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Nanowar of Steel (formerly known as Nanowar or NanowaR - a reference to Manowar - later having changed their name for trademark reasons) is an Italian "parody-fun-gay-metal" band--in fact, they are the truest metal band in existence, standing head-and-shoulders above all the posers (or at least, that's what they claim). As the genre implies, their songs are mainly humorous Affectionate Parodies of various tropes and genres of metal in general.

Debuting in 2003 with the demo "Triumph Of True Metal Of Steel", their first full-length album was 2005's "Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!". They followed with "Made In Naples" in 2007, and "Into Gay Pride Ride" in 2010. In the meanwhile, they went on a couple of tours around Europe.

Their official website details their history, and their albums can be found on Jamendo. Warning: often very NSFW lyrics.

Nanowar of Steel provides examples of the following tropes:

• Camp Gay: Both the album artworks and some of the lyrics.
• Compound Title: The songs "Burger" and "King".
• Double Entendre: "Surprise Love" is initially filled with barely concealed Ho Yay innuendo. Then it stops pretending it's about anything but gay sex.
• Heavy Meta: Fulfills this trope with songs like "True Metal Of The World (Ah-Ah)" and "Metal-La-La-La". And uses via Literal-Minded approach, so they got songs about, uh, the True Metal -- such as "Outrue" (Cuprum! Yttrium! Plutonium!). Even their website's title is "Nanowar Of Steel Website of Nickel".
• Heavy Metal Umlaut: The titles of "Intrue" and "Outrue" ("ue" being a way to represent the German "ü").
• Heavy Mithril: Some of the songs, such as "Look at Two Reels".

To listen to their songs You need to know a lot of things And read at least seventy times The "The Lord of the Rings"

• The Immodest Orgasm: Women moaning suggestively appear throughout, most noticeably in "RAP-Sody".
• Intentional Engrish for Funny: The album titles, and shows up in song lyrics as well.
• List Song: "Intrue" and "Outrue" lists metals (probably parodying "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer among other things).
• Mad Lib Metal Lyrics: Sometimes parodied with weakly linked, but strongly screamed lines.
• Metal Scream: The scream (just after the spoken part) in "Metal-la-la-la" is probably the funniest use of Metal Scream.
• Miniscule Rocking: "Power Of The Power Of The Power (Of The Great Sword)", which is 5 seconds long.
• Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: They mostly aim their arrows at either Manowar or Rhapsody, but in "Odino & Valhalla" they manage to parody Ennio Morricone, the lambada, Pink Floyd and System of a Down, all in the same song.
  • "Rap-Sody".
• Testosterone Poisoning
• What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: A lot of their songs, such as "King", which makes a huge deal of eating a Happy Meal at McDonald's.