Bands with great lyrics.
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burzum - channeling the power of souls into a new god
i also like dark fortress lyrics
i find mayhem lyrcis awesome but u dont wannt me 2 mention them
i also like dark fortress lyrics
i find mayhem lyrcis awesome but u dont wannt me 2 mention them
cookiecutter
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Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
Coroner - The Lethargic Age
A thousand souls are waiting, for a day that never comes
A thousand eyes still closed, cause they're afraid to see the world
Two thousand hands are bound, with golden chains they bought themselves
Two thousand legs can't walk, cause they never learned to move
Got it!
A thousand hearts are bleeding, despite the nails of unknown pain
A thousand heads are bowed, pray for mercy, pray for gold
Two thousand feet are stumbling, on the roads that lead nowhere
Two thousand ears are deaf, from the noise of luxury
Don't you know you keep the nature
Chained in dungeons black as coal
Don't you know you adore
An eagle with broken wings
Roses that never bloom
Wheels that never spin
Bells that never ring
Hands too far to reach
A thousand souls are waiting, for a day that never comes
A thousand eyes still closed, cause they're afraid to see the world
Two thousand hands are bound, with golden chains they bought themselves
Two thousand legs can't walk, cause they never learned to move
Got it!
A thousand hearts are bleeding, despite the nails of unknown pain
A thousand heads are bowed, pray for mercy, pray for gold
Two thousand feet are stumbling, on the roads that lead nowhere
Two thousand ears are deaf, from the noise of luxury
Don't you know you keep the nature
Chained in dungeons black as coal
Don't you know you adore
An eagle with broken wings
Roses that never bloom
Wheels that never spin
Bells that never ring
Hands too far to reach
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
IOfTheStorm
Gogol Bordello
Tons actually, i always thought that this "the majority of metal lyrics are dumb" thing is completely wrong. Some examples:
Psychotic Waltz - Freakshow (and Psychotic Waltz in general)
i'm a tripper man in a spaced out jam
flying in the circus of a freakshow band
my ears are wings
they take me to my dreams
i close my eyes and i'm alone here singing
in this state of mind, i'm more than myself
i could reach up into the sky, colour in the sun
in the eyes of my imagination i can roll a bigger stone
i've cut the ties that build the rule of lies
and then i tripped away into the void
lay down the gun that defends me
cover me with a rose instead
my eyes see the deadland that surrounds me
but i can see the garden in my head
all is well
no wall will stand in my way
if they're too tall, i'll go beneath them
cut me down, you'll just go through me
cut me down, you'll just go through me
i am forever
i am forever i
and me you've never really seen
even when i leave this face behind
there's got to be another place to find
where i really belong
cause here i don't belong
here i do not belong
so i write this song of mine
to soothe my ears and ease my mind
and so another written page
will turn into the everflow
will no one ever really know about me
should they even care
a strange little man
racing all his bubbles to the surface of the universe
to see if he could swin out of his own mind
and as he looked behind, he realized what he had escaped
he thought that alone he would float out in space for awhile
goddamn mother gonna try to take me down
take a place in line
just lead your pigs into the slaughter
thank you perry for the idea man
oh, by the way i want to meet you one day
thank you for the way you sang to me
Skyclad - Science Never Sleeps (and Skyclad in general)
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
They cover their stupidity by calling it "stupology",
rearrange your world without one word of apology,
Make a man-made-soul so small it fits inside your pocket,
when you die they'll shoot it up to heaven in a rocket.
We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Let me show you something hideous,
insidious, creeping and libidinous.
The worst laid plans of men with mice,
wielding scaples - laboratory sacrifice.
Great for the economy - destroying our ecology.
Unscrupulous, malicious - yet chemically delicious.
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Will we shiver in dark centuries of cryogenic winter,
or be vapourized to ashes when atoms start to splinter?
A case of heads or tails - it's their coin so they can choose,
breed creatures born with two of either so they cannot lose.
We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Depressive Age - Remember (Je T'aime, Taverne Noire) (and Depressive Age lyrics in general)
Hello my sailor!
I am married now and I white you from Lyon,
I drink no more,
I smoke real less, you know 'cause I'm pregnant since
you've been gone.
My husband says he'll bring him up
like if he is his own son.
He's a banker and he leads me out, dinner, dancing, what I want.
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir", I see yet the snack
booth on your pants.
I'll never forget your sailor mirth,
how you picked up every comb out of the dirt.
His name is Jaques. He said this is mother's ring.
Take it as a prof for my love.
And our new flat is on the opera park, really nice for my little dogs.
Excuse me. Want you to know what's true?
I've no ring and there's no man.
I need fivethousand for the abortion.
Please! Send it fast as fast as you can!
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir" I can't find the one
for whom I yearn. You know 'bout your hurting sailor flirts.
Pick me up like every comb you'd found in the dirt.
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir", I see yet the snack
booth on your pants.
I'll never forget your sailor mirth,
how you picked up every comb out of the dirt.
Like his own son
Dancing, dinner, what I want
A ring and a wedding dress
French whispers in sweet caress
And OF COURSE...
Manowar - Mountains (and generally Manowar lyrics)
So tall, silent against the sky
Up through the clouds, where eagles fly
Wind and rain beat down on one so strong
They cut but never change, what stood so long
Tall as a mountain, I'm gonna tear through the sky
Life's for the taking
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
I'm in the ground, I'm in the air, I'm all
I live in the hearts of all men
I'm the call to greatness
Not all can hear
I awaken the creator, in those who dare
And the day will come, when we all must die
And enter the mountainside
Tall as a mountain, I'm gonna tear through the sky
Life's for the taking
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
I have no fear
Death and glory
Both draw near
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
Psychotic Waltz - Freakshow (and Psychotic Waltz in general)
i'm a tripper man in a spaced out jam
flying in the circus of a freakshow band
my ears are wings
they take me to my dreams
i close my eyes and i'm alone here singing
in this state of mind, i'm more than myself
i could reach up into the sky, colour in the sun
in the eyes of my imagination i can roll a bigger stone
i've cut the ties that build the rule of lies
and then i tripped away into the void
lay down the gun that defends me
cover me with a rose instead
my eyes see the deadland that surrounds me
but i can see the garden in my head
all is well
no wall will stand in my way
if they're too tall, i'll go beneath them
cut me down, you'll just go through me
cut me down, you'll just go through me
i am forever
i am forever i
and me you've never really seen
even when i leave this face behind
there's got to be another place to find
where i really belong
cause here i don't belong
here i do not belong
so i write this song of mine
to soothe my ears and ease my mind
and so another written page
will turn into the everflow
will no one ever really know about me
should they even care
a strange little man
racing all his bubbles to the surface of the universe
to see if he could swin out of his own mind
and as he looked behind, he realized what he had escaped
he thought that alone he would float out in space for awhile
goddamn mother gonna try to take me down
take a place in line
just lead your pigs into the slaughter
thank you perry for the idea man
oh, by the way i want to meet you one day
thank you for the way you sang to me
Skyclad - Science Never Sleeps (and Skyclad in general)
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
They cover their stupidity by calling it "stupology",
rearrange your world without one word of apology,
Make a man-made-soul so small it fits inside your pocket,
when you die they'll shoot it up to heaven in a rocket.
We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Let me show you something hideous,
insidious, creeping and libidinous.
The worst laid plans of men with mice,
wielding scaples - laboratory sacrifice.
Great for the economy - destroying our ecology.
Unscrupulous, malicious - yet chemically delicious.
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Will we shiver in dark centuries of cryogenic winter,
or be vapourized to ashes when atoms start to splinter?
A case of heads or tails - it's their coin so they can choose,
breed creatures born with two of either so they cannot lose.
We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.
Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human ameebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.
Depressive Age - Remember (Je T'aime, Taverne Noire) (and Depressive Age lyrics in general)
Hello my sailor!
I am married now and I white you from Lyon,
I drink no more,
I smoke real less, you know 'cause I'm pregnant since
you've been gone.
My husband says he'll bring him up
like if he is his own son.
He's a banker and he leads me out, dinner, dancing, what I want.
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir", I see yet the snack
booth on your pants.
I'll never forget your sailor mirth,
how you picked up every comb out of the dirt.
His name is Jaques. He said this is mother's ring.
Take it as a prof for my love.
And our new flat is on the opera park, really nice for my little dogs.
Excuse me. Want you to know what's true?
I've no ring and there's no man.
I need fivethousand for the abortion.
Please! Send it fast as fast as you can!
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir" I can't find the one
for whom I yearn. You know 'bout your hurting sailor flirts.
Pick me up like every comb you'd found in the dirt.
Remember, "je t'aime, taverne noir", I see yet the snack
booth on your pants.
I'll never forget your sailor mirth,
how you picked up every comb out of the dirt.
Like his own son
Dancing, dinner, what I want
A ring and a wedding dress
French whispers in sweet caress
And OF COURSE...
Manowar - Mountains (and generally Manowar lyrics)
So tall, silent against the sky
Up through the clouds, where eagles fly
Wind and rain beat down on one so strong
They cut but never change, what stood so long
Tall as a mountain, I'm gonna tear through the sky
Life's for the taking
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
I'm in the ground, I'm in the air, I'm all
I live in the hearts of all men
I'm the call to greatness
Not all can hear
I awaken the creator, in those who dare
And the day will come, when we all must die
And enter the mountainside
Tall as a mountain, I'm gonna tear through the sky
Life's for the taking
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
I have no fear
Death and glory
Both draw near
Like a man is a mountainside
Greatness waits for those who try
None can teach you, it's all inside
Just climb
Jean-Pierre
Son of The Bitch
Slough Feg
Hardworlder:
Killing you with kindness is my game
So I might live to see your sorrow
Leading you with blindness to your grave
With no more bitterness to borrow
I've died a thousand times
The battles rage on in my mind
Always an eagerness for more
With shields and flashing blades
I contemplate my inner struggle
A sound philosophy for war
Leading you to endless misery
Forever battling your sorrow
Only in my violence am I free
And I might live to see tomorrow
The Spoils:
You wait in the wings for their call
Hiding in mirrors you pray
Another long winter will pass
And nobody's listening
In martyrdom's shackles you reign
Through long bloody winters you fast
And all of the riches that shined
They're no longer glistening
Turning my blood to stone
Leaving me here alone
Chorus of angels comes to pick my bones
You wait for the curtain to fall
The truth switches on in your mind
The chorus comes issuing forth
All is in vanity
You've crafted a lifetime of pain
Illusions come crumbling down
An emptiness pulling your chain
Endless insanity
Atavism II:
I've been to this place before
I'm fighting a silent war with you
I've carried this cross for too long
Nailed to my body bleeding
And off of my blood you're feeding
You buried your thorns around my bed
Memories of caterwaul
Resound against the hand of violence
Randomly decides the fate of man
While inside your callous dreams I'm banging
on the gates of sorrow
Trying to find a way to understand
You think the truth will set you free
While you're still rotting here with me
Your subtle adaptation
Was my extermination
And now your lies have conquered me
You think the past will come alive
And with that hopeless faith you strive
My fate's beyond selection
Your flaws beyond correction
Only the weakest will survive
You think the truth will set you free
I'll test your idle prophecy
Your lies are all recessive
My truth is retrogressive
More than you're likely to forsee
Hardworlder:
Killing you with kindness is my game
So I might live to see your sorrow
Leading you with blindness to your grave
With no more bitterness to borrow
I've died a thousand times
The battles rage on in my mind
Always an eagerness for more
With shields and flashing blades
I contemplate my inner struggle
A sound philosophy for war
Leading you to endless misery
Forever battling your sorrow
Only in my violence am I free
And I might live to see tomorrow
The Spoils:
You wait in the wings for their call
Hiding in mirrors you pray
Another long winter will pass
And nobody's listening
In martyrdom's shackles you reign
Through long bloody winters you fast
And all of the riches that shined
They're no longer glistening
Turning my blood to stone
Leaving me here alone
Chorus of angels comes to pick my bones
You wait for the curtain to fall
The truth switches on in your mind
The chorus comes issuing forth
All is in vanity
You've crafted a lifetime of pain
Illusions come crumbling down
An emptiness pulling your chain
Endless insanity
Atavism II:
I've been to this place before
I'm fighting a silent war with you
I've carried this cross for too long
Nailed to my body bleeding
And off of my blood you're feeding
You buried your thorns around my bed
Memories of caterwaul
Resound against the hand of violence
Randomly decides the fate of man
While inside your callous dreams I'm banging
on the gates of sorrow
Trying to find a way to understand
You think the truth will set you free
While you're still rotting here with me
Your subtle adaptation
Was my extermination
And now your lies have conquered me
You think the past will come alive
And with that hopeless faith you strive
My fate's beyond selection
Your flaws beyond correction
Only the weakest will survive
You think the truth will set you free
I'll test your idle prophecy
Your lies are all recessive
My truth is retrogressive
More than you're likely to forsee
Pointless list warning...
Skyclad / Sabbat
Gorguts (late)
Esoteric
Napalm Death
Grand Belial's Key
Celtic Frost
Nuclear Death
The Meads Of Asphodel
Spear Of Longinus
Slayer (early/mid)
Bruce Dickinson
Axis Of Advance
Cryptopsy
Deströyer 666
Reverend Bizarre
Skyclad / Sabbat
Gorguts (late)
Esoteric
Napalm Death
Grand Belial's Key
Celtic Frost
Nuclear Death
The Meads Of Asphodel
Spear Of Longinus
Slayer (early/mid)
Bruce Dickinson
Axis Of Advance
Cryptopsy
Deströyer 666
Reverend Bizarre
V.V.V.V.V.
Houses Ov Mercury
I've always found Opeth and Dream Theater lyrics to be interesting and well written. Death's later lyrics are sort of "Philosophical" and generally pretty cool to read.
Demilich has some really abstract/cryptic lyrics. An example would be:
When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water
They do have some rather gory lyrics though.
I also think that some of Metallica's lyrics are pretty cool. My favorite is the song "Master of Puppets". I think it's about how a drug addiction will destroy you:
Finally, I think Extol has some excellent lyrics if you don't mind that they're a "Christian" band.
Also, I forgot Iron Maiden. I think they have some really good lyrics, many of them are based off of history or literature. Check out "The Trooper".
Demilich has some really abstract/cryptic lyrics. An example would be:
When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water
Demilich said:
They do have some rather gory lyrics though.
I also think that some of Metallica's lyrics are pretty cool. My favorite is the song "Master of Puppets". I think it's about how a drug addiction will destroy you:
It's been rumored that this song was written by Dave Mustaine. However, I don't know if this is true or not.Metallica said:
Finally, I think Extol has some excellent lyrics if you don't mind that they're a "Christian" band.
Also, I forgot Iron Maiden. I think they have some really good lyrics, many of them are based off of history or literature. Check out "The Trooper".
Blue_Jay
New Metal Member
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius
Metal Church
Helloween
Slough Feg
Iron Maiden
Manowar
Disillusion
Orphaned Land
Lykathea Aflame
Anberlin (not metal, they're christian rock)
Amon Amarth
Gojira
Stratovarius
Metal Church
Helloween
Slough Feg
Iron Maiden
Manowar
Disillusion
Orphaned Land
Lykathea Aflame
Anberlin (not metal, they're christian rock)
Amon Amarth
Gojira
I'm gonna assume you were joking, but in case you weren't...
HAIL AND KILL
...rape their women as they cry!
Kill their servants, burn their homes, till there's no blood left to spill!
Power and dominion are taken by the will!
By divine right hail and kill!
Hail, hail, hail and kill!
and
PLEASURE SLAVE
Woman be my slave!
The greatest gift I can give, woman be my slave!
Chained unto my bed, woman be my slave
Begging to be fed!
Woman be my slave!
[Whistle] Woman, come here
Remove your garments
Kneel before me
PLEASE ME![Shitty guitar solo]
So...manowar, no.
Good lyrics:
In Flames
Dark Tranquility (If you can decipher them; written in English, but very metaphoric and whatnot)
Edguy (Yay for toungue-in-cheek power metal)
Nile (Sadly, the vocals sound like Chuck Barnes from Cannibal Corpse)
Bathory (First 3 albums are really tongue-in-cheek Satanic, after that it's Norse tragedies, but regardless of subject matter the lyrics are great)
Slayer (NOT!)
Skyclad (Awesome)
Metallica (First 3 albums ONLY! Buy Justice at your own risk. Get anything else and suffer!)
Iron Maiden
Emperor
Motorhead
Orphaned Land
Savatage
Testament
Wintersun
Metal Church has good lyrics but very dark subject matter
Whoever said Celtic Frost is an idiot; their lyrics are about as deep as Dragonforce's...Ditto for Helloween ("Waiting for big pumpkin to arrive!")
Triton
In Solitude
challenge_everything
Active Member
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
