Windmill's Favorite Music? It's a Big Metal Fan! Quiz

Answer: Slipknot

It is the ninth track on the album which perhaps appropriately was released on Halloween, 1996:

"I saw a human hand
Windmills like two
Somethin' at my left
(Screaming sphincter muscles)
Post-sniff scrunchies
What the?"

The band has a very creative stage appearance as they all wear threatening-looking masks, and the music is very aggressive sounding. The violence of their stage act has been known to result in a few broken ribs over the years among the band members. Rock on.

Answer: Helloween

Formed in Hamburg, Germany in the Orwellian year of 1984, Helloween was first comprised of the members Kai Hansen (guitar), Michael Weikath (guitar), Markus Grosskopf (bass), and Ingo Schwichtenberg (drummer). "Windmill" is from their 1993 album "Chameleon", and by then the band members were mostly the same except that Kai Hansen was no longer there, and Michael Kiske was the vocalist and Roland Grapow was an added guitarist.

Answer: Sweden

Lead singer Elmgren, guitar and background singer Karlsson, and bass player Andersson are from the west coast of Sweden. They founded the band Blakk Ledd in 2014 after Karlsson and Anderson had previously played together in the group Sanity. "Heavy Metal Fans" is the title song from their debut album, that came out October 21st, 2022, released by the label Melodic Passion.

Answer: Spain

They formed their band in 1993 in Madrid, Spain, their name being inspired by the term by which Christian Europeans referred to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula where Spain is located.
The song is from their eighth album, called "Ancestral Romance", released in 2010.

"Tilt at windmills,
As you were mad at all.
Tilt at windmills
Enter with them in brawl."

Answer: Heart

The song is from Heart's 2010 album called "Red Velvet Car". This album featured change-up in Heart's usual glam metal sound (aka hair metal, or pop metal), and added a more acoustic sound to it.

The glam metal sound began in the 1970s, exemplified by bands such as KISS, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and also in another vein David Bowie, Queen, and T. Rex. Guitar riffs and hooks are a key element.

Answer: Germany

"She is a metal fan
Long hair, tattoos and piercings
She has a lot of friends
And parties in the evenings.
But she's a lonely girl
No one who really loves her
Dreaming of a perfect world
With a boy who's never sober."

As one might have guessed from their name, much of Tankard's thrash metal lyrics focus on an adoration for alcohol, a tankard being a gothic-style drinking vessel, sometimes made of pewter, with a fittingly Teutonic, medieval look. The band was founded in 1982 in Frankfurt, Germany, and this song is from their 2010 album titled "Vol(l)ume 14".

Answer: symphonic metal

Tach is Klingon for baritone, a much lower octave than a soprano would sing. Baryton is Norwegian for baritone, and imirvik is Inuktitut for baritone.

Edenbridge formed in 1998 in Austria and they have produced over ten albums, led by songwriter Arne Stockhammer who also plays six and seven string guitars, and keyboards. Symphonic metal music topics usually explore the areas of fantasy and imagination, legends and myths, as opposed to the traditional heavy metal subjects of politics or drugs. Musically symphonic metal makes very heavy use of synthesizers and choral music arrangements.

"Fly at a Higher Game":
"Sometimes your life is a galanty show
And sometimes a halo of light
When tilting at windmills
Has robbed you of your sight"

"Adamantine":
"You can tilt at windmills
You get a fire alight
Pass with flying colours
You are taking it with pride."

Answer: "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes

The phrase basically means "attacking enemies or evils that one has imagined". A broader definition might even include foolishly pursuing impractical or unrealistic ideals. The phrase was first seen in the English language in the 1640s, and it is derived from Cervantes' literary masterpiece "Don Quixote" published in 1604. The titular Man of La Mancha imagined seeing giants and would draw his sword against them, but in reality they were just windmills.

In the song "Tilting at Windmills" the lyrics make reference to Quixote, the knight-errant (a wandering medieval chivalric figure):

"All hail the knight of the verbal incontinence, tilting against windmills into the night.
Inanimate objects, they do not pose a real threat."

Answer: Razor

Dave Carlo's medical treatment succeeded and he has resumed lead guitar for Razor alongside bassist Mike Campagnolo, vocalist Bob Reid, and drummer Rider Johnson. Razor is known as one of Canada's "Big Four" thrash metal bands, the other three being Annihilator, Sacrifice, and Voivod. Razor also has not one but two songs referencing fans:

"Fast and Loud":
"Sound of metal in the air
Time for you to get your share
Metal Fans fill our dreams
Love to hear your metal screams!"

and "Iron Hammer":
"Now the power's in your hands
A message for all metal fans
I know this sounds a little cliche
But I don't give a damn anyway!"

Answer: Logic

Logic has recorded a song "War Vet", but never "Soldier of Fortune". Also, he is a rapper not a heavy metal band, and has a dislike for the genre, having said "I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it." Ritchie Blackmore on the other hand is in the metal band Deep Purple who first wrote and played guitar on the song, and Blackmore says it is one of his favorite songs: "It's got a few of those medieval chords." The band Opeth covered the song on their 2005 album "Ghost Reveries" and Whitesnake covered it in 2015 for their album "The Purple Album."

"But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune."