Synopsis
Unfortunately, Death Metal doesn’t get much play in this sleepy, peaceful, actually kind of boring kingdom. Of course not. It’s tough inventing a genre on your own, and it doesn’t help when all the instruments you’ve tried up to this point don’t match the brutality necessary for a dark and heavy performance.
My coin only seems to be enough to get me to the next run-down village, and it’s dwindling fast.
To make matters worse, my newest lute is not normal. It never stays in tune, it’s barely holding together, and it keeps whispering to me. Over and over, demands for vengeance and murder echo in my head, with the promise that I’ll find the sound I need if I just listen to the voices.
So what’s a starving bard to do?
Performances of a Death Metal Bard is a brutal fantasy adventure inspired by The Witcher and Metalocalypse, merging the episodic travels of a musical elf with the darkness, blood, and raw riffs of the heaviest metal the kingdom has ever seen.
This title is available for purchase on the 31st of October 2024
Review
Damn, that was so bloody, brutal. This novella was so good. It would turn you into a death metal fan. Rob Leigh has just gone full metal jacket with this one, bringing metal music, dark magic, and a fantastic set of diverse characters as he intertwineds them beautifully to bring us this wonderful tale of the Death Metal Bard strumming his way across the kingdom as he seeks revenge for the souls of his newly acquired lute.
Performances of a Death Metal Bard is a short story that grips you with its smoky tendril hooks from the very first page. For such a short story, the worldbuilding and setting are brilliant. In a chaotic and barbaric world, full of monsters, giant trolls. Our main protagonist, Mandy, an elf who paints his face and loves death metal music just wants to make his way playing what he loves, bringing us on a roller coaster of fun, adventure, hilarious and blood drenched moments that any fantasy reader and death metal music fan would absolutely love.
In this brutal fantastic tale, Mandy or Ozzymandias, his bard stage name finds himself travelling from town to town, not a coin to his name, no friends, a freak, starving, his clothes and shoes nothing but rags just wants to preform what he loves death metal music.
But all that is about to change when he requires a lute through a card game, an old tattered piece of junk, strings worn, and riffless. Until it speaks to him through multiple voices, souls intwind in the lute looking for vengeance and murder, Mandy’s life is about to change forever.
If you love a story, full hilarious witticisms, dark wizards, dragons, death metal bards, and the Witcher books then check out this rocking explosive tale that will rock your sock off. After reading this, I will definitely be checking out his other books soon. I very highly recommend…💀🎸🔥🖤
This title is available for purchase on the 31st of October 2024.
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