Global warming

Gojira:"Global warming", (fra albummet "From mars to sirius", 2005):

Four hundred thousend years ago

They came from outer space

And gave us life here

We are taking everything for granted

I don´t think we should do this now

And when I see the smoke all around

I feel like I´m not

From humankind down there

I feel like glaciers are my eyes

And mountains are my head

My heart is ocean

And I feel all alone

Because everybody´s wrong

I feel the living

What is this thing we call hate

And that´s inside of me

Get out of here!

A world is down

And none can rebuild it

Disabled lands are evolving

My eyes are shut, a vision is dying

My head explodes

And I fall in disgrace

I hold my inner child within

And tell him not to cry

"Don´t fear the living"

One day you will stand as a king

And no fear can erase

This light below us

Each one of us is now engaged

This secret we all have

This truth is growing

And as a warrior I have to fight

I can already feel

The love I´ll discover

I had this dream, our planet surviving

The guiding stars always growing

And all the worlds

The fates all the countries

They´re all rebuilding at the same time

I never fell and always believed in

We could evolve and get older

Open your eyes and let all this flow

Now see a new hope is growing inside

We will see our children growing

(tekst: Joe Duplantier)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLh2-MUhNk

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

(Der er flere årsager til, at jeg elsker det franske death metal-band Gojira, og en af årsagerne er deres buddhistiske tilgang til livet, en tilgang som bl.a. kommer til udtryk i bandets tekster. Tag f.eks. mit yndlingsnummer fra Gojira´s gennembrudsplade "From mars to sirius", nummeret "Global warming". Det er en dejlig, meget livsbekræftende og helt igennem interessant tekst, som jeg personligt ville have været utroligt stolt over selv at have skrevet....:-)).

Percées de lumière

Alcest:"Percées de lumière", (fra albummet "Écailles de lune", 2010):

Au bord de l´onde

La chaleur intense

Du soleil m´enivre.

Je m´abreuve à sa lumière,

Et laisse ses rayons et ardents

Délier mes membres engourdis

Pour m´offrir une seconde naissance.

Là haut un ciel

Sans nuages,

D´un bleu étourdissant

Se fond avec la mer.

Ivre de lumière,

J´ai maintenant l´impression

De ne plus marcher sur votre sol,

Et entends les cris

De mon âme non humaine

Implorer sa libération.

(tekst: Neige)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7t2U3pBHHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_8Ie2vl74

(Det er virkelig et vidunderligt album, franskmanden Neige udgav her i foråret: "Écailles de lune". Stille og utroligt smukke mørke rock-melodier blandet med black metal-passager, og man sidder bare og godter sig over, at man rent faktisk ejer et eksemplar af dette mesterværk. :-) "Écailles de lune" indeholder 6 numre, og specielt "Percées de lumière" får mit hjerte til at hoppe af glæde!).

July

Katatonia:"July", (fra albummet "The great cold distance, 2006):

You come clean
Waves collide now
Defenseless numb arms
& no voice of reason

So how come you invited me too
You knew I wanted you
You glide above
So this night belongs to you
I know this isn´t through
Are you dead to love

I see the bright lights
It´s the month of july
It´s violent here
Why have you left me
If only you could stay
& keep me in
It´s violent here
Why did you run from me

Heat
Night devour me
Repeat
Repetition

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjAXYIH9dMA

(Jeg ved ikke, om det kun er mig, der har det sådan, men det er min erfaring, at det er betydeligt nemmere at være ked af det i november måned end i juli. Når solen skinner fra en skyfri himmel og det er bagende varmt, er det rimelig svært at håndtere, at en dårlig oplevelse har gjort én trist til mode....Men så er det jo godt, at man har et band som Katatonia og en sang som "July" til at bekræfte, at éns følelser er helt okay :-)).

In the white

Katatonia:"In the white", (fra albummet "The great cold distance", 2006):

Are you in or are you out

The words are stones in my mouth

Hush little baby don´t you cry

Truth comes down

Strikes me in the eye

Turning season within

Brand new nails across my skin

But who am I to imply

That I was found

That I found you in the white

To overcome this

I become one with

The quiet cold of late november

If you don´t see

I´ll remain unseen

Untill there´s time to be remembered

So I had a green light

I was lost in city lights

Not so far from a try

This is not our last goodbye

So I found you

Found a way all through

The quiet cold of inner darkness

& now that you´re here

It becomes so clear

I have waited for you allways

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qm61Mkv1iw

(Jeg sad i går aftes og lyttede til Katatonia´s album fra 2006 "The great cold distance", og da jeg vågnede i morges, havde jeg nummeret "In the white" kørende oppe i hovedet....Det er langt fra den allerførste sang, man kommer i tanker om, når man tænker på "The great cold distance", men det er nok et af de mest langtidsholdbare numre fra opfølgeren til "Viva emptiness", og så beviser forsanger Jonas Renkse endnu engang sit store talent som lyriker).

Omerta

Katatonia:"Omerta", (fra albummet "Viva emptiness", 2003):

Come by you have come far
All I had I lost in the flood
Come sit with me at the bar
Tell me of progress strengthen my blood
No one here knows my name
I have traded my memories for things
But I remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing

Why have you waited so long

Come by you have come far
Long since I saw you so how have you been
Come sit with me at the bar
How long since they told you that they had found him
No one here knows my name
I gave up my worries for one good thing
But I remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing

Was it because I never told you
I was going away
That you waited so long
Was it because your fucking dreams
Meant nothing to me
That you waited so long

It runs from the top of my fingers
Into my hands
What is it I have been drinking
I do not understand
I thought I´d lost you my brother
I´m so glad you came
My regards to the ones that I love I miss them
Tell them I love them I miss them

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CaroxE3XI

(Et af de heavy metal-albums, som jeg lyttede allermest til i 2003, var Katatonia´s "Viva emptiness", og når jeg tænker tilbage på dengang, er der et helt bestemt nummer, som står lysende klart i min erindring, og det er "Omerta". Det kan godt være, at teksten til "Omerta" er mystisk og kompliceret, men selve sangen er meget enkel og utroligt smuk, og så er det et vidunderligt nummer at have kørende oppe i hovedet, når man er ked af det).

Onward into battle

Katatonia:"Onward into battle", (fra albummet "Night is the new day", 2009):

in the still eclipse

every light is a heartbeat

in the spring

where i watch

the sudden change

i find this so hard

onward into battle

time is growing so dark around me

i, shallow one

i burn us out

day by idle day

days at the sea

my words are incomplete

in the blind spot

where i saw you
on the 4th at night

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1jDRxUe0qE

(Der kommer rigtig meget godt heavy metal fra vores svenske naboer, og et af de allerbedste bands er mørke melankolske Katatonia fra Stockholm. Deres seneste album "Night is the new day", som udkom i november måned sidste år, er en vidunderlig samling af stille "ørehængere", som man bare kan blive ved med at fordybe sig i, igen og igen. Selvom jeg elsker alle numrene på pladen, har jeg dog ikke svært ved at udpege yndlingsnummeret....det er "Onward into battle" :-)).

The truth hurts

Pro-pain:"The truth hurts", (fra albummet "The truth hurts", 1994):

I.

Put on your hat and coat and take A walk down the street I think you´re bound to be surprised By all the bodies you meet The bowels of the melting pot Wreeks of shit While a guy does your windows With a sponge and his spit The whores on the highway try to forget That they jeopardized the Lives of the guys they met Some will shoot you up and stuff You down a drain pipe hole Cause they wouldn´t touch your body With a ten foot pole

II.

Stick em up, stick em up, empty the drawer Said the banger to the owner Of the liquor store I was purchasing some wine When I heard the pops And a patron started screaming "Someone call the cops" The cops were called, and we were Told to wait But the death toll rose because The cops were late The banger ran out, and he was Gone in a flash He got away with the murder And out with the cash But the truth hurts, the truth hurts And fairy tales are written like a book The truth hurts, the truth hurts Just open your eyes and take a look, son

III.

Let´s take a little trip to the lower side There´s a junkie in a place where the freaks reside He shoots the shit, and gets the rent paid free With government checks and lots of AZT He sees his kids about once a week And his wife´s on her death bed as we speak She prays for the little ones everyday But the boy is infected and the girl´s O.K. Jackin´ in the city while the city sleeps You play for fun and they play for keeps There´s a chief in the hood just waitin´ to pop And a kid in a Cadillac tryin´ to cop Herb and couple of vials of coke And he don´t sweat it out cause the fine´s a joke In a matter of time it was a real done deal It´s back to the burbs because the shit ain´t real But the truth hurts, the truth hurts And fairy tales are written like a book The truth hurts, the truth hurts Just open your eyes and take a look, son

(Tekst: Gary Meskil)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUF-2z-gZ1w

(Amerikanske Pro-pain fra New York er et af den slags heavy metal-bands, som mange kender og mange elsker, men som alligevel altid lige har manglet det sidste for at blive rigtigt populære. Personligt er jeg stor fan af Pro-pain og deres tunge, ærlige metalliske hardcore. Det var deres andet album, "The truth hurts", fra 1994, som i dén grad gjorde mig bevidst om deres eksistens, og albummets titelnummer kan til enhver tid bevæge mit hjerte).

Evacuation code deciphered

Arcturus:"Evacuation code deciphered", (fra albummet "Sideshow symphonies", 2005):

change channel i am bored again

take five and restart the game

i suggest a different approach

remake the world with a devilish touch

evolution is a too slow ghost

relax and sit back i am your new host

fantastic elastic all things can be spastic

no room for bore press enter and store

we live in small shells put that on a shelf

e.s.p. for all big and small

saga-lore mature splendor

ragamuffin saga-puffin all you can snort

elctric eyes for sparkling flies

will be much more fun for the rejects and dumb

so what do you change

in your realms of decadence

king or queen or something snorty between

worlds shatter to darkness without matter

no matter no matter we stole

too far from home

rid your shoulders of this stone

which direction is up

what way to the top

it seems we are lost

this is no place to linger

let your throat embrace your finger

evacuate this tomb

there is always an exit

for aliens infected

our race

seems we crashed on the way

two dried up bugs trapped in the same web

slimy slugs on a busy rainy highway

you and i are not lost without words

we can live again without rebirth

two old drunks sharing the same cup

a pair of fools sailing where no wind blows

a band of burglars stealing traces from their lost shoes

(Tekst: Simen Hestnæs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOf25MojYo

(Vil man gerne have sin heavy metal intellektuelt udfordrende, ligger det norske avantgarde metal-band Arcturus lige til højrebenet....om jeg så må sige. :-) Jeg blev interesseret i Arcturus i slutningen af 1990´erne primært af den årsag, at én af mine helte, Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg (Ulver), var forsanger i bandet, men hans afløser Simen Hestnæs´ præstation på albummet "Sideshow symphonies" kunne "Garm" næppe have gjort ham efter....Den egentlige grund til, at jeg har valgt at præsentere nummeret "Evacuation code deciphered", er dog, at det er Silje Wergeland´s smukke vokal, som man kan høre henimod slutningen....:-) Hun optræder nemlig som gæste-vokalist på "Sideshow symphonies", på to af numrene).