Hooray for Teutonic metal referencing historic stuff! Grave Digger’s been melting faces and shredding solos since 1980 and they don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. I guess in the late 80’s they rebranded as “Hawaii” which gives me hope they did chill island songs at that time.
The song’s a pretty straight down the fairway classic metal track. Gotta imagine after 42 years (song’s from 2022) they have it all dialed in. There’s also brief WINDMILL GUITARING about two minutes in. Gotta point that out. You don’t see windmill guitaring too often. The guitar solo during the guy getting tortured by the devil lady is pretty solid. Also he’s got a cool looking guitar.
Apparently the video is about the Knights Templar and a grand master who… sold his soul to a devil lady? Or many dudes who keep selling their souls to her, such that she has a pile of dead Templars just hangin around? I saw no mention of Oak Island nor Templar gold so I don’t know the veracity of this video. I didn’t even see one bobby dazzler across the whole four minutes. But it is fun seeing them all kitted out like the guy from the end of the Last Crusade. It’s also great they pronounce purgatory as purge-a-tory.
All in all it’s a solid track from a tight band so give it a spin!