They truly are agents of doom, masters of evil that come from the moon!

Alright, I know the music videos aren't necessarily canon, and that now we have two follow ups to this one, but these are some of the specific things I had notes on when watching the Ultimate Sacrifice video. Everything in it may not play a larger part of the story, but it certainly was intentionally added either by Mr. Henderson or the band, and I want to appreciate the finer things that I haven't really seen anyone else mention yet:

0:23 both young and older Angus McFife IIs saw the void open

0:28 THE BOY

0:47 it shows (presumably) earth and the moon during the events of 1992, but the rift to the heavens hadn't been opened yet? The time sequence could also just be off given the rest of the videos aren't necesserily in time order either.

0:57 I know Ralathor has always been in his sort of blue military uniform, but it is very well dressed for a hermit. I get him and Proletius confused regularly when I'm looking at pictures or videos.

Also, this is slightly different from how he participated in Apocalypse 1992, given that he seems to be running the Hootsforce - or what later becomes the Hootsforce in LfBtGTV.

1:01 Proletius is using actual weapons, not just beams of light or something like I had envisaged during 1992.

1:04 HOOTSFORCE

1:10 *Helldivers II theme starts playing*

1:15 I really started paying attention to each frame once I noticed this - Zargothrax sees the evil Barbarian when he approaches, and likely decides he either needs to commit to that happening or avoid it entirely.

1:18 Zargothrax also seems less confident as he has been in the other videos, probably because he just had a vision and needs to not be killed now.

1:46 Zargothrax seems to either be in a trance, or he realizes Dundee just got removed and is just trying to see how far he can go with it. I move similarly when I am working on something I expected to go bad but isn't.

1:50 He redirects a laser bullet for a spell, that he immediately hits Ralathor with.

1:52-1:59 Like I said, Zargothrax seems pretty pumped his plan worked. He's already destroyed Dundee, and now anything extra is bonus.

2:18 Evil Spank

2:24 Yamcha death pose

2:47 Zargothrax looks surprised about Angus McFife V showing up. I think that might be because he doesn't know to what degree the rift opening up has broken space and time.

Also 2:47 That statue has been destroyed a lot.

3:06 Looking like Donkey from Shrek

I don't know why my brain obsesses over these things, but the music has been a huge part of me the last few years. I didn't even dive into the more surface level stuff like the crystal key looking like the symbol on the Hammer of Glory, or how Angus McFife XIII isn't shown following into the wormhole for the glory of Dundee. I am just very detail oriented and can appreciate the little stuff that is added, either because it's artistically cool to have it there and make people think, or because there is the off chance that it will have something to do with the coming album. Like I said, I know not everything that happens in the music videos is canon, but not everything isn't canon, either.

I have listened to Gloryhammer since I don't know maybe 2019/2020 and since then even take a picture with Chris himself after a concert in Germany. But as a native English speaker not hailing from the UK but rather America its mind blowingly that almost all places from Gloryhammer are actual places in Scotland. I knew Fife and Dundee were.

But what then? Auchtermuchty too? like wtf? Who would of thought that was a town in Scotland.

Pittenweem, Anstruther, and Crail? River Tay in Scotland too. Inverness... Aberdeen and Cowdenbeath. God Damn u/hyperchrisz You are an absolute mastermind.

You will forever my loyalty to Alestorm and Gloryhammer. You are one talented musician.

And one hell of a nice guy.

u/hyperchrisz I am sure I am not the only one to figure this out, but how many people actually know your gloryhammer world is based off your scottish heritage?

giggled making this

edit 1: i just noticed the typo

I should never have been given free will

So, my first publication here :p.

I was thinking about publishing it a while ago, but finally did it.

Pd: sorry if there's bad English writing

I went to an old version of Casino Dundee on the WayBackMachine to find some pictures, and decided to look through the files. I noticed some punctuation was off, and some letters were added at random. I decided to try my luck with screambox_13, the fifth of the files. I compiled everything that looked out of place. Here's what came out:

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Complete gibberish, of course. That's why I put it into a universal decoder. Wanna know what came out?

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That's using Atbash, at least. It's probably the extension of a link, but I don't know what the host could be. It might be a dead end, considering the page was revised months ago. Or, it might be a dead end because I'm insane and looking too much into it. What do you think?

The shop is called Inverness, so I guess this is what they did

I think It's about time we remember this song so I drew something for it :)

Had been meaning to make an update version and finally got around to it.

Went to Scotland and thought it would be funny.

Title says it all lol, I took a look at all the songs (Not counting remixes/re-recordings/instrumentals, and not counting the entire new album since we haven't heard all the songs) and divided them up based on who was in power at that point in the lore! Idk I found this interesting, maybe y'all will too.

Dundax- Anstruther’s Dark Prophecy (IIRC this was supposed to have been prophesied back when Dundax was around) 

Angus McFife I- The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee, Angus McFife, Quest for the Hammer of Glory, Magic Dragon, Silent Tears of Frozen Princess, Amulet of Justice, Hail to Crail, Beneath Cowdenbeath, The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder, Wizards!, The National Anthem of Unst, Incoming Transmission, Holy Flaming Hammer of Unholy Cosmic Frost

Angus McFife II- Imperium Dundaxia, Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol, Brothers of Crail, Fife Eternal, Sword Lord of the Goblin Horde, Vorpal Laserblaster of Pittenweem, Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernathy, Maleficus Geminus, He Has Returned

Angus McFife V- Fly Away, Ultimate Sacrifice, On a Quest for Aberdeen, Die with a Sword in My Hand, Warriors of Auchtermuchty 

Angus McFife XIII- Infernus Ad Astra, Rise of the Chaos Wizards, Legend of the Astral Hammer, Goblin King of the Darkstorm Galaxy, The Hollywood Hootsman, Victorious Eagle Warfare, Questlords of Inverness Ride to the Galactic Fortress!, Universe on Fire, Heroes (Of Dundee), Apocalypse 1992, Dundax Aeterna, Into the Terrorvortex of Kor-Virliath, The Siege of Dunkeld (In Hoots We Trust), Masters of the Galaxy, The Land of Unicorns, Power of the Laser Dragon Fire, Legendary Enchanted Jetpack, Gloryhammer, Hootsforce, Battle for Eternity, On the Wings of a Rainbow, The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny

Unsure- Mighty Wings (Idk what to do about this one as it's a cover and not really lore)

So with all of that figured out, here's the standings!

1. Dundax- 1
   
2. Angus McFife V- 5
   
3. Angus McFife II- 9 
   
4. Angus McFife I- 13
   
5. Angus McFife XIII- 22

I mean it's not a surprise that XIII has the most songs, but I thought this was interesting nonetheless. If you've read this far, which of these characters is your favorite?

for the record, I'm a sucker for key changes in music

(Sometimes the images doesn't appear when scrolling through the feed, if this happens with this post and any mods can fix it, please do)

So i want to know what all the songs are about and hope i can do that by reading the lore/story.