"Careful what you wish for" by Testament

Testament:"Careful what you wish for", (from the album "The gathering", 1999):

Grace - in a perfect world
On shines the light
Praise - an angelic song
But there´s another side you´ll see
Now
Hide
Salvation easily denied

Reigns - down with misery
Life´s not always what it seems
False
Hope
Written in the testament of old
Take
Heed
Stop believing every word
You read
Truth
Inconsistencies
Distorts the lie
False
Imprisonment
Forever lost inside your mind
Fates
Door
Just be careful what you wish for
Deaths
Door
Just be careful what you wish for

Peace of mind
I can´t find
Don´t be blind
Take the ride

Hey...we live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
You better save yourself...

Hey...we live in a fucked up world
Hiding behind the disguise
Never let your feelings show
Why can´t you be yourself...
We live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
You better save yourself...

(lyrics: Chuck Billy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oraI4Whwj8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uarjwxkza0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCl3U875D8c

(Actually I got this Testament-album as a birthday-present from my parents, when I turned 30! (It´s always great to have parents, who really appreciate their children....ha ha....). My cd-collection includes two Testament-albums, this one and "The formation of damnation" (2008), and both are, if I can say so, thrashing good quality :-)

In fact I could have posted any of "The gathering"´s eleven tracks and still be satisfied with myself, but track number seven "Careful what you wish for" is to say the least quite irresistable: Party-thrash as we all, (I suppose :-)), like it....

....and by the way, there´s a new Testament-album, "The dark roots of earth", set for an release this year!

Kind regards
Carsten

"The heart collector" by Nevermore

Nevermore:"The heart collector", (from the album "Dead heart in a dead world", 2000):

To see the actor without tears
Dark rivers carve the years between the lines of self control
In my psychotic karmic fear, I own your tears anyway
And I am you and we are not afraid

And we won´t be here for long
The heart collector
Sings his song that´s slowly boiling over

Nevermore to feel the pain
The heart collector sang
And I won´t be feeling hollow for so long
Nevermore to feel the pain
The words fall out like fire
Just believe when you can´t believe anymore

The stage is empty now
I hope we hold and cannot allow
The corrupt eclectic takes his fatal bow

And we won´t be here for long
The heart collector sings his song again

Nevermore to feel the pain
The heart collector sang
And I won´t be feeling hollow for so long
Nevermore to feel the pain
The words fall out like fire
Just believe when you can´t believe anymore

(lyrics: Warrel Dane)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqaXTek_-U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZggEjQYxo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kljro_k3A

(One more beautiful song :-), and I can tell you, it was definitely love at first listen! I´ve mentioned Seattle´s Nevermore a couple of times before here on HEAVY-SKOV, but as we say here in Denmark: "something good can´t be done too often"....(Well, not all of us apparently....ha ha....).

When you´re used to, like I am, the more extreme vocals the heavy metal-genre has to offer, it can be really refreshing from time to time just lay back and listen to Warrel Dane´s clean vocals. He´s definitely one of the most talented guys, I´ve "met" since I discovered this unique genre many years ago :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"The deepest of all hearts" by My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride:"The deepest of all hearts", (from the album "The dreadful hours", 2001):

Your soul is my desire
Desire I can´t control
Be still my beating heart
Each beat you have stole
Your mind calls to me
Calls me closer to you
Be calm my aching heart
The ache drives me to you
Your eyes
The depth I see
So deep
The tears you cry will devour me

A flower to behold
Don´t run
Don´t blow away
Breathless to my eyes
So bright
Never to fade
Calmness and mystery
Entwines and captures me
Delicate to the touch
From what I could see

I only wanted to get you close to me
To feel the love inside of me
You turned away from me
You looked the other way
You didn´t see my tears for you
I only wanted to take you in my arms,
And lay you down here with me
You tried to turn and flee from my side
You tore out the heart of me
If only you had stayed
What may have been?
We could have been beautiful
Could have walked the earth,
Flown into the skies,
Swam the deepest of the seas
But you couldn´t see anything in me
You strayed too far from my path
Maybe now you´ll see anything in me
I´m sorry it had to be this way

Your eyes
Your smile
No more laughter again
We were something
No more
Nothing to me

Now I walk alone
Naked to the bone
My heart has fled far from me
Until another day
I find the one, who looks beyond the eyes in me

(lyrics: Aaron Stainthorpe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUen4cbwkHE

(I´ve been listening a lot to My Dying Bride since we went into 2012....Well, they´re always on my....what can I say....top 100 :-), but especially in this new year they mean a lot to me, (don´t ask me why :-)). "The dreadful hours" was released about eleven years ago, and I´m not quite aware how important the album seems to the fans, but for me the whole thing is....well....quite interesting, from the opener "The dreadful hours" to the closer "The deepest of all hearts". Actually I was going to post the titel-song here on HEAVY-SKOV, but the last couple of days "The deepest of all hearts" has very often found its way to my ears. (Don´t ask me why....ha ha....). So here it is, this beautiful song :-)

Kind regards
Carsten