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| The Black Dahlia Murder – The Raven Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is a mostly a play on an idea from the cult of thelema. They believe their are three separate stages of religion called aeons: aeon of isis (pagan religion which worshiped nature), aeon of osiris (judeo-christian religion which involved submission to a father god), and the aeon of horus (involving something with self realization and following your own will). The song is based on a transition from the osiris to the horus. Obviously the song is spiced up a bit and has Satan being the symbol of the new era, The raven is an important symbol in the song, since Aleister Crowley actually has used it as a symbol of desecration of Christianity in his writings. It's presence in the song is a mockery, since it tells of their inevitable demise as it happily waits for clean up duty. Overall a very sick song, and it captures the evil and mysterious vibe of the album very well. The riffs are probably the most technical on the album too, which have an unnerving Egyptian sound that goes perfectly with the mind-bending lyrics. |
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| The Black Dahlia Murder – To You, Contortionist Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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f.y.i. anyone who calls metal music emo is obviously trolling. My friend doesn't like metal and every time I force him to listen to something like tbdm in the car (he makes me listen to industrial music when he's driving so he kind of deserves it) he always calls it emo because he knows it makes me want to punch him in the face. Emocore music is what made the legitimate punk oriented warp tour so lame and teenage girl oriented, and basically made a joke of any underground music. It's become a custom of douches to say any music with unclean vocals is emo because they know this to some degree. You can take comfort in knowing that people who say this are usually just pussies who get stressed out easily when listening to metal, and try to fight back by saying that some how the music is the one being a little bitch. : ) |
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| The Black Dahlia Murder – Necropolis Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song, as Strnad said himself, is about "jesus not existing, and you will all be dead in the dirt an loving it". With that said, the song probably takes place in the crusades because of the line "countless the slaughtered in your name", which obviously refers to a holy war. The narrator seems to be a poor peasant who feels his bad luck is from God not being satisfied with his life. He decides to fight in the crusades, probably as a way to gain God's good will, with the promise "I shall bloody my hands 'til the last breath be torn from me". Fighting in the war only makes him feel more hopeless about life when he sees all the death and agony caused by the war. In desperation he cries out for god to end the war by destroying the enemy, who presumably believe in the false religion. Obviously nothing happens, and after witnessing people die in the name of his religion without any help of God, he loses all hope in his religion, saying ironically that the afterlife that he now looks forward to is his ultimate death in the ground, where he will join his fallen comrades in the "necropolis". |
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| The Black Dahlia Murder – On Stirring Seas Of Salted Blood Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is probably an allegory for war. The ship is a warship since it has cannons, and the skeletons are even said to be the ghosts of war. “The prisoners of her endless quest a burial at ancient sea that cannot rest in fucking peace” is saying that the art of war is very old and is unlikely to ever go away. The prisoners are said to be at their final resting place, which tells that the warriors are being condemned to a lingering, hell-like death. Being in a war makes them already half-dead, which is shown by the fact that they are skeletons living a purgatorial afterlife, never to return to the lives they knew before. |
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| The Black Dahlia Murder – Carbonized In Cruciform Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It's clear that this song is about one freakin bloody satanic ritual. But it seems also to have a hidden rhetoric purpose as well. It seems that Strnad makes a pretty clear connection to the sacrifice to Jesus. He sets up a scenario where a bunch of dudes are killing their victims to appeal to a malicious being, with "black intentions crystal clear". Yet the listener will also make the connection that Jesus was tortured and killed to appeal to God. So in this setting with a few things changed up, we see something that is in the christian context widely accepted as a thing of beauty to be just horrifying torture to appeal to a bloodthirsty deity. |
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