review: Protokult -- party folk metal

Protokult

Transcending

The Ruins

1 October 2020

A long time ago in the ancient world people associated revelry and festivals with traveling bards like Kool & The Gang, a motley crew of magician-musicians famous from the Great Wall of China to the borders of the Roman Empire; and Loverboy, a horde of showmen-songsters known from the Nile River to the Kingdom of India and as far as the Japanese Islands in the Far East. From Tenochtitlan and Atlantis, to Troy, and Algiers, there are legends about another tribe of songsters by the name of Protokult. Stories are told that when Conan the Barbarian and Miles Morales rejoiced in a good hunting day and the troops were ready for a good time of eating, Saturday night fighting and singing, Conan and Miles called on Protokult for the party rocking.

Legend holds that they played loud music, like inebriated possessed shaman-wizards grunting and singing, prancing and dancing. They danced around the fire, they chanted and growled, and sang songs of the spirits that the people drank in order to forget their problems of war, disease and anarchist mobs terrorizing the people of the villages. To escape the terror of the self-righteous mobs, the people called on Protokult for the merriment of folk metal for the sorry not sorry party rocking good time celebrations. Everyone laughed, danced and sang along, except the cranky-pants that hated the happy nature of party folk metal.

Protokult - Oy Kanada (Official Music Video)

Protokult - Feed Your Demons (4K)