Metal hockey fight songs
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I love metal; I love hockey. The two should go together, right? Well, maybe. Darkest Hour recently threw together a fight song for the Washington Capitals that makes Ministry's for the Blackhawks sound like "Bohemian Rhapsody." Even for a fight song, it's moronic. Rehashed At the Gates riffs with unbearably repetitive chanting? Let's hope it's a one-timer. Pantera didn't do much better with "Punk-Off," their Dallas Stars fight song. But that rhythm section! The "Cowboys from Hell" quote is cute, too. In punk, The Boils made an EP devoted to the Flyers, and there's the Bruins-fonted Slapshot (though to my knowledge, they never made a Bruins-centric song). Someone get a metal fight song for the Atlanta Thrashers, stat!
Pantera - Punk-Off (Dallas Stars fight song)
In minor league hockey, Unearth recently wrote a fight song for the San Antonio Rampage. You can hear it here. Andrew W.K. also did a ditty for the Arizona Sundogs; see here.
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A Thrashers fan, eh? I'm a Pens fan. Think you guys will really like having Colby Armstrong and Erik Christensen next season for a full year. Solid players.
Anyway, yeah those fight songs are kind of moronic. Do you even think Anselmo's really singing on there? I can't single out his voice. Seems like the kind of thing he might've skipped out on to go do something else. Like heroin.
All of these are terrible.
This, however, is fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAa8uD2JDvE
Great call on the obvious psychic connection between hockey and metal. I've always felt the same way. And I gotta agree, these hockey-inspired metal tributes just don't work.
I'm a monster Flyers fan and I have to say, there's always been a "metal" edge to my squad. Whether it was Janne Niinamaa skipping practice in the late 90s to go see Metallica play a free afternoon show in the arena parking lot, or the fact that the most frequent stadium riff played for years at Flyers' games is the beginning of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love," the Flyers and metal have always gone together and always will.
Now, if only Goreaphobia could stay reunited long enough to do a fight song for our hometown boys...
Anon - I'm not a fan of any one team. However, the Thrashers have hands down the NHL's most metal name. There should be a team called the Powerviolence.
Nick - that Andrew WK/Sundogs bit was awesome, thanks for sharing.
Lou - it's always good to hear of metalheads in jerseys. I need to find more of these stories!
punk thrashers The Dayglo Abortions also have "Hockeyfight". you can hear it here:
http://tinyurl.com/6632o7
Wow, Dan, that ruled hard. Some sweet blues licks in there. There's a whole body of work of hockey-related songs that I've only started to explore.
Cosmo, you also probably want to check out Electro Quarterstaff's "Gretzky." It's about the 2nd greatest hockey player of the modern age.
(No one has made a record about Mario Lemieux yet)
Jere Lehtinen of the Dallas Stars is a monster Slayer fan apparently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2CqExC_bE
I remember seeing video of a couple of the Thrashers guys getting to jam with Mastodon, too, but I can't find the clip anywhere.
I think metal's pretty big with a lot of hockey players. It would help explain the mullet craze in the NHL of years ago
I don't know shit about hockey, but the connection is in a lot of people's minds, I'm sure - at one point in the book Rock And The Pop Narcotic, writer Joe Carducci talks about the different ways men and women experience things, asserting that men project themselves into events they're observing more than women do, and the two examples he cites are a Metallica show and a Blackhawks game.
nick - Electro Quarterstaff rock, though their album is instrumental, so I'm not sure it's "about" anything. Also, I read one interview where they said they chose the name basically b/c it was something nonsensical that sounded good.
anon - that Jere Lehtinen clip was awesome. Since a lot of NHL players are European or generally not from America, I can see them growing up with quality metal. I gotta find more stories like this.
phil - that's a really interesting thesis. For me, sports have a similar appeal to me as metal - I *can't* do them. I don't project myself into a UFC ring or NHL arena b/c that possibility is completely ludicrous. Metal and sports are arenas in life where I can simply be a fan and not have to worry about doing it better than others.
I was just on the Metal Blade site and saw that they actually have a whole hockey section on there. I naturally immediately thought of this post.
Also, even though they're not a metal band, the Vancouver punk band D.O.A. has (or at least had) a hockey team. I believe they all wore number 666. There's a big connection between Canadian punk and hockey--the obvious example being the NoMeansNo side project The Hanson Brothers. Not sure about psychic connections between punk and hockey--the far more likely explanation is that all Canadians love hockey, punks and metalheads not excluded.
Graeme, I think you're right. Just because Americans love (American) football doesn't necessarily mean they love metal.
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