Singing Swords is the Trooper-esque song of a dying Viking as he bleeds to death on the battlefield anticipating Valhalla, heavy metal’s second favourite afterlife. Heavy Load – Singing Swords (Stronger Than Evil, 1983)ĭebuting in 1978, Stockholm’s nattiest barbarians Heavy Load were the world’s first devotedly Viking metal band, with dead-giveaway song titles like Heathens From The North and Son Of The Northern Light and endearingly amateurish sleeve art depicting fur-clad Nordic beefcakes brandishing swords in a fjord.
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