Gloryhammer is the brainchild of
Chris Bowes, the leader singer of
Alestorm. He is/was a RPGer and even statted himself out in an interview. I've seen Gloryhammer in concert twice and they're great fun and do LARP the album with the Angus McFife battling goblins on stage and fighting the evil wizard. It's all very serious stuff.
As for Wind Rose dressing up like WoW dwarves and singing about Diggy Diggy Hole...well, let's just say D&D fans starting power metal bands has gone to weird and cheesy places. And yes, I've sung along many a time! I'm a dwarf and I'm digging a hole!!!
Also Gloryhammer is a great, but im so tired of hearing people who dont listen to doom metal ttying to justify the book layout by saying "its a doom metal album of a game" when i really feel like it isnt.
Outside of Black Sabbath, Doom/Sludge/Stoner metal never took off like other subgenres, like Death metal or Black metal. It's a hard subgenre to nail down too, and I've been in metal forums with "sludge isn't doom" guys. I can appreciate the genre (especially fun live), but I'm too high strung for it usually.
I have a hard time imagining what a Doom Metal RPG world would even look like? Everybody only takes one action every other round? All terrain causes half move?
But I do want to hear some actual play experiences with Mork Borg!