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* This forms the basis for many of neo-acidrockers Monster Magnet's lyrics, and the band's entire image for that matter. What's more, they took the band's name from a song by the [[Frank Zappa|Mothers of Invention]] called "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet". Emphasis on "son" here.
** Even more so for the obscure metal band Manilla Road, who have written concept albums about [[King Arthur]] returning in the far future to fight demons on Mars or [[
* In the music video for "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by British glam rockers The Darkness, the band's spaceship is attacked by a giant space octopus, which they destroy with [[The Power of Rock]]. Yes. A literal rock.
* Similiarly, the video for "Burn It Off" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has the band landing an ocean liner on a mysterious island, and being attacked by a variety of monsters from the films of Ray Harryhausen, which they fight off with [[The Power of Rock|the power of blues-influenced rock 'n' roll.]] It also involves shark-airplanes flown by [[Dem Bones|skeletons]].
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** One such psychobilly band has the improbably awesome/hard-to-remember name "The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster". One of their songs, "Puppy Dog Snails", is about a juvenile delinquent being pursued by ogres and beating them up. Or something.
** Symphonic power metal, which can be described as heavy metal but more epic and with an orchestral backing.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206105227/http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/laudanum/622/cdmetal.html Christian Death Metal].
** Folktronic: folk music + electronica.
*** [http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/4722 Xera] is a Spanish Celtronic (Celtic + electronic) band.
** Folk Metal. Metal? Good. [[Everything's Louder
** "Ompa" + a pump organ + rock+ Norwegian = [[Kaizers Orchestra]]
** klezmer + reggae + rap + hassidic breakdance = [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvcf7CKpOo crazy awesome unleaded].
** Shamisen (Japanese tradition music) + metal = God of Shamisen (the musical equivelant of a ninja pirate)
* [[Muse (
* The Cat Empire - already awesome enough, as they are an Australian Latin-jazz ska funk band - have a song called "Voodoo Cowboy". What's more, the song lives up to the name. The eponymous cowboy's mother was a snake, and his father was a scarecrow, "Born in the desert with his hat on his head". The desert "was his bitch". Oh, and he had a horse and died finding a woman to love at the bottom of a lake at the edge of the world.
* The Plastic Constellations' "Let's War." HOLY CRAP, THAT SERPENT'S BREATHING FIRE!
* "The [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]" by [[Lemon Demon]], which deals with an enormous battle between practically every action movie star and superhero from the past twenty years. And {{spoiler|Mr. Rogers}} is the winner.
* The Russian Rock song "Gorbachev" by ANJ is a perfect example of this trope. The music video features not only an army of [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie]] [[Dirty Communists|Stalins]] with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampiric tendencies]], but also an enormous battleship, the band's drummer in a gas mask, and a [[Conan|Conanesque]] Mikhail Gorbachev armed with an axe, a gun, and laser eyes rushing into battle to save hot girls.
* [[Songs to Wear Pants To]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20130704053359/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/we-are-the-robot-pirates/ We Are The Robot Pirates]. Both for the reason you'd expect, and because the song is performed in a style that could be best described as Techno Hip-Hop Sea Chantey. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514113825/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/step-in-2-tha-barber-hop-hip-shop/ Step Into Tha Barber Hop Hip Shop] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130430153427/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/celtic-techno-burrito/ Celtic Techno Burrito] probably apply as well.
** Now there's the opposite of robot pirates: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514113626/http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/zombie-ninjas/ Zombie Ninjas].
* On the subject of album art, take a look at [[
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* Many Metal band mascots venture into this territory:
** [[Running Wild (
** US Power Metal band Phantom had a cyborg werewolf with wings.
** Most famous is [[
* [[Apocalyptica]], the Sibelius-Academy-trained cello-metal ensemble, who began as a Metallica tribute band. Seriously, though.
* The video for [[Van Halen]]'s cover of "Pretty Woman" features a transvestite being molested by midgets working for Napoleon and being rescued by Tarzan, a samurai and a cowboy at the behest of a hunchback.
* Somewhere in [[YouTube]], you will see the ultimate [[Otaku]] music fantasy: A song made for ''[[The Idolmaster (
* The videos and backstory of Major Lazer have a lot of fun with lasers, zombies, vampires, pimps, mummies, rockets and partying hard.
* "[[Long Title|Dixie Rose Deluxe's Honky-Tonk, Feed Store, Gun Shop, Used Car, Beer, Bait, BBQ, Barber Shop, Laundromat]]" by Trent Willmon, which describes an impossibly well-stocked store and the narrator's relationship with the characters inside.
* Battalion 88's black metal techno album ''Tie of Times'' has Nazi viking space marines. They are 100% serious.
* Gor-Gor of [[GWAR]] is a zombie T-Rex who ends up fighting a cyborg in live shows.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120104085937/http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Man-Witch Man-Witch] project has a lot of fun with this. Song titles include ''Flaming Pillow Of Fear'', ''Wrastle[[Castlevania|vania]] [[Warhammer
* Though done more for [[Rule of Funny|laughs]] than for awesome: [[The Beatles (
* [[Lordi]]'s song ''Get Heavy'' begins with the lyrics "Spasmodic '84 Electric Dinosaur Desperado Vampire" and then continues later with "warp into monster disco hell" as well.
* Then there's Dread Zepplin, about which The Other Wiki says that they [[wikipedia:Dread Zeppelin|are best known for performing the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style as sung by a bulky Vegas Elvis impersonator.]]
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