the heavy metal of war cry celebrates his 20-year career with a choral comic in which his songs take the form of vignettes.
In 2022, the Asturian band celebrates two decades of life on stage, and in this year of celebration, the songs of the Víctor García group become comics by a good number of national artists. Alex Orbé, Lolita Aldea, Fidel Martínez, David Sánchez, Jorge García and Gustavo Rico among many others, capture in vignettes what 12 songs by war cry has inspired them. Fantasy, science fiction, costumbrismo and epic come together to leave an original work of power metal music.
Warcry. InterpretArte is a tribute to a popular band that has toured the world. But it is also a vision of the authors of each of the selected songs. What it evokes in some is not the same in others, and that is clear in each of the stories. There is a predominance of fantasy and epic, war cry is a power metal band, a genre that tends to look for themes in these fields and that seeks grandeur in its sound to emulate the fantastic epic, but that does not prevent the authors from extracting other themes from the music.
From the conquest of the poles, and the failure to achieve it, passing through loves that are born and die, galactic battles, the heroic defense of Troy, or the search for redemption in the love of an old warrior, the work traces the career of the group, and leaves a good number of short stories of great graphic quality in good part, and with concrete and simple ideas, that evoke the song, always looking for a little more. Thus leaving the mark of each author or authors who make the adaptation.
There are names like David Sánchez or Fidel Martínez who stand out for works well known by readers, but there are also gaps for artists with less visibility who give their chest to create a short story with a lot to tell.
Jorge García and Gustavo Rico return to their rights and return to a Nordic medieval world to talk about forgiveness and old age in Redención. Fidel Martínez tells the story of Héctor’s end for honor and duty in the Guardian of Troy. Interpretations of what the nearby songs tell. Fernando Llor and Francisco Bueno turn Death of a Dream into an oriental fantasy with the air of a Japanese samurai legend, their personal choice within the lyrics of the song. Some like Germán Fernández and Quilo Zapico choose to use the same group texts to guide their narration, others only parts, or nothing at all. However, others have chosen to turn the song into a conduit for stories with an aesthetic and placement that have nothing to do with the lyrics, leaving a new way of approaching it, as they have done in Rebelde Miguel Porto or Manel Cráneo with Ardo inside.
Warcry. InterpretArte has been edited by Jaus Records, the band’s record company, as part of the celebration of its twentieth anniversary, and to be liked by the group’s followers, but it also leaves behind a choral work that any comic fan will be able to enjoy, finding many national authors who, without much of a name, they do a great job.