Abney Park - Airship Pirate

[LittleVexy]

Abney Park is a band based in Seattle that mixes elements of industrial dance, world music, and steampunk influenced lyrics in their work.

In 2006, Abney Park transformed themselves from a largely Goth Industrial band into a Steampunk band. Since Steampunk is largely derived from science fiction and fantasy literature, the band created a fictional backstory to explain the shake-up in membership and who they were now, and to set a stage for their new music. According to that story, the band's plane collided with a time-travelling dirigible called the Ophelia - said to have been created by a Dr. Leguminous Calgori (presumably a reference to the 1920 silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - in a freak storm. The band commandeered the vessel, deciding to become airship pirates, and formed a new band from the surviving members of the crash. Much of their music since that time has been based around this fictional backstory.

steampunk!!

[devilsmaster]

It's like a terror beat in the beginning and then sounds like a drinking song, you'd sing about pirates! It was a better pick this time! Thanks for sharing it. The music is what I liked most about this song, the lyrics not that much!