Metal Gods Lyrics
And all the time it had grown
From techno seeds we first planted
Evolved a mind of its own
Dragging iron feet
Laser beaming hearts
Ripping men apart
Where we could do as we please
In secrecy this infection
Was spreading like a disease
Knowing we'd be found
Fearing for our lives
Reaped by robot's scythes
Metal Gods
Metal Gods
With mankind in their command
In time they'd like to discover
How they can make their demand
To their wicked ways
But meeting with our death
Engulfed in molten breath
tipical si-fi stroy: Man builds robot-man enslaves robot-Robot gets smart-robot kills/enslaves man. Judas priest were the true metal gods though
To hear this, I would think it was inspired by The Terminator, but it predates Terminator by four years. Either way, awesome. \m/
It's about man being enslaved & hunted by the machines it first created & technology taking over the earth.
British Steel is a great album with great songs. This is definately one of them.
amazingky theres not much comments on a king song such as metal gods, this is a typical judas song, robots taking over the world.
glenn n kk fkn rock
I think this song is two-fold... On one hand it sounds like drugs and the other technology... I think maybe it has something to do with the human beings natural want to control something... Like the virus starts on the inside and then manifests itself on the outside. Something like that maybe.
Dude (MarshalStack), Please lay off the Ambian and consult your doctor Immediately! These hallucinations you are having cannot be good for you. Was Abe Lincoln & a groundhog involved in any way with the BJ ?
Dude (MarshalStack), Please lay off the Ambian and consult your doctor Immediately! These hallucinations you are having cannot be good for you. Was Abe Lincoln & a groundhog involved in any way with the BJ ?
Dude (MarshalStack), Please lay off the Ambian and consult your doctor Immediately! These hallucinations you are having cannot be good for you. Was Abe Lincoln & a groundhog involved in any way with the BJ ?
Rob Halford is gay. He was into underground homosexual bar culture in the era of this album. That’s where the whole leather/motorcycle thing came from. He came out as gay on MTV in 1998.
Most of the song is self explanatory once you know that.
“Iron feet” is obscure reference to Daniel 2:33 — living in two worlds — dreaming of a man. (More flamboyantly, “Dragging iron feet” might mean gays in drag marching through the street.)
“Disease” — yeah, that’s an unfortunate irony. AIDS was first discovered the year after this release.
“Fearing for our lives” he really says “LIES” — he annunciates that pretty clearly, to my ears, and it makes perfect sense.
“Death” is Shakespearean era euphemism for orgasm. The last stanza is literally about receiving a blow-job.
All those silly teen boys who loved Priest in the 80s and 90s had NO IDEA they were chanting gay mantras all those years - myself included. [No-gay.] In 2013 it’s hilarious. In 1980 I probably would have gotten into a fistfight with someone who pointed it out to me.