Alestorm’s third and latest full-length “Sunset on the Golden Age” is not your average record. I don’t think there can be a genre of music more ridiculous than “Scottish Pirate Metal” (or “Bacon Powered Pirate Core” as their website claims). The album is packed with the kind of pirate-themed songs you’d expect, covering drinking, swashbuckling, drinking, planks, peg-legs and more drinking.

The songs are infectious, too. The chorus to “Drink” will get stuck in your head and stay there for days. “Mead From Hell” revels in a similar manner. The musicianship is air-tight and the production is slick. A little too slick for a band that claims to be seafaring criminals. (keytar-toting, seafaring criminals) But, as if the record couldn’t get any sillier, Alestorm throws in a cover of Taio Cruz’s “Hangover”

For the most part, party anthems is the name of the game. Though there are a couple epics too (the title track and “1741 The Battle of Cartagena”) But at this point there’s no taking Alestorm seriously. That ship sailed long ago.