Alestorm

This is a band I have just found, and I'm now horribly addicted to their album 'Black Sails at Midnight.' They are a power/folk metal band (power metal focuses on fast guitar playing, folk metal uses folk songs/celtic songs in their outlining of the songs) but the band describes itself as "True Scottish Pirate Metal," which is actually a joke in reference to 'True Norwegian Black Metal). They hail from Perth, Scotland, and have been recording since 2004. They have two albums, the one I mentioned, and "Captain Morgan's Revenge."

I just love the album, because it doesn't take itself too seriously, and still manages some really good music, if you're into this rather obscure form of metal. The instrumental song "No Quarter" uses the basic tune of Hans Zimmers' compositions from "Pirates of the Carribean," adding their own style to it.