Subject: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:17 am
I was thinking about this yesterday, since I joined a comic book group on Facebook, what bands have wrote songs or albums having to do with superheros or comic books? Only ones that I can think of at the moment are
Anthrax- I Am The Law Iced Earth- The Dark Saga (album)
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:20 am
Some of Amon Amarth's album covers feature Thor.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:55 am
Marvel turned KISS into superheroes in two gloriously silly Super Special comics in the 70s, which led to the KISS Meets the Phantom movie...thankfully they didn't do an album based on it, but they did turn "Hotter than Hell" into "Rip and Destroy"...
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CRIMSONMASK Metal graduate
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 11:56 am
nevermore wrote:
Some of Amon Amarth's album covers feature Thor.
LOL, that's like saying some of Slayers songs are about evil.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:01 pm
Megadeth's "Holy Wars/The Punishment Due" is about the Punisher.
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007 Metal is my Life
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:52 pm
Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien
DakotaRogers Metal master
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:12 pm
There's a bunch of songs about The Punisher:
Megadeth- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due Sodom- An Eye for an Eye Eliminator- The Punisher Megadeth- Killing is my Business... (I'm pretty sure)
Required Fields Metal is my Life
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:16 pm
Dark Angel's Darkness Descends is also based on the Judge Dredd comics.
ZombieHavoc Heart of Metal
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:20 pm
Gama Bomb has a song called "In the Court of General Zod". And i'm sure that they, or any of the other current movie/comic-y related thrash bands have some comic book-themed songs.
Louder Metal student
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:37 pm
Does Tuomas Holopainen's "The Life And Times Of Scrooge" count as Metal?
Runicen Heart of Metal
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:40 pm
Wasn't there a Megadeth song written about a comic character other than The Punisher? I could swear there was, but I'm hitting the derps pretty hard today.
corplhicks Metal is Forever
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:07 pm
It's a loose connection, but Entombed's Wolverine Blues. Thing is the band never wanted the association. The label made that happen.
TheGreatDuck Metal master
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 2:14 pm
DakotaRogers Metal master
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:46 pm
Runicen wrote:
Wasn't there a Megadeth song written about a comic character other than The Punisher? I could swear there was, but I'm hitting the derps pretty hard today.
Unless the Psychotron and the She-Wolf are comic book characters, I doubt it.
Svengo Metal master
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:09 pm
Isn't the whole Dark Saga album from Iced Earth a concept record based on the Spawn comic?
It even has Spawn on the cover
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:10 pm
Svengo wrote:
Isn't the whole Dark Saga album from Iced Earth a concept record based on the Spawn comic?
It even has Spawn on the cover
Yep, it was listed in the very first, original post.
Svengo Metal master
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:22 pm
ZombieHavoc wrote:
Svengo wrote:
Isn't the whole Dark Saga album from Iced Earth a concept record based on the Spawn comic?
It even has Spawn on the cover
Yep, it was listed in the very first, original post.
That's what I get for just scanning the post title lol.
the other one that comes to mind is Monster Magnet's Ego the Living Planet. That one is based on a pretty fun Marvel Character:
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:48 pm
Runicen wrote:
Wasn't there a Megadeth song written about a comic character other than The Punisher? I could swear there was, but I'm hitting the derps pretty hard today.
Your probably thinking of Duke Nukem. That was a video game.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:48 pm
Svengo wrote:
ZombieHavoc wrote:
Svengo wrote:
Isn't the whole Dark Saga album from Iced Earth a concept record based on the Spawn comic?
It even has Spawn on the cover
Yep, it was listed in the very first, original post.
That's what I get for just scanning the post title lol.
the other one that comes to mind is Monster Magnet's Ego the Living Planet. That one is based on a pretty fun Marvel Character:
I never liked these guys, but who is the character its based on?
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:52 pm
Louder wrote:
Does Tuomas Holopainen's "The Life And Times Of Scrooge" count as Metal?
I'll say yes. I haven't heard the album though. Is there any sort of "Metal" on the album or is it all like this? Also that womans voice sounds almost sounds like Annette.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:53 pm
007 wrote:
Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien
Oh yeaaa forgot about that one.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:54 pm
Fat Freddy wrote:
Megadeth's "Holy Wars/The Punishment Due" is about the Punisher.
Yep! See I knew I forgot about some.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:58 pm
Fat Freddy wrote:
Marvel turned KISS into superheroes in two gloriously silly Super Special comics in the 70s, which led to the KISS Meets the Phantom movie...thankfully they didn't do an album based on it, but they did turn "Hotter than Hell" into "Rip and Destroy"...
They are making KISS comics again. I just saw some new ones a few weeks ago.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:02 pm
Hmm...can't think of any comic book characters in metal that haven't already been mentioned. The song "Axes of Evil" by 3 Inches of Blood is roughly based off the story of Arthas becoming the Lich King in Warcraft 3:The Frozen Throne though.
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Subject: Re: Comic Book Characters In Metal Wed Jun 04, 2014 6:04 pm
Monster Magnet have also name dropped Modok (Fantastic Four villain) and Jack Kirby in their lyrics.
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