No comments on this song? Really? This is my favorite Motörhead song!
Well, here goes:
This sounds to me like a new take on Dante's 'Inferno'. The "golden-eyed creature" could be Minos, who was essentially the prevailing judge, sentencing all the denizens of Hell to their respective ring of Hell. Some of the characters don't appear in the 'Inferno,' such as The "Red Queen". The closest reference to her I could find was Lewis Carol's "Through the Looking Glass". I'm not sure about the 'blind king,' but he certainly sounds Hellish. I almost want to draw a comparison between the Blind King and the Yellow King (whose name should never be mentioned aloud) from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.
No comments on this song? Really? This is my favorite Motörhead song!
Well, here goes: This sounds to me like a new take on Dante's 'Inferno'. The "golden-eyed creature" could be Minos, who was essentially the prevailing judge, sentencing all the denizens of Hell to their respective ring of Hell. Some of the characters don't appear in the 'Inferno,' such as The "Red Queen". The closest reference to her I could find was Lewis Carol's "Through the Looking Glass". I'm not sure about the 'blind king,' but he certainly sounds Hellish. I almost want to draw a comparison between the Blind King and the Yellow King (whose name should never be mentioned aloud) from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.