An Italian band that turns power metal's epic themes into parody songs about Vikings and pasta.
If you want to hear what they do, 'Norwegian Reggaeton' and 'Valhalleluja' frame it perfectly. They're the songs that show how seriously they don't take any of this.
They take the galloping rhythms and grandiosity of power metal and flip them into something deliberately absurd. Songs like 'Norwegian Reggaeton' and 'Valhalleluja' treat Vikings and mythology with the same reverence as Italian food, which makes their music both technically solid and completely ridiculous. Their 2003 album 'Into Gay Pride Ride' helped them find listeners outside Italy who got the joke.
They formed in the mid-1990s around vocalist Ross 'Paul Chain' Coffaro and guitarist Mauro 'Mr. Baffo' Codeluppi. The same basic lineup with Alessandro 'Cosimo B.' Costanzo on bass and Francesco 'Ufo' de Rosa on drums has kept releasing albums with titles like 'Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay' and 'Stairway to Valhalla' that make their approach clear.
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