Frostbite Orckings: more simulation than stimulation
WHEN IT COMES to the enduring image of man vs machine, The Terminator’s ‘human skull getting crushed by a robot foot’ takes some beating. But what James Cameron didn’t –and perhaps couldn’t – show us was the fact that when the machines rise up, they’ll do it dressed as orcs. Singing jaunty second-rate Amon Amarth songs. Oh, the inhumanity.
Billed as the world’s first AI-generated metal album, there will be suspicion levelled at Frostbite Orckings’ The Orcish Eclipse. And we get it; even the name sounds more like keyword generation than the cheesy-but-effective, erm, elegance of Dragonforce or Hammerfall.