"The enemy" by Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost:"The enemy", (from the album "In requiem", 2007):

Why can´t you say; sorrow
Why can´t you say; I think I believe
Thou must not steal; borrow
Why must you steal things
I receive

Why can´t you say; sorrow
Why can´t you say; I think I believe
Why must you steal; borrow
Always conceal cling to belief

Damaged this way; hollowed
Living the lie that you can´t take
Damaged maintained; solemn
Living for rules you only break

How can you say?

The enemy is thrown into the sadness
For the enemy there´s only pain and sadness then death

(lyrics: Nick Holmes)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFPRcUVD7A

(Paradise Lost....well....they come and go in my life....I was a big fan of this legendary english gothic/doom metal-band around "Icon" (1993) and "Draconian times" (1995), but they don´t seem that interesting to me anymore. But that said, I definitely can´t help buying their albums....ha ha.... It´s just a matter of time before I´ll get their latest offering "Tragic idol", released recently :-)

The case is, that though Nick Holmes & Co., in my opinion, no longer are at the same high level as before, they still create some fine memorable metal-songs, like this one...."The enemy" :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"The beginning and the end" by Anathema

Anathema:"The beginning and the end", (from the album "Weather systems", 2012):

Inside this cold heart is a dream
That´s locked in a box that I keep
Buried a hundred miles deep
Deep in my soul in a place that´s surrounded by aeons of silence

And somewhere inside is the key
To everything I want to feel
But the dark summer dawns of my memory
Are locked in a place that can never be

Can someone please show me the way?
Can someone please help me?
For I cannot see and the silence is raging

Silence
Silence
Fade into silence

Memory
Memory
Inside is the key to a memory

(lyrics: Daniel Cavanagh)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtkaUCu3PqM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t-VBXYcqTo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1kROZannc

(In the early days of my blog I was mentioning, that my favourite metal-album with no doubt is Anathema´s "The silent enigma" (1995), (and I guess it always will be :-)). A more than great atmospheric doom metal-masterpiece, which takes the listener into a....erm....fascinating state of darkness and hopelessness! Many years have passed since "The silent enigma" was seeing the light of day :-), and the Liverpool-guys/girl are definitely no longer in the doom-area....Now we are talking a musical style, which can be called something like "atmospheric progressive rock with well-hidden metal-parts"...:-)

Latest Anathema-album "Weather systems", which is actually brand new, is currently finding its way to my ears, and it´s so great experiencing the band still keeping the flame high and making otherworldly music!

One of the most recommendable songs on "Weather systems" is in my, (and I suppose many others), opinion track number seven....the very fine "The beginning and the end".

Kind regards
Carsten

"I am the earth" by Watain

Watain:"I am the earth", (from the album "Casus luciferi", 2003):

He lives through me
All of what I am
The needle of hamartia
injected in the flesh of man
With the soul of a carrion
Sleeping, yet awake
For underneath this skin
crawls eden´s cursed snake

Hic est draco caudam suam devorans!

You may have felt it´s cold
carressing down your spine
Gently yet with strength
and with a morbid touch
For its real shape is a razor
Smeared with the Devil´s seed
and infected with its plague
are the scars from which I bleed

I am the earth
chained to horns
Its ground is my flesh
pierced by Holy thorns
I am the earth
burning deep within
Its water is my blood
blackened by my sins

Swallowed by His mystery
Lots within its maze
The bridges behind they burn
from the pyres of Hell´s grace
One after another
the stars fade into black
He has called my name
There is no way back...

Pierced by His will
Trapped within His lair
My flesh shall be the sign
of that fires are to fear
For those who walk upon me
shall be punished for their turns
I am the earth
and within me the Devil burns!

I am the earth
in the shadow of the Lord
A crucifix of flesh
yet sinfully adored
I am the earth
as your life with me does blend
For I am His truth
the world without end...

The world without end

(lyrics: Watain)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wie9RwBmcw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7AhTe7_uBI

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

(Sorry for the late update, but now I´m back :-), and this time we are talking Watain....

....I´ve been into Sweeden´s Watain, since they released their third album "Sworn to the dark" in 2007, and I definitely have to say, that I am not proud of the fact, that I didn´t discover this great band much earlier, but I had been quite too busy with other metal-things....ha ha....

Normally, when we´re talking black metal, it´s Norway, who´s the leader...., but Sweeden have, among others, Marduk and Watain, and they are definitely something to be proud of :-) For the last couple of weeks I´ve been listening regularly to Watain´s second album "Casus Luciferi" (2003), and it´s absolutely a great black-album with this damn fine highlight...."I´m the earth"!

Watain rules :-)

Kind regards
Carsten