The Playlist Of Battle

So the main character of my book trilogy I'm working on, through various circumstances I'd rather not spoil, is an onryo who for some reason has an entire playlist of power metal songs he has preprepared for when he's fighting a guy that he jacks his iPod into his arm like an IV drip and projects the music out of his freaking soul when he's battling.

I ask some help because I'm wondering if the likes of Rhapsody, Sabaton, Manowar and Dragonforce are bands that power metal fans will find cliched in terms of my main character's personal taste, since he's supposed to be a somewhat newbie to metal fandom but he's listened to enough in his time that he knows what's appropriate to fight a guy to.

Also I need to know if this is the fucking stupidest idea to occur in my novel trilogy to date, a series that includes the ghost of Alec Guinness as Santa Claus in this universe, hence why kids sometimes don't get toy lightsabers for Christmas.

To me, it sounds like that kind of idea that is so mind-blowingly preposterous that it works perfectly [alongside your entire universe, from what I catch]. Refuge in Audacity, ahoy!

I'm cool with the idea of him using the aforementioned bands, myself. Specially Manowar's "Dawn Of Battle".

The best part is, the horrified onlookers attempt to record these superhero shenanigans and he just nods at the one hipster taping him for Youtube, like he's King Leonidas asking his wife permission to kick that messenger into the pit, before he literally fights racism with his fists because it's a scene making fun of that racist bogan that got taped on public transport hassling a Korean lady.

EDIT: Also the main character is half German. This is relevant to the plot from the first book on, he's related to war criminals on both the German and Japanese sides of his family. In this scene his German dad is riding the bus with him because he can't teleport like the protagonist, and as such the one Sabaton song he refuses to put on his Battle Playlist is The Final Solution for at least three separate reasons. There is a joke made about how Sabaton won't play it live anymore because metal fans headbanging to a song about the Holocaust was too disturbing, because it was a low hanging fruit of awkwardness. To top all this off, the protagonist is fighting this racist bogan on a bus because "Densha Otoko would not stand for such blasphemy". Yeah. You were right about Refuge in Audacity.

edited 26th May '13 10:40:56 AM by NewGeekPhilosopher

If you need a cool "Marching Into Battle" song, I'd recommend "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys.

...why go with power metal at all, out of curiosity? Granted it's got the pacing and the energy but I'm pretty sure you could assemble a reasonable playlist meeting those needs from more eclectic sources.

Part of the plot is the protagonist rediscovering his German half's non-Nazi cultural output. Power metal, he discovers, is one of Germany's most notable cultural exports, as well as board games.

Let's also not forget that this entire trilogy has this weird power metal feel to it from the get go. He talks about his forum bros like they're his "battle brothers" since there is a very real body count in these flame wars due to the curse on his family's head from World War II that kills trolls who are disrespectful to either his bloodline or the victims of his Nazi/Japanese Imperialist ancestors respectively. At one point there's a scene where he swears fealty to his future best mate using a kneeling pose and a meter long ruler in place of a sword because he finds out he just saved a Roma Prince related to Vlad The Impaler from bullies.