Category: Metal Tuesday

This week’s Metal Tuesday is brought to you by Dream Evil with their song “In Flames You Burn.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqolrmbgHg

This song is typical of what I usually put into my “Battle” playlist. Something that just makes you just want to pick up a sword and hack your enemies to death. Very useful for writing action scenes.

Lyrics from mp3lyrics.org

Oh God forbid this bloody war
I see my knights falling one by one
so here I am, in this fight I’m all alone
I’m stuck here in this hellhole on my own

Taste the blood, tears of pain
Memories from the past strike through my mind
My royal blood, begins to boil
Deadly wounds can’t stop me now, I still stand strong
I just can’t die!!!

Surrender is no option for me now
Bless those souls that I send to hell
If you dare just look into my eyes
My steel is warm my face is stained with blood

One by one I hit them to the ground
One by one I see their heads roll
Anyone against me taste my sword
Anyone who’ll challenge me will die!

You, killed my men, raped my land & you ruined our lives
Still I stand in command in flames you burn!!!!
You will die by my hand forever you’re condemned
Cause I am in command in flames you burn

No it’s no use for you to beg,
I will send you down to hell
I can’t die my faith is far too strong
In flames of hell is where you belong

One by one I hit them to the ground
One by one I see their heads roll
Anyone against me taste my sword
Anyone who’ll challenge me will die

You, killed my men, raped my land & you ruined our lives
Still I stand in command in flames you burn!
You will die by my hand forever you’re condemned
Cause I am in command in flames you burn!!!

You, killed my men, raped my land & you ruined our lives
Still I stand in command in flames you burn!
You will die by my hand forever you’re condemned
Cause I am in command in flames you burn

you burn, you burn, you buuuuuuuuuuurn

This Metal Tuesday features one of my favorite female-fronted metal bands, Holyhell. This duet with Manowar’s Eric Adams is probably one of my favorite renditions of Weber’s The Phantom of the Opera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tk9H2KnheU

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This Metal Tuesday, I present the song that got me into power metal – Manowar’s Defender. A friend of mine had the Fighting the World cassette tape (yes, it was that long ago) and we wore it down listening to this song.

This was the first metal song I heard that had the fantasy elements that would help come to define the genre.

I’m no longer the fan of Manowar that I once was, but I still listen to some of their early stuff and remember fondly of a boy sitting around with his friends in rapt attention to the music coming out of the tape deck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh48nWUQ_OY

Lyrics

When you are old enough to read this words
Their meaning will unfold
These words all that’s left
And though we’ve never meet, my only son
I hope you know
That I would have been there to watch you grow
But my call was heard and I had to go
Now your mission lies ahead of you
As it did mine, so long ago
To help the helpless ones, who all look up to you
And to defend them to the end
Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You’re the Defender
God has sent

Father, father, father
I look up to you
I heed thy call

This letter ends my search
I’ll live your dream
Now passed on to me
And I now wait, to shake the hand of fate
Like the dusk awaiting dawn

So wizards cast your spell
With no heart to do me well
So it’s written,it shall be

Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You’re the defender
God has sent

I’ve decided on a new feature for the blog. Welcome to Metal Tuesday! This will be a place for me to post the metal that I really like, maybe some commentary, lyrics, and hopefully a YouTube of the song.

First up, I’m going with my favorite band, Sabaton! (Warning: This group will feature prominently on Metal Tuesdays).

Today, we have their song 40:1. Like most good American schoolchildren, the Nazi invasion of Poland was a paragraph in our history texts. Most of them never even discussed how hard the Poles fought until the Soviets jumped into the fray. Then I heard this song about the Battle of Wizna, and I did some reading. Read the link. The Poles were badasses. Now, listen to the song.

Lyrics

Baptized in fire.
40 to 1

So silent before the storm
Awaiting command
A few has been chosen to stand
As one outnumbered by far
The orders from high command
Fight back, hold your ground!

In early September it came
A war unknown to the world
No army may enter that land
That is protected by Polish hand
Unless you are 40 to 1
Your force will soon be undone

Baptized in fire
40 to 1
Spirit of Spartans
Death and glory
Soldiers of Poland
Second to none
Wrath of the Wehrmacht brought to a halt

The 8th of September it starts
The rage of the Reich
A barrage of mortars and guns
Stand fast, the bunkers will hold
The captain has pledged his life
I’ll face my fate here!
The sound of artillery strike
So fierce
The thunder of guns

So come, bring on all that you’ve got
Come hell, come high water,
Never stop
Unless you are 40 to 1
Your lives will soon be undone
Baptized in fire
40 to 1
Spirit of Spartans
Death and glory
Soldiers of Poland
Second to none
Wrath of the Wehrmacht brought to a halt

Always remember, a fallen soldier
Always remember, fathers and sons at war
Always remember, a fallen soldier
Always remember, fathers and sons at war
Always remember, a fallen soldier
Always remember, buried in history

No army may enter that land
That is protected by Polish hand
Unless you are 40 to 1
Your force will soon be undone

Baptized in fire
40 to 1
Spirit of Spartans
Death and glory!
Soldiers of Poland
Second to none
Wrath of the Wehrmacht brought to a halt

No, no, no