Category: Metal Tuesday

For Metal Tuesday this week, let’s go with Queen’s “One Vision.” Because Freddie Mercury.

Lyrics in the YouTube video.

I chose this week’s Metal Tuesday with the same care I do most weeks. This damn song has been playing almost nonstop in my head. Without further ado, Kamelot’s “Across the Highlands.”

Lyrics:

I’ve been witness to so many wars
That I’m blind to affliction
No ability left to remorse
It’s my faith and conviction
Wide awake
In this world
Full of hate
I unfurl

But I am damned
If life itself is condemnation
I am immortal
Thus my freedom is captivity
Flying all across the highlands
Searching for a way
To finalize my history
Rising high above the mountains
Reaching for the sky
Closer to my sanctuary

All my life I’ve been trying to die
Reach complete segregation
I am ready to open my eyes
To a new revelation

Lost in time
There’s no place
For my soul
In his embrace

For I am damned
If life itself is condemnation
I am immortal
And I can’t escape my destiny.
Bound to live eternity

Dragonforce has a new album coming out in August, which I am eagerly anticipating. So, in the meantime, let’s do one off their last album.

Lyrics in the YouTube video.

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This week’s Metal Tuesday is Sabaton’s “Panzer Battalion.”

The song is about the American blitzkrieg during the invasion of Iraq.

Lyrics

Under this sun no shadows will fall
piercing our eyes as we charge
an armoured battalion on course to the east
closing the end of it’s march

This time we’re here to finish a job
started a decade ago
driving the animals out of their holes
to bury them 6 feet below

Armoured tanks of mass destruction
killers in the east
rats who dares to stand before us
feel our guns go live

Death in the shape of a panzer battalion
insect of terror don’t run face your fate like a man
cannot outrun our panzer battalion

Thousands of tons of armour and guns
making it’s way through the sand
our panzer battalion is back for revenge
artillery sweeping the land

First strike is ours no mercy is shown
there’s rivers of blood in our track
breaking their lines of defence with our tanks
infantry watching our back

Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike
ready for the storm
minefields swept there’s no surrender
feel our napalm burn

Under this sun no shadows will fall
piercing our eyes as we charge
an armoured battalion on course to the east
has reached the end of it’s march

Yes, I know St. Paddy’s was yesterday, but how often do you get the premier thrash metal band doing an old Irish song?

Lyrics:

As I was goin’ over the Cork and Kerry mountains
I saw Captain Farrell and his money he was countin’
I first produced my pistol and then produced my rapier
I said stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya

I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny
I took all of his money yeah and I brought it home to Molly
She swore that she’d love me, no never would she leave me
But the devil take that woman yeah for you know she tricked me easy

Musha ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar-o

Being drunk and weary I went to Molly’s chamber
Takin’ my money with me and I never knew the danger
For about six or maybe seven in walked Captain Farrell
I jumped up, fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels

Musha ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar-o

Now some men like the fishin’ and some men like the fowlin’
And some men like ta hear, ta hear cannon ball a roarin’
Me I like sleepin’ specially in my Molly’s chamber
But here I am in prison, here I am with a ball and chain yeah

Musha ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There’s whiskey in the jar-o

Whiskey in the jar-o
Musha ring dum a doo dum a da

Surprise, surprise, another female-fronted metal band. Yeah, yeah, I know my proclivities towards these kinds of bands. Still, this is a pretty kick-ass song.

Lyrics:

Centuries ago – or still alive?
Misery, torture, pain – still justified
In the name of Christianity
Persecution, Murdering
The so called heretics
For church, for God, for profit

Judged by the hand of death
Bishops, popes the holy men
In the name of Jesus Christ
No freedom of belief
With cruelty inconceivable
Brutal inventions on their side
Forcing everyone to believe
What they shall do
Nothing’s as red as blood

The inquisition draws near
And they will all appear
To accuse your false belief
There’s only one way to God
And we will show you the way
Even if it takes your life,
You won’t survive if you’re wrong

Accepting the holy Bible at face value
Witches, heretics they have to burn
Judged by the hand of death
Bishops, popes the holy men
In the name of Jesus Christ
No freedom of belief
With cruelty inconceivable
Brutal inventions on their side
Forcing everyone to believe
What they shall do
Nothing’s as red as blood

The inquisition draws near…

This week’s Metal Tuesday is Anthrax’s “I Am The Law.” For those who don’t know, this song is about Judge Dredd. The 2012 movie Dredd has become one of my “insomnia” films that I watch when I can’t get to sleep.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IqgTNdRD9Kw

Lyrics:

Fifteen years in the academy
He was like no cadet they’d ever seen
A man so hard, his veins bleed ice
And when he speaks he never says it twice
They call him Judge, his last name is Dredd
So break the law, and you may wind up dead
Truth and justice are what he’s fighting for
Judge Dredd the man, he is the law
DROKK IT

With his gun and bike he rules the streets
And every perp he meets will taste defeat
Not even Death can overcome his might
Cause Dredd and Anderson, they won the fight
When the Sov’s started the Apocalypse war
And Mega-city was bombed to the floor
Dredd resisted, and the judges fought back
And crushed the Sov’s with their counter-attack
DROKK IT

[PRE-CHORUS:]
Respect the badge – he earned it with his blood
Fear the gun – your sentence may be death
because …

[CHORUS:]
I AM THE LAW
And you won’t fuck around no more – I AM THE LAW
I judge the rich, I judge the poor – I AM THE LAW
Commit a crime I’ll lock the door – I AM THE LAW
Because in Mega-City …
I AM THE LAW

In the cursed earth where mutants dwell
There is no law, it’s just a living hell
Anarchy and chaos as the blood runs red
But this would change if it was up to Dredd
The book of law is the bible to him
And any crime committed is a sin
He keeps the peace whith his law-giver
Judge, jury, and executioner
DROKK IT

[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]

[BRIDGE:]
CRIME – the ultimate sin
Your Iso-Cube is waiting when he brings you in
LAW – it’s what he stands for
Crime’s his only enemy and he’s going to war

[LEAD BREAK]

[REPEAT BRIDGE]
[REPEAT PRE-CHORUS]
[REPEAT CHORUS]

For this week’s Metal Tuesday, we have Tyr’s “Hold the Heathen Hammer High.”

Lyrics:

Heathen heart
Pagan pride
Faring far
Sword by Side
Tribal times
Northern nights
Hidden high
Runic rites I was told
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Ever true unto your forefathers stalwart stay
Hold the Heathen Hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Down the wayward way so far faring strangers stray
Hold the heathen hammer high
Weather wild
Blackened blade
Angry eyes
Ruthless raid
Heathen heart
Pagan pride
Faring far
Sword by Side
Hard and cold
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Ever true unto your forefathers stalwart stay
Hold the Heathen Hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Down the wayward way so far faring strangers stray
Hold the heathen hammer high
From a pagan past that only the heathen hold
From the far end of the world and of times untold
I bring message to your mids of the ways of old
Ways reluctantly abandoned if truth be told
Ways abandoned for a scavenger of our souls
Living on malicious lies, hiding in the holes
Cruel and credible as any our tale of trolls
Hold the heathen hammer highest of all your goals
Hold the heathen hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Ever true unto your forefathers stalwart stay
Hold the Heathen Hammer high with a battle cry
For the pagan past I live and one day will die
Hold the heathen hammer high, never turn away
Down the wayward way so far faring strangers stray
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high
Hold the heathen hammer high

Let’s do glam metal! Warrant always seemed kind of a second-tier glam metal act, but I really enjoy “Mr. Rainmaker.”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mjajTnzWAqs

Lyrics:

It could have rained for forty weeks dear
And I’d have never known the difference
When your life is one long downpour
You’re not sure you’ll go the distance

You come along with a patch of blue sky
Inside your arms I found a place that’s warm and dry

Mister Rainmaker don’t waste your time
I found a girl who is permanent sunshine
She is the little queen of all of my dreams
Carry on! And find someone else to rain on

Love never rained down on me dear
Only heartache and problems
Now through your arms I can see clear
oh, It’s only been raining water
You came along with a patch of blue sky
Inside your arms I found a place that’s warm and dry

Mister Rainmaker don’t waste your time
I found a girl who is permanent sunshine
She is the little queen of all of my dreams
Carry on! And find someone else to rain on

Mister Rainmaker don’t waste your time
I found a girl who is permanent sunshine
She is the little queen of all of my dreams
Carry on! And find someone else to rain on

Mister Rainmaker, yeah, yeah, yeah