Pentakill: how a metal band that doesn’t exist made it to No 1
by Dom Lawson from Technology | The Guardian on (#2YH3P)
The band from the game League of Legends has stormed the charts and bagged cameos from the likes of Tommy Lee - despite existing only in the imaginations of their creators
How has a band that doesn't physically exist, with zero promotion from the music industry, breach the Billboard Top 40 and reach No 1 in the iTunes metal chart?
Conceived by California-based gaming gurus Riot Games in 2014, Pentakill exist purely in the imaginations of their creators - and the 100 million global fans of League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena game that spawned the band's members, Karthus the Deathsinger, Yorick, Sona, Olaf and lead guitarist Mordekaiser the Master of Metal.
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