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    10/13/2016 11:22 am  #61

    gizmomathboy
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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    I saw that the other day and hadn't gotten around to listening to it.

    Guess I'll bump it up.

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    11/18/2016 12:53 pm  #62

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    The new Metallica album is sounding pretty good so far ... as part of their return to form, I present to you 'Dream No More' ... video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqIQvE5R1tU ... lyrics below... That's right, they're singing about Cthulhu again! Right On Fellas!

    DREAM NO MORE Written by Hetfield/Ulrich 

    He sleeps under black seas waiting
    Lies dreaming in death
    He sleeps under cosmos shaking
    Stars granting his breath

    He wakes as the world dies screaming
    All horrors arrive
    He wakes giving earth its bleeding
    Pure madness alive

    And He haunts you
    And He binds your soul
    And He loathes you
    And reclaims it all

    You turn to stone
    Can’t look away
    You turn to stone
    Madness, they say

    Cthulhu, awaken

    He sways in abyss returning
    Inhaling black skies
    He shakes with a torture burning
    All lost in his eyes

    And He haunts you
    And He binds your soul
    And He loathes you
    And reclaims it all

    You turn to stone
    Can’t look away
    You turn to stone
    Madness, they say

    Cthulhu, awaken

    You turn to stone
    Can’t look away
    You turn to stone
    Madness, they say

    Sanity taken
    Seething damnation
    Cthulhu, awaken
    (Wake) Winged salvation
    Death by creation
    Cthulhu, awaken
    (Wake) Dreaming no more

    Cthulhu, awaken
    (Wake) Dreaming no more
    Cthulhu, awaken
    (Wake) Dreaming no more

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    11/18/2016 5:31 pm  #63

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    OK, that just sold me. I'm heading to Bull Moose tomorrow, if not tonight. Glorious.

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    3/10/2017 6:15 am  #64

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    I always loved these guys from New Jersey, Ripping Corpse. Their music was definitely fantasy/horror inspired. This one, Anti-God is all about Cthulu as you can see from the lyrics:

    Deeper, deeper in the woods they're found
    Chanting, chanting Cthulu cometh now
    Sacrifice, sacrifice, give it flesh they sing
    Calling, calling the lord blasphemy

    The old one, great old one
    It is nightmare itself
    Waiting in slumber
    Deep in the earth it dwells
    Steaming, oozing stench of one thousand graves
    Sleeping, dreaming in the corpse city of Ry'leh

    Cthulu, dread Cthulu
    It darkens the sun
    The ancient, the anti god
    Lord of the unholy ones

    Howling, baying like animals in heat
    Living dying by the master's decree
    Teaching it's vulgarities even as they sleep
    Awaiting the chaos when the master leaves the deep

    Deeper, deeper in the woods they're found
    Chanting, chanting Cthulu cometh now
    Sacrifice, sacrifice, give it flesh they sing
    Calling, calling the lordly blasphemy
    Hear them calling blasphemy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDErkdqrzlg
     

     

    3/10/2017 6:20 am  #65

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    This one is not exactly gaming related but it is a inspirational nod to the movie Hell Raiser:

    Skeletal hand of a desperate man
    Lays a bludgeon upside your head
    He wants your flesh and he wants it fresh
    That's why he will wait you till you're dead
    He wants your essence, it gives him presence
    Puts meat on his bones
    No more languishing, forever in anguish
    Frank is coming come

    Hellraiser
    Hellraiser

    In search of the threshold of pleasure
    Obtained by sadistic measure
    Lament configuration
    Bliss through disfiguration
    Malevolent priests inflicting agony
    Ecstasy through misery

    Mauled, ripped and torn
    Pleasure and pain come as one
    Mauled, ripped and torn
    Pleasure and pain come as one

    Severe mutilation brings joy
    Using bleeding torturous toys
    First they will dissect you
    Innocent blood then resurrect you
    Vicious circle never end
    Finding pleasure though pain again, again

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCIGwDoJfJI

     

    3/11/2017 7:18 am  #66

    Ghul
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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    Thanks, Druvas. I will be listening to it today while combing through VOLUME VI edits. Perfect mood music. ;)

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    3/12/2017 11:46 am  #67

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    If you like that album, a couple of the members of that band (including the singer) went on to form another band called Dim Mak which had very eastern-martial arts-themed music. Pretty good stuff. Intercepting Fist was their first album and one of the best.

     

    3/17/2017 11:27 pm  #68

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    I can't get enough of this album!

    Ripping Corpse - Glorious Depravity

    There's a house on a bleak New England lane
    Standing in contempt of our disdain
    Hidden beneath its aged floors
    Lies a best forgotten door
    That leads to

    Decrepit steps, wretched depths
    Deep horrors left unquestioned
    Perverted forms in gleeful scorn
    Of things human and reverential
    Reptilian skins writhe in sin
    Forsake humanity for bestiality
    Sickening shapes, aberrations
    Intensified by generations

    Tongues flagellating, bodies undulating
    In an orgy of glorious depravity
    Perversions slithering, morals withering
    In an orgy of glorious depravity

    There's a house on a bleak New England lane
    Standing in contempt of our disdain
    Hidden beneath its aged floors
    Lies a best well forgotten door

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ulHaxjRThU
     

     

    3/17/2017 11:29 pm  #69

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    Ripping Corpse - Beyond Humanity

    Are you sane Crawford Tillingast?
    Bow you've seen it, how long can your sanity last?
    Don't go back in the house on Benevolent Street
    Defy the urge no mater how it entreats
    Deny the lust and greed to see
    It's usurping your will and humanity
    The pineal is no means to sanctity
    Just a catalyst for the corrupting entity

    Omnivorous, it feeds on minds deceased
    Great knowledge, yet such perversity
    The evil that lurks in all men's minds
    You must defy it, strike it blind

    Uncovering latent vision
    Pretorious sounght to find nirvana
    Absorbed in gratification, climaxed in decapitation
    Festering withing the maw, digested by the hungry obscenity
    United and debased with the voracious mutated amalgamation

    Awash in a sick sensation, ravaged, debauched, not emancipated
    Sapient abomination, sucking in the covetous myrmidon
    Swollen, satiated, glutted from metempsychosis
    Devouring without prejudice, engulfing, consuming, incorporating
    Because humans are such easy prey

    Defy it, save yourself
    Survive
    Defy it, save yourself
    Survive

    Beyond humanity

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWzd3wd9-Qk
     

     

    6/06/2017 1:07 pm  #70

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    ok, my turn. 
    old school, traditional heavy metal fan here - new to the forums (I'll take time to introduce myself elsewhere later) - but well versed in the style of inspirational music being presented in this thread. I'll start with the quintessential theme song written by gamers for gamers. This band is from Salt Lake City, signed to Metal Blade Records, and are the real deal. I present to you VISIGOTH and their track 'Dungeon Master'. Be sure to check the lyrics for Easter eggs.

    https://visigoth.bandcamp.com/

    enjoy. \m/

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/06/2017 1:12 pm  #71

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    next is a traditional metal band from Austin, TX named ETERNAL CHAMPION.

    Just press PLAY... https://eternalchampion.bandcamp.com/

    and if this isn't HYPERBOREAN themed music, I don't know what is.

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/06/2017 1:15 pm  #72

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    more traditional metal from Massachusetts with OLYPHANT. The album title alone of course drew me in on this one...

    https://olyphant.bandcamp.com/album/expedition-to-the-barrier-peaks

    can't get much more old school than S3. \m/

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/06/2017 1:19 pm  #73

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    and from Pennsylvania we have SUMERLANDS with a similar 70's/80's guitar driven heavy metal and haunting melodies as the above bands.

    https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlands

    I'll leave you to digest these bands, then I'll return soon with more inspirational metal. \m/

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/07/2017 10:02 am  #74

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    do you like heavy metal? do you like Thundarr the Barbarian? The Secret of NIMH? World War Z (the book, not the stupid movie)? DUNE? Game of Thrones? the works of Fritz Leiber? ... 

    then you should like MEGA COLOSSUS!! http://www.meltedfaces.com/

    go to their music section and their latest album 'HYPERGLAIVE', click 'Sunsword', and enjoy a return to Saturday Morning Cartoons. \m/ Bowl of cereal not included. 

    note: their current background image at the top of the page was taken when I hosted them at a venue in Marietta, GA in 2015. HUZZAH!! 

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/08/2017 5:53 am  #75

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    Wow, thanks for all of the suggestions, Hoyt! Can't wait to check some of these out.

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    6/08/2017 7:46 am  #76

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    BURNING SHADOWS, traditional heavy metal with a power metal flair based out of Maryland (but you'd swear they were from Europe). Swords, Sorcery, historical adventures on the high seas, Skyrim, cosmic horror... it's all right here...

    https://burningshadows.bandcamp.com/album/truth-in-legend

    Truth In Legend = Dragonborn/Skyrim
    From the Stars = Lovecraft

    But the entire album is great! And check out their previous release 'Gather, Darkness!', which tells the story of a dark dystopian future. \m/

    Last edited by blackmote (6/08/2017 7:46 am)

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    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/08/2017 7:52 am  #77

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    SCYTHIA, progressive power metal from the great white north. I've had the pleasure of working with this band twice already, and look forward to many more great shows and releases from them. This is the song that they had just released when I discovered them. Such good gaming music:




    and here's their Bandcamp, because I know once you experience the 'Bear Claw Tavern' (from the "...Of Conquest" album), you'll want to invest in this amazing band: https://scythia.bandcamp.com/

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/09/2017 10:15 am  #78

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    This one is dedicated to Ghul:

    atmospheric... melodic... epic... progressive power metal from Germany: ATLANTEAN KODEX

    https://atlanteankodex.bandcamp.com/

    "We're always creating rules in the tacit pursuit of verisimilitude. This is a valid and noble pursuit.
    But for some of us, that's a false idol. We harken to a different song." - Frank Mentzer, 2017
     

    6/09/2017 11:42 am  #79

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    Re: Inspiring Metal Music

    blackmote wrote:

    This one is dedicated to Ghul:

    atmospheric... melodic... epic... progressive power metal from Germany: ATLANTEAN KODEX

    https://atlanteankodex.bandcamp.com/

    You are speaking my language, blackmote! This is epic, and I'd never heard of them before. Looks like it's their second record. Nice find! 
     

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    6/09/2017 12:36 pm  #80

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    blackmote wrote:

    and from Pennsylvania we have SUMERLANDS with a similar 70's/80's guitar driven heavy metal and haunting melodies as the above bands.

    https://sumerlands.bandcamp.com/album/sumerlands

    I'll leave you to digest these bands, then I'll return soon with more inspirational metal. \m/

    Guitar player reminds me a lot of Vivian Campbell. Good stuff.
     

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