I was wondering what people thought were some of the best written metal songs, not musically but lyrically. So what are they?
Favorite Metal Lyrics?
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Houses Ov Mercury
Edgecrusher
God To The Godless
Anthony
criminal
Death rule!Edgecrusher said:
Mine for this moment is Anathema "Electricity". You should just listen to it. Find it to download, it's short. It's not true metal, but...go on, download!:Spin:
Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
Deströyer 666's "I Am the Wargod." Totally raging and triumphant. Especially the last verse part:
"Though the tale is over, the song remains the same
Gods and idealism forever call our name
So we rise up to the mount with kings at our command
To turn the endless cycle of the savage bloody hand"
Also TEH ROOL is Fates Warning's "The Apparition," for some really amazing imagery. "Above center is sky, cold neverness"..."Laughter's echoes with the blatant wind"...yeah, winner.
Nod to Anthony's sig; "Clean Today" (Katatonia) has some cool lyrics if you're an emo fag (which happens to everybody eventually.)
And finally a nod to Judas Priest for the fucking excellence that is "Dying To Meet You." Besides being a totally underrated song, it has EXCELLENT lyrics, which I will now paste because darklyrics has a horrible transcription of them and M-A's lyrics run on javascript and thus can't be linked to.
Came in this morning
High on a birds wing
Quite open-minded
But still quite aware
Followed the sunrise
Right through from dawning
Picking out landmarks
That said I was there
Led to positions
By stern faced leaders
Who never let one smile
Depart from their face
Then with an armraise
The slaughter is started
One or two crack up
And start to cry
Selfishness breeds in
This cesspool of sorrow
Every few moments
I see a friend die
Synchronized watches
Flash in the sunlight
As into the battle
We all are led
Killer, killer
Keep your thoughts at bay
Maiming, destroying
Every single day
Is this the way
That you get your fun
Slaying, waylaying
In the heat of the midday sun
Get out, get out
Go and do your job
Rape and pillage
Squander all and rob
You make me sick
Getting paid for murder
You wouldn't lay a finger on your mother, oh no
You never ever dream to hurt her
Hero, hero
You have done so well
So sit back and lick your wounds
Cause you won't go to hell
Take your medal
Wear it now with pride
Consolation for the pain
And sin you feel inside
"Though the tale is over, the song remains the same
Gods and idealism forever call our name
So we rise up to the mount with kings at our command
To turn the endless cycle of the savage bloody hand"
Also TEH ROOL is Fates Warning's "The Apparition," for some really amazing imagery. "Above center is sky, cold neverness"..."Laughter's echoes with the blatant wind"...yeah, winner.
Nod to Anthony's sig; "Clean Today" (Katatonia) has some cool lyrics if you're an emo fag (which happens to everybody eventually.)
And finally a nod to Judas Priest for the fucking excellence that is "Dying To Meet You." Besides being a totally underrated song, it has EXCELLENT lyrics, which I will now paste because darklyrics has a horrible transcription of them and M-A's lyrics run on javascript and thus can't be linked to.
Came in this morning
High on a birds wing
Quite open-minded
But still quite aware
Followed the sunrise
Right through from dawning
Picking out landmarks
That said I was there
Led to positions
By stern faced leaders
Who never let one smile
Depart from their face
Then with an armraise
The slaughter is started
One or two crack up
And start to cry
Selfishness breeds in
This cesspool of sorrow
Every few moments
I see a friend die
Synchronized watches
Flash in the sunlight
As into the battle
We all are led
Killer, killer
Keep your thoughts at bay
Maiming, destroying
Every single day
Is this the way
That you get your fun
Slaying, waylaying
In the heat of the midday sun
Get out, get out
Go and do your job
Rape and pillage
Squander all and rob
You make me sick
Getting paid for murder
You wouldn't lay a finger on your mother, oh no
You never ever dream to hurt her
Hero, hero
You have done so well
So sit back and lick your wounds
Cause you won't go to hell
Take your medal
Wear it now with pride
Consolation for the pain
And sin you feel inside
SlaughterofSoul
Forever Underground
Australian and Antichrist by Destroyer 666. A bit of the lyrics can be found in my sig. I'd like to remake the song as American and Antichrist.
Skyclad, Destroyer 666, At the Gates, Pig Destroyer, Carcass, Psycroptic and Dark Angel are some of my favourite lyic writers.
And you can't forget The Lord Weird Slough Feg:
High passage/Low passage -
I am a space pirate, you know my name
Asteroid mining is a dangerous game
Imperial navy can't keep up my pace
Chasing a rock into Zhodani space
You heard about me in the frontier wars
Psionic menace carrying alien spores
A living legend in the asteroid mines
Outvoting tarrifs and imperial fines
One-thousand credits is my humble price
Whether it's nickel, iron, stone or ice
Only the wayfaring patron would dare
A merchant cruiser, a skyway corsair
It's not a mineral that I seek here
High passage, low passage
Any way I'm outta here
I was born in colonies
On fringe worlds of the galaxy
Meanwhile in Zhodani space
Imperial flagships follow me
And you can't forget The Lord Weird Slough Feg:
High passage/Low passage -
I am a space pirate, you know my name
Asteroid mining is a dangerous game
Imperial navy can't keep up my pace
Chasing a rock into Zhodani space
You heard about me in the frontier wars
Psionic menace carrying alien spores
A living legend in the asteroid mines
Outvoting tarrifs and imperial fines
One-thousand credits is my humble price
Whether it's nickel, iron, stone or ice
Only the wayfaring patron would dare
A merchant cruiser, a skyway corsair
It's not a mineral that I seek here
High passage, low passage
Any way I'm outta here
I was born in colonies
On fringe worlds of the galaxy
Meanwhile in Zhodani space
Imperial flagships follow me
The_Evil_Gentleman
Power Metal Owns
stefan86
invariably off-topic
Amon Amarth - Death In Fire (viking WHOOARGH)
Anathema - Anyone, Anywhere (really emotional)
Destruction - Curse The Gods (fuckin classic)
Dissection - Night's Blood
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms of Death (just great lyrics and a great song in every way)
Katatonia - I Am Nothing
Katatonia - The Future of Speech
Katatonia - Clean Today (emo-fag all the way
)
Katatonia - A Premonition
Metallica - ...And Justice For All (a piece of great lyrics from metallica before they went all gay)
Nevermore - Deconstruction
Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstacy
Nevermore - The Learning
Nevermore - Inside Four Walls
The Crown - DeathExplosion
The Crown - Executioner/Slayer of The Light
The Haunted - Three Times (pure aggression)
Anathema - Anyone, Anywhere (really emotional)
Destruction - Curse The Gods (fuckin classic)
Dissection - Night's Blood
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms of Death (just great lyrics and a great song in every way)
Katatonia - I Am Nothing
Katatonia - The Future of Speech
Katatonia - Clean Today (emo-fag all the way
)Katatonia - A Premonition
Metallica - ...And Justice For All (a piece of great lyrics from metallica before they went all gay)
Nevermore - Deconstruction
Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstacy
Nevermore - The Learning
Nevermore - Inside Four Walls
The Crown - DeathExplosion
The Crown - Executioner/Slayer of The Light
The Haunted - Three Times (pure aggression)
Hammer of Might
New Metal Member
"We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies"
"war babies in the garden of eden, will turn our ashes to ICE!"
"when you know that your time is close at hand
maybe then you'll begin to understand
life down here is just a strange illuuuuuusion!"
MAIDEN RULES.
"war babies in the garden of eden, will turn our ashes to ICE!"
"when you know that your time is close at hand
maybe then you'll begin to understand
life down here is just a strange illuuuuuusion!"
MAIDEN RULES.
lord667
=UM=Heartburn
Other people already posted some of my favourites. How about anything from Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime album? The Needle Lies especially always sends shivers down my back. Cracking album all round.
GWAR - "Sick Of You"
Your socks they smell, your feet they stink, you never take a bath.
Your nose it runs, you bust your buns, you always finish last.
Chorus:
Sick! (Sick)
Of! (Of)
You-oo-oo-ooh!.
I'm so sick, so sick of you.
Your face is gross, you eat white toast, you don't know what to do.
It's just your luck, you really suck, that's all - I'm sick of you
Chorus
Bring it down...
I SAID BRING IT DOWN!!!
Thank you.
Don't ya know? So sick of you.
Things you say, and all the things you do. (repeat 6 times)
Chorus
Human filth.. Sick!
GWAR - "Sick Of You"
Your socks they smell, your feet they stink, you never take a bath.
Your nose it runs, you bust your buns, you always finish last.
Chorus:
Sick! (Sick)
Of! (Of)
You-oo-oo-ooh!.
I'm so sick, so sick of you.
Your face is gross, you eat white toast, you don't know what to do.
It's just your luck, you really suck, that's all - I'm sick of you
Chorus
Bring it down...
I SAID BRING IT DOWN!!!
Thank you.
Don't ya know? So sick of you.
Things you say, and all the things you do. (repeat 6 times)
Chorus
Human filth.. Sick!
Under The Oak
Ens Causa Sui
High On Maiden said:
Thats my 2nd favorite part of any song. The first being:
"Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole
The sands of time for me are running low
Running lowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, yeah!!"
Slayed Necros
Void
"I piss on your grave! Total desecration!!
I spit in your face, for no apparent reason!"
Exhorder rules.
I spit in your face, for no apparent reason!"
Exhorder rules.
Life Sucks
and then you die
Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
The single best line in all of metal is of course from Artillery's "Decapitation of Deviants."
"Cause when shit turns to gold,
The poor will be born without ass!"
That rules so hard.
"Cause when shit turns to gold,
The poor will be born without ass!"
That rules so hard.
Oblivious Maximus
I am the worm
"Heirs to Perdition"Life Sucks said:
Union of noble blood
Silent troops that charge
Forwards to die
Countless await their fate
Charge into cities of ruin and death
Sacred flesh, martyred deed
Mark the birth of the era's end
Union of noble blood
Silent troops that charge
Forwards to die
Countless await their fate
Charge into cities of ruin and death
Sacred flesh, martyred deed
Mark the birth of the era's end
Records bear honored names
Call upon our conscience in blood
Divine folly of honor
With no one to deny us
The stench of glory proffers
We inherit
Beyond the shrouded forest
Our dead brothers are before us
They wear their wounds with honor
We inherit
Divine folly of honor
With no one to deny us
The stench of glory proffers
We inherit
Beyond the shrouded forest
Our dead brothers are before us
They wear their wounds with honor
We inherit
The last of nature's chosen
The struggle for survival
Is reversed
We inherit
Corrupt are not few
Degeneration is now complete
Corrupted youth who have
No strength left
No carry on eugenic struggles
Are purged in the fires
Of our unholy war
We inherit
The proud and the few
Degeneration is now complete
Corrupted youth who have
No strength left
No carry on eugenic struggles
Are purged in the fires
Of our noble war
Divine folly of honor
The past is now ascendant
Dead brothers are before us
We inherit
We struggle to survival
We restore nature's chosen
We are the breed's survival
We inherit
We inherit
Corrupt are not few
From centuries of cowardice calls
Our noble genes to repent and purge
The weakened race
From within our midst
Caelum Adustum
Call me Ishmael
The demons astir within the ruined temples of our flesh are no less real than
those whose voices echo through the starless abyss. No less cruel their nature, no less harmful their intent. Of sinful seed, of soiled womb, circling the five wings throughout eternities.
And in a tomb beneath the pyramid of faith, as a crown lain at their feet; behold the pillaged and impure of a god who failed! Guarded by the giant pillars to be moved by the Devil alone. For they are the stones of the throne of christ which he swallowed and exhaled unto earth as his own!
ICHTHUS! Thine gills art dried! Jesous Christos Theou Uios Soter. Where there was heart shall be vertebra for your children have been led astray! ICHTHUS! Quench thine thirst with my urine. Warm as love it shall rinse through the salt in your lungs. For the thirst of the desert strangles all senses. Tempted art thou and no one can resist Him NONE!
For what is the worth of a godless prophet whose tongue since long has dried, in completeness bereft from grace? Through millenniums tormented by the eternal eye and its piercing vigilance. Doomed to fail, for what hope can you ignite in their forsaken hearts? When in deluge thou art fallen, your scriptures are altered and your doctrine rewritten in blood?
What unity in tribes long scattered? What glory and hope in a cross that is shattered? Hark! The mourning wails of defeat echo throughout centuries!
The horns of Baphomet in the wounds of jesus thrice. An allegiance of flesh and steel, unto which titan altar we will kneel. Hark! The reversed words of Yahweh from the pulpits of abomination!
See him now possessed and reborn, the fallen messiah alight. At the burning crest of the serpents spiral, smiling in confusion. Fear all ye faithful for no longer on his forehead a crown of thorns. In the shadow of the bloodstained cross christ has risen with horns!
ICHTHUS! Iniquitys mystery revealed! Jesous Christos Theou Uios Soter. Where there was thorns shall be the horns of a goat, for neither in life or in death are they absent! ICHTHUS! The greatest of creations laid to waste! Malformed and depraved limbless nothingness son of a whore. Two nails in your hands for both for both father and son and in the dirt of your feet piercing the holy spirit.
those whose voices echo through the starless abyss. No less cruel their nature, no less harmful their intent. Of sinful seed, of soiled womb, circling the five wings throughout eternities.
And in a tomb beneath the pyramid of faith, as a crown lain at their feet; behold the pillaged and impure of a god who failed! Guarded by the giant pillars to be moved by the Devil alone. For they are the stones of the throne of christ which he swallowed and exhaled unto earth as his own!
ICHTHUS! Thine gills art dried! Jesous Christos Theou Uios Soter. Where there was heart shall be vertebra for your children have been led astray! ICHTHUS! Quench thine thirst with my urine. Warm as love it shall rinse through the salt in your lungs. For the thirst of the desert strangles all senses. Tempted art thou and no one can resist Him NONE!
For what is the worth of a godless prophet whose tongue since long has dried, in completeness bereft from grace? Through millenniums tormented by the eternal eye and its piercing vigilance. Doomed to fail, for what hope can you ignite in their forsaken hearts? When in deluge thou art fallen, your scriptures are altered and your doctrine rewritten in blood?
What unity in tribes long scattered? What glory and hope in a cross that is shattered? Hark! The mourning wails of defeat echo throughout centuries!
The horns of Baphomet in the wounds of jesus thrice. An allegiance of flesh and steel, unto which titan altar we will kneel. Hark! The reversed words of Yahweh from the pulpits of abomination!
See him now possessed and reborn, the fallen messiah alight. At the burning crest of the serpents spiral, smiling in confusion. Fear all ye faithful for no longer on his forehead a crown of thorns. In the shadow of the bloodstained cross christ has risen with horns!
ICHTHUS! Iniquitys mystery revealed! Jesous Christos Theou Uios Soter. Where there was thorns shall be the horns of a goat, for neither in life or in death are they absent! ICHTHUS! The greatest of creations laid to waste! Malformed and depraved limbless nothingness son of a whore. Two nails in your hands for both for both father and son and in the dirt of your feet piercing the holy spirit.
Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
Meh to those Argholisient or however you spell it lyrics. Nokturnal Mortum did it much more entertainingly, and as "purging the impure" goes, nothing can beat Carnivore's "Thermonuclear Warrior."
Whoever mentioned Skyclad wins. I'm an idiot for not bringing them up.
Whoever mentioned Skyclad wins. I'm an idiot for not bringing them up.
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Arghoslent - Archaic Invincibility
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads unto the throne of man
Primal killing rage
Costly decadence
From objective science
Cause to tip from equipoise
Subaltern tombs
Beneath the balanced sphere
Death unto the throne
Raise the hoary crown
Reach into an ageless past
Replete with gain
Vector points revealed
Poisoned blood is awestruck
By hoary signs
Retrogressive means
From perverted science
Through space and time
Plotted vector points
Atomic shift
Rampant gain
Primal rhythm bleed
Hasidism close to extinct
Suppress all empyrean myths
Condone no charity or hope
For swindlers of the holy shrines
Armistice cannot be reached
With the messengers of god
Sainthood will never be achieved
Forget the guardianship of christ
Hasidism close now to extinct
Suppress all empyrean myths
Condone no charity or hope
For swindlers of the holy shrines
Armistice cannot be reached
With the messengers of god
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads to the throne
Primal killing rage
Random permutations led
Through sovereign history
Random choices parallel
Poisoned blood by the signs
Retrogressive means of dying
Overwhelming impulse timed
Plotted vector points
Revealed shift
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads to the throne
Primal killing rage
Random permutations led
From the sovereign history
Random choices parallel
Poisoned blood struck by the signs
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads unto the throne of man
Primal killing rage
Costly decadence
From objective science
Cause to tip from equipoise
Subaltern tombs
Beneath the balanced sphere
Death unto the throne
Raise the hoary crown
Reach into an ageless past
Replete with gain
Vector points revealed
Poisoned blood is awestruck
By hoary signs
Retrogressive means
From perverted science
Through space and time
Plotted vector points
Atomic shift
Rampant gain
Primal rhythm bleed
Hasidism close to extinct
Suppress all empyrean myths
Condone no charity or hope
For swindlers of the holy shrines
Armistice cannot be reached
With the messengers of god
Sainthood will never be achieved
Forget the guardianship of christ
Hasidism close now to extinct
Suppress all empyrean myths
Condone no charity or hope
For swindlers of the holy shrines
Armistice cannot be reached
With the messengers of god
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads to the throne
Primal killing rage
Random permutations led
Through sovereign history
Random choices parallel
Poisoned blood by the signs
Retrogressive means of dying
Overwhelming impulse timed
Plotted vector points
Revealed shift
Experimental stage
From perverted science
Leads to the throne
Primal killing rage
Random permutations led
From the sovereign history
Random choices parallel
Poisoned blood struck by the signs
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