{"id":113784,"date":"2020-06-04T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/random_pirate_metal_band_alestorms_latest_album_features_several_donkey_kong_references"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:30:00","slug":"random-pirate-metal-band-alestorms-latest-album-features-several-donkey-kong-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/04\/random-pirate-metal-band-alestorms-latest-album-features-several-donkey-kong-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Pirate Metal Band Alestorm&#8217;s Latest Album Features Several Donkey Kong References"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bec9fb0ec9109\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bec9fb0ec9109\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bec9fb0ec9109\/alestorm-curse-of-the-crystal-coconut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bec9fb0ec9109\/alestorm-curse-of-the-crystal-coconut.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Alestorm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s always pretty cool seeing Nintendo games being referenced in your favourite films or music, so take a look at <em>Curse of the Crystal Coconut<\/em>, the new album from Scottish metal band, Alestorm.<\/p>\n<p>You can probably think of one reference immediately &#8211; yes, the Crystal Coconut is an item found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/donkey_kong_64\"><strong>Donkey Kong 64<\/strong><\/a>, used to fuel each Kong&#8217;s Barrel ability. It actually first appeared in a Donkey Kong Country animated series before its N64 debut, which is more than enough reason for us to present this full episode (you&#8217;ll be glad you watched it for the theme song if nothing else):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alestormband\/posts\/curse-of-the-crystal-coconutoh-wow-humans-of-planet-earth-were-super-excited-to-\/10158015613068054\/\">Facebook post<\/a> announcing the start of the album&#8217;s recording, Alestorm noted that they &#8220;may or may not have stolen that title from Donkey Kong&#8221;. The album&#8217;s final artwork also includes numerous nods to the franchise, including banana peels, what is believed to be a Donkey Kong skeleton, multiple Kremlings, a TNT barrel, and possibly even a DK Coin floating in the background (thanks <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/stories\/362396-heavy-metal-band-alestorm-sneaks-multiple-donkey-kong-country-r\">GoNintendo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e7618d0e1a0b2\/alestorm-curse-of-the-crystal-coconut.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e7618d0e1a0b2\/alestorm-curse-of-the-crystal-coconut.original.jpg\" alt=\"Alestorm - Curse of the Crystal Coconut\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Alestorm<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the lead up to the album&#8217;s release, there was even a chance to win an Alestorm-branded N64 with a copy of the game:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Unnamed\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51d11911c9a7a\/unnamed.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51d11911c9a7a\/unnamed.original.jpg\" alt=\"Unnamed\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this and wondering what on Earth pirate metal is, you&#8217;re absolutely missing out. Give this a listen, and then go and replay Donkey Kong 64 or something, we guess?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>TORTUGA! *duh, duhduh&#8230;*<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Alestorm It&#8217;s always pretty cool seeing Nintendo games being referenced in your favourite films or music, so take a look at Curse of the Crystal Coconut, the new album from Scottish metal band, Alestorm. You can probably think of one reference immediately &#8211; yes, the Crystal Coconut is an item found in Donkey Kong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}