This week’s Metal Tuesday is a bit different than the normal diet of power metal, but this is another one that will stay in my head for a week if I let it. So, let’s do Rob Zombie’s “Dragula.”
Lyrics in the YouTube video.
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Metal Tuesday – AC/DC – If You Want Blood
For this week’s Metal Tuesday, let’s go back to the Thunder From Down Under – AC/DC. Without further ado, “If You Want Blood.”
Lyrics in YouTube video.
Metal Tuesday – Star One – Cassandra Complex
In the long tradition of selecting songs that are currently buzzing through my head, this week’s Metal Tuesday is Star One’s “Cassandra Complex.” This one rides the hard rock/metal line, and I keep expecting it to be on an 80’s animated movie soundtrack. It also keeps repeating in my mind.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gcS5wCLKOOc
Lyrics:
You are a beautiful woman in a beautiful world
but your world is gonna die
I have seen the human race
drop dead in the blink of an eye
You created this dream out of bits and pieces
filed away in your mind
you’re caught inside a fantasy
but we’ll find the truth inside
You gotta hear me out, though you wouldn’t understand
I came back to the past
I have come to save our world
time’s up, so we better move fast
I want to help you deal with the rage you feel
it’s still not too late
you created your own world
but it’s starting to disintegrate!
Cassandra complex, everlasting scream
we can change the future but we can’t change the past
Cassandra complex, ever-changing dream
we can shape the present but we can’t make it last
I think you may be right, I’m insane after all
this is all in my mind
I just want to stay here with you
leave the bad dream behind
No, I remember you now, guess I’ve always known
yes, it was me in your dream
I won’t accept that we cannot change
the dark future you have seen!
Cassandra complex, everlasting scream
we can change the future but we can’t change the past
Cassandra complex, ever-changing dream
we can shape the present but we can’t make it last
The planet is dying, pollution of sea and air
the people denying the death of the atmosphere
The planet is crying, the rape of ecology
the people relying on the rise of technology
and now they have to die!
Cassandra complex, everlasting scream
we can change the future but we can’t change the past
Cassandra complex, ever-changing dream
we can shape the present but we can’t make it last
Metal Tuesday – Sabaton – Primo Victoria
This week’s Metal Tuesday is Sabaton’s “Primo Victoria.”
Like much of Sabaton’s work, the song is about a battle, particularly, the Allies’ invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, which happened 70 years ago this week.
When I saw the band a few of years ago in Orlando, they introduced it by saying how grateful they were that the Americans came to help liberate Europe from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. Needless to say, the crowd was responded very enthusiastically.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uT4WTD-iX38&feature=related
Lyrics:
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria
We’ve been training for years
Now we’re ready to strike
As the great operation begins
We’re the first wave on shore
We’re the first ones to fall
Yet soldiers has fallen before
In the dawn they will pay
With their lives as the price
History’s written today
In this burning inferno
Until nothing remains
As our forces advance on the beach
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory’s ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria
On the 6:th of June
On the shores of Western Europe
1944
D-day upon us
We’ve been here before
Used to this kind of war
Crossfire grind through the sand
Our orders were easy
It’s kill or be killed
Blood on both sides will be spilled
In the dawn they will pay
With their lives as the price
History’s written today
Now that we are at war with the Axis again
This time we know what will come
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory is ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria
On the 6:th of June
On the shores of Western Europe
1944
D-day upon us
6:th of June 1944
Allies are turning the war
Normandy state of anarchy
Overlord
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory is ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria
On the 6:th of June
On the shores of Western Europe
1944
D-day upon us
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria
Metal Tuesday – Five Finger Death Punch – From Out of Nowhere
I do loves me some Faith No More, but they aren’t what I would classify as metal. Now, a Five Finger Death Punch cover of a Faith No More song – that’s metal.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dev0qzFOz_c
Lyrics:
Tossed into my mind, stirring the calm
You splash me with beauty and pull me down
You come from out of nowhere
My glance turns to a stare
Obsession rules me-I’m yours from the start
I know you see me-Our eyes interlock
You come from out of nowhere
My glance turns to a stare
One minute here and one minute there
Don’t know if I’ll laugh or cry
One minute here and one minute there
And then you wave good-bye…
Sifting to the bottom, every day for two
All energy funnels, all becomes you
You come from out of nowhere
My glance turns to a stare
One minute here and one minute there
Don’t know if I’ll laugh or cry
One minute here and one minute there
And it hurts inside
One minute here and one minute there
And then you wave good-bye…
Metal Tuesday – Manowar – Hail and Kill
This is one of the songs that got me into power metal. It’s also what stoked my interest in “battle” metal songs. Without further ado, Manowar’s “Hail and Kill.”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=D2hE4XO8rF4
Lyrics:
Brothers I am calling from the valley of the kings
With nothing to atone
A dark march lies ahead, together we will ride
Like thunder from the sky
May your sword stay wet like a young girl in her prime
Hold your hammers high
Blood and death are waiting like a raven in the sky
I was born to die
Hear me while I live
As I look into your eyes
None shall hear a lie
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill
Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill
Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill
My father was a wolf
I’m a kinsman of the slain
Sworn to rise again
I will bring salvation, punishment and pain
The hammer of hate is our faith
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill
Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill
Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill
Rip their flesh
Burn their hearts
Stab them in the eyes
Rape their women as they cry
Kill their servants
Burn their homes
Till there’s no blood left to spill
Hail and Kill
Power and dominion are taken by the will
By divine right hail and kill
Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail and Kill, Hail and Kill
Metal Tuesday – Masterplan – Crimson Rider
One of the things I love about power metal is the storytelling. Particularly when the subject is military history. Which leads us into this week’s entry: Masterplan’s “Crimson Rider.”
Lyrics in the YouTube post.
Metal Tuesday – Smeargl – Tak Kurwa
Normally, I don’t listen to the satanic metal bands. Smeargl is one of those that I make an exception for.
BTW, the video is definitely NSFW.
Lyrics:
Come closer, come to me,
Lay down with the enemy,
The snakes under your bed,
The beast ready to embed.
Come closer, come to me,
Get down, so easily,
Hey, satisfy my lust!
Tak, Kurwa, Tak
Tak, Kurwa, Tak
I eat your flesh,
I drink your wine,
You smell so fine.
Come closer, stand beside,
The walls are empty, you cannot hide,
The snakes caress your skin
The poison raises sin
Come closer, come to me,
Get down, so easily,
Hey, satisfy my lust!
Tak, Kurwa, Tak
Tak, Kurwa, Tak
I eat your flesh,
I drink your wine,
You smell so fine.
Metal Tuesday – Brother’s Choice – Old Man’s Child – Doommaker
Because this is my brother’s birthday week, I’m letting him choose for Metal Tuesday. From The Brother:
Black metal is an interesting beast. It has its introspective, storytelling atmospheric side, full of reverence for forest, wind, and snow. It also has its violent, hate-filled side, spewing rage and misanthropy.
But metal is maleable, and the various sub-genres mix and meld in interesting ways. Usually, Black metal is an add-in to another sub-genre such as blacked thrash, post-black, etc.
**Old Man’s Child** started off as a fairly standard, though better than average, black metal band and then released 1997’s _The Pagan Prosperity_ which was black metal album with thrash tendencies. 1998’s follow up _Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion_ kept some of the thrash hints, but they became more elusive and the following albums are all more symphonic black metal, having shed off _The Pagan Prosperity_’s thrash excesses.
Though Galder, the band’s mastermind and frontman, has moved **Old Man’s Child** on to a more symphonic ground (as well as becoming an integral part of another classic band, **Borknagar**), I will always have a place on my music player for _The Pagan Prosperity_, one of the first black metal albums I ever bought and a hell of lot of fun.
Lyrics
The night calls
as the evening light fades
cast your shadow
and cover this earth
bury the surface
and possess the nights dark
come forth, put spells on my thoughts.
I am the master of decease
I am the pain that grows within your soul
I am this worlds doom maker.
From another world
He arise from the ruins
which will be their graves
spawn of Satan
gather as one
and set this world in flames.
We are the seeds of fire
Spreading in the wind
Masters of your sorrow
And now, we will bring you down.
We are the masters of decease
we are the pain that grows within your soul
we are this worlds doom maker.