Following the release of their Christmas album, A Pirate Stole My Christmas, your favorite shanty pirates YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS offer another surprise from their treasury in the form of a music video for “Ring The Bells”! With this captivating single and album opener of A Pirate Stole My Christmas, the boisterous pack once more reveal a frostbitten visual, sending their fans and listeners off into a pirate-y jolly Christmas season!

YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS about the music video for “Ring The Bells”:

"’Ring The Bells’ is our final single release from A Pirate Stole my Christmas. For this video production, we were running desperately low on funds and could not afford to hire proper lighting for shooting outdoors in the Swedish mountains. Luckily our manager at Napalm Records had some connections with a budget production company called Raiffeisen Adult Entertainment. This particular company specializes in close intimate lighting and special effects and were said to be experts at making wood look good on camera. In the end it didn't turn out quite the way we expected, but the statistic shows that the average viewer only watches the first 25 seconds of a video, so we think we are good."

Watch the Music Video for “Ring The Bells” below.

YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS deck the hulls with 11 swashbuckling Christmas shanties!

´Tis the jolliest of seasons! Swedish sea dogs YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS have come a’rowing through rough seas and salty winds to steal Christmas in the most swashbuckling of ways. Wrapped in the swag of pirate folk rock, the newly interpreted, grim covers of beloved Christmas classics on A Pirate Stole My Christmas draw the listener into a dark underworld of blood and bones! YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS put their shanty and pirate folk-infused spin on Christmas tunes like “Twelve Days Of Christmas” and the captivating album opener “Ring The Bells”. The well-known classic “Oh Christmas Tree” gets a new coat of paint when YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS re-word it to “O Cannonball” - most definitely making Christmas Eve a special occasion for the most beautiful time of the year.

YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS add:

“If given enough time, every artist will eventually lose their last ounce of self-respect, and release a Christmas album. YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS are no strangers to self-loathing commercial stunts, and with our new album - A Pirate Stole my Christmas, we aim to officially join the ranks of Christmas legends such as Maria Carey and Bing Crosby. Our album is compiled of 11 classic carols defiled into an unrecognizable pulp of rum-drenched atonal pirate madness. If you didn't hate Christmas before, this is certain to change your mind!”

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A Pirate Stole My Christmas will be available in the following formats:

CD Sleevepack

1LP Gatefold Brick Red

1LP Gatefold Brick Red + Signed Postcard

Digital Album

YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS are:

Nobility - cembalo, pump organ, miniature piano and almond presents

Quinton Taljenblock - viola pomposa, fiddle, mandoline, hurdy gurdy and main chopper of the sloppy bells

Mr Bellows - squeezebox, crankbox and boxed presents

Eva the Navigator - violin, vocals and salt cured leg of lamb

Freebird af Wærmaland - violin, viola, vocals and wassailing

Monkey Boy - glühwein keg drum, naughty vocals and mixed floggables

Ina "Battery" Molin - glockenspiel, eggnog and pompous percussion

Wan Chou Zhong - obnoxious string drum, huge oriental fruit thing with strings and spices for the season

Silent Jim - mandolino, mandolino basso, cinnamon mead-drenched rambling and forced half merry singing

Magda Malvina Märlprim - blood-stained lute guitar, cherry vocals and prettifying with poisonous plants

Scurvy Ben - cajón, spicy percussions and lingering aimlessly whilst vocalizing various throat sounds

Meat Stick Nick - small bass, big bass, long tube bass and pickled herring

Quartermaster Blackpowder Pyte - peculiar proclamations, choir boy caroling and unorderly drunken revelry

Old Red - them thick, them thin and them tinsel strings

Landmark - percussion, marching drum and figgy pudding

Filthylocks - fipple pipes and mince pie

Shameless Will - vocals, vanity, profanity, coin snatching, coat turning and Abbot of Unreason

Bojtikken - heaven sent vocals, timbrell, loud cymbals and snow angels

New Christmas Album, A Pirate Stole My Christmas, out December 3, 2021

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Yarrr-tide greetings! Following the release of first holiday single “Sulphur Ahoy”, boisterous pack YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS continue to stir up this Christmas with the next single off their upcoming album. The new single from the pirate shanty folk outfit, entitled “Carol of Bellows”, offers another taste of their upcoming Christmas album, A Pirate Stole My Christmas, gliding their shipmates through the dreary winter in trademark pirate fashion!

On “Carol of Bellows”, the notorious bunch show that they are able to sail on tranquil waters, still giving the Christmas classic a scraggly pirate-folk tone, riddled with pirate madness.

YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS on “Carol of Bellows”:

“’Carol Of Bellows’ is our take on the epic traditional masterpiece ‘Carol of the Bells’. Through a mix of chorals, bawdy Swedish traditional folk tunes and a Ukrainian nursery rhyme, we tell the tale of Bellows triumphant return from the grave. So, as the resurrected Bellows himself says between his incoherent ramblings - Yule is the time to rejoice, to drink rum and get too drunk, now go and fetch that rum!”

Watch the official Lyric Video for “Carol Of Bellows” below.