Lifting a Friday morning metal band from Angry Metal Guy, this time it’s Mythbegotten, a folky proggy metal band from Central New York & New England. Not sure how long the band’s been around, but they did release this album on Halloween, which is fitting. If you wanna check it all out, they have a bandcamp for the whole album.

The song has a great intro, almost like something that’d be in Fable or some other cheeky RPG, before kicking into the main riff. I dig the vocals, when combined with the quasi-campiness of the folky sound, it gives a musical theater vibe. Which seems apt, metal is theatric as all get out. The song does kind of bound between genres, sitting in a heavily syncopated folk vibe during the main verse, and kicking into a higher intensity metal sound for the choruses. And then sprinkle in some noodly solos and you’ve got a stew goin.

Five and a half minutes is a bit long for a song, but the lyrics are telling the tale of the Heedless Horseman. He doesn’t heed at all. You yell at him to look out for chasms, he pays no heed. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find full music videos for these guys. Hopefully they’ll be able to make some of those in the future. The lyrics alone paint a great picture of what the video could be.