“Never set the sun on me”
Welcome to a new feature: The HMO Song of the Week! Each Sunday I’ll be posting up the song that’s been lighting up my life the most in the past week: could be a new song or an old classic.
So let’s get this series off to the best possible start with one of the best possible songs: Virgin Steele’s Lion in Winter from their terrific album Age of Consent. It’s a fine example of their patented and thrilling barbaric romanticism. The Manowarring and galloping guitars provide the barbarism while the instrumental flourishes, melodic pomp and David DeFies’ impassioned vocals provide the romanticism. Here’s a man that can sing a line like “And I’ll rage against this wind” and sound like he really means it. Wonderful.
[Virgin Steele – Lion in Winter]
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
What a great way to wake up on a Sunday morning, cool song. Thanks for sharing it.
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And I get to wake up to Lee Aaron! We’re both winners haha
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Indeed! 🙂
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No raging against the wind was required when reading this post – HMO New Release Fridays/Song of the Week Sundays, fantastic reading!
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Thank you! Raging against the wind is definitely optional.
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But if it’s going to be done, it has to be meant!
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Half-arsed raging against the wind will just get you nowhere.
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Virgin Steele …Good ol Jack Starr! Brent Jensen (book author) in his novel Leftover People writes about his journeys in The U.S during his book tour promoting No Sleep Til Sudbury and at one point he’s in somewhere Florida I believe and he notices a guy sitting off in the distance and it was Jack Starr…..
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No Jack Starr on this one though I’m afraid! He was only on their first two albums… I don’t think him and Defeis got on very well.
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Whut??!! A singer and a guitar player not getting along!!! I do not believe this!
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Haha it’s really rare but it definitely happens! Strange but true.
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Song of the Week! I like it already. 🙂 The lyrics sound promising too….
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Thanks Danica! Hope you love this tune as much as I do. It’s heroic stuff.
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Meant to add… Great series..look forward to these. Glad your smashing out more reviews!
Cheers….
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Yay! Thanks dude, I’m looking forward to doing these. Going to be fun!
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Oh yes, a band who think ‘irony’ is a cool adjective for chainmail.
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Er… isn’t that what it means?
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I think I may have stolen that joke from you.
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Looks like a mining colony on Bespin might be in trouble!
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I can’t believe her Mum let her go out like that either.
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Musta been heading to the Cathouse.
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How much is the taxi from Glasgow to Bespin Cloud City these days?
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Think it’s £75 including boundary charge.
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Great vocals.
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He totally nails this!
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I really want the name of the girl in the cover art to be Virgin Steele.
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Haha that would be great!
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It also changes the meaning of the album title a wee bit, doesn’t it.
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