Category: Metal Tuesday

Christopher Lee Has Passed On

June 11, 2015 / / 0 Comments

At the age of 93.

Hobbits, Jedi, Nazis, and Metal-Haters are celebrating, I’m sure.

Seriously, Sir Christopher was a raging badass. He went to fight with the Finns in the Winter War. At the end of WWII, he was on a team that hunted down Nazis!

Plus, he was a metal head, working with several bands and releasing two Christmas Metal albums. 

You will be missed, Sir Christopher, but you have earned your rest.

Metal Tuesday – Firewind – Maniac

June 9, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Powermetal meets Flashdance. What could go wrong? This is Firewind’s cover of Michael Sembello’s iconic song.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BmhZFV3WbDM

Lyrics

Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Looking for the fight of her life
In the real time world no one sees her at all
They all say she’s crazy

Locking rhythm to the beat of her heart
Changing movement into light
She had danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance

It can cut you like a knife
if the fight becomes the fire
On the wire between will and what will be

She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

She’s a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

On the ice blue line of insanity
Is a place most never see
It’s a hard won place of mystery,
Touch it but can’t hold it

You work all your life, for that moment in time
It could come or pass you by
It’s a push shove world
But there’s always a chance
If the hunger stays the night

There’s a cold connective heat
Struggling stretching for the peak
Never stopping with her head against the wind

She’s a maniac, maniac I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

She’s a maniac, maniac I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

It can cut you like a knife
If the fight becomes the fire
On the wire between will and what will be

She’s a maniac, maniac I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

She’s a maniac, maniac I sure know
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before

I sure know, and she’s dancing like she’s never danced before
She’s a maniac, maniac I sure know

Metal Tuesday – Five Finger Death Punch – The House of the Rising Sun

June 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Because I do this to entertain me, I’ve decided that June is going to be “Covers Month.” 

First up, Five Finger Death Punch’s “The House of the Rising Sun.” According to Wikipedia, this song is a lot older than I thought. The earliest recording was in 1934, and the song may have its roots in the late 19th century. Odd things I’ve learned doing this.

Lyrics:

There is a house in Sin City

They call the Rising Sun

And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God, I know I’m one



My mother was a tailor



She sewed my new blue jeans



My father was a gamblin’ man



Down in Sin City




Now the only thing a gambler needs



Is a suitcase and a trunk



And the only time he’s satisfied



Is when he’s on a drunk




Well, I’ve got one foot on the platform



The other’s on the train



I’m goin’ back to Sin City



To wear that ball and chain




Well, mothers, tell your children



Never do what I have done



Spend your lives in sin and misery



In the house of the rising sun




In the house of the rising sun




Well, there is a house in Sin City



They call the Rising Sun



And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy



And God knows, that I, I’m one


Metal Tuesday – Sleeze Beez – Screwed Blued & Tattooed 

May 19, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I must have driven people insane singing the refrain from this song when I was younger. So, I share the joy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=95RFHR-8YuI

Lyrics:

Sirens wail, raising hell

I’m smokin’ out the bars

I know you nasty women can’t be far

We’re heading for the exit

She stepped out on me

She said “Don’t you waste my time

I’ve been around the bush

Your place or mine?”

I said “Honey, what you wanna do?”

She said “I leave it all up to you” 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Get me Screwed Blued And Tattooed

That’s you (that’s right!) 


Hot wheels and a private bar

And her show for the go

Caviar, whiskey jar

Walk alone

Like a kid in the candy store

Like a dog without a bone

You can’t stop me now

I’m running back for more

Oh, It hurts like mad

But then again, it ain’t that bad 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Get me Screwed Blued And Tattooed

That’s you (that’s right!) 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Ooh babe Screwed Blued And Tattooed

That’s you (that’s right!) 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Ooh MamaScrewed Blued And Tattooed

That’s you (that’s right!) 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Ooow Screwed Blued And Tattooed

That’s you (that’s right!) 


Screwed Blued And Tattooed

You can’t stop me

Screwed Blued And Tattooed

Metal Tuesday – Sabaton – Attero Dominatus

May 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Last Saturday was the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Battle of Berlin. I didn’t understand the true horror of the Eastern Front until Hardcore History’s “Ghosts of the Ostfront” series. To put it into perspective, most of the major battles on the Western Front would have been considered large skirmishes in the vicious fighting between the Soviets and the Nazis.

So, for this week, we turn to Sabaton for an appropriate song.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=95RFHR-8YuI

Lyrics in the YouTube post.

Metal Tuesday – Brother’s Choice – The Company Band – The House of Capricorn

April 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

This week is The Brother’s birthday, so I let him choose Metal Tuesday:

When last we met, I shared the sound and the glory that is Clutch, because, well, Clutch.

Anywho, their frontman (and one of the greatest lyricists in rock) Neil Fallon is also involved in a great band called The Company Band which have an LP and a few EPs under their belt. From this tiny discography, I share with you, my friends, the House of Capricorn off of their latest EP Pros & Cons.

I mean seriously, they made a sound about an orientation lecture for a rehab clinic for forgotten gods and titans ([citation provided]).