Love?

[BikerMiceFromMars]

Absurd - Facta luquuntur. it has a song called "Dreaming Of Love".

In fact, love and faithfulness is a key point in the ns ideology, atleast it's found a lot through Absurd's works, i don't know if other ns bands talk of it, since Absurd's pretty much the only nsbm band i listen to. Easily dismissed, since most dipshits will think the lyrics consist solely of "KILL JEWZ LOL". Absurd has oustanding lyrics all around pretty much.

 

[Death Aflame]

Uh...Lykathea Aflame?!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Zack]

How about Atreyu!!!!!! I am fucking kidding don't bash me

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Overkill - What I'm Missing, off Bloodletting. It is not only a love song, it is a RAGING THRASH METAL love song and it rules.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

I never looked into the LA lyrics. How so? What songs?

I overlooked the love for one's country as explored by bands like Iced Earth or Graveland. And love for God, i.e. Extol. I also missed Opeth and MDB, but I figured that was the kind people were trying to avoid.

I was referring to the generally mundane concept of love, like MURAI posted, although I suspect there's a humuorous payoff of a catch somewhere...my intent being to find the serious and simultaneously accepted context for exploring love through the template of extreme metal.

Oh, and J-P, @ the Labyrinth song.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

"What I'm Missin'" is a love song?! That's awesome!

Hey Pyrus, have you heard "Maramari" yet?

 

[Demilich]

that Dan Swano song off Moontower...actually probably more than one of them, but for sure "Add Reality"

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Oh, and J-P, @ the Labyrinth song.

Hey...I just recently got leighed with that song in the background. Trust me.

 

[Demiurge]

"I cannot fall in love
love is for them
Lusting for the sky -
Heaven"

Anonymous Nick, the thing about love is that there's little left to say about it.

 

[Christie_fell]

Most metal bands that write love lyrics tend to be extremely sappy and end up sounding cheesy. This is why abstaining from it altogether is best. Leave that for other types of music.

 

[Kenneth R.]

there's some very comical replies in this thread. mostly from the ns herd

anyone who thinks the topic of love is too mushy for metal is probably a pansy tr00bie. lots of metal bands have dealt with the topic in interesting ways.

 

[BikerMiceFromMars]

What the hell is so comical you doofus?

 

[NeverIsForever]

Why has no one mentioned the band with an album that is actually called "Love Metal"?

H.I.M.

Actually that's pretty much all they sing about, but the end result is anything but metal.

 

[KMADD]

Let the jeers begin. But Type O Negative has a lot of love theme based songs
esp. in October Rust.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Type O is satirical, though. Mostly.

Demiurge, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but the thing about love is that it, like hate, is drastically unique to each individual. So I find it refreshing in each new song(if done well) as it is a personal catharsis or a reflection of an individual's passion.

 

[MourningProcess]

Some AGATHODAIMON was about love. Most of Chapter III seemed to be about love and/or a loss of a lover.

Ex:

The Ending Of Our Yesterday

And when the moon enrapts the streams
And trembles on the fen
A thousand years have flown it seems
Since then
For if today I part the veil
And see what time portended
I feel that long ago the tale
Was ended

Little I knew in youth's enchantment
That it is alike absurd
Or to lean against a shadow
Or believe a woman's word
For if today I part the veil
And see what time portended
I feel that long ago the tale
Was ended

Though she once betrayed
Though empty words spoken
I wished she'd have stayed
Remain with a heart that's broken

For I no longer am confined In that sweet country's spell
I have left you far behind
Farewell

Fair autumn still its breeze delays
Upon the springs that wail and sigh
And through the leaves the whisper strays
Of my sad dreams that now must die

EX 2:

Now far I am from you, before my fire alone,
And read again the hours that so silently have gone,
And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide,
That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died.

The shadows of the past swift stream across life's floor
The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more;
While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind
And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind...
I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold,

Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold;
About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply
And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh.
And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace,

And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace...
Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb,
Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come,
Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside,
For now I'm old and lonely, and maybe you have died.

That is just my view though, that it is love. Maybe someone else interprets them differently?

 

[Cythraul]

Agathodaimon is quite shit though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Quite.

 

[Death Aflame]

I never looked into the LA lyrics. How so? What songs?

all of them. Some excerpts:

"Land Where Sympathy is Air"

I am searching for the land where I will fall on my knees
and will be weeping for a long time.
Where my mind shall extend on the sky
and my heart shall speak the language of the trees
and open like a water-lily
by touches of morning sun...

"To Become Shelter and Salvation"

I am not able to tell you by words what I feel.... anymore.
To become shelter and salvation
To become shelter and salvation
Those so magnificent loveful waves reach far beyond the shore of my body.

I weep for the pain I have ever caused you even I know
it is the teacher leading us towards the light.
Learn to read from the eyes - they are the open gates to heart.

The waves of so magnificent loveful energy are flowing through and among
my fingers and my body is bathing in that purifying bath.

I wish to become shelter and salvation...

"Shine of Consolation"

Please expose your soul and become a mirror,
warmth and light throw to gloomy lands,
ruin that musty crypts,
...yet there is no stronger might!

How intensively I long for that indescribably magnificence
whose twinkles I have every so often seen here on the Earth.

Oh the strong wind tear the grey clouds on my sky
otherwise I cannot tell about the Sun.


And I disagree that love shouldn't be explored lyrical because it is overused in other genres. While this is true, the difference with metal is that it can explore every emotion, feeling, perspective, ideology etc. there is, including love so the painter's have a complete palette to paint with, so to speak.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Countess has that song "Blood on My Lips" which is pretty damn bad, but also pretty funny.

Opeth and My Dying Bride are really the only two I can think of that do love songs well off the top of my head. Nectar is about the pinacle of love songs, frantic, confused and passionate, it really does feel like first falling in love. On the whole I have to agree with those who said that other genres are more suited for the topic of love. Singer Songwriters, pericuarly females, seem to present this the best, the vuenerability and minimalism of the genre suit the topic very well. Classical is great for the inverse, emphisising the intenisty and grandoise of love- though it often shows its more subtle elements as well.