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Perth, United Kingdom (2004 – present)

Alestorm are a folk metal band from Perth, Scotland, formed under the name Battleheart in 2004. Their music is characterised by a pirate theme, for which reason they describe their style as “True Scottish Pirate Metal”. After releasing two EPs, they were signed by Napalm Records in 2007 and renamed themselves to Alestorm. Their debut album was released on January 25, 2008

Originally starting out as a two piece band Gavin Harper and Christopher Bowes, Battleheart recorded an independent EP in Gavin’s home studio in early 2006. The band was soon rounded out after some early rotation by bassist Dani Evans and drummer Doug Swierczek. Battleheart played their first live show only five days after the members had all met together for the first time.

A second EP was recorded the same year, with Evans now featuring in the recording line-up (the drums were again programmed). Later in the year, the song “Set Sail And Conquer” from the EP was featured on Metal Hammer’s “Battle Metal V” cd with other such bands as Týr, Firewind, Hammerfall and Blind Guardian.

In early 2007, drummer Doug Swierczek departed from the band and was replaced by the band’s friend Ian Wilson of the band Catharist. Later in the year the band changed their name to Alestorm and were signed by Napalm Records. A debut album, “Captain Morgan’s Revenge” was released in early 2008. The song “Captain Morgan’s Revenge” was also featured on “Metal Hammer’s Battle Metal VI”.
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    @trollhammer0210: Running Wild are german, they are unimportant anyway. :p

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    awesome live band is awesome \m/

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    Can't wait til Friday

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    Yarghh!

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    This is my party music!

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    Worried at the lack of Running Wild mentions in the below posts.

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  • Chrystian_p1 wrote:
    8 days ago
    Welcome To Pirate Bay All your music are belong to us

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  • Alzemarey wrote:
    10 days ago
    Fat troll.

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  • DARKZSOU7 wrote:
    11 days ago
    meh

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  • goffaar wrote:
    12 days ago
    If they want to call themselves true Scottish pirate metal then why didn’t they call the band that instead of Alestorm and i never said Swashbuckle and Alestorm sound the same. But Alestorm definitely stole the idea of singing about pirates from Swashbuckle. They should be called copy cat Scottish pirate metal from now on. lol

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  • stupidPity wrote:
    12 days ago
    @goffaar Swashbuckle and Alestorm are completely different. Alestorm invented their sound by blending power and folk metal and which I like to call true scottish pirate metal too, WHILE SWASHBUCKLE IS THRASH METAL with lyrics about pirates. Nothing in the world sounds anything like Alestorm, so they have the right to call themselves true scottish pirate metal and that's finall!

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  • Sunaro wrote:
    12 days ago
    best pirate band ever

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  • melody-of-death wrote:
    last month
    I smell a troll.

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  • goffaar wrote:
    last month
    @shofman- I’ve already expressed my opinion on their ‘label’...but here we go again. They have described themselves as true Scottish pirate metal just to get people on the internet to click on their page. It’s a publicity stunt just like when Britney Spears shaved off her hair or when Amy Winehouse overdosed on drugs. It’s just to get noticed, so people will buy stuff.

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  • goffaar wrote:
    last month
    @CorporalDoug- i looked up keelhauled and was quite shocked to find i recognise the intro. It sounds very similar to the music from the opening scene of a cartoon series called The Pirates of Dark Water. i know that because my kids watched it all the time... the part of the intro with the violin, imagine that bit but at about half the tempo. That is the Opening music to The Pirates of Dark Water.

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  • shofman wrote:
    last month
    vv Who gives a shit? They sing songs about pirates, the singer is from Scotland, hence true Scottish pirate metal. If we want to call their music that, let us.

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  • CorporalDoug wrote:
    last month
    I saw swashbuckle live a couple of years ago and during there set someone insulted alestorm. Swashbuckle responded by playing the intro to keelhaul and told the fan to fuck off.

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  • goffaar wrote:
    last month
    @Dhracian. Swashbuckle released a demo of their fist album in 2005. Then they released the album (Crew by the Dammed) in 2006. Battleheart released their first EP Terror on the high seas in 2006 and didn’t release their first album (Captain Morgan’s Revenge) under the band name Alestorm until 2008. I think pirate obsessed Alestorm had plenty of time to steal Swashbuckle’s 'music style' which is just folk metal anyway. Also Metallica have released plenty of material and a lot of it is not thrash metal either, so don’t call the band thrash metal just because most of their music is thrash metal. The trick is to describe the style of music not the band. There is no such thing as a thrash metal band never mind a pirate metal band.

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  • grky165 wrote:
    last month
    @goffar if you didn't know new genres are invented when a band creates a band label!

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