"Joyless journey" by Withering Surface

Withering Surface:"Joyless journey", (from the album "Walking on phantom ice", 2001):

Dear passengers, take seat, the ride will proceed
Never look back, never see why you ever get
joyless
Never think twice, never step onboard the
joyless journey
Never take seat, now you are a part of the
joyless journey
Never look out, now the journey has begun

All that you need, we take it all away
The ride on the joyless journey
All that you need, you give it all away
The life on the joyless journey

Dreaming about sorts. Seeing what needs to be seen
Never look back, now you see why you always get
joyless
Never think twice, now you stepped onboard the
joyless journey
Never take seat, now you´re a part of the
joyless journey
Never look out, now the journey has begun

Fourteen, longing, about. Seven, avenues, distant
Sombre eyes, sore. A matter of minutes again...
Wild and without barriers

Never look back, nothing known of distance
joyless
Never think twice, to heights never realized
joyless journey
Never take seat, nothing known of route
joyless journey
Never look out, in the dreamless sleep

Never look back, never think twice
It all gets back to you now
Never take seat, never look out
You now are the dreamless sleep

(lyrics: Withering Surface)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD_mJ3sA9a8

(The world is a small place to be, especially when it comes to Denmark....:-) In the year of 1995 I got this awesome penpal, Marianne, who I wrote together with for almost....well....four years. Marianne knew the guy, Michael H. Andersen, who fronted talented danish melo-death metallers Withering Surface...., and now several years after, I´ve met the guy, who plays the keyboards on Withering Surface´s third full-length "Walking on phantom ice"....Morten Lybecker. (Morten and I have worked together :-)).

Yes, the world is small, indeed, but "small" is not exactly the right word to use, when it comes to Withering Surface....I´ve followed the guys throughout their career, from the beginning in 1997 to the end in 2004, and the journey has been....joyFULL :-)

See you on friday july 6 with another great heavy metal-song with lyrics :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Lets we forget" by Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower: "Lets we forget", (from the album "...For victory", 1994):

War to end all wars
Hatred lost control
Casualties now mounting
Tales yet still untold
Life´s cradication
Of man now beyond all reason
Totally insane
The human race becomes

Lets we forget - thoughts will always haunt the mind

Lets we forget - the bitterness remains

Past termination
Man made rationality
Complete elimination
Of life beyond brutality
Eternal resentment
Re-occurs time after time
Driven to despair
Extinction drawing near

Lets we forget - thoughts will always haunt the mind
Lets we forget - the bitterness remains

Lets we forget - thoughts will always haunt the mind
Lets we forget - the bitterness remains

Commence removal of all things valued in life
The persecution what was once believed right
Humanities objective now totally deranged
When ignorance transpires, this world becomes insane

(lyrics: Bolt Thrower)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8kvTOKbek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuaadaV4aUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mF8pVz_HI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPz6joaNCA

(I really can´t remember, whether it was february or march this year, but one morning I woke up with this Bolt Thrower-song "Lets we forget" running in my head, and I was like "WTF?!?!?!?!"....Because of the fact, that I hadn´t really been listening to Bolt Thrower for quite some time, and suddenly BT-frontman Karl Willetts was entertaining me in the very beginning of the day :-)

England´s Bolt Thrower is definitely death metal at a very high level, but their lack of album-releases in recent times makes it a little too easy to overlook the band....But I´ll never forget their "...For victory"-album, which was my very first meeting with these war machine-guys and girl, and now we´re talking Jo Bench....isn´t she just the most fascinating bass player in the whole (heavy metal)-world? Of cause she is :-)

Next great heavy metal-song with lyrics here on HEAVY-SKOV will be available on saturday june 30 :-) See you!

Kind regards
Carsten 

"Lifer" by Brutal Truth

Brutal Truth:"Lifer", (from the album "Evolution through revolution", 2009):

i know - the politics of war
i know - the ruthless sacrifice
i know - that broken toys explode
you know - i´ll never compromise

born into - smashing divisions
religious conviction in lime
moral repression depression
our cattle are starting to drive

your reason for breaking the heart and your mind
usurp the beliefs of last few who cry

fucking tourist start your drive to mundane existence
this lifer could give a fuck
if you had your own opinion

(lyrics: Brutal Truth)

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stnw0Hz_yOk

(For (too!) many years I had this (wrong!) feeling, that New York´s Brutal Truth wasn´t something for me....Until one day a couple of years ago, when I bought their "Evolution through revolution"-album, and found out, that we´re actually talking first class-grind :-) Not as good after all as the fine stuff, we´re getting from my Birmingham-heroes Napalm Death, but Brutal Truth definitely know how to incorporate great riffs in their....erm....fast as hell-songs!

In fact I was on my way to post "Evolution...."´s track number 19 "Bob Dylan wrote propaganda songs" because of its funny songtitel :-), but I changed my mind in the eleventh hour...."Carsten, you must be serious, you really have to post your absolute favorite track from this album!!!"...."I know well, so here it is....track number 18 "Lifer"!!!!!!!".

I´ll be back on wednesday june 20 with another great heavy metal-song with lyrics :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"Bleed" by Meshuggah

Meshuggah:"Bleed", (from the album "obZen", 2008):

Beams of fire sweep through my head
Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged
Sensory receptors succumb
I am no one now - only agony

My crimson liquid so frantically spilled
- The ruby fluid of life unleashed

Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes
Their red pens drawing at random, at will
A myriad pains begotten in their wake
- The bastard spawn of a mutinous self

The regurgitation of my micro nemesis
- Salivating red at the prospect of my ruin, my doom

Malfunction the means for its ascent
Bloodletting the stringent voice to beckon my soul
So futile any resisting tension
As death-induced mechanics propel its growth

The implement, the device of my extinction
- The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane
The definitive scourge of its mockery
- The end-art instruments lethality attained

Heed - it commands, heed my will
Bleed - it says, bleed you will

Falling into the clarity of undoing
Scornful gods haggle for my soul
Minds eye flickers and vellicates as I let go
Taunting whispers accompany my deletion

A sneering grin, the voice of my reaper
- Chanting softly the song of depletion

(lyrics: Tomas Haake)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zXpKIXW-g8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1hmI4eqzps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCQjtzEFdc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaHAvG_k6G0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTeuNxSpR5s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6xgBsFgPDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVeDjAUBS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kj09g1Muyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkP_PGvF2n4

(It´s actually a little bit strange, but the very reason why I love Sweeden´s most technical heavy metal-band, (the so-called mathcore-masters :-)), Meshuggah isn´t at first place their music, but in fact vocalist Jens Kidman´s....well....vocal :-) He´s just that perfect in everything he´s doing! And with these "Kidman, you´re the greatest"-words....:-), it´s definitely time, here on Heavy-Skov, for one of the most difficult heavy metal-songs ever to be played live....Meshuggah´s "Bleed" :-)

And by the way, there´s a brand new Meshuggah-album on the streets...."Koloss"....I haven´t been listening  to this....erm....new miracle yet, but it will surely happen during the summertime :-)

I´ll be back next weekend with another great heavy metal-song with lyrics :-)

Kind regards
Carsten

"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

"Seeds of the doomed" by Autopsy

Autopsy:"Seeds of the doomed", (from the album "Macabre eternal", 2011):

Strangled daylight fading, soon I´ll crawl out
To whisper to the bones I´ve scattered about

Arranging the bones
The bones on the moor
Seeds of the doomed
So perfect they are

We draw closer every time when we speak
They want others like them to be complete

Arranging the bones
The bones on the moor
Seeds of the doomed
So perfect they are

Below the ground when the sun is high
In solitude I deconstruct my prize
I chew the mangled meat right off the bone
In the darkness down here all alone

Skeletal sockets peering out through the mist
Sun bleached fingers point while the stale winds hiss

Arranging the bones
The bones on the moor
Seeds of the doomed
So perfect they are

I´ve stripped the pieces from their counterparts
Nocturnal placement as a work of art
This place is mine, nobody else comes here
If they do they´ll only disappear

(lyrics: Chris Reifert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11zGuSC1Fk4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eew6Y_3jTHE

(Well, here´s absolutely an album-titel, which perfectly suits the music....ha ha....I´ve been listening a lot lately to the return from the american death metal-veterans Autopsy and their come back-album "Macabre eternal" is definitely one of the best death metal-albums, I´ve been listening to for a long long time :-) But that said, I have to admit, that I had some serious troubles getting into this dark and disgusting universe the first couple of times, I listened to "Macbre eternal"....But I´m a very patient soul, and I succeeded....YES!...."Macabre eternal" is definitely gore-death metal, as we wish for :-)

I´ve found two ultimate winners on "Macabre eternal": track number two "Dirty gore whore" and track number six "Seeds of the doomed", and if I really really really have to choose...."Seeds of the doomed" goes all the way....such dreamy riffs :-)

Kind regards
Carsten