Music Monday: Reasons to love heavy metal #438

[wshaffer]

One reason why I love heavy metal is that it is one of relatively few contemporary popular music genres in which it is entirely unremarkable for an artist to write and record a song about the awesomeness of Gustavus Adolphus.

So here is Sabaton's "The Lion from the North":

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[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I hadn't stumbled across any of *those* Sabaton songs yet. (If I were to make a list of reasons why I sometimes *don't* love heavy metal, the tendency of some artists to flirt with appalling politics would be high on the list.)