GLORYHAMMER - Keeper Of The Celestial Flame Of Abernethy (Official Video) | Napalm Records
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2023
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New album out on June 2nd, 2023 via Napalm Records
The band comments:
"This tale begins long in the past, 1000 years before even Angus McFife was born. A simple peasant by the name of Zargothrax lived a peaceful existence weaving baskets in a village called Auchtermuchty, until the legendary hero Dundax decided to build a new Kingdom in his lands...the Kingdom of Fife. Follow the rise of Zargothrax into a twisted sorcerer of chaos and evil, as he seeks the ultimate revenge on the Prince of Fife and all his descendants!"
Video produced by: www.artofalexhenderson.com/ 
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"Zargothrax: Master of Nightmares, Keeper of Celestial Flame, Sorcerer, Bound to the Darkness, Wizard King, Chaos Incarnate" is going to be hard to fit on a business card.
Evil lies in his brain
Don’t forget “bane of Cowdenbeath,” “scourge of Auchtermuchty,” and “arch-foe to the Questlords of Inverness.”
Don't forget "The bane of Cowdenbeath" and "The scourge of Auchtermuchty".
Don’t forget Basket Weaver
And he should avoid name tags for his team
Before: "Gee, magic sure is handy for weaving baskets."
After: "WORSHIP MY OMNIPOTENCE."
One bad day indeed
@@Wanderingsage7 One bad basket.
I'm very confused on the timeline here. When did the prince that destroyed his home live, and how much time passed until the unicorn invasion happened? That would define whether Zargothrax went from 0 to 100, or it was a long road to villainy that eventually ended with him as a galactic overlord.
chaos is a hell of a drug
Bro offered his Soul to Demons because some Guy build a Castle above his House.
The animation in this video rules! Now if someone could just go ahead and produce a Gloryhammer animated series that would be great.
this needs to be made into a animated series that slowly follows the gloryhammer discography
Yeah I would totally watch Gloryhammer anime
IMO someone should create heavy-metal-spece-opera musical with Gloryhammer music. :D
I'm holding out for the Gloryhammer TTRPG, personally
Like metalocalypse? I'm down let's start making some noise😁
I love how the animation timing implies they managed to build a city behind his back over the course of a morning without him noticing...
It was a VERY intense basket weaving session
"A wizard did it" seems like a plausible explanation here
@@allenhernandez3350 yes it took him 15 years to make that basket
one spell: mordenkainen's magnificent mansion
Is it that unreasonable to assume that The Hammer of Glory can do that?
So... this is where the "Zargothrax did nothing wrong" meme will find its origin then. Fair enough.
There is no evidence that Zargothrax knew about the undead unicorns!
down with dundee! glory to baskets
I mean
They do have to portray the previous iteration of McFife as a douche after all.
I mean, he is understandably frustrated with an u just and corrupt use of eminent domain. Setting into motion an interdimensional plot to kill the king and his descendants across multiple timelines might have been a bit of a knee-jerk reaction though.
I never heard anybody say HE killed the unicorns, only that he raised them from the dead. Might be they got killed when his home (and theirs) was destroyed to build Dundee, and he just wanted them to be able to exact their revenge as well.
I think it's brilliant that all of Gloryhammer's Galactic Carnage started out as a classic Scottish feud. 😆
Brilliant indeed
An eye for an eye leaves the whole galaxy blind, apparently :P
@@Nechrostriker4 *universe
*multiverse@@kacperkonieczny7333
its no surprise, it IS a Scottish feud.
Angus: "You destroyed Dundee, raised havoc, killed innocent people and kidnapped the princess! Why!?"
Zargothrax: "You took my favorite weaving basket spot to build your kingdom."
Dundax was the one who founded the kingdom.
That is so in character for him
This is levels of pettiness for a villain backstory not seen since Alternate Dimension Doofenschmirtz, and I love it.
To be fair...it wasn't just his favorite wearing spot, it was his home...I don't think it justifies his actions at all though.
that's just the killdozer origin story
It's an honor to be featured in this masterpiece ⚔
Where are you exactly?! :D
Aw hell yeah
Great work, you guys! Greetings from Sweden!
The honour is ours, we don't see enough of you!
Your good work has not gone unnoticed.
My favorite part of the song.
Feels so surreal to finally have an on screen version of both The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee, and The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder. Animation is 10/10 and song is a banger. Way to go guys!
Amen, dude! :D
Hope they animate more!
Not to mention ending on what's essentially Rise of the Chaos Wizards.
Both are great, now I just want to get the full tales from the kingdom of Fife both remastered and animated
HELL YEAH! Canon footage!!
except it isn't, is the problem. The Hootsforce which shoots the missiles after Ralathor fires a flare during The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder part doesn't exist yet, and Ralathor is dressed like a commander as per the third album, but would still canonically be a hermit during this part. Also, the zargothrax nuke is shown killing everyone but angus in the end of the Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost segment, while the opposite canonically happens, with literally only angus dying@@EnzomusPrime
1:35
Hootsman: Giant muscles and decades of experience.
Angus: a suit of magic armor and a hammer made by Gods.
Ralathor: Pistol
Proletius: A stick and a creepy old man pose!
Prolethius: Dies
D&D parties are wild like that.
I think the guy in the cloak is Ralathor. He looks more like Ralathor did in the first album, which is where that scene takes place. I don't know who that guy is, but it's probably not Proletius.
I think that's Proletius, Ralathor is the one with the wizard staff who freezes Zargothrax in liquid ice. Plus that pistol was the starting fire for launching artillery onto Zargothrax's position, which would make sense for that to be Proletius' job since he's the leader of the knights of crail, while Ralathor is just a mysterious hermit.
Fun fact: At 2:20, you can briefly Angus fly by a pair of tablets with runes on them. If translated, these read "Abandon all hope ye who trespass upon the Fortress of Crail", which I think is an awesome attention to detail to something that's only in frame for less than a second. Amazing music video and gorgeous animation. I hope we see more music videos like this in the future.
Cool. I never noticed them. Though I question the decision of the stone carver to have them facing AWAY from the door. XD
In what language was the ruins in? I might be wrong but is it Nordic?
@@LoneWolf5960it’s an odd mixture of the elder and younger futhark I believe. But probably just a generic translation thing
I think it might also be a reference to Dante's Inferno, there is an inscription on hell's door that says "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate", that's translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
@@LoneWolf5960Viking runes. Likely a very inexact form of rune
We need more animated Gloryhammer songs like this, imagine if they did Apocalypse 1992 and we got to see the Dwarven rage and the Hootsman exploding in real time
Or "Fires of tge Ancient Cosmic Destiny"! Hootsman Prime will be amazing to see
I wonder if they could get Bardel Entertainment, the guys who do the animation for The Dragon Prince, to do a video for them.
@@valeriikozan Or both. That would be fun to watch
I want an entire cartoon TV show around the lore in this style.
0:31 I love how he actually moves the playback bar
No that's exactly what it is
He moves the playback bar to the beginning of his story because he starts to upload his memories to his clone. Once the flashback is finished it says upload complete and Zargotrax becomes super OP
@@Cavalorn12 and he knows where Zargothrax is frozen when the upload is finished
this is awesome, i never noticed!
Making the Gloryhammer party look evil while defeating Zargothrax is quite a feat
just a bunch of imperialists all along. hootsman should have made that obvious
Is it, though? They did blew up the Earth at one point.
Dundax was a gentrifier and an imperialist colonizer, and the McFife family are the generational beneficiaries of it.
They knew *exactly* how to get everyone on Zargothrax's side for this album.
Propaganda is one hell of a drug. Also, it's kind of obvious this song is being sung from the perspective of Zargothrax' cultists.
Angus: You killed my father, rained fire and lightning on my kingdom, sicced undead unicorns on the survivors, and violated my fiancee because…something to do with basket weaving?!
Zargothrax: I don’t expect you to understand, Mcfife.
Angus: I DON’T, THANK GOD! If I ever go crazy enough to understand your mindset I’ll jump off a cliff!
I can not balieve that Zargothrax received sympathetic backstory, but all power to him!
Still waiting for Ralathor's backstory. Who is he really? Is he immortal, or can he travel through time as well as the walls of reality?
Are we ever going to get these answers?
Zargothrax, the ultimate NIMBY
@@Kartissa Well, one of the few concrete things we know about him is that he comes from the Terror Vortex universe/timeline originally.
And it seems he can time travel or something similar, as after they all best the Sword Lord of the Goblin Horde and learn the way through the Dwarven Caverns, Ralathor jumps back to the events of album one, and that's how he's able to guide Angus I and his friends in Epic Rage of Furious Thunder
So basically Zargothrax is like a "what if Pacha" in The Emperor's New Groove when Kuzko actually destroys his village to build his swimming pool palace XD
yes
An unexpected but baller hot take
bruh
My man committed numerous war crimes to avenge his baskets THE DEDICATION
I love how at the end of the Animation, Angus accidentally frees Zargothrax himself. Like it's destined to be. Such an artistic masterpiece that mixes music, beautiful animation and storytelling. Hope more music videos will get done like this!
This was all planned. The cloned Zargothrax was not strong enough to break the ice and instead of killing Angus directly he engaged him in a fight and distracted him with mirror images. Hence the brief hesitation, he looks at the hammer in the process
nono you see it wrongly that was no accident that was the plan all along by zargothrax the clone :)
It was not accident. Clone used illusion to force prince to do work he was unable to complete. This is WISDOM + INTELLIGENCE maxed. You can see that in moment when clone of dark lord paused and studied Mcfive for moment.
I like the bit where angus breaks in on his motorcycle and zargothrax clone alpha 1 just stop him in mid-air and after attempting to break zargothrax out of his prison just stops to deal with the intruder and looks at angus like you seem familiar ... mcfife and then bounces him into the crystal dimension/illusion
Now, Angus McFive has to deal with not just one, but TWO EVIL, NEFARIOUS CHAOS SORCERERS: ZargothraxTM and Zargothrax Clone
I didn't kneew i needed a zargothrax backstory,but i enjoyed it,you guys make really good music
He's not evil, he got wronged :(
I love it, I like that he can be utterly evil and just destroy everything but come from a place we can understand with legit motivation. Maybe dying so much has fractured and warped his mind beyond that of mortals.
His backstory is nice touch, but after Universe on Fire, Goblin king of the Darkstone galaxy and Appocalypse 1992 we needed to see more of this glorious maniac.
2:58 i love how in the crystals you can see zargothrax's true form for a brief second. its nice to see gloyhammer in alex's style.
Thanks, I'm glad someone noticed that detail :)
It's great to see that you're making a collab with Alex as an animator for the music video again! His work is amazing and fits so well with both Gloryhammer and Alestorm!
A match made in ultra-dimensional fortress!
So thats where i had seen this animation style before. Its awesome, other than Angus looks kinda wimpy compared to Zargothrax.
there is another animated one of that story? (didnt notice any?)
yeah, today, while shearing sheep, I thought it was a freaking good animation, not worse than Iron Maiden's The Writing on the Wall.
I am running a Gloryhammer themed Dungeons and Dragons Adventure starting next week, and this has given me sooooooo much more information to build the world. And motivation to finish my prep.
lol same, though I already created my own backstory for Zargothrax and built too much of my world around that to change it to follow this new info.
Bro I wanna play let me innnnn
care to share some Infos I could steal?
Oly a single adventure no campaign?
Might I suggest taking a look at Dungeon Crawl Classics as a system for a Gloryhammer themed setting. It's as ridiculous and over the top as Gloryhammer.
Got to love that fourth wall break at the beginning. It's the only way to time travel.
While I now know Zargothrax's backstory and see him as somewhat tragic in his own way, I think we can all agree that he overreacted. Having your home destroyed by a politician is bad, sure, but is swearing a blood oath with ultimate evil to destroy the universe a healthy response? Zargothrax really should have written to his representative in Parliament.
It's like The Joker once said: "All it takes is one bad day."
I would agree with you if his "representative in parliament" wasn't probably even more evil than anythings he could have done a blood oath with I mean the "ultimate evil" did carry their parts of said oath unsure the representative would
He did everything right until he decided to destroy all universal live, even if he succeded, he counts as "life" too
We can't agree
Well, he cut himself with the Knife of Evil, probably not realizing just HOW powerful it was. And now he's got that AND the Laser Blaster of Pittenweem? Oh boy, is Angus in for a fight now...
We need a Gloryhammer animated series for all the albums
Keep giving Alex Henderson work. His music videos are awesome
Okay Clone Zargothrax forcing the video to rewind is actually a genius bit of animation, definitely my favourite bit besides perhaps seeing the Epic Rage of Furious Thunder in action.
EDIT: Additionally, the moment at 2:34 where he looks surprised by Angus' face up close is a great little nod to Sozos taking the role now.
Yeah, Clone Zargothrax was confused for a moment and thought "who is this guy?", then thought that since he's wielding the Gloryhammer, he must be some kind of successor of Angus.
Before this dropped: damn can Zargothrax just catch a stray missile yet?
After this dropped: Zargothrax did nothing wrong.
i mean murdering innocent people caus 1 dude made u mad is kinda worng
I mean he killed a bunch of people and raped the Princess
I love that zargothraxs origin story is laterally angus bulldozed the field where he weaved baskets.
Dude built a bridge over his weaving spot and decided to be a generational hater to angus
So awesome to have had the honor of Sound Designing this epic video. Many thanks to Alex and the Band for trusting us!
Whoa
The fact the esoteric symbol is a 2D projection of a d20 is a nice touch here.
From the music video they didnt even destroy his home, it looked like they took extra care not to, and Zargothrax still got pissed.
This animation medium works a lot better than the live action videos
Hell yeah, 1:36, 1:50, 2:00, 2:11, 2:22, and of course the entire sequence from 2:32 till the end are some of the most satisfyingly animated action sequences I've ever seen! It makes me wish that there was a whole gloryhammer animated series in this style! Alex Henderson is a paragon of the medium!
it really brings Glory hammer to life
I feel like the Live action videos have their own campy uniqueness to them.
we need this but for the older songs.
The main advantage of animation is that you can have anything happen if you can explain it to the animation team.
It's incredibly impressive how great it's been so far with Sozos, it's not every day a band survives a lineup change this well. Absolute bangers so far, can't wait to get more!
We need a GloryHammer videogame with music from the band throughout.
that or an animated series
But which side would we play as?
This is amazing, while I had some reservations with Sozos from “Fly Away”, they were pushed away with this song, I pray you guys keep making bangers like this one, anyways great job gentleman!
Pretty much this; In Fly Away, he seemed to be faltering; Maybe even intimidated. Perhaps he didn't quite embrace the cheese of Gloryhammer (or power metal in general); And he seemed to be scared of embracing belts.
But here, it seemed like he has finally adapted to the style and has the energy of a power metal singer; Needing to be held back so he doesn't belt everything.
This looks like such a good concept for an animated series that I would have loved as a kid. The extended plot would be that the clone of Zargothrax is far more evil than the original and Zargothrax and Angus often have to work together as an unlikely pair to stop him. Angus because he's the hero. Zargothrax because he wants to prove that he is the greater evil genius.
That’s actually a fucking genius idea, I would absolutely love to see that
Wow... to see the Unicorn Invasion of Dundee played out in an actual visual is truly awesome. I hope you get the ability to do far more visual storytelling. This was incredible
Wow. The story. The art. The music. In my little existence, this changes everything I've come to expect from the universe. Break the ice. Return to us the basket weaver...
I’m so happy for Alex Henderson, his DK video was great and now he’s made official videos for Alestorm AND Gloryhammer
The dude is incredibly talented, and I love that he uses his animation skill to make these ridiculous music videos
I love how after the clone awakens and downloads his future memories hes immediately able to destroy angus the 1st, i assume the kid at the end is angus the 2nd
Dude looked at the city that now occupies a tiny fraction of the land he's working and didn't think, "Man, that's a lot of new customers for my magic basket-weaving business."
The bridge was literally built on his house
This Video Kicks ass, I hope more of the previous story is animated
God, i cannot say how much i love the little detail of it being the original zargothrax you can see in the crystal at 2:58, only to reveal the clone.
Where?
Animation is so perfect for the Gloryhammer stories. It’s exactly like I pictured it in my head. I’m also sold on Sozos, I was skeptical at first but this song absolutely rocked
More animated music videos like this, please!
That moment when you realized that Gloryhammer can literally be a TV show. Yes it's nerdy but nerdy cool, and I'm sure some Jocks will be jamming to Gloryhammer at the gym
i know i will
to be honest it would be more original than most of the stuff already out there and be far more entertaining. I'd watch the fall of the kingdom of dundee to the invasion of unicorns, or the end of one season as it sets up for the next season having a time skip to the future and the rise of the chaos wizards with the first few ep's sort of showing a divided perspective as dundee rebuilds and thrives over the centuries mirrored by the chaos wizards gaining power and acting in secret with the attack of the chaos wizards being the second or third ep
I'm the one jamming to this shit 2 days in a row. Lifting shit with THE PRINCE OF FIVE MUST DIE.
I'm listening to this while running on a cross trainer....its happening😮
i literally train everyday while listening to them. Am i the jock? 🤨🤨
Now, are we having baskets handmade by Zarg on the merch or what :DDDD This was awesome!
So, you're telling me you DON'T have a Zarg-handwoven basket at home yet? And you're calling yourself a fan? Pff...poseur.
I would pay for one of those.
They absolutely crushed this one, this is easily my new favorite song from Gloryhammer! The animation is beautiful as well, everything about this video is perfect.
I think we can all agree the true villain, the ultimate start of darkness, is imminent domain laws.
That ruled. Amazing to hear Zargothrax's humble origin story.
Would anyone else watch this show animated like this?
DOUBLE
DUN DUN
WIZARD
best bit on the album!
i like how he made a clone of himself but made the clone much bigger and more jacked
Hey, if you're making you 2.0, why not embellish a little?
That song was so epic when they played it live for the first time on their last tour. And it still is!
Long live Zargothrax! Long live the sorcerer supreme!
Ah I kept hearing "He wields the laser blasting dagger of Dundee." which sounded so perfect for the GloryHammer mythos.
Oh fuck it's the zombie Unicorn Invasion of Dundee!
Soo... Zargothrax was the victim of the Kingdom of Dundee. And his clone went back to time in the orginial galaxy, where Earth was destroyed, and helped to himself to get free from ice. Did I get it right?
That seems to be one interpretation
Almost, the clone itself didn't travel through space and time, it was always lying hidden and dormant. When zargothrax dies at the end of the last album, his death triggered an interdimensional signal to wake up the clone in the year 1022
More his clone was awoken in 1022 in the original universe and downloaded the memories of the original Zargothrax (including the terrorvortex memories with 666 errors), but the music videos have always has a bit of artistic licence.
Yup! "This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!"
I thought that the clone was from the original galaxy.
Zargothrax has major Darkseid vibes and I am enjoying it
Mad props for including iconic scenes from the first three albums!
OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! Gloryhammer! The backstory of Zargothrax! This is so cool! What an amazing sight to wake up to! Extremely awesome animation to go along with. Huge fan of P.A.R.T.Y. so this is like a dream come true! 😼
Righteous evil is a beautiful thing to behold.
If "The fire of Ancient Cosmic Destiny" had a video like that, the universe couldn't resist!
We NEED this level of animation for Maleficus Geminus. The finale needs the same treatment!!!!!!
man I would watch a whole animated series of this!
This slaps! Can't wait for the new album.
[Dungeon Master]: Alright, you died sneaking over a fire trap. Re-roll a new character.
[Me]: Alright, I guess I'll roll an Orc Blacksmith.
[DM]: And your name?
[Me]: Laser Goblin.
[DM]: Get out.
This has to be the best animated video for a song I have ever seen, Gloryhammer needs an animated show
This is the Zargothrax backstory. That's SICK! I love this worldbuilding!
Great song, amazing animation, i want more. Songs, animated series, movies, games... bring it on!
I love that Zargothrax can pull the: “From my point of view the -Jedi- Prince of Fife is evil!” 💀
The funny part is his home wasnt even destroyed they just built a bridge over it
I can't put words on how much I want more of this ! Everything is amazing, the animation, the music, the animation, the song, the animation. Did I say animation three times ? YES I DID !!
Please god, for the love of all this is holy, do a lore-accurate album like this. Idc which. This animator is crazy good.
I can't stop listening to it.
Right? At least 5 times a day!
OK...
BUT THE ANIMATION IS GORGEOUS!!!!
This was absolutely perfect. The music...incredible. The animation...awesome. The lore...epic.
Feels like a 90s Cartoon Intro ❤
I got Buzz Lightyear of Star Command vibes and tbh I wouldn't mind gloryhammer taking a shot at a TV show like Metalocalypse did
I hope the synthwave version will release too. (3:26) Would be awesome.
The runes at 2:21 say "abandon all hope ye hwo trespass upon the fortress of crail"
I cant really express how this song actually sounds great and how the video emphasizes it
Good to have a Zargothrax backstory, FINALLY, just in time to use it in my gloryhammer inspired d&d campaign :D
Wait just now i realised that they went back to the 1st album to kill angus the first. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFF im so upset now
"That's rough, buddy."
- Zuko
When I listen to a new Gloryhammer song, so do my neighbours.
Six times consecutively.
Those are rookie numbers. My neighbours also gotta hear my shitty belting as I sing along to this shit. HE'S A SORCERER NEFARIOUS WITH EYES THAT BURN LIKE FIRE!!
I award the most epic moment in a metal music video to the "oh yeah" at 1:09. -The undead unicorn rising to its hindlimbs with lightning striking in the background. Perfectly fits to the song. Just fantastic.
Great song!
2:01 to 2:04 has to be my favorite scene from anything ever
THIS IS SO AWESOME! I HAVE NO WORDS! SIMPLY GLORIOUS!
Glory hammer awesome band and amazing video with excellent guitarlist and fantastic drummer 🥁 🥁🥁🥁🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎤🥁🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🎵🤘🏻🎵
Thanks!
You are mighty indeed.
All of your songs motivate me. I will go to you performance in Mexico City.
This song in particular is one of my favourites.
Best regards from Mexico
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
Sozos is killing it so far. It's different, but in the right way. Absolute solid job man.
"Damn, that guy built a castle next door. I better invade his kingdom with undead unicorns... In about 1000 years time"
at this point I will be almost 2000 years old, perfect moment in life to begin conquests I think.
1:39 gotta love the unexpected keychange! I generally think that this is a much more musically refined piece than their previous songs (except for the album ending tracks) really showing how far they've come as songwriters
For real, they're doing some cool things in their new tracks. Not just a keychange at the end anymore! KEY CHANGES IN THE MIDDLE!
If I am not mistaken, this dude also animated Alestorm's P.A.R.T.Y... 😄 Amazing job. And the song is total banger, so happy Gloryhammer lives on.
I don’t know why I didn’t see this before (2 weeks ago)
I’m obssesed with the song and the video and more because it inspires me to fight for my dreams and more now in a specific moment in my life
HOOTS!! 🇲🇽
Finally a million questions answered by a music video and not even a song. Well done this is amazing. ❤
🤘brutal 🤘
I think that's the knife of evil at 0:50
I imagine that it is. Either that, or it's the Knife of 11th Century Scottish Territorial Disputes.
Or perhaps it is the Knife of Neither Evil Nor 11th Century Scottish Territorial Disputes, which up until this point had a long history of avoiding both.
That or it's the Buster Sword used later on
If it wasn't before, it certainly is now!
The skull at the begining is a reference from Alestorm and P.A.R.T.Y i think
I think it says "laser goblin, power sword" just to argue with "Legend of the Astral Hammer."
After Fly Away I wasn't too sure about Sozos, but now... it's perfect.
Absolutely PHENOMENAL. Always a giant fan of this animation style... can't wait to see y'all live in Chicago!!
It makes me want to see an animated gloryhammer show that maybe is sort of like he-man with this animation but the stuff in each song is covered in an episode or two with each disk covering maybe one or two seasons