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| Xbishopx – Wreck Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Modern hardcore bands, it would seem, see smoking as a bigger problem than oppression and poverty, and would like you to hate people for their life choices with a view to making everyone pigheaded, violent joyless sxe clones.
Fucking tools. |
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| Skyclad – Jeopardy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about the chemical weapons tests on soldiers at Porton Down in the 1950's. |
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| Skyclad – Bewilderbeast Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This vicious and clever song protests against the practice of fox-hunting in the UK. (Now thankfully banned) |
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| Skyclad – Womb Of The Worm Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about drug dealers targeting children. The line 'snow-filled hell' means snow as in the slang for Cocaine rather than literal snow. |
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| Venom – Buried Alive Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is very atmospheric, with a heavy Black Sabbath influence that Venom passed down to the black metal bands they influenced to a certain extent. It's one of the slowest songs on the album, and leads directly into 'Raise the Dead' (they are pretty much just different halves of the same song) |
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| My Dying Bride – The Crown Of Sympathy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is definitely my favourite MDB song. The subject, like so much of their work, is a combination of religious angst and mourning a love lost, which has destroyed the man whom the song is written from the viewpoint of, annihilating both his faith and will to live. |
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| Amorphis – Drowned Maid Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is utterly beautiful. The lyrics are based on Finnish folk tales, and whislt they may seem a bit silly on page the utter intensity with which they're sung surpasses all those kind of thoughts. The really great thing about this song is the way the music creates such an incredible sense of atmosphere; You can see the bleak shorelines and dark waves. It's odd, but a lot of Finnish bands seem to be able to pull off the evocative trick very well, probably no more than any other country though, might be just what I've heard. |
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| Cradle of Filth – For Those Who Died Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Agreed. This song is one of the finest ever written about the Burning Times. This is also, imo, one of the best versions, featuring as it does a duet between Martin Walkyier of Sabbat and Dani Filth. The actual contents of the song, as said, are very simple to understand. It tells us that we should not forget what atrocities men can commit whilst working under what they believe to be a doctrine of peace, and that you can NEVER silence the voices of the truly righteous. |
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| Type O Negative – Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Exactly as this last guy said, this is a cover of Black Sabbaths epochal 'Black Sabbath' from Satan's perspective. However, I might like to point out the interesting fact that the last two lines (Worship the sun, worship no-one) actually seem to make a reference to atheistic or LaVey Satanism, which holds that you should have no God above yourself. The line about the sun is a reference to the idea of Lucifer as Prometheus: the tragically flawed spirit of fire who inspired the human race with free will against Gods wishes. |
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| Type O Negative – Black no. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Haha, I love this song so much because it's so much closer to the true idea of goth than so much other stuff. What you have to realise is that if you want to dress in black, wear make-up regardless of gender and listen to creepy music you have two options: taking the piss out of yourself or being a total cock. Ironically you do need a fine sense of humour to carry off being a goth and still have friends that aren't merely after your fishnets. This song is a perfect demonstration of that sort of principle. It's a mocking but rather sympathetic look at the ultragothic stereotype (I think it would have to be somewhat sympathetic as TON are a goth metal band), clove cigarettes etc. and really actually saying what I've just said: you've got to laugh haven't you? Otherwise it's like fucking the dead... |
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| Cradle of Filth – Born In A Burial Gown Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm a goth (I know anyone who's actually a goth si supposed to deny they are, but that's really just boring). I love Cradle of FIlth, I mean, really, they're great. All the tonal variation, layered vocals, semi-cheesy keyboards, samples etc...it's good clean fun, excellent Darkwave/Black Metal fusion. They were better back in the old days (QUUUEEEN OF WINTER ...THRRRROOOONED) Anyway.
This song, dear people, is about a girl who lives in a remote forest village, and dreams of escape as she sits on her window-sill, looking out over the forest and drinking hallucinogenic absinthe. When, she spies a line of 'snow white freaks' coming in to town on the pagan holiday of Walpurgisnacht. They are the circus, however, they are no normal circus. She goes to see what wicked wonders lie within and is ensnared by the circus. Here, for once, the video gives an entirely literal interpretation of the song. "Unleashed the chain of her God-given cross" shows that she abandons God, and sells her soul. She is born again...as a vampire. This is the meaning of the section about her 'second coming', and also unlocks the meaning of the title, which is not as others (and initially I) thought a comment on how everyone is born fated to die, but rather refers to the second birth of a vampire: When a person becomes a vampire in mythology they are born again and rise from their grave...wearing a burial gown. The key to this meaning is the line "Now she moves with a predators guile, beyond the firelit circle of life", and once you realise this the rest of the song makes a lot more sense. |
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| Finntroll – Kitteldags Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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'Manniskofolk ej festa' sounds suspiciously like it should mean 'on men-folk we feast', so I would support that. The whole theme of the album is Jaktens Tid=Hunting Day. Unfortunately Finntroll never provided those handy english sleeve notes for any of their other albums like they did for Midnattens Widunder. |
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| Edge of Sanity – Enigma Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Enigma is essentially an attack on chrisianity, particularly the idea of salvation. The Priest and the Preacher represent the church, the preachers beautiful choral verse a honeyed invitation to give up fones free-will to God The Witch and the Unorthodox (see the song 'Unorthodox' also by EoS) represent defiance and reason. The song makes slightly awkward (one must consider it was written by a seventeen year old Swede) philosophical points, feeding into part 2, which is essentially a huge rant. The theme is the classic: heaven is a lie designed to keep you in line, evil as defined by the church is the true vital force of humanity etc. It is worth noting that this is not the complete lyrics. Every version I have seen misses a section linking 'a harp with broken strings' and 'the ground': 'Has the angel lost it's wings? And plummets screaming downwards'. The title, celestial dissension, indicates that Swano (the author) is in active rebellion against the celestial (God). psalm 3's title references the destruction of faith and the myth of heaven, and is simply a hollow laugh of victory. |
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