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I always enjoyed Bolt Thrower's brand of Death Metal English - they had a kind of brutal minimalism to their lyrics. "Spent Rounds, The Coffin Nails, On Your Empires Fall"
Bolt Thrower never gets old.
In more recent years I've really come to appreciate the Death Metal English of bands like Obscura. Nothing crushes your significance like song titles and lyrics of the IMMENSITY OV ORBITAL ELEMENTS TREMENDING DESOLATE SPHERES THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE MOMENTUM VASTNESS... Yes, it's about space.
And the musicianship is just bonkers.
This article was written by my good friend, bandmate, and former co-worker Doug Moore! Doug is best known as the vocalist for extreme death metal noise maniacs Pyrrhon. https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/abscess-time He is also the vocalist for the death metal band Glorious Depravity, in which I drum. This makes best use of his DME skills. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com/album/ageless-violenc... . Look at…
Who are the lyrics for and what is expected of the audience? Are they purely artistic or do fans usually read the lyrics at some point and appreciate them and do they ever understand them in the song?
[0] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/anaalnathrakh/eschaton.html
> Normal English: “You have to mow the lawn” Death Metal English: “BRING DOWN THE SCYTHE OF GODS UPON THE NECKS OF THE GREEN-RIBBED LEGIONS AND SWEEP AWAY THEIR WRETCHED BODIES; THOU ART IMPLORED BY ME” I'd listen to an album of that--while mowing!
(It is banned to mow the lawn here on Sundays, by a municipal bylaw.)
Nice to see “Chuck Schuldiner of Death” referenced. An insanely talented musician, gone way too soon. Even if you don’t like death metal, give this band a listen if only for the skill alone.
For me, Death's Human is unmatched and I don't think you'd have to already be a death metal fan to like it.
THE INSPIRATION PENETRATES MY CRANIUM IT BIDS ME UTTER INFERNAL VERBIAGE IN CONTEMPLATION OF COMPILATION https://codewithrockstar.com/
rather: FEROCIOUS PENETRATION OF MY VULNERABLE CRANIUM BY THORNS OF INSPIRATION WICKED MIND'S UNSTABLE BLEH!
> Normal English: “Commuting to work” > Death Metal English: “TRANSPORTATION OF THE WAGEBOUND UNTO THE NEXUS OF PERPETUAL QUOTIDIAN ENSLAVEMENT” I can see that one play out very well in a job interview after realising that the job isn't as remote as promised.
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Who are the lyrics for and what is expected of the audience? Are they purely artistic or do fans usually read the lyrics at some point and appreciate them and do they ever understand them in the song?
I personally enjoy not understanding the lyrics, but just rarely recognizing some coherence in the noise. Bonus points for bands, like Anaal Nathrakh, who don't publish their lyrics in the first place, so even lyric sites have just a bunch of ??? where nobody understands what's going on[0]. There's also bands like Swarrrm, where there are vocals, but practically no lyrics exist. [0] http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/a…
"We don't actually remember"