Russian Folk songs und French Oh La La//Can't compare with that German Om pah pah

Sadly there is no um-pah-pahing in this clever video about German modernization from synthpop musician Pal van Dyk.

Only death is real

File this one under "couldn't resist."

Ancients Dreaming

Some observations:
1) Candlemass vocalist MESSIAH is a large man who looks fetching in a black robe.
2) His vocals compliment these post-Sabbath melodies very nicely.

Heavy Metal is way fascist

Happy Constitution Day!

Raise your fucking hands.



Fancy invoking the spirit of the old gods? Soon they will become your gods... as sure as the night follows the day. Don't forget to raise your hands.

Hail.

I Am Them

Emperor's archetypical "I Am the Black Wizards" set to a darker number from the film Fantasia. Wonderfully poignant.

Show no fear or anxiety

Just in case you found yourself without ready access to Slayer today (ultra patriotic edition):

Beauty is fragile, and time eats at it

Or so imply Britain's trudging doom metal stalwarts My Dying Bride. The following single proved to be a more than worthy precursor to their excellent sophomore release Turn Loose the Swans. Try not to drown thyself in the melodrama.

Pop 'till you drop

A mighty catchy number from Portland's The Decemberists (coming to a college radio station near you). They sing about giant whales and shit... though NOT AT ALL LIKE IRON MAIDEN BECAUSE THEY DO IT IRONICALLY OK:



Tie him to a pole break his fingers to splinters.

Drill, Baby, Drill!

Cats foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound

And now a word on international politics, about, y'know, what makes the world turn.

God is on our side

Dividing presence from our history...the deaf men from the listening ones.

So pure; so cold

Take me. Can't you feel the call?

And the mountains are forever cold.

They have a saying: Labor is a song of Joy and Happiness! (Everyday is Labor Day)

In the capitalist economy there are hundreds of billions of unemployed beggars living in squalor and slavery for the corporate capitalist profit of the Bush clique who steal pennies from poor ethnic minority black negro african children in a bid to make "Israel" richer with greed, thus creating a situation bordering on the brink which the imperialist always push. This is seen by the WHOLE WORLD as the criminal hell produced by capitalist hegemony.

But in the DPRK under the wise leadership of Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il the peerlessly great brilliant commander of Songun, the Juche socialist revolution has made the socialist Motherland into the country where every comrade has a job, thus living the happy life of a song and joy of contributing to the building of the great socialist prosperous powerfull independant country into the Korean style.

Blessed are the people to live under the wise guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il. MANSE!!!

Sometimes you just gotta get away

I hear the South East Asian slums are lovely this time of year. They've just got so much soul.