The Meads of Asphodel

If Monty Python and the Holy Grail had been a heavy metal band instead of a movie, it may have manifested itself as England's Middle Ages-obsessed, the Meads of Asphodel. Co-founded in 1998 by mysterious black knights, Metatron (vocals) and Jaldabaoth (guitars, keyboards, bass, drums), the project achieved the rare feat of evading easy categorization, thanks to an epic sound infused with everything from black and death metal to progressive experimentation and symphonic keyboards, to Arabian-flavored melodies, which the pair surely picked up during a Crusade to the Holy Land of...