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If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice.

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Impressive.

The great Orsen Welles spring chickened out by only recording heavy metal tracks when he was 70. His excuse for not repeating that at 90 was dying not long after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMi-vCfAWw

Manowar are such a guilty pleasure of mine. They have a lot of very silly material, but hard to deny that Dark Avenger is anything but absolute art.

I knew about this, though I'd never listened to it. I gave it a shot now, and I wanted to like it, but... it's terrible, unfortunately.

He also did work with Rhapsody of Fire from 2004 to 2010, where his contributions were of much higher quality.

It doesn't bother me, it's fantastic that he did this, it was just objectively not very good. I'm glad his other contributions were better, and he's obviously had an illustrious career in general.

If you want to give it a listen, I'd recommend this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAgnVGFZbs

Excellent, I do love me some Rhapsody, thanks.

Phineas and Ferb had some of the best scripts ever written for TV, and I'll die on that hill.

That’s unfair to Sir Christopher. He was only 82 when he started working with Rhapsody.

Oh wow he looks incredible for being 94

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