![]() “He died young, like 22, had a couple kids and he was a rabid fan. "They called him Captain Shady,” Captain Dan said. Still, they’ve retained a dedicated following, and their cheesy, ‘90s golden-age rhymes delivered in pirate vocals have had a profound impact on the lives of some fans. They were brief contestants on America’s Got Talent, where they lost in the first round. Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew, currently working on a new EP as just the Scurvy Crew, are perhaps the most well-known. It’s not as obvious a fit, but pirate storytelling has crossed into the hip-hop world as well. We’ll all come down from the stage and sit down and start singing about a wench that we lost.” The next minute you’ll be sitting down, like around a campfire. ![]() ![]() “One minute during the show you can be in a wall of death, cheering on the port side of the ship or the starboard side. “Imagine a huge house party, or college party,” lead guitarist Nathan Riedel, who goes by his stage name The Majestic Beast, said. We’re just not on boats anymore, which kind of sucks, because boats are awesome.”ĭespite the lavish getups and cheeky themes, few bands bother to put together a Disney, kid-friendly version of their acts.The goal is get as wild as possible, and few bands are more dedicated to the debauchery than Australian metal band Lagerstein. “A lot of punk rock and the anarco-culture is modern piracy. “When we mix in the pirate ‘yargs,’ the mosh pit turns into a lot of arms interlocked, slam dancing - it’s fun to watch punk rockers interpret their idea of what piracy is,” Noyes said. As the band grew, they found a welcoming home among Portland’s punks and skinheads. They started playing on the street, basically to make enough drinking money to buy a bottle of whiskey and go enjoy the rest of the day. “After a few of these, we started thinking, ‘Why are we keeping this all to ourselves?'” He and his friends would pack instruments, pull up to a little beach, make a fire, and sing sea shanties late into the night. “It started on whitewater rafting trips,” says lead vocalist Dave Noyes. Portland pirate punk band Rum Rebellion found themselves living out a miniaturized version of the pirate lifestyle when they decided to start playing. The entire genre is built around creating something that feels authentic but partying really hard, having a great time.” “Because nobody in the genre is like, ‘Yeah, we’re the real gang bangers of the 1600s! We’re gonna kill people.’ No one is at the Mayhem level of commitment. “We decided: ‘Let’s not be sh*tty teenagers about this and embrace it,’” he says. They were bitter about it at first, O’Brady admits, but as they got to know the community, they warmed to it. We thought we were so cool and original.” Robert Zembrzyck “I was like, ‘Alestorm? That’s a great name,’ so I looked them up and thought, ‘Wait, they play a keytar, that’s not pirate,’” says Captain Wolfbeard O’Brady, the Dread Crew’s lead vocalist and accordion player. ![]() Afterwards they had people coming up to them trying to nerd out with them about Running Wild and Alestorm. The Southern California folk metal outfit Dread Crew of Oddwood played their first show to an unsuspecting crowd at a Renaissance festival. The band recently set a record at the Danish festival Copenhell for most crowd surfers during a single set. ![]() “They’re not into moshing or drinking, they kind of stand there and enjoy guitar solos. “Power metal fans are usually more reserved,” Bowes explains. Pirate deathmetal full#They shared a demo on MySpace and played to a sold-out crowd at their first show, fans already decked out in full pirate regalia. One of them, “Heavy Metal Pirates,” serves as a manifesto of sorts: “We are Heavy Metal Pirates / We sail across the sky / In our battleships of cosmic steel / We're the terror up on high.” The band decided to run with the theme, thinking it was a fun way to get noticed. They stumbled into the pirate life organically, after Bowes had written two bloodthirsty pirate adventure songs. Alestorm started in 2004 intending to be a power metal band. ![]()
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