*WAY* too much coffee!!!!

Minions!

Hail!

I thought this time I wouldn't dig *TOO* deep into the past - I mean, we got some downright shreddy-frakkin' metal presently as well. But yeah, today's post has a four year old tune - not bad. It has a valid message, actually.... something to think about - and maybe act on, somehow ^_~ 

Today's video is of a band known as Lamb Of God, and this is from their 2004 album, "Ashes of the Wake". The song? "Now You've Got Something to Die For".

Same as always, peeps - viid' below, lyrics below that.

ENJOY!!!! 

  Now you’ve got something to die for!!

  Now you’ve got something to die for!!

 

  INFIDEL!!

  IMPERIAL!!

 

  Lust for blood,

   A blind crusade!

  Apocalyptic,

  We count the days!

 

  Bombs to set the people free,

  Blood to feed the dollar tree,

  Flags for coffins on the screen –

  OIL FOR THE MACHINE!!

 

  Army of the liberation,

  Gunpoint indoctrination,

  The fires of sedition fulfill the prophecy!!

 

  Now you’ve got something to die for!!

  Now you’ve got something to die for!! 

 

  Send the children to the fire,

  Sons and daughters stack the pyre -

  Stoke the flame of the empire,

  Live to lie another day!

 

  Face of hypocrisy

  Raping democracy!

  Apocalyptic,

  We count the days!

 

  We’ll never get out of this hole,

  Untiil we’ve dug our own grave –

  And drug the rest down with us,

  The burning home of the brave!

 

  BURN!!

 

  Now you’ve got something to die for!!

  Now you’ve got something to die for!! 

HAIL!!!!

This here's the crunchy stuff I freakin' love.... from their 1991 album, "ARISE", this is their tune, "Dead Embryonic Cells". Now, I'm in a hurry to subway my butt on over to the other side of Nagoya, so I'll not write much for this here post - I'll write more and better later. Same stuff as usual, video below (an *actual-factual* music video this time, too! TAKEN LIVE), and the lyrics below that.

ENJOY, MINIONS!!!! hehe 

SHRED!!!! 




Land of anger
I didn't ask to be born
Sadness, sorrow
Everything so alone

Laboratory sickness
Infects humanity
No hope for cure
Die by technology

A world full of shit coming down
Tribal violence everywhere
Life in the age of terrorism
We spit in your other face

War of races
World without intelligence
A place consumed by time
End of it all

We're born
With pain
No more
We're dead
Embryonic cells

Corrosion inside - we feel
Condemned future - we see
Emptiness calls - we hear
Final premonition - the truth

Land of anger
I didn't ask to be born
Sadness, sorrow
Everything so alone

Laboratory sickness
Infects humanity
No hope for cure
Die by technology

We're born
With pain
Suffer
Remains
We're born
With pain
Suffer
Remains
We're dead

These guys fucking KICK ASS - who else out there takes spells and curses from the Egyptian pyramid texts and temples at Abydos, and magic spells carved in stone found in Necropolis, the Valley of the Kings, Ptah, along the Nile, Thebes, Pharoaic epics, ascension rituals, arcane passages from the Book of Thoth, etc. FOR THEIR LYRICS - really, who? These guys are just drippin' with RIPPIN' SHREDS on their guitars.... Check 'em out, peeps! This song is from their 2007 album, "ITHYPHALLIC", and the name of this tune, is; "Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who Is In The Water" Pretty long freakin' name, eh? Okay, y'all know the deal by now! Video below, lyrics below that - enjoy, minions!! hehe ^_~ 




Amun

Lord of the gods
Thou who art of the Four Rams heads upon thy neck
Thou standest upon the Spine
Of the Crocodile Fiends
To thine sides are the Dog-headed Apes
The transformed Spirits of the Dawn

Drive away from me the Lions of the Wastes
The Crocodiles which come forth from the River
The Bite of Poisonous Reptiles
Which crawl forth from their holes

Be driven back Crocodile,
Thou spawn of SET!
Move not by means of thy tail!
Work not thy feet and legs!
Open not thy mouth!
Let the water which is before thee turn into a consuming Fire!

I possess the spell to
Preserve me from He who is in the Water
Preserve me from He who is in the Water

Thou whom the Thirty-Seven gods didst make
And whom the serpent of Ra didst put in chains
Thou who wast fettered with links of iron
In the presence of Ra!
Be driven back crocodile,
Thou spawn of SET!

Drive away from me the lions of the wastes
The crocodiles which come forth from the river
The bite of poisonous reptiles
Which crawl forth from their holes

Preserve me from He who is in the Water
Preserve me from He who is in the Water
Preserve me from He who is in the Water

Greetings and salutations, minions!

I'll just cut straight to the chase today.... been hella bummed-out due to a lot of deep stuff as of late, and I'm in a hellacious hurry to cheer myself up with some kickass speed thrash - so today's will be another from that state-of-the-art speed metal band, MEGADETH - from their 1990 album, "Rust In Peace", here is a superb bit of guitarwork that I used to try to tackle 'til I got tangled.... Holy Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome Batman!!

Anywho, without further adeu, here it is below, with the lyrics below that. Grab a guitar and shred the fuck out of it, minions!!!!



Bestow upon me knowledge,
Wizard, all knowing, all wise

I want to rule this kingdom -
Make sweet the breeze now defiled

Dethrone the evil prince's
Iron fists in velvet gloves of sin

Parade the gray robed monks,
The vestial virgins, wheel the wyvern in!

Let the ceremony
Consecrate the marriage
Let me be the protege of five magics!

Give me Alchemy
Give me Wizardry
Give me Sorcery
Thermatology
Electricity
Magic if you please
Master all of these
Bring him to his knees

I master five magics
I master five magics
I master five magics
I master five magics

Possessed with hellish torment - Possessed with hellish torment

I've mastered magics five - I'VE mastered magics five

Hunting the abyss lord - Hunting the abyss lord

Only one will stay alive - Only ONE will stay alive

He who lives by the sword - He who lives by the sword

Will surely also die - Will surely also die

He who lives in sin - He who lives in sin

WILL SURELY LIVE THE LIE  

Alrighty, peeps - this here's another from the Golden Age of the Mosh Pit, brought to you by the band known as OVERKILL, and from off of their 1987 album, "Taking Over" - this here be the eighth track, "Electroviolence", which, just like last post's tune, "The Toxic Waltz", is all about shreddin' in the pit, bashing skulls, and gettin' bloody in the glorious mosh pit!! Muahahahaha!!  Now, this here (in my very humble opinion) isn't quite as thrashtastic as the tune in the previous post by EXODUS, but still, it's fairly rippin'!


Another of the variety where the "video" is just a still shot of the allbum cover, this here is good and shreddy! Same-old, same-old - vid' below, with lyrics below it.

Enjoy, my bloody minions! hehe ^_~ 



Watch the circle
Dehumanize
Fuck the world
Stay outside
You tread on me
And you will find,
That you flirt with death
Before your time!

Face the music, now the time has come!
Into the circle -
Electroviolence!

Violence!
Electroviolence!
Violence!
Electroviolence!

Keep your distance
Subdivide
Do not enter,
Conservative type!
Sweaty bodies
Bodily harm
Abuse thy neighbour,
Thats the charm!

Face the music, now the time has come!
Into the circle -
Electroviolence!

Violence!
Electroviolence!
Violence!
ELECTROVIOLENCE!

BLOOD-shed on everyone
Don't mistake, violence for fun!
BLOOD-guilty fashion fiend,
What you here for? You don't fit in!

TAKE THE SHOT!
TAKE THE PAIN!
Rebound -
Back again!
Uncivilized reactions appeal to me....
No restraints, face reality!

Face the music, now the time has come!
Into the circle -
Electroviolence!

Violence!
Electroviolence!
Violence!
Electroviolence!

Never victim,
Always vice!
Taking charge,
Desensitized....
Do unto others,
Stay unbowed!
You social misfit -
You're one of us now!

Face the music, now the time has come!
Into the circle -
Electroviolence!

Violence!
Hey!
Violence!

Violence!
Hey!
Violence!

ELECTROVIOLENCE!!!!

Greetings, thrashers 'midst the seas of blood!

Today's flesh-rippin' entry shreds from the year 1989, with the legendary band EXODUS, and from their album, "Fabulous Disaster". A favourite of the time on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, this track is well known as The Toxic Waltz.

Yeeeaah, babies!

Mosh pits at some of their concerts with this tune playing *flooowed* with blood in all its glistening glory hehehehe

Not much more to say on this here one - you know the deal, video below, lyrics below that.

Enjoy, minions! ^_~ 




Here's a new dance craze that's sweeping the nation
It's called the toxic waltz and it's causing devastation
You're jumping up and down like a psycho circus clown
Slamming with waltzers all the way around
You get caught up in the whip
You're thrown into a flip
You aim for someone's head
To stain the floor red
Give someone a kick
To prove you're truly sick
Bounce back from some blows
And blood runs out your nose

Flailing round and round
And you're injury bound
Waltz it up!
The pit is it!
You can take your chance
On this rough new dance
If you dare!
To dive in!
There are some that try
But they won't survive
They don't hit!
'Cause they're wimps!
And this exercise
Helps you brutalize
With us!
Exodus!

Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Kick your friend in the head and have a ball
Come on and do the toxic waltz
And slam your partner against the wall
Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Good friendly violent fun in store for all
Get up off your ass and toxic waltz
If you hit the floor you can always crawl!

Used to do the monkey, but now it's not cool
The twist and mash potato are no exception to the rule
So don't be a dunce and dance like a runt
Just throw your elbows with good friendly violent fun
Don't start to cry
If you get a black eye
Just dive back in
And give another try
But too much action
May leave you in traction
So you better get insurance
No matter your endurance!

Flailing round and round
And you're injury bound
Waltz it up!
The pit is it!
You can take your chance
On this rough new dance
If you dare!
To dive in!
There are some that try
But they won't survive
They don't hit!
'Cause they're wimps!
And this exercise
Helps you brutalize
With us!
Exodus!

Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Kick your friend in the head and have a ball
Come on and do the toxic waltz
And slam your partner against the wall
Everybody's doin' the toxic waltz
Good friendly violent fun in store for all
Get up off your ass and toxic waltz
If you hit the floor you can always crawl!

Get up on your feet
Don't look so obsolete
And thrash like an athlete!
Don't sit there on your ass
Don't look like you've got too much class
You'll be harassed!
You know we guarantee
This is the key
So rage or get the third degree!
You begin frontal assaults
And start your somersaults
And do the toxic waltz!
Do the toxic waltz!  

Greetings, my throngs of minions!! (Yeah, both of ya!!)

Alrighty, today's installment of, shall we say, "Less-Than-Angelic" thrashtacular daring do, is another from that killer-cool band SLAYER. This particular track is off their album, HELL AWAITS, 1985, Metal Blade records.

Again, nuthin' to see here, just a shot of the album cover. Yeah, remember albums? How we used to have vinyl LPs, and in those big-ass cardboard works of art that we used to de-seed our weed with? *sigh*

Anywho, this here's the one off that album called Crypts of Eternity. A little something remeniscent of the Necronomicon.

As per usual, lyrics are below - enjoy, minions! HAIL!!!! 




Devious to those unknown
He walks below the land
Alluring victims to their death
Perish to the sand

Master of the blackened arts
Living his decree
Wrythes amongst the seven gates
Searching for the key

I have seen the darkened depths of Hell
Sorcery beyond the witches' spell
Robbed the crypts of Death's eternity
Killed the priest and cursed him endlessly

Chants of evil incantation
Fill the murky night
Free the devil's knights of hell
Unleash their growing spite

Directing power forcibly
The fire of Hell is cast
Resurrect from Crypts of Death
A demon from the past

I have seen the darkened depths of Hell
Sorcery beyond the witches' spell
Robbed the crypts of Death's eternity
Killed the priest and cursed him endlessly

Cringe
With
Fear
Violate the unbroken
Seal
Of
Hell
Death will come searching for
Your
Mere
Soul
Still you are eager to
Seek
Your
Fate
All that lie here are remains of Death

Grinding bones
Screaming skulls
Broken by the lapse of time
Decay to powder
Ashes to dust
Diminishing
Disintegrating
Man's soul and mind

Empty space
Tracks throughout
I make my claim

Darkness covers the world
My kingdom
My domain

Greetings, minions!

How the hell are ya?

Yep, been a metric crapload of time since I've posted here (*again*), but I'm back - for the moment.

Today's Metallic Post has some killer bits of major thrashtitude, brought to you by Dave Mustaine and the original Megadeth. I've loved this crunchy bit of thrash ever since it first came out in the mid-late '80s, the lyrics of which being bit reminiscent of Faustus and his "big oops" in dealing with the demon Mephistopheles.

For those among us out there who are moderately versed in demonology, these lyrics mention quite a bit (but not all) of just how to summon this fallen one into appearance. Step not from thy circle, my minions hehehehe ^_~ 

The lyrics are set up to tell the story of one who has summoned this entity, only to find that he himself is a bit of barter.... his father had summoned Meph' often in the past, and bargained that the summoned would do his bidding in trade for his firstborn son - the one now standing in the circle, facing Mephistopheles.

Here below is the video, once again a still shot of the album cover, and the lyrics just below that.

Enjoy, minions!! 




Welcome to out sanguinary sect of worship,
Feel at home in our black conventicle,
As we anathematize all of those who oppose us....
Don't summon the devil,
Don't call the priests,
If you need the strength,
The conjuring.... obey!!!!

Behold the flames rise from the
Compass' cardinal points....
Burn the sacred oil,
And with the ashes you'll anoint

Arrange the symbols of the
Wizard and magician,
Light the candles, place the
Parchment paper in position....

Between its leaves place the
Lash from a black cat's eye -
A straw of a broom,
Fold and burn and centralize....

Don't summon the devil,
Don't call the priests,
If you need the strength,
Then conjure me....

I am the devil's advocate,
A salesman, if you will....
You know my name -

You know my name!

I met your father years ago,
I gave him what he'd please....
He called my name -

You'll do the same!

I'm claiming what is mine by right,
It's time to close the deal....
You're bought and sold -

Bought and sold!

Come join me in my infernal depths,
Mephisto's hall of fame....
I've got your soul -

I've got your soul!

The conjuring.... 

OBEY!!!!

Alrighty, minions....

This here is a golden oldie from the Golden Age of Metal, by one of the top iconic metal gods, Iron Maiden. From their 1982 album, "The Number of the Beast", this video features the song "The Number of the Beast".... well - never saw that one coming :P

This is the same video I used to see on MTV's Metal Shop, and Headbanger's Ball (I wonder what that poser Ricky Rachtman was doing hosting that show - I found him somewhat funny, but that was usually because I was toasting a fatty).

I used to watch those MTV shows all the time, every day, with my friend Chris, cousin to another cool dude (Gerry?) who was one of the Worcester City Hell Rats (Hell Rats rule!), while I was in Webster, Mass.... I later moved to Worcester, where my fondest memories were spent with Angela Valk - but I digress....

The lyrics were written by Steve Harris - but since what was written in the lyrics that came with the tape, and the way that Bruce Dickenson sang them differ, I'm throwing down the words that he sang. Here's the video, and as always, the lyrics beneath it.

Enjoy, minions! >:) 




"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea....
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath,
because he knows the time is short.

Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast,
for it is a human number.
Its number is six hundred and sixty-six."

I left alone
my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind

What did I see?
can I believe?
that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw
in my own dreams
were the reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

'Cause in my dreams....
it's always there!
the evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair!

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Night was black -
was no use holding back....
'cause I just had to see
was someone watching me

In the mist
dark figures move and twist
Was this all for real,
or just some kind of hell?

6-6-6
is the number of the beast
Hell
and fire
was spawned to be released!

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised....
as they start to cry,
hands held to the sky!

In the night,
the fires burning bright!
The ritual has begun -
Satan's work is done!

6-6-6
is the number of the beast -
sacrifice is going on tonight!

This can't go on....
I must inform the law!
Can this still be real,
or just some crazy dream?

But I feel drawn to-wards the chanting hordes -
seems to.... mesmerize
can't avoid their eyes!

6-6-6
is the number of the beast
6-6-6
is the one for you and me

I'm coming back -
I will return!
I now possess your body, and I'll make you burn!

I have the fire,
I have the force!
I have the power to make my evil take it's course!

Well, I suppose that there title could be argued - so many genres blend with ambiguity, but well, that's what I'm classifying this as.

Anyways, this here is another AMV (Anime Music Video), and the anime that this was artfully made with (posted to YouTube by AMV artist, ravenkeeper), is the very famous and well-known, "Vampire Hunter D".


The name of the song is "Her Ghost in the Fog", by the band, "Cradle of Filth". This band's lyrics are usually very hardcore in the extreme, deeply offending *many* - some would say they are wildly amoral, blasphemous, and even utterly demonic - but this particular song it seems, is a telling of a love tragedy.

In a nutshell, the story goes that one man's lover, while she was picking flowers by moonlight, was being watched by elder members of the local church who had long wanted to try her for witchcraft.... they then had crept up to her, and had all raped her and killed her, leaving her dead, violated body to be found by her lover the next morning.

While mourning over her dead body in his arms, he had noticed amid the footprints roundabout, something catching the sunlight - upon further inspection, he found it to be the church bell tower key. Piecing it all together in his mind, he set out for his revenge.

While the town was all gathered together in the church for the funeral services, he was outside, locking the doors shut, and had set the church ablaze with all inside.

Tres DARK, yes?

Keep in mind, as with most AMVs, the video content usually has nearly next to nothing to do with the lyrical context, although it may often be somewhat attuned to the emotion of the music (as is very much the case here). That being said, this AMV has nicely synched parts, and I enjoyed it well.

Anywho, here is the video below, with the lyrics below the video. Enjoy, minions! ^_~ 



"The Moon, she hangs like a cruel portrait
Soft winds whisper the bidding of trees
As this tragedy starts with a shattered glass heart
And the Midnightmare trampling of dreams....

But oh, no tears please....

Fear and pain may accompany Death
But it is desire that shepherds it's certainty
As We shall see.... "

She was divinity's creature
That kissed the cold mirrors
A Queen of Snow
Far beyond compare
Lips attuned to symmetry sought Her everywhere
Dark liqoured eyes
An Arabian nightmare....

She shone on watercolours
Of my pondlife as pearl
Until those who couldn't have Her
Cut Her free of this World

That fateful Eve when....
The trees stank of sunset and camphor
Their lanterns chased phantoms and threw
An inquisitive glance, like the shadows they cast
On my love picking rue by the light of the moon

Putting reason to flight
Or to death as their way
They crept through woods mesmerized

By the taffeta ley
O'er Her hips that held sway
Over all they surveyed

Save a mist on the rise
(A deadly blessing to hide)
Her ghost in the fog

They raped and left....
(Five "men of God")
 ....Her ghost in the fog

Dawn discovered Her there
Beneath the cedar's stare
Silk dress torn, her raven hair
Flown to gown her beauty bared
Was starred with frost, I knew Her lost
I wept 'til tears crept back to prayer

She'd sworn me vows in fragrant blood
"Never to part, lest jealous Heaven stole our hearts"

Then this I screamed:
"Come back to Me for
I was born in love with thee
So why should fate stand in betweeeeen??!!"

And as I drowned her gentle curves
With dreams unsaid and final words
I espied a gleam trodden to earth -

 - THE CHURCH BELL TOW-ER KEEEEEEEEEEEEEY.... !!

The village mourned her by the by
For She'd been a witch
Their Men had longed to try
And I broke under Christ seeking guilty signs
My tortured soul on.... 

*iiiiiiiiiiiiiiice*....

A Queen of snow
Far beyond compare
Lips attuned to symmetry sought Her everywhere
Trappistine eyes
An Arabian nightmare....

She was Ersulie possessed
Of a milky white skin

My porcelain Yin
A graceful Angel of Sssssiiiiinnnnn

And so for Her....

The breeze stank of sunset and camphor
My lantern chased Her phantom and blew
Their Chapel ablaze and all locked in to a pain
Best reserved for judgement that their bible construed....

Putting reason to flight
Or to flame unashamed
I swept form cries mesmerized

By the taffeta ley
Or her hips that held sway
Over all those at bay

Save a mist on the rise
A final blessing to hide
Her ghost in the fog

And I embraced
Where lovers rot...
Her ghost in the fog

Her ghost in the fog

Greetings!! 

For today's installment of metallic instrumental daring do, I saw fit to provide for your listening pleasure, a vid posted by "noskoolskater".

This song was apparently originally going to be named "When Hell Freezes Over", by music writer Dave Mustaine, who wrote this for the Metallica album Ride "The Lightning", while he was still with the band - it seems that, perhaps due to Cliff Burton's (Great Spirit keep him) influence, the name was changed to "Call Of Cthulu", due to his love of the writings by H. P. Lovecraft.

There are not that many instrumentals by Metallica, but there are a few (such as Cliff's "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)", and his later, "Orion"), and this one is one of my favoutes indeed, as well as my son's, when he was little. A very broad taste in music, that one, also loving Bach's "Little Fugue" at that age. He was about 4 back then, but he still likes them even now.

This tune is excruciatingly difficult to play on guitar any faster than real slow, when one first picks it up - we're talkin' some serious carpal tunnel syndrome here - but it is interesting to notice, that the Megadeth song, "Hangar 18", also uses the same basic fingerings in it's composition. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has also reused the fingerings/chords from Metallica's "The Four Horsemen", in another Megadeth song.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaanywho, I give you Metallica - from the 1984 album, "Ride The Lightning", the last song on side two, "Call Of Cthulu".... enjoy, peeps!

I suppose it's about damn time, eh?

Alrighty, peeps! I've been gone a friggin' long-ass time here.... got my innards bashed in, and bled internally, more than a half-gallon's worth - but all's well, as instead of just rotting away, I saw fit to heal up pretty much on my own, and no need of surgery. Wanna see the short story of the gorey details? Hehe - click here.

Aaaanywho, now that I'm back amongst the living (*ahem*), I should jump right back into my sharing of musical goodness. Today's is another among those with no moving video - just a still shot of the album cover.... but it's all good, as that way you won't be so distracted when you play this while working on something else in another browser tab, right? Today's installment comes with killer speed-guitar work, particularly during the chorus, and the way-too-short, freakin' wild solo at the end.

This here is from a band that thrashed well in the late 80's, and only almost made super-bigtime, as they were severely under promoted. Their name is VIO-LENCE, and this is off their debut album, "Eternal Nightmare". Now, do remember - this is a *thrash* band.... you're not going to hear a golden throated, heavenly-voiced singer - you're going to hear a THRASH BAND. As most of you all know out there, it's not so much the voice as that which is being spoken.  That having been said, I give you, "Calling In The Coroner". I chose this one due to my particularly intense mood of gleeful-morbidity on this fine day (as opposed to.... ??).

A slight P.S. - some controversy has been out regarding the lyrics (and when has it not?), and especially at the end.... there are those that say the voices are saying "CORONER-CORONER" (perhaps stating that that is what the enclosed printed lyrics say, but then what is printed and what is actually sung is very often at odds), and there are those that say they are saying "CALL IN THE CORONER".... me? I generally don't give a flying rat's ass one way or the other, truth be told, but I do lean towards the latter - I mean, hell.... it's the name of the freakin' SONG, more or less, right??

So, take it all in right here, and deeply dig into the savory lyrics further below.

Until next time, minions ^_~


Calm collector of the waste, I've....
Come for the dead
Cold, my feelings cannot be traced, there's
No need, no patients for their
Muttering words, they're so few and forgotten
So please do spare me
This ain't a church, and I ain't no priest
So save it for the funeral-to-be

S-LICE - incision, split your chest open.... au-top-sy
PRECISE, my thoughts they cannot be broken
When brain-probing
I'm calling out for the next cadaver
Oh, don't delay, no corpse decay
And be swift - be quick with the scalpel
This man is dead, he's got only hell to pay

An open-casket funeral for all to see
The body staring at you, carcass of seams
Our hat's off to ya, coroner, a job well done
The grieving parents truly proud of their funeral-faced son

Accident just waiting to happen.... tra-gic-'ly
Unstable mind's continuously snapping
On society
Now I'm just here, a product of the county
I'm dealing with the mess that surrounds me
And you can see me on your colour TV
Sports jacket, coool tie, and wheeling out the body

An open-casket funeral for all to see
The body staring at you, carcass of seams
Our hat's off to ya, coroner, a job well done
the grieving parents truly proud of their funeral-faced son's distorted features,
As I picked him off the road
His body mangled,
Took ten hours for me to sew to-ge-ther
Perfectly stitched sutured and closed and staring through glass eyes
Just one more step for mother dear - her first glance she looks and crrrrys

CALL IN THE CORONER - His pulse stopped!
CALL IN THE CORONER - You must call him!
CALL IN THE CORONER - Deal in rot!
CALL IN THE CORONER - Call in the Coroner!

Well, here it has been a coupla weeks since last post.... been horrendously busy at the day job, but now I got about a week off.

Okay, today's music installment is EIGHTEENTH CENTURY HEAVY METAL. Yes, I'm talkin' some of the good stuff from about 250 years ago, peeps.

May I introduce to you, Johann Sebastian Bach, and one of my favourite pieces (well, two - a dual piece, really), Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

It's exceedingly difficult, even near impossible to find a recording of this that I 100% approve of - there are mistakes and miskeyings that I often hear in nearly every recording I have heard to date(I am *very* strict and picky in my judgement of performances of Bach's works), but today's submission is among the best I could find on the net.

No lyrics.... just sit back, and enjoy what was back then, by some, considered highly sensorable music of the devil, like so many things today, but now an immortal classic.

EDIT; Been a few reposts of video embed code here, due to many of these videos suddenly becoming "no longer available", either taken down by the initial poster, or by YouTube themselves. This here one however, seems to have been up a while, so here goes.... 

Found another interesting AMV, using scene sequences from Dragonball-Z.... strange thing, though - on the title screen, we can see that dude from Naruto, semi-blended into the background in the center.... uhm, why?? Who knows? Not I. Aaaaaaaaaaanywho, the fight scenes from DBZ have utterly nothing to do with the lyrics of the song, but the action goes well enough with the guitar work.

The song's name is "Angel of Death", by Slayer, from their 1986 album, "Reign In Blood". The lyrics are about the atrocities committed by the infamous Nazi war criminal, Joseph Mengele, also known as the "Angel of Death", hence the song's title. You may have heard of him in school, or the discovery channel, or perhaps even from stories told by your grandparents' generation, if you happen to be Jewish.

He's the one who invented and performed so many tortures and ran experiments on human beings, such as dyeing eyes and changing skin cells to find other ways of creating the "master race", and slowly freezing/burning people to chart tolerances of mortality, and much, much more. Known for his 'work' at the concentration camp Auschwitz, he has never been caught, to date, and has yet to be brought to justice.

Here is the video below, with the lyrics further down. Enjoy.





Auschwitz,
The meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die

Slow death,
Immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life

Forced in
Like cattle, you run
Stripped of
Your life's worth
Human mice,
For the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Sadistic
Surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood

Destroying
Without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race

Surgery
With no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely

Inferior
No use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Infamous

Butcher

Angel of Death

Pumped with fluid
Inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes

Burning flesh
Drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil

Frigid cold
Cracks your limbs
How long can you last in this frozen water burial?

Sewn together
Joining heads
Just a matter of time 'til you rip yourselves apart

Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs

Sickening ways to achieve
The Holocaust

Seas of blood
Bury life
Smell your death as it burns deep inside of you

Abacinate
Eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare

Wings of pain
Reach out for you
His face of death staring down, your blood running cold

Injecting cells
Dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of the mutants he's creating

Pathetic
Harmless victims
Left to die

Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free



Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Infamous
Butcher
Angel of Death

Angel of Death

Well, had some difficulties with this PC (now all is well), and been busy as all hell at work, but now I got a free moment, so I think I should post something here. I found a lovely little AMV (segments of Anime set to Music in a Video), done buy a guy who skulks about YouTube as, "Hexxmann" - his third AMV.... and quite good, in fact. He has used bits of "Vampire Hunter D" for the vid, while the music comes from King Diamond's 1986 album, "Fatal Portrait" - the song's name is "Lurking In The Dark", one of my all-time faves. The video is here, and the lyrics you'll find below it. Enjoy, minions ^_~ 

EDIT - The %&$# AMV is no longer available, so I am replacing it today (5/20/08) with the same song, but the "video" is just a still shot of an album cover. Oh, well - enjoy the music!




When Nightfall comes around, and the light of day is gone....
The Dark closes in, as the last candle burns out....
It's time to send off your mind on a trip....
Into the Land of Dreams and Mist.

O-o-oh, is something wrooong??

They are lurking in the daaaark....

Heavy breathing, but nobody's there....
If that's what you think, you'd better beware.

O-o-oh, is something wrooong??

They are lurking in the daaaark.... watching you.

How does it feel to be alone in the dark?
How do you know they won't do any harm?
They can see you, but you're oh, so blind....
Maybe it only appears in your mind?

O-o-oh, is something wrooong??

They are lurking in the daaaark.... you'll see.

 ....so I decided to find some cool videos to listen to some music I haven't heard for a long time, while I type away doing work.

Found a nice one I almost forgot about.... King Diamond's "Blood to Walk", from the Puppet Master album.... King Diamond has a tendency to tell stories with his albums, each song being like a chapter in a book - the story  is that a couple in love, who had died (well, they were lured, abducted, and killed, separately), had their bodies ritually mutilated, and puppets made out of them.... now they live again, sort of. The video, which is the music, but showing only the album cover, is here;


The words are here, below;
________________________________________________________ 

Sitting in the cellar, watching all the others
It was only yesterday, needles in my skin
THEY turned my last remains into this Puppet thing

Blood to walk, blood to see
Blood to walk again and Blood to be

I can see, but I cannot move at all
Yet I have feelings, I know it's very strange

Blood to walk, blood to see
Blood to walk again and Blood to be

I'm on my shelf...Eternal eyes they never sleep
I take a look...and in the dark I see Victoria

[solo: Andy]

There is no mistake, that is my beloved
Sitting on her shelf.. alone and so dead

[solo: Mike]

There's a light outside the door
Mommy and Daddy are back for more.. Let's play

Hello oh my children...In Blood I will teach you

[solos: Mike - Andy]

THEY take Victoria down from her shelf
THEY sit her on the floor.. and me in front of her

Blood to walk, blood to see
Blood to walk again and Blood to be

There are strings attached to our heads
There are strings in arms and legs
The Puppet Masters hands
Oh they keep us straight

Pressing the needle in...I feel the sting, it's Emerencia
Injecting Blood...Into the both of us...It's hot

I think I see her move
There's a tingle in our skin
I can't believe...That she can see again...

There is no mistake, that is my beloved
I have missed you so.. oh no
It's like a Horror Show without a word we know
As we communicate.. with our eyes.. deep inside
We wonder why

Why our minds are now in our eyes

We can move without any strings

They're alive!
That's enough for today.... put them away! 

"Lashed to the Slave Stick", by NILE.

Killer freakin' band - sounds great in studio recordings, CDs, etc..... but *live* - they sorta sound a mite sucky. Never seen 'em live m'self, but seen many a video of live performances.... the sound is like, crap on a stick.

Aaaaaaaaanywho, these guys shred like no day tomorrow - speedthrash death metal. But what makes them different, is that their musical style is somewhat ancient - ancient Egyptian, to be precise. All their lyrics are passages of ancient spells and curses taken from the pyramid texts found at Giza and Abydos and etc..

One song in particular - the above mentioned tune - mentions the use of a "slave stick".... imagine a long stave, forked at one end, and at the other end, a large stone block. Now imagine that your neck is in the fork, and tied there with leather thongs, and perhaps you are also bound hand and foot.... or not. I'd have to draw a picture for you to fully appreciate it, but you are in effect stcuk in a quite unnatural position, having either the weight of your own body, or the large stone, working against you - the pain is everlasting, and unendurable.

In this curse passage, it mentions this as punishment - as well as other things, such as being burnt and gored, and pierced through the chest by Sekhmet.... now,　in ancient Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet was a very loving, nurturing, mothering goddess.... for her to be infuriated, one must have committed a serverely serious crime.... thus, the curse. Poetically, the curse also mentions "never again seeing RA (the sun god; the sun)".

As with many "videos" you'll see here, this one seems to be just a still shot of the album cover. Enjoy the song, and the lyrics below!




Asfetiu

Asfetiu

Fiends, criminals, slaves, blasphemers,
The Word of RA is against thee -
Ye are tethered and bound with leather straps,
Helpless, doomed -
Wailing,
In unendurable torment,
Lashed to the forked slave stick by the neck

Lashed to the slave stick

Abata Ankh TKhet

Neba T Steb TKaa

Lashed to the slave stick

RA  pronouceth the formulae against thee -
The Eye of HORUS is prepared to attack thee -
SEKHMET uttereth Words of Flame against thee -
And pierceth thy breast

Your evil deeds have turned against you
Your plottings have come upon you
For your abominable acts
You shall be lashed to the slave stick

ABUAI - the god who burns the dead
Shall leave you smoldering in exile from the Netherworld
ABATAI - the gorer
Causes you to howl like a jackal in anguish

Your doom hath been decreed by RA
Your unjust and perverse judgments are upon yourselves
The wickedness of your words of cursing are upon you
It is you who hath committed the unutterable and wraught inequity in the Great Hall

Your corruptible body shall be cut to pieces
Your soul shall have no existence
Ye shall never again see RA
As he journyeth in the Hidden Land

The doom of RA is upon you

Lashed to the slave stick

Abata Ankh TKhet

Lashed to the slave stick

Neba T Steb TKhaa

Asfetiu

Lashed to the slave stick

Abata Ankh TKhet

Lashed to the slave stick

Well, did some customization.... now it's way late, and I gotta get up at five.

Laters!

Seeya tomorrow,.... perhaps.

    - Ranma ^_^ 

Blah-blah-blah, yakketty-shmakketty.... this here's me first post - YAY!!!!

Okay, I'll write more later - gots to go to sleepys now.

Baiiiiieeeeee!!!!

    - Ranma ^_^