Top 5 metal battles fought by Warkings

Power metal warriors Warkings are celebrating their fifth battle, Armageddon. The record dropped on Friday (4th) via Napalm Records. To celebrate the album’s arrival, these vikings teamed up with Metal Insider to reveal Five Most Metal Battles Fought by Warkings.

Arrest of the Templars, October 13th, 1307

The date, scorched into the soul of the Crusader like, a brand from the flames of betrayal. As the cold dawn rose, King Philip IV, that scheming little royal coin-counter, turned on the very knights who had once protected his crown. Backed by the trembling hand of that weak-ass Pope Clement V, the order was given: Arrest the Templars, seize their gold, silence their oath. But the Crusader did not kneel. He waited behind the walls of his stronghold. He knew this wasn’t just a battle, it was the end of an era – the brotherhood betrayed, honor sold for silver. Years later, that fire still burns in his veins, and he forged that fury into the riffs of “Hangman’s Night”‘. Each chugging rhythm is a hammer blow of vengeance. It’s not just music. It’s justice—six strings at a time.

Raid on the monastery of Lindisfarne on June 8th, 793

Our mighty bass-wielding berserker, The Viking, was one of the first to leap off the longship with a grin wider than a fjord. He charged the shore like it owed him mead. It was the chaos, and the roar of the North meeting the silence of the sacred, that burned itself into his soul—and much later, into his bass strings. When we wrote “Armageddon,” it wasn’t just a song. It was a memory, cast into the riffs. A tribute to the day the gods of Valhalla raised their mugs and said: “That… was a raid.” So, next time you feel the ground shake beneath that rumbling bassline, remember: That’s not just low-end—it’s Lindisfarne falling all over again.

Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC

Our drummer the Spartan was there, right there at Thermopylae. Shield in hand, spear at the ready. He didn’t just feel the earth tremble beneath a million Persian feet… he made it tremble back. When the chant of the Spartans rose — “AH-HU! AH-HU!” — even the gods stopped drinking to listen. He died that day. Of course he did. Everyone did. His last words: “This would make a killer drum intro.” And so, it did. The pounding rhythms and the unstoppable riff marching forward like a phalanx — “Sparta” is his eternal battle cry. So, remember: This. Is. SPARTA! And yes, he still plays drums. Death is merely a setback.

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest – 9 AD

9 A.D. — Teutoburg Forest, where Roman pride marched in… and didn’t march back out. A dense wilderness. No sunlight. Just mud, trees, and the sound of something screaming in Proto-Germanic. “Fight in the Shade” tells the story about our Roman Tribune unfortunately stationed in the wrong forest at the wrong time. He marched in with his legions. Discipline and formation. And then came the fog, the rain, the ambush, and a lot of yelling from very naked, very angry barbarians. To this day, he hears their war cries echoing through the trees.

Ragnarök

When the skies crack open, the wolves break their chains, and the Midgard serpent finally shows up to ruin your picnic… that’s Ragnarök And when these signs begin to show, we won’t run. No, we sharpen our axes, tune our guitars, and call upon you. Because if the world’s going down, we’re taking it down with riffs and more leather than Odin’s warhorse. The song “Kings of Ragnarök” is born from that chaos — heavy as Thor’s hammer and glorious enough to make even the Valkyries headbang. Every beat of the drum is the stomp of a thousand warriors charging. Because when Ragnarök comes, we don’t kneel. So raise your horns and remember: If the world’s ending anyway… let’s make sure it ends in Heavy-Metal!