"Children of the underworld" by Tiamat

Tiamat:"Children of the underworld", (from the single "Brighter than the sun", 1999):

We are the children of the underworld
We are the children of the long lost dream
We lie in wait for our time to come
Floating on a neverending stream

Make no stay
Meet us all by break of day

We are the masters of decadence
We are the rulers of the deep
We aim for the final lucidity
The pristine, twentyfour carat sleep

Make no stay
Meet us all by break of day

(lyrics: I´m not sure, but I suppose the lyrics are written by Johan Edlund)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4oj1nvhaDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qepNdXud5WQ

FROM HEAVY-SKOV TO ALL OF YOU : HAPPY NEW YEAR :-) :-) :-)

"Halo" by Machine Head

Machine Head:"Halo", (from the album "The Blackening", 2007):

This is a call to arms,
will you stand beside me?
This is our time to fight,
no more compromising
And this blackened heart will sing
For sad solidarity

Halo over our demise
Following a god so blind
Sallow in their sickening
Swallow not, the shit they feed

This is a right to life,
not the Religious Right´s act
This is abortion´s knife,
aiming at the womb of
The Christian conspiracy
So open thine eyes and see, the

Halo over our demise
Following a god so blind
Sallow in their sickening
Swallow not, the shit they feed

Our time will come, our time will come
Our time is now, our time is now

And I won´t pray for you

Halo over our demise
Following a god so blind
Sallow in their sickening
Swallow not, the shit they feed

Your words will never hold us down
Prayers won´t be spared on you
Satisfaction denied
´Til you´re dead and gone
Gone
Dead and gone!
You´re gone!

(lyrics: Robb Flynn)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROm5ojKnXDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTN2oKj4kmM&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-SohL691kc

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

(I remember quite well, when Oakland´s Machine Head back in 1994 released their classic thrash metal-debut "Burn my eyes" and sent positive shockwaves through the metal-audience....an absolutely unforgettable moment in the history of heavy metal :-) But to be honest, I´ve never listened that much to Machine Head since then....

A little time ago I was offered a copy of Machine Head´s "The blackening"-album at a cheap price, and I couldn´t really say no...."The blackening" has received a lot of fine reviews, but to be honest again, the album seemed to me a little bit boring the very first time I listened to it....But luckily "The blackening" is one of those albums, which grows by every listening, and now I definitely find the album well-entertaining :-) Especially a melodic yet aggressive track like "Halo".

Robb Flynn & Co.´s newest album "Unto the locust" was released 3 months ago, and I´ll buy a copy, that´s for sure, cheap or not cheap :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"In death´s embrace" by Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir:"In death´s embrace", (from the album "Enthrone darkness triumphant", 1997):

By the light of the moon
and the beings of the night
A curse has been laid upon us
To seek and tear celestial gloss
to pieces

By the power of death
and the shadow of the Reaper
A call has been brought upon us
To complete the infinite fall
of heaven

Without the wit or will to end this journey
we continue travelling towards our faith
Harvesting helpless Christian spirits
raping the sanctity of saints

The heavenly father is streching his hand
pathetically begging for mercy
We spit and piss on his sacred flesh
as we breathe the breath of the unholy

For with the sign of the pentagram
Hellfire rage is for us to come
as we shall wander the pit
Unhallowed by the infernal one
we are forever captured
by the embrace of death

(lyrics: Dimmu Borgir)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laTpy0i9J0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9pn2RwTnWw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngu7uv7k_ao

(Dimmu Borgir is nowadays the best selling norwegian black metal-band, but actually I think they were a lot more interesting back in the late nineties than now....Their breakthrough-album "Enthrone darkness triumphant", released 1997, is definitely a masterpiece and one of my favorite black metal-albums by all times! For some reason I remember listening a lot to "Enthrone...." by christmas time 1997....I´m not satanist nor christian, so I suppose it was alright....ha ha....

....and now to one of the ultimate highlights from the album: track number 3 "In death´s embrace" :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Folklore" by Opeth

Opeth:"Folklore", (from the album "Heritage", 2011):

Hey you, will you be true
When you can see through what I do
Feel the pain in your brain, insane
Will I see my name in your scars

And you will see what you mean to me

Lust between the lines
Do you feel the need
When the night comes down
And when the night comes down
A father is waiting

And you will see what you mean to me

Lost control and called your name
Left a home in the pouring rain
In a sea of guilt and shame
Will we sustain

(lyrics: Mikael Åkerfeldt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OleNkTc8D1E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2VzrPwUqUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkdU4QhNUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v2pMSu7EUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ht1seTCcDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6z5kFvhymU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3pqM6hDP0

(If you are searching for the deepest most brutal death-growl ever, (and no one can blame you....ha ha....), the new Opeth-album "Heritage" ISN´T the right one for you! In fact there isn´t the slightest growl on "Heritage"....The swedes´ "death metal meets progressive rock" has turned in a very relaxed direction really based on progressive rock, with some metal-influences here and there! Actually I didn´t really like the album the first couple of times I listened to it, but time has made me wiser, and now I see "Heritage" as one of the highlights of the year 2011. It´s very hard to pick out the best track from "Heritage", but track number 9 "Folklore" is definitely a damn good choice :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Sanctus Diavolos" by Rotting Christ

Rotting Christ:"Sanctus Diavolos", (from the album "Sanctus Diavolos", 2004):

Is this the holy thing to see?
Is this the land that sun shines
above the heaven?
Hear those children´s desperate cries...
Oh - children do they cry?
Do they hear their fathers´ sigh?
Is this the fertile place to be?
Is this the land that sprouts
green reach gardens?
Hear those souls´ flickering cries!
Do they beg?
Do they smile?
Do they frame the long line?
Hear shines the sun of a lower God
The light of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Here is born the light for the blind world
The flame of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Here burns thy bright torch of soul
The flame of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Here reigns thy mighty crown of horns
The horde of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Well blossomed is his existence,
So unwilling in their souls to see.
So weak to face him from
The outcast angle of earth
So rapid do they flee.
When bells of order are echoed
Nemesis for the anxious heavy spirit
Nemesis for a generation free

GRANDIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Here shines the sun of a lower God
The light of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Here is born the light for the blind world
The flame of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Against on what prophets wrote
The aura of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Will reign, will prevail..
Tranquillize the human race

GRANDIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Here burns thy bright torch of soul
The flame of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Here reigns thy mighty crown of horns
The horde of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Against on what prophets wrote
The spirit of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Will reign, will prevail and
tranquillize the human race

GRANDIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Here burns thy bright torch of soul
The flame of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Here reigns thy mighty crown of horns
The horde of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS
Against on what prophets wrote
The spirit of  SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

Will reign, will prevail and
tranquillize the human race

GRANDIS SPIRITUS SANCTUS DIAVOLOS

(lyrics: Sakis Tolis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE9lfSkJXmo

(Well, Greece´s black metal-kings Rotting Christ made their studio-debut in 1993 with the album "Thy mighty contract", but it took me several years to discover this awesome band! Actually it first happened in the year of 2002 with the release of Rotting Christ´s seventh full-length "Genesis", and now I´ve definitely become a very big fan of Sakis & Co. :-) One of the greatest songs from the band is in my opinion the titel-track from the album "Sanctus Diavolos"....listen and agree :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Hatework" by Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel:"Hatework", (from the album "Domination", 1995):

Hatework.......
Bringer of doom
Hatework.......

What I have in store
What has the devil got to do with it
I´m brewing my toil
So the brimstone comes this way

Nightwork.......
My life´s work
Nightwork.......world in flames

This calls for fire
This is a call for ruin
We will be departed
Leave the rot so lonely

Hatework.......
Bringer of doom
Hatework.......and the turmoil comes......

Hatework.......
My work
Hatework.......and the earth´s left burning

I call death...death is answering me
And a world betrayed is black forever......

(lyrics: David Vincent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUll6JtXb0w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsygEZxW6Pg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t16fO-qxD78

(Well, as I´ve mentioned before, my favorite Morbid Angel-album is "Domination" released in 1995. The album is Morbid Angel´s fourth full-length and has a really strong songwriting, varied and very catchy! Hate Eternal´s mainman Erik Rutan, who was a member of Morbid Angel at that time, wrote the music for some of the tracks, for an example the closer "Hatework", a song which couldn´t hardly be a better way to end this superb death metal-album....MAJESTIC :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"A wayward soul" by Communic

Communic:"A wayward soul", (from the album "The bottom deep", 2011):

The earth has swallowed my pride
There is no need to believe
This god has left me anyway
A wayward soul - At the edge of the world

With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep
With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep
The deep..Come follow..into the deep..

The earth has swallowed my pride
There is no need to believe
This god has left me anyway
A wayward soul
At the edge of the world

With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep
With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep
A wayward soul, a wayward soul..

This image of a vulture´s head
Casting a shadow resembling death
Waiting while he listens to your breath
Its beak ready to pick up your flesh

An image of a livid face
Exposed over a stormy sky
I try to reach, but it fades away
Drifting on while I still search

This trauma triggers my thoughts
You are the one that I owe
For the influence of my return
The vague shape of better things to come

At anypoint I could shimmer
What in life that really matters
All these thoughts I put into form
Will there be light on the other side?

Time still tearing on me
A downward spiral that bleeds

Lost in this barren part of my mind
These tears still bleed within
In silence you speak to me
Please wait for me at the edge of the world

With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep
With a one way ticket - To the bottom deep

In silence you speak to me
You speak to me
Please wait for me
Please wait for me
At the edge of the world

(lyrics: Oddleif Stensland)

(Oddleif Stensland in the booklet: "I dedicate this album to my daughter Sofie. All these thoughts came from you. Rest in peace! - Oddleif ")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKzLFj04KtI

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAu78tDvfGI

(I must admit, that I had tears in my eyes, when I was writing down Oddleif Stensland´s lyrics for the song "A wayward soul". It´s really so sad, but I hope I got the lyrics right despite my tears....

The new Communic-album is really great just like the other ones: "Conspiracy in mind" (2005), "Waves of visual decay" (2006) and "Payment of existence" (2008), but I feel that Oddleif & Co. have stepped up further in quality with the new one :-) The new songs have....what can I say....some kind of hit-potential! They simply just stay a little longer in your head after listening....

So if you´re still not on the Communic-wagon, it´s really time to jump on...., because this band is absolutely one of the greatest bands ever from Scandinavia with their excellent progressive/power metal :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"I am morbid" by Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel:"I am morbid", (from the album "Illud Divinum Insanus", 2011):

We stand defiant
in this great big ugly world
do believe that the chaos
was our one true calling
first we muscled fate
then we brazenly call disorder
watch the normals cower
they just can´t take it anymore

Withstand together now
all the damning from on high
fist horns are roaring forth
as I scream into the sky

I´m morbid
morbid and
sordid
distorted
bring them to their knees
I´m morbid
morbid
won´t be thwarted
from celebrating morbid victories

We´re seen as monsters merely being...
is a threat to all
what can´t destroy us makes us strong
and in a twisted mind
oh everything´s so possible
and in a twist of fate
we make it all come down...crumbling down
oh we´ll bring them down

We stand invincible not just a dream
straight from the underground we scream

I´m morbid...

We stand invincible not just a dream
straight from the underground
the gods are screaming

Tear down the obstacles this is our day
We´re born to quake the world
There is no other way

I´m morbid...

(lyrics: Morbid Angel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6C4BNZBX_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GcmZWDVU2g

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_k_vD0JoHA

(There really appear some nice surprises on the new Morbid Angel-album "Illud Divinum Insanus". the first Morbid Angel-release since 2003´s "Heretic". Take for an example track number 5, the awesome sing-a-long "I am morbid"! A song I felt immediately in love with at first listening :-)

The "Illud...."-album as a whole is great and varied, but that said, I do not feel it quite matches my favorite Morbid Angel-record, which is "Domination" from 1995. But I accept less :-)

Kind regards
Carsten