This week’s offering is Kamelot’s Haven. Until yesterday, I had never heard of this band before and wasn’t sure what to expect from the metal classification. I just haven’t been able to keep up with the explosion of metal sub-genres (I recognized slightly less than half on that list). To be honest, if not for my brother, Nick, I probably wouldn’t have kept up at all on this musical genre – not because I disliked it, it’s just not something I could listen to while trying to work. Anyway, with Haven featuring multiple epic ballads and orchestral pieces (like the included video), it seems Kamelot fits into the power metal category.
If a secret war was waged between multiple dimensions, a war that pitted forces of light against dark, this is the music that would underscore that battle.
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2 thoughts on “Music Mondays: Kamelot”
Name your band after a beloved (albeit fictional) bit of medieval history?
Strike One!
Spell “Camelot” with a K?
Strike Two!
Mix perfectly good speed metal with orchestra into an overwrought mess of sound, and top it with a vocalist who looks and sounds as though he just needs a good slap in the face?
Yeah, I’m done here.
If you don’t like them, that’s fine. However, I would like to point out that if bands weren’t allowed to pull from fictional works, we wouldn’t have: Titus Andronicus, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Modest Mouse, Steely Dan, Belle & Sebastian, Esben & The Witch, Steppenwolf, Veruca Salt, Gogol Bordello, etc. Who knows what those bands would be without their fiction-inspired names?