Trikhorn – ‘Pirate Life for Viking Guys’ (2020)
Rating: 6/10
Release: 1 February 2020
Label: Independent
Trikorn was releasing with “Pirate Life for Viking Guys” their second full length album on the 01.02.2020. So what does Pirates have in common with Vikings ? There can only be one thing: drinking, drinking and once more drinking. Therefore the album is hitting off with a typical pirate folk metal song “Pirate Day”, which is about the typcial stereotypes of a pirate’s life: drinking, chanting, stealing, fighting and drinking again :-)The next song “Brotherhood in Alcohol” is continuing with the main topic of this record. As influences of their music Trikorn is mentioning Alestorm, Turisas, Korplikaani, Ensiferum and Eluveitie, while I can only try to make a connection to Alestorm (if any at all). With “Viking Heart” they are trying to bring in a little bit of Viking Metal in adding some growls to the “sound like a pirate” clean vocals, but the structure of the songs is not changing. When I was the first time reading the name of their album and saw the logo including the Hammer of Thor, I was thinking that this could be interesting, but to be honest in my opinion this is just a gadget, maybe to receive more attention. In the end Trikorn is serving you from the beginning to the end a typical pirate metal record with no real innovations. I would say that some songs like “Sandoo Island” or “Funny Guys” can be quite entertaining, but sometimes you can hear that there needs to be done a lot of improvements on the production side. I guess seeing this band live must be a lot of fun. You can decide by your side ” Are you funny guys ? “, Trikorn are Funny Guys 🙂
Tracklist
- Pirate Day 06:34
- Brotherhood in Alcohol 06:25
- Viking Heart 05:36
- Warriors of the South 03:30
- One More Sight 02:35
- Sandoo Island 04:25
- The White Sea 03:57
- Funny Guys 04:40