"Singer of strange songs" by 1349

1349:"Singer of strange songs", (from the album "Beyond the apocalypse", 2004):

I told you about the world
Of how the struggle for order and peace
and self-important hypocrisy fails
in the face of reality
And how there is no grand scheme
No rest for the living... only death

Chaos and the cold endless void
Is all that awaits..
We are all forgotten
We are all dust
We are all unimportant
We are all dead
No rest for the living... only death

You thought me mad
You wanted me to be like you,
To see the error of my ways ...
So you told me things I know were wrong
You showed me why I would never fit in

Why then, does what I have become
surprise you?
Dreamer,
Prophet,
Singer of strange songs

I went my own twisted way
Blocked by the world
Feared by the righteous
But always what I wanted...

Now that all has changed,
And the night is colder

Now that life has shown its true colours

And you...
You are forgotten
You are old
You are unimportant
You are dead

Can you face the real truth?
Can you call me a madman anymore?

Do you regret your selfless life?
The things you could never do,
In fear of what others would think?

Do you now see why I become a:
  Dreamer,
  Prophet,
  Singer of strange songs

(lyrics: Seidemann)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3TXQmPOkc

http://www.legion1349.com/

(Not all of the established norwegian black metal-bands fit well into the term "Controversial" like a band such as Gorgoroth certainly do....Take for an example one of my ultimate favorites: Oslo´s 1349. This is definitely a band. who really concentrate on making catchy "black" full of substance and quality! Don´t get me wrong....I like Gorgoroth, that´s for sure, but 1349 just keep a higher level, when it comes to the music itself :-)

I´m not, to say the least, fond of november, but one of the albums, which really put me through the month this time around, was "Beyond the apocalypse", (the second full-length from 1349). Between the two of us....november was blown away by "Singer of strange songs" and all the other winners included on "Beyond...." :-)

"Singer of strange songs" in particular is a black metal-song, which really deserves your attention and not only because of its....erm....fascinating song-titel :-) The song-structure is almost perfect and the lyrics are damn true words....

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, and this time there will be....well....what can I say without offending anyone....A WHOLE LOT OF PISSING....ha ha....

See you :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Ambitions" by Katatonia

Katatonia:"Ambitions", (from the album "Dead end kings", 2012):

Hear my thin voice
Hear my words fall down
See my ambitions fade out
Had so much better times

At night
Walking on the tracks
Change my perspective
Idle hands
With wounds and cracks
Stale
Ineffective
But past the veil
The memories of things
Still so in love with you

So dense this strife
Kick the life
I feel this weight upon my heart

Indecision
Sow the seed
Aspiration is never within reach
At night there is no other view
Sing a song for the ones who never made it

In the word
Under yellow lights
Under linden trees I am
Transparent
And led to believe
That things would change if I go away
The lowering sky under which we go

Constant noise
Behind the overcoming
I had no choice but to rearrange
The scar is open
I am not allowed to understand
I take it as you´re not coming back

(lyrics: Jonas Renkse)

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

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

http://katatonia.com/

(I know a woman, who knows a guy, who knows Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström from Katatonia....Yes, the world is certainly a small place to be :-) Katatonia have a new full-length out these days called "Dead end kings", and I actually think, it´s their best release in recent years, or at least since "Viva emptiness" saw the light of day back in 2003...

"Dead end kings" is such a great experience both musically and when it comes to the lyrics....Maybe not that obvious the first couple of listenings, but it´s definitely an album, that goes deep in your mind after a while :-) Life may be very painful, that´s for sure, and the overwhelming atmosphere of melancholy throughout "Dead end kings" doesn´t help much changing this impression....But on the other hand I´ll rather face the tough facts of life, hand in hand with Katatonia, than be superficial trying to ignore the truth....

I´ve got three favorite "Dead end kings"-tracks", (actually I´ve got a whole lot more....ha ha....), but especially "Hypnone", "Lethean" and "Ambitions" seem, to say the least, fine to me!!! And the winner is...."AMBITIONS"....In fact I could easily be listening to this song all day long :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where I´ll take your hand and lead you back in time....663 years(?!?!) It´s definitely going to be utterly weird :-)

See you!

Kind regards
Carsten

"Drown my sorrow" by Saturnus

Saturnus:"Drown my sorrow", (from the album "Martyre", 2000):

I fall back into pain
With your empty kiss
Beneath this rain
You´re still the one I miss

Drown my sorrow
In the colours of your aura
Embalm me with your innocence

And save my soul
The fire burns
But why am I still so cold

I fall back into pain
With your emptiness
Beneath this rain
I couldn´t care less

(lyrics: Kim Larsen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8o2TZWWa8

http://da-dk.facebook.com/pages/Saturnus/8935853109

(My brother, who turned 40 this spring, is NOT into heavy metal, or at least he pretends so....:-) Because I remember clearly him being on a Rage Against The Machine-/Clawfinger-trip back in the 1990´s!! But....well....let us just be straight with each other: he´s NOT into heavy metal....

One saturday afternoon in the year of 2001, (I think it was either april or may), I was visiting my brother in his house somewhere in Denmark, and we were entertaining ourselves with this awesome PLAYSTATION-MOTORBIKE-GAME....(Please, don´t ask me about the title....ha ha....). While we were....erm...speeding up, so to speak, the "Martyre"-album from danish doomsters Saturnus filled the atmosphere in the livingroom, and guess once, who was responsible for that :-) When "Drown my sorrow" ran out of the speakers, I remember clearly my brother saying: "It´s actually not that bad, the music....". And I was like "Yeeeeeeesssssss!!!!!!!", but cards on table: he hasn´t really been talking about heavy metal since....ha ha....

Saturnus were much beloved in the danish metal-scene back in the late 1990´s and in the very beginning of our new century, thanks to excellent full-length-releases "Paradise belongs to you" (1996) and "Martyre" (2000). But since that successfull time, the band have been....ern....less successfull, and have in fact only released one album: The slightly average "Veronika decides to die" from 2006. That said, a new full-length "Saturn in ascension" is coming up later this month, so maybe now it´s time again for something GREAT....who knows? :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where we´ll be crossing the ocean between Denmark and Sweeden, and drown ourselves in....MELANCHOLY!!!

See you :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Insurrection" by Lamb Of God

Lamb Of God:"Insurrection", (from the album "Resolution", 2012):

When the walls fall around you is when you begin to find
That the depths you have found have become now too hard to climb
You reconcile your pain in the loneliest refrain
And crawl tied and bound to the one thing you can´t leave behind

CHORUS:

And start over again This insurrection
The same reflection. Perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection.

A broken voice without a word to live by
Eyes slammed shut watch the world go by
It should have been way better than this
You can´t anticipate the things that you miss
And how long til you let it go
Master unreality Nothing to show and in the end

Top of the maountain of nowhere
First in the line dying to get back there
You can´t get back there.

(CHORUS)

First in the line to catch a glimpse of the shrine
The closest we ever got to divine
Irrefutable indisputable infallible impossible to deny

(lyrics: Lamb Of God)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjhbTb3k3YE

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRWEosL-6Bo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovAwF890o84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc5Y7Zf1OUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSENljZ8-3g

http://www.lamb-of-god.com/

(The more I get older, (AND I GET OLDER, THAT´S FOR SURE :-)), the more I become a fan of Virginia-thrashers Lamb Of God....And new album-release "Resolution" certainly helps me on the way. On this excellent album frontman Randy Blythe expresses his anger in a "no-way-back"-style, and leaves no doubt, that he´s actually....well....ANGRY! His bandmates do a damn fine job as well, and especially drummer Chris Adler enters a very high level on "Resolution". (I really begin to feel weakness, when it comes to talented metal-drummers, and so does my nephew....Well, he actually doesn´t, but it´s just a matter of time, TRUST ME....ha ha....).

The song, I´ve chosen for this update, ("Insurrection"), is not only my favorite-track from "Resolution", but also a song which is somehow different from the "normal" Lamb Of God-stuff :-) Please ENJOY...., and while you´re enjoying, don´t forget, you american HEAVY-SKOV-visitors, to be proud of yourselves, because USA are definitely on the heavy metal-map :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, where we´re heading back to my home country Denmark, and this time it´s all about....erm....PLAYSTATION!!!

See you :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Tongueless and bound" by Job For A Cowboy

Job For A Cowboy:"Tongueless and bound", (from the album "Demonocracy", 2012):

Truth is eternally treason in the empire... Empire of Lies
For our empire muzzles the lips of a savior who howls corruption
His exploration of reality has ruffled the feathers of a starving vulture
Classified America breeds and multiplies, vastly shrouded from us and even itself
A dark bureaucracy devoted to protecting us lurks beneath our corroding democratic practice
How will anyone create change when we cannot see inside this dark machine?
Classified America breeds and multiplies, vastly shrouded from us and even itself
An era where a military-political demon is hidden from all scrutiny
We must ask ourselves... But who watches the watchmen?
Truth is eternally treason in the Empire of Lies
Truth is eternally treason in the Empire of Lies
For our empire muzzles the lips of a savior who howls corruption
Classified America breeds and multiplies, vastly shrouded from us and even... and even itself
Classified America breeds and multiplies

(lyrics: Job For A Cowboy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40GwhGJDaWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxw40MqU9kY

http://www.facebook.com/jobforacowboy

(If you are looking for fresh and catchy death metal full of politics, (and no one can certainly blame you....ha ha....), just pick up the new Job For A Cowboy-album "Demonocracy" :-) I´m actually a little surprised, I have to admit, seeing this band on such a high level....Their previous full-length-albums, ("Genesis" (2007) and "Ruination" (2009)), were slightly average, (if you ask me....:-)). But "Demonocracy" definitely has what it takes and delivers great quality, listening after listening...

....And "Demonocracy"´s finest track??? It´s almost impossible to pick out one, but just "ALMOST", because "Tongueless and bound" has to be the winner!!!

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics, and this time it will be....well, what can I say without sounding totally ridiculous....EXTREMELY SOFT....ha ha....

See you :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"The gift of guilt" by Gojira

Gojira:"The gift of guilt", (from the album "L´enfant sauvage", 2012):

We leave the shores to see the mountains rising
A distant impression growing
This judgement creates the pain we hold
Destructive intentions that serve no purpose
But the end of us all
These vultures from the past, coming
In all the hells and worlds, the time has come
Delivered from their eyes
Embrace, suffer, destroy - the gift of guilt
The shame and sorrow, self-condemnation
Fill all the gaps and the spaces, unyielding
Bestowed upon us, devastating power
We´re building connective tissue to a maze of lies
We´re left as starving orphans
The vital core is gone
Our sins are all over and over again we swallow
We´re sick and tired when this wind blows
The reflex is insane
We must forgive and stop blaming ourselves for this love
These vultures from the past, coming
In all the hells and worlds, the time has come
Delivered from their eyes
I´m leaving this behind - the gift of guilt

(lyrics: Joseph Duplantier)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvojSdiVG8

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

http://www.gojira-music.com/

(My nephew is going to be one of the world´s greatest heavy metal-drummers....Seriously :-) Alright, he´s just 8 years old, but he´s definitely on his way to the top of the game....ha ha....And now we are talking best metal-drummers, two of them have to be Mario Duplantier from Gojira and Brann Dailor from Mastodon, especially Dailor....But on the new Gojira-album "L´enfant sauvage", Gojira´s Roadrunner-debut, Mario Duplantier really maintains his high level :-)

The "L´enfant suavage"-album is great, it really is, but to be honest with you, it´s also a little too "Mainstream" for my taste. Sure, it has some very cool songs, like this one "The gift of guilt", but seen as a whole, the album is not that interesting compared to previous Gojira-full-lengths....But that´s just my opinion :-)

See you next time with yet another great heavy metal-song with lyrics and yet another opinion....And this time we´re heading to Arizona. I´m looking for a job in the States....No, I´m actually not, but....well....you know :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Æra (Honour)" by Burzum

Burzum:"Æra (Honour)", (from the album "Umskiptar", 2012):

Fleygði Óðinn
ok í folk of skaut,
þat var enn folkvíg
fyrst í heímí;
brotinn var borðveggr
borgar ása,
knáttu vanir vígspá
völlu sporna.

þá gengu regin öll
á rökstolá,
ginnheilög goð,
ok um þat gættusk,
hverjir hetði loft allt
lævi blandit
eða ætt jötuns
Oðs mey gefna.

Þórr einn þar vá
þrunginn móði,
hann sjaldan sitr
er hann slíkt of fregn
á gengusk eiðar,
orð ok særi,
mál öll meginlig,
er á meðal föru.

Veit hon Heimdallar
hljóð of folgit
und heiðvönum
helgum baðmi,
á sér hon ausask
aurgum forsi
af veði Valföðrs.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?

Ein sat hon úti,
þá er inn aldni kom
yggiungr ása
ok í augu leit.
Hvers fregnið mik?
Hví freistið mín?
Allt veit ek, Óðinn,
hvar þú auga falt,
í inum mæra
Mímisbrunni.
Drekkr mjöð Mímir
morgun hverjan
af veði Valföðrs.
Vituð ér enn - eða hvat?

(lyrics are taken from a norse poem "Völuspá")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mttGmDBC4

www.burzum.org

(Loneliness isn´t necessarily a bad thing. Of course, (I just know it so well), it can be kinda horrible, but at the same time it leaves you room for some deep healthy(!) thoughts....In my opinon, one of the most important things in life is getting to know yourself better :-)

Burzum´s new album "Umskiptar" is totally a fascinating journey into the world of loneliness...It´s at the same time mentally painful and completely relaxing to be part of "Umskiptar"´s universe, and I really enjoy it so much!

"Belus" (2010) and "Fallen" (2011) are absolutely great albums, but with "Umskiptar" Varg has created something quite unique! Especially when it comes to track number 5 "Æra (Honour)", I simply love the song :-)

I don´t know, (to say the least...), exactly, when the next great heavy metal-song with lyrics here on HEAVY-SKOV will be on, but wednesday september 26 might be a qualified guess....And this time we´re going to meet Buddha himself :-)

See you!

Kind regards
Carsten

"Infernal eternal" by Marduk

Marduk:"Infernal eternal", (from the album "Heaven shall burn....when we are gathered", 1996):

As I looked into the mirror and saw the creation which was
fading I sailed the darkened waters of my soul on the ship of
flaming hate towards the land of the damned

The cold winds of darkness blow strongly
The cemetery glows in the dark
A thousand times thousand voices are screaming in pain
From beyond

A number of faceless shapes march forth from the darkness within
Life is slowly passing away, poisoned by guilt and by sin

Embraced in black I lie, only waiting to die
The greatest of lifes events and I begin my journey
As hands of greater characters unveil the world
Plunging through space and time, my prison has now been slain

The reaper purifies my soul

Perdition and death
I was in ages so dark and far away and I will always be

(lyrics: Marduk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxSnrmX-naQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27A6sp75DdE

http://www.marduk.nu/

(Legion....he came in and then he went out...., and to some point I miss the guy! But "new" Marduk-vocalist Mortuus handles it so well, that I really can´t complain, can I? :-) :-) :-)

In august I´ve been listening a lot to this old Marduk-album "Heaven shall burn....when we are gathered", and despite the fact that I´ve got a little handful of favorite songs from the album, the ultimate "Heaven...."-track has to be "Infernal eternal". At least because of its awesome song-titel....ha ha....I simply love playing with words!

The brand new Marduk-album "Serpent sermon" will definitely, (in one way or another), find its way to HEAVY-SKOV one day in the future....I´ve bought a copy of "Serpent....", but haven´t been listening to it yet: CERTAINLY ONE OF THOSE THINGS I´M LOOKING FORWARD TO :-)

Next great heavy metal-song with lyrics will be on wednesday september 12, (at least I hope so :-)). This time we´re going to visit Norway....BURZUM!!!!!!! Varg is back with his, in my opinion, best album since he was released from prison....

See you!

Kind regards
Carsten