ossory
"Lord of the Rankh" is a five-minute metal-meets-Riverdance tribute to Terry Pratchett's Samuel Vimes, cramming in as many Watch adventures as it can carry — Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! and Snuff — with verses, choruses, a breakdown and spoken sections honouring the cynical copper who still reads to his son every night.
Lord of the Rankh
Style
A fast Celtic folk-metal reel in cut time around 155 BPM, pairing tin whistle, fiddle and uilleann pipes with downtuned rhythm guitar, bodhrán-doubled double-kick drums and hard-shoe step-dance percussion, under a gruff conversational-to-roaring male baritone and rowdy gang-vocal hooks, with dry spoken interludes and a half-time breakdown.