Lifelines of depths

Octavia Sperati:"Lifelines of depths", (fra albummet "Winter enclosure", 2005):

Inside a hole of nothingness
Fawn on its soul or nothing less
Transformed on to its soft condition
Overwhelming with kind intuition

There it is carrying the spoken word
Throughout lifelines of depths
Hoping for one silent hour

Intense and clear
Further or near
Besides eternal frames

Independently
Searching pains
Why was it composed so sadly?

Besides it all eyes of awareness
They can call for emptiness
Injected for penetration through lies
Ever formed for no mans eyes

Unrestrictedly
And we let go
To open fields of sorrow
Indiscernible
The strain is easy
Enlightening day of new impressions

We slowly let go
For what is there to loose now
The shadows are returning

This gap so endless falling but no ground
There is nothing less but me and you
Unless they cling to us

Besides it all eyes of awareness
They can call for emptiness
Injected for penetration through lies
Ever formed for no mans eyes

There it is carrying the spoken word
Throughout lifelines of depths
Imperceptible implementation of life
The day is breaking

(Tekst: Silje Wergeland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-iGNLXLZ8

(Før Silje Wergeland kom med i The Gathering, var hun forsanger i det norske....øh....feminist-band(!) Octavia Sperati. Deres debut "Winter enclosure" er en dejlig og lidt stille plade, som besidder den originalitet, der er så nødvendig for, at heavy metal-genren ikke skal ende med at blive en parodi på sig selv....:-)).

Treasure

The Gathering:"Treasure", (fra albummet "The west pole", 2009):

We found our stepping stone
Over darkest hours
We left no trace at home
But saw our footprints ahead
It was our dream stone
Stardust would shine our way
There was a beautiful vision that night
All shades were bright
With hope to catch the sight
Of northern lights
And touch a cooling star
We watched the moonstones
Swim in brightest colours
Reached for horizons
To touch the line that seperates earth from sky
Stardust would shine our way
With hope to catch the sight of northern lights
With hope to catch the sight
Of northern lights
And touch a cooling star

(Tekst: Silje Wergeland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxwyxXAsGs4

Der er rigtigt mange gode numre på "The west pole", men jeg kan alligevel ikke lade være med at synes, at "Treasure" er i en klasse for sig....:-)

You promised me a symphony

The Gathering:"You promised me a symphony", (fra albummet "The west pole", 2009):

It is 1 pm
School bell´s ringing
My heart beats fast
I better got on running
She shouldn´t be alone
I should have been at home
Your guns, your lies, your cigarettes, your war
She kept us safe
Our hearts were filled with fear
Your prints left messy stains
But who was there to clear?
She shouldn´t be alone
I should have been at home
My hope, my faith, your ignorance, your loss

(Tekst: Silje Wergeland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUutCZ9cOOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS-CyNB12-I

Det kan godt være, at jeg tager fejl, men jeg tror, at dette er et af Silje Wergeland´s barndomsminder.

Purple door, pitch black

Green Carnation:"Purple door, pitch black", (fra albummet "The quiet offspring", 2005):

I am your needle
I am your option out of here
It´s that simple
Oh, I can guide you, through all your fears
You´ll come out strong
Come join me
So save me, I´m falling
And I don´t have the strenght to go on
I need this, I breathe this
So empty, afraid and alone
Well, we go way back
But now´s the time to let it go
I dare you
Across the border something´s waiting
Some kind of change
The kind silence
So save me, I´m falling
And I don´t have the strenght to go on
I need this, I breathe this
So empty, afraid and alone

(Tekst: Stein Roger Sordal)

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

Gutter, jeg havde aldrig opdaget jer, hvis ikke det fantastiske engelske heavy metal-magasin "Terrorizer" fandtes....:-)

Circles

Tiamat:"Circles", (fra albummet "Amanethes", 2008):

Now that we´re dead
We´ve learned how to live
Our failures taught us how to forgive

And now that we rise
From the ashes of me and you
All our dreams shall come true

Floating in circles
Stars shall light our way
To meadows and fields
Green is the grass where we lay
Down
Forever

Now that we´re clean
Our souls can be freed
Our love is the only drug we need

And now that we´re one
We don´t need any God
Divinity flows in our blood

(Tekst: Johan Edlund)

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzdueHkQCx8

....og med denne Buddha-hymne fra et af de allerbedste heavy metal-albums i 2008 lukker HEAVY-SKOV ned for Tiamat....i dénne omgang. :-)

Phantasma de luxe

Tiamat:"Phantasma de luxe", (fra albummet "A deeper kind of slumber", 1997):

This dole crowner gallows me
As this mere welkin hallowed be
Whereupon I trick and train and tire
To limn my umbered love in fire
Before this noble mare bewrays
As I clearly see it all decays
In debile coil of smoke suspires
Ay our last orison quickens as we
Are drumbling near this poize of free
Quell me maculate slowly dyer
Case my remains with sharpened brier
Atone me to my throes curtail
To dim and dire fields I vail
And my eale´s but a slumbering lier
Then so lingered here but none
To buckle back what had begun
In molten aeons caged desire
Dared phantasma us much higher
Ceased to milch the clover flower
Neither raindrops nor my lover
Shall restore what has been done
When we´re all keeled in freezing sun

(Tekst: Johan Edlund)

Jeg bliver bare ved med at elske denne sang, uanset hvor mange gange jeg hører den....:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGd-dtq7pJk

Divided

Tiamat:"Divided", (fra albummet "Prey", 2003):

The marriage has gone to my head
The wedding trumpets are dead
Replaced by a static noise
So loud I can´t hear my own voice
Will those signs lead me out of here
Well, just take me somewhere
To the plains where angels sing
Through the chime and the clattering
For what it´s worth the truth might hurt you
There´s little you can do
When shadows fall I will desert you
Then that´s what you will do
For what it´s worth the truth might hurt you
And with a tear of morning dew....
....My temples born anew!!!
Lead me inside
Lead me inside
Lead me inside out of the cold
Let me inside
Feel me inside
Where the seed´s sown
Our love´s dead by dawn
And as the day begins
The sun is soothing my skin
And I am divided
I am divided
For love
I have to say
That all of this time
I waited for someone like you
You are my dream
You are my dream
You are my dream

(Tekst: Johan Edlund)

Egentlig handler "Divided" om schizofreni, men en kreativ franskmand har lagt en "Divided"-video ind på youtube, som handler om noget andet....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBqcWSWB-A

(Til de ikke-franskkyndige kan jeg fortælle, at "l´homme & la nature" betyder mannesket & naturen, og at "que la terre serait belle sans l´homme" betyder jorden ville være smuk uden mennesket).

Bedstefar Nile

I 2003 var jeg en ganske almindelig hverdagseftermiddag inde i FONA 2000 på Strøget i København. Jeg var lige kommet ind i heavy metal-afdelingen, og stod og kiggede på cd-nyhederne, da jeg lagde mærke til en ældre mand, omkring de 70 år, som stod og bladrede lidt formålsløst rundt i cd´erne, mens han så lettere opgivende ud. Pludselig henvendte han sig til mig, og såvidt jeg husker, lød de indledende replikker nogenlunde sådan her:

Den ældre mand (lidt forsigtigt): "Du har vel ikke et forslag til en god cd til en ung mand på 21 år?".

Carsten (smilende, men en anelse overrasket over spørgsmålet): "Øh....jo....det kan da godt være. Kan du huske, hvilke grupper han normalt hører?".

Den ældre mand (lettet over tilsyneladende at have mødt sin redningsmand): "Ingen anelse....men hver gang jeg hører hans musik, skynder jeg mig at stikke to fingre i ørerne".

Vi grinte, og i den gode stemning begyndte vi at gå rundt i afdelingen, mens jeg tænkte så det knagede....Jeg var udmærket klar over, at jeg var nødt til at tage det her meget seriøst. Den ældre mand var tilsyneladende en fantastisk morfar eller farfar til den 21 årige, og hvis ikke jeg skulle ødelægge det gode familieskab, krævede det to ting. Jeg måtte ikke foreslå en cd, som var mainstream, for så ville barnebarnet måske opfatte sin bedstefar som kedelig....Omvendt måtte det heller ikke være en cd, som var meget speciel, for så ville bedstefaren måske blive opfattet som værende blevet bindegal. :-)

Så, ja, jeg tænkte så det knagede, mens vi vandrede fra bogstav til bogstav, og da vi nåede frem til "N", sagde det lige pludselig "bingo!" oppe i mit hoved. Selvfølgelig, tænkte jeg, det skal jo være Nile....Jeg greb et eksemplar af Nile´s, på dét tidspunkt, nyeste album, death metal-mesterværket "In their darkened shrines" (2002), og fortalte den ældre mand om det amerikanske band i al almindelighed og "In their darkened shrines" i særdeleshed. Jeg fortalte, at Nile var det helt store nye navn indenfor amerikansk dødsmetal, og at hele Nile´s univers drejede sig om det gamle Ægypten, og at "In their darkened shrines" var deres 3. fuldlængde-album, og havde høstet et hav af flotte anmeldelser, og at dét at lytte til "In their darkened shrines" var som at gøre sin entré i paradis....Nå, okay, det allersidste sagde jeg dog ikke....:-)

Jeg talte og talte, og jo mere jeg talte, desto bredere blev den ældre mands smil, og da jeg var færdig, sagde han: "Mange tak skal du have! Den bliver han sikkert glad for". Han takkede endnu et par gange, og tog cd´en med over til kasserne for at betale. Jeg stod lidt og kiggede efter ham, og gik så tilbage til cd-nyhederne.

Omkring en halv time senere befandt jeg mig igen på Strøget, nogle få hundrede kroner fattigere, men en god oplevelse rigere. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b3dStg_6Y0

(Nummeret "Sarcophagus" findes på "In their darkened shrines").