Category: Metal Tuesday

I’m thinking it’s time for an oldie but goodie. So, Ozzy. So, “Paranoid.”

Lyrics in YouTube post.

This week’s Metal Tuesday selection rides that line between metal and hard rock. It’s certainly more “poppy” than most of the songs that are selected. It will also stay in your head for the next week. You’re welcome.

Without further ado, Orithani’s “Addicted to Love”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RB0F-_jGrIA

Lyrics in the YouTube post.

For reader David, who has just discovered Kamelot, this week’s Metal Tuesday is perhaps my favorite of their repertoire.

Lyrics in the YouTube video.

Since last Friday was “Talk Like A Pirate Day,” I thought we would do some pirate metal for this week. Which means Alestorm. Since we’ve already done “Keelhauled,” let’s do “Black Sails at Midnight.”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NSX9FPtNkfU

Lyrics:

Go – the cold moonlight reflecting off your blade
So many centuries spent waiting for this day
Ride – across the seas beneath a blackened sail
Know that a painful death awaits us if we fail

Out of the darkness they came
With cannons a’raging and torches aflame
Slaying all poseurs who stand in their way

Black Sails at Midnight
You’re dead by daylight
Black Sails at Midnight
Your fate – Too late

The time has come for you to face your darkest fears
Screams of agony are ringing in your ears
Die – a frenzied slaughter on the battlefield
Nowhere for you to run, tonight your fate is sealed

Out of the darkness they came
With cannons a’raging and torches aflame
Slaying all poseurs who stand in their way

Black Sails at Midnight
You’re dead by daylight
Black Sails at Midnight
Your fate – Too late

Via Uncle, comes this little video on how bass affects the sound of metal.

Primal Fear is another strong, solid power metal band, and I really like “Black Rain,” hence its inclusion in the hallowed halls of Metal Tuesday.

Lyrics:

As I watched the rising sun
A walking shadow on the run
There’s no hope and there’s no anger, I’m defenseless
I stand alone out in the cold
Ten more miles on desert sand
The farth still shakes, I hear tank shells explode

Is it just a dead memory
Stranded in the thirty third latitude degree
A few words of truth could never lie
Who will kill me, I’m a refugee alive

In and out, I watch the sky explode
Enough, our mission’s sold
The gushing black rain kills us all
In and out, I watch the sky explode
Enough, our mission’s sold
Even if the black rain kills us all

As men of honor and belief
We never knew our enemies
There’s no reason that’s worth dying for
As I hear the silence break
A so called fight, a big mistake
Or was it just to see another thousand die

Under friendly fire of our own crew
Another day will never come true

In and out, I watch the sky explode
Enough, our mission’s sold
The gushing black rain kills us all
In and out, I watch the sky explode
Enough, our mission’s sold
Even if the black rain kills us all

If you are anything like me, the beginning of this song will be in your head for days. Enjoy Theocracy’s “Altar to the Unknown God.”

Lyrics in the YouTube post.

Another in the long line of Metal Tuesday selections because of its ability to get stuck in my head.

My brother informs me that the lead singer is Chris Jericho. a wrestler of some renown (although I have to take his word for that.)

Lyrics:

I’ve been searching oh I fear
For what seems like a thousand years
Only to find that I’m losing my mind
I’ve been standing to the side
A blackened soul as my guide
Only to see there’s a price to be free

You can cast a magic spell
Or pull the sword from the the stone
Until you find the Grail that you’ve been looking for
You’ll always be alone

Where is this Grail I’ve been searching for?
So many years since you’ve been gone
On all the roads I have traveled on
Where is this grail I’ve been searching for?

I have run so far away from the stench of decay
Only to learn I should never have turned
I’m completely at fault, to a pillar of salt
I’ve been reduced feel the pull of the noose

You can cast a magic spell
Or pull the sword from the the stone
Until you find the Grail that you’ve been looking for
You’ll always be alone

Where is this Grail I’ve been searching for?
So many years since you’ve been gone
On all the roads I have traveled on
Where is this grail I’ve been searching for?

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