YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS
A Pirate Stole My Christmas
NAPALM
Sweden’s oddball pirate troupe have themselves a rum do
ON PAPER, THE idea of a pirate metal Christmas album sounds like a final ‘Fuck you’ from a year that was supposed to offer us redemption. But whether you give the likes of Alestorm and Rumahoy a wide berth or what are you, four?, Umeå, Sweden’s Ye Banished Privateers are likely going to scramble all your co-ordinates, your expectations, and whatever sense of superiority you thought you had.
There are of them for a start, the album’s personnel count of 20 clearly not four or five mates having a laugh, but a – one that, like the Viking re-enactment scene attached to Heilung and Wardruna, has actually put the effort in to go further than the prop shop and steep themselves in the
