Line #30 Music/NanowarOfSteel


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:An important distinction.]]
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4	Nanowar of Steel (formerly known as Nanowar or [=NanowaR=],[[note]]A reference to Music/{{Manowar}}[[/note]] later changed for copyright reasons) is an Italian "[[SatireParodyPastiche parody-fun]]-[[ManlyGay gay]]-[[HeavyMetal metal]]" band -- in fact, they are the '''truest''' metal band in existence, standing head-and-shoulders above all the posers (or at least, that's what they claim). As the genre implies, their songs are mainly humorous {{Affectionate Parod\|y}}ies of various tropes and genres of metal in general.
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6	Debuting in 2003 with the demo "Triumph of True Metal of Steel", their first full-length album was 2005's "Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!". They followed with "Made in Naples" in 2007, and "Into Gay Pride Ride" in 2010. In the meanwhile, they went on a couple of tours around Europe. They would release "A Knight at the Opera" in 2014 and "Stairway to Valhalla" in 2018. They signed a record deal with Creator/NapalmRecords in 2020.
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8	Their [[http://www.nanowar.it official website]] details their history, and their albums can be found on [[http://www.jamendo.com/artist/nanowar Jamendo]] and [[https://nanowarofsteel.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]]. Warning: often very NSFW lyrics.
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10	!!Members:
11	* Potowotominimak (Carlo Alberto Fiaschi) - lead vocals
12	* Mr. Baffo (Raffaello Venditti) - co-lead vocals, miscellaneous sound effects
13	* Mohammed Abdul (Valerio Storch) - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
14	* Gattopanceri666 (Edoardo Carlesi) - bass
15	* Uinona Raider (Alessandro Milone) - drums, backing vocals
16	!!Discography:
17	* ''Triumph of True Metal of Steel'' (2003)
18	* ''Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!'' (2005)
19	* ''Into Gay Pride Ride'' (2010)
20	* ''A Knight at the Opera'' (2014)
21	* ''Stairway to Valhalla'' (2018)
22	* ''Italian Folk Metal'' (2021)
23	* ''Dislike to False Metal'' (2023)
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25	!!True tropes of steel found in their work include:
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27	* BarbieDollAnatomy: The song "Barbie, MILF princess of the Twilight" explicitly mentions the parts Barbie doesn't have.
28	* CatFolk: "Heavy Metal Kibbles" has [[spoiler:people becoming these due to eating a new type of cat food.]]
29	* CompoundTitle: The songs "Burger"[[note]]okay, so it's not actually a song[[/note]] and "King".
30	* ConspiracyKitchenSink: {{Parodied}} by "Protocols (of the Elders of Zion) of Love", a love song which tells how the singer immediately felt a connection to his LoveInterest... through the computer chips implanted in them both by Bill Gates, which along with StockFootage from ''[=InfoWars=]'' pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the song, which namedrops every conspiracy theory from chemtrails to reptilians.
31	* DoubleEntendre:
32	** "Surprise Love" is initially filled with barely concealed [[HomoeroticSubtext gay innuendo]]. Then it stops pretending it's about anything but gay sex.
33	** The lyrics to "Uranus" are full of these. "I wanna visit Uranus", "It's gonna pierce Uranus", "Everybody can enjoy the view of Uranus".
34	* EpicRocking: Their 2023 album "Dislike to False Metal" has their longest song to date, "Chupacabra Cadabra" clocks in at 9:27. The album also closes with the 6:31 "The Power of Immodium".
35	* FurnitureAssemblyGag: The video for their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA "Valhallelujah"]], which is basically a 6.5-minute string of IKEA jokes to the tune of a gospel song, ends on the male lead's girlfriend gesturing at a partially unboxed IKEA furniture kit by the Christmas tree, and the male lead looking like he's about to have a migraine at the thought of assembling it.
36	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The album "A Knight at the Opera" features four tracks with the same melody about fictional towns or countries full of gay men: "Schwanzwald" sung entirely in German, "Campo de Nabos" in Spanish, "Kitograd" in Serbo-Croatian and "Hujzbekistan" in Russian.
37	* HateDumb: Invoked and mocked in "Metal Boomer Battalion", which portrays a caricature of people who complain about any modern metal. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7KTBKGPSU0 The oficial lyric video]] contains a lot of negative comments in it, as well as the lyrics disparaging this kind of metal "fan" who hates everything outside of a very narrow interest. The hate comments used in the video also make these kinds of fans into {{Hypocrite}}s, with one comment praising Music/{{Slipknot}} and another hating Slipknot.
38	* HeavyMeta: Fulfills this trope with songs like "True Metal Of The World (Ah-Ah)" and "Metal-La-La-La". And uses via LiteralMinded approach, so they got songs about, uh, the True Metal -- such as "Outrue" (Cuprum! Yttrium! Plutonium!). Even their website's title is "Nanowar Of Steel Website of Nickel".
39	* HeavyMetalUmlaut: The titles of "Intrue" and "Outrue" ("ue" being a way to represent the German "ü").
40	* HeavyMithril:
41	** Some of the songs, such as "Look at Two Reels".
42	--->To listen to their songs \
43	You need to know a lot of things \
44	And read at least seventy times \
45	"Literature/TheLordOfTheRings"
46	** "Tooth Fairy" parodies PowerMetal's overblown solos and cheesy fantasy lyrics by replacing them, respectively, with random stuff such as the Mexican Hat Dance and lyrics related to economy and monetary value (and they're [[ShownTheirWork pretty correct]]).
47	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: In the "Pasadena 1994" video, one of the Italian players accidentally shoots his teammate in the foot with a rifle.
48	* TheImmodestOrgasm: Women moaning suggestively appear throughout, most noticeably in "RAP-Sody".
49	* JapaneseRanguage: Used and parodied in "L'Opelatole Ecologico" (more or less, "The Stleet Sweepel"), full of untranslatable puns on Japanese terms. The song is about a ninja street sweeper who uses his mystical techniques to clean more efficiently and to punish whoever is littering the city... or just mistakes him [[InterchangeableAsianCultures for a Chinese person.]]
50	* JokeOfTheButt: "Bum Voyage" and "Uranus". The former is [[WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore a spoof]] of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' narration talking about "Space... between the cheeks", which serves as an introduction track to the latter, a song-length UranusIsShowing gag.
51	* ListSong: "Intrue" and "Outrue" lists metals (probably parodying "The Elements" by Music/TomLehrer among other things).
52	* ManlyGay: A general recurring theme.
53	* MetalScream: The scream (just after the spoken part) in "Metal-la-la-la" is probably the [[BlackComedyRape funniest]] use of Metal Scream.
54	* MinisculeRocking: "Power Of The Power Of The Power (Of The Great Sword)", which is 7 seconds long.
55	* MoneySong: "Tooth Fairy" [[spoiler:starts with Mario Draghi (the director of the European Central Bank) saying that they'll do anything to preserve the Euro. The reason? The tooth fairy is destabilizing the economy by giving money freely.]]
56	* MundaneMadeAwesome: A lot of their songs, such as "King", which makes a huge deal of eating a Happy Meal at [=McDonald's=].
57	* NominalHero: In "Gabonzo Robot", the eponymous SuperRobot protects Earth against the [[AlienInvasion Zampurians]], but is unconcerned with civilian casualties as he casually destroys schools and hospitals in the process.
58	* NumberOfTheBeast: One member of the band is known as "Gatto Panceri 666". The additional joke is that "Gatto Panceri" is an actual person, an Italian melodic pop singer, basically the extreme opposite of what Nanowar stand for.
59	* OdeToIntoxication: {{Inverted}} with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYD6PlQD2s "Sober"]] in what sounds like a send-up of Music/{{Alestorm}}: the song is an ode to ''sobriety'', where the pirates choose tea, juice, or milkshakes over grog.
60	* ParodyAssistance:
61	** "Barbie, MILF Princess of the Twilight" is a spoof of Music/RhapsodyOfFire-style SymphonicMetal that features Fabio Lione from Rhapsody as a SpecialGuest.
62	** Music/{{Sabaton}} vocalist Joakim Brodén is a SpecialGuest in Sabaton parody track "Pasadena 1994", and plays a newscaster in the music video while visibly struggling to keep a straight face.
63	* PunBasedTitle:
64	** "The Call of Cthulhu" is a parody of [[Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu the book]], about Cthulhu literally calling you on the phone.
65	** "Look At Two Reels" is a pun on the name of Luca Turilli, Rhapsody Of Fire's frontman.
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** In the music video for their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSWszdSHkyE "Uranus"]], the female backup dancers are dressed as Sailor Uranus from ''Manga/SailorMoon''. It also adds a VisualPun to the HurricaneOfPuns the track is made out of.
68	** One member of the band is known as "Uinona Raider", that is, Creator/WinonaRyder's name pronounced with an Italian accent. Why? [[RuleOfFunny Just because.]]
69	** The song "Chupacabra Cadabra" from ''Dislike to False Metal'' opens with an imitation of the famous drum intro to "Music/{{Painkiller}}".
70	* SpecialGuest:
71	** Thomas Winkler, as [[Music/{{Gloryhammer}} Angus McFife]], sings the role of Odin in "Valhallelujah".
72	** Madeline Liljestam of Music/{{Eleine}} provides the female vocals on "Winterstorm in the Night".
73	** Joakim Brodén provides some ParodyAssistance on "Pasadena 1994".
74	** Ross the Boss (original guitarist of Music/{{Manowar}}) is featured in "Armpits of Immortals".
75	* StockFootage: "Protocols (of the Elders of Zion) of Love", a parody of {{conspiracy theorist}}s, contains audio clips of some of Alex Jones's rants on ''[=InfoWars=]'', e.g. "putting chemicals in the water and turning the friggin' frogs gay".[[note]]i.e. Jones misunderstanding a scientific study of the effect human hormone treatments such as birth control pills are having on the ecosystem[[/note]]
76	* SuddenDownerEnding: "Vegan Velociraptor" ends with the titular hero defeating the Carnivorous Cows and being celebrated for his victory. Then the entire song cuts out as the meteorite hits.
77	* TakeThat: They occasionally take direct shots at other bands:
78	** In "Look at Two Reels", their recommended method for enjoying Music/BlindGuardian, Music/DragonForce or Music/RhapsodyOfFire is first reading ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' 70 times.
79	** In "Images And Swords", they claim that the way Music/DreamTheater make their complex music is by scratching a dick into a Music/{{Manowar}} record with a screwdriver.
80	* TakeThatAudience: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7KTBKGPSU0 "Metal Boomer Battalion"]] is a rip-roaring WarIsGlorious song that satirizes elitism in metal fandom: the protagonists hate any song after 1982 (except Music/{{Metallica}}, which was somehow better in 19'''22''') and pull the NoTrueScotsman fallacy in online flame wars. The lyric video consists of a montage of negative comments apparently posted on their earlier songs.
81	-->''"We fight! Online! Unfollow, unsubscribe!"''
82	* TestosteronePoisoning: This is some ''manly'' metal they have ready for ya.
83	* WarIsHell: Parodied with [[https://youtu.be/39CyUAnKUso "Pasadena 1994"]], an AffectionateParody of Music/{{Sabaton}}. The song depicts the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals between Italy and Brazil as a bloody battle between two mighty titans. Sabaton's lead singer, Joakim Broden, also provides vocals [[ParodyAssistance just to add to it]].
84	* WhatTheHellHero: "Tooth Fairy" is one aimed at the tooth fairy, whose distribution of free money is causing an economic crisis.

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