Believe in Me)/Still in Love My song pick 5 years ago today: Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See My song pick 6 years ago today: Miles Davis - Straight, No Chaser My song pick 7 years ago today: Triumph - Hold On My song pic...

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal Just in the mood for some more spaced out epic power metal from Gloryhammer; I like this album a lot. Hear Goblin King or the Darkstorm Galaxy on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Russkaja - Energia! My song pick two years ago today: Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come My song pick three years ago today: Pearl Jam - Sirens My song pick four years ago today: Carmen - Daybreak My song pick five years ago today: Rush - Fountain of Lamenth My song pick six years ago today: Megadeth - Bad Omen My song pick seven years ago today: Jethro Tull - Beggar's Farm My song pick eight years ago today: The Beatles - Something My song pick nine years ago today: Jethro Tull - Singing All Day My song pick ten years ago today: Jethro Tull - Heavy Water

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal Every time I hear Gloryhammer their epic music brings a smile to my face and makes me want to go out and save the universe. They are one of those bands that is just awesome in their delivery; don't take themselves too seriously and want to tell an outrageous tale set to high-Adrenalin European metal. Yeah, it's pretentious, but who cares; this is pure epicness! Hear Questlords of Inverness, Ride to the Galactic Fortress! on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Bob Welch - Hot Love, Cold World My song pick two years ago today: Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears My song pick three years ago today: UFO - Too Hot To Handle My song pick four years ago today: Stratovarius - Chasing Shadows My song pick five years ago today: The Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R. My song pick six years ago today: Tarot - Pilot of All Dreams My song pick seven years ago today: Muse - Knights of Cydonia M...

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal I've been enjoying this album way too much lately. This song just dips its toe across the fine line between "epic" and "cheesy," but in a good way; I absolutely love it! Hear Rise of the Chaos Wizards on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Foghat - Third Time Lucky (First Time I Was a Fool) My song pick two years ago today: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Scratch & Sniff My song pick three years ago today: Triumph - A World of Fantasy My song pick four years ago today: Fats Waller - Jitterbug Waltz My song pick five years ago today: Jethro Tull - Pibroch (Cap in Hand) My song pick six years ago today: Ozzy Osbourne - Civilize the Universe My song pick seven years ago today: Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son My song pick eight years ago today: John Denver - The Eagle and the Hawk My song pick nine years ago today: Three Dog Night - Lia...

From: Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards ; Year: 2015; Genre: Power Metal/Symphonic Metal/Progressive Metal The other day I found out about this rather interesting band and immediately fell in love with their music. Funny enough both their records are full-on concept albums complete with deep fantasy driven stories and larger than life music to go along with it. Beyond that even I absolutely love the fact how each band member portrays a character throughout the stories. To say the least this makes for some amazing, epic metal; you know, the stuff of legends. Hear Apocalypse 1992 on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Dream Theater - A Rite of Passage My song pick two years ago today: Jethro Tull - Mountain Men My song pick three years ago today: Marcus Miller - Come Together My song pick four years ago today: Journey - Don't Stop Believing My song pick five years ago today: Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules My song pick six years ago today: Roger Water...