This is pretty cool…lol.

When you mention Layne Staley everyone instantly thinks of Alice In Chains but most forget or don’t even know about Mad Season. Here is my fav by them. Well actually tied with the song “I Don’t Know Anything”. Hope you enjoy.

My favorite band to come out of Seattle in the 90s. Kim Thayil fuckin’ rocks. Extremely underrated guitar player and that voice of Chris Cornell. Holy shit. What a kick ass band.

It has been a very long time since I have seen a band replace their lead vocalist so well. Tommy Karevik picks up where Khan left off with ease. Excellent move Kamelot and another amazing video,song and album.

“Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)”

A passing life each day, a carving on the wall
It’s like a night without awakening
The truth is lost and maybe never to be found
Like the shadows of my pantomime

When all the world is gathered for the final feast
Will there be someone to believe in me?
Voices echoing in my distorted mind
Is this for real or just a dream?
(Am I losing my mind? I am not afraid, my dear)

[Chorus:]
Sing for me angel of afterlife calming me down
Chaos inside my nebula
And make the wrong turn to right in a celestial light
Forgive my sacrimony

Tell me what they say that I’m supposed to know
Tell me every little detail
Make truth appear for me as distant memories
Like pictures on a silver screen

It all becomes clear
The truth will appear
Forever a debt for you and me

[Chorus]

And now leave me alone
Erase my memory
Don’t want to hear, don’t want to see
Don’t want to think about the lie that follows me

All becomes clear
But no one will hear my testimony

I am your angel of afterlife calming you down
Silence inside your nebula
And when the wrong turns to right in a celestial light
I’ll heed your testimony

[Chorus]

(Ring around a rosie,
A pocketful of posies,
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down)

I couldn’t find a decent copy of a video of the band performing this song so the link is just to the audio. This song goes out to all those people who…well…I think we all know some people this should be dedicated to. You may be one of them. 😉 Lyrics below. Enjoy.

“Gotta Kill Capt. Stupid”

Ah damn, we got a lot of stupid people
Doing a lot of stupid things
Thinking a lot of stupid thoughts
And if you want to see one
Just look in the mirror

Gotta kill Captain Stupid, can’t you see him
Today we start the new way, we’re Suicidal
Gotta kill the old way, we’ll make it better
Won’t you join our mission, don’t be stupid

Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid

Brothers killing brothers, what up with that?
Can’t you see they’re laughing, that ain’t funny
Babies making babies, that ain’t love
You just got screwed over, get some respect

Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid

Kill him, kill him, kill him
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
Kill him, kill him, kill him
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
Kill him, kill him, kill him
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
Kill him, kill him, kill him

And I don’t understand why
People be bringin’ Captain Stupid in their lives
Treating him like a superhero
Glorifying him when he ain’t nothing but a superpunk
And you see, you’re the one who’s gonna have to stop him
‘Cause you’re the one that started him

Oh, what’s that?
So now you say life sucks
Well, ninety-nine percent of it’s
What you make of it…
So if your life sucks, you suck

What’s that crap you’re smoking, playing the fool
Waste your life for nothing, when you’re something
What the hell you thinking, mind pollution
Got to get back control, it’s your life fool

Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid
Got to kill Captain Stupid

Kill him, kill him, kill him
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
I gotta, you gotta, I gotta
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
Kill him, kill him, kill him
Gotta kill Captain Stupid
I gotta, you gotta, I gotta
Gotta kill Captain Stupid

What’s that now?
Ah, so you’re scared to do something about it
Well, you better be scared not to do something about it
Because if you don’t kill Captain Stupid
Captain Stupid gonna kill you
Got to kill Captain Stupid…fool

Performed By SUicidal Tendencie

In memory of Dave Brockie my next music post is “Carry On Wayward Son” performed by the mighty GWAR!!!!! You’ll be missed Dave. You’ll always be in our hearts and blasting us “human scum” through our speakers.

This is one of my all time favorite songs about the master storyteller Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately I could not find the acoustic version being performed by the band so I attached the Wacken festival performance from 2011. Still an excellent version but the acoustic is my favorite. Check it out.

“Lord of The Rings”

There are signs on the Ring
Which make me feel so down
There’s one to enslave all Rings
To find them all in time
And drive them into darkness
Forever they’ll be bound
Three for the Kings
Of the elves high in light
Nine to the mortals
Which cry

I’ll keep the Ring full of sorrow
I’ll keep the Ring till I die
I’ll keep the Ring full of sorrow
I’ll keep the Ring till I die

Ref.:

Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill
Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill

And there’s no way out

Mordor
Mordor
Mordor

Dark land under Sauron’s spell
Threatened a long time
Threatened a long time

Seven rings to the dwarfes
In their halls made of stone
Into the valley
I feel down (I feel down)
One ring to the dark lord’s hand
Sitting on his throne
In a land so dark
Where I have to go

I’ll keep the Ring
I’ll keep the Ring
I’ll keep the Ring
I’ll keep the Ring
I’ll keep the Ring
Till I die

Ref. (2x):

Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill
Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill

Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill
Slow down and I sail on the river
Slow down and I walk to the hill

Lord of the rings

This song will seriously surprise you for being from a black metal band. Did he just say black metal..uuuggghhh….lmao. Like I said it doesn’t sound like you would think.  Give it a try. I dare you. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Dark and beautiful lyrics that I will just let you enjoy.

“Phoenix”

Into the night
My long suffering friend
We’ll be reborn again
Right here where everything ends

Face to the sky
A trail of smoke in the air
Pass into emptiness
New life’s awaiting you there

Slave to some wretched old
Imagination of yesteryear
Now all that grows in the skulls
Of the living are flowers of fear

The morning red
A sun-god calling you back
Down through a thousand years
White embers whistle and crack

Await the dawn with her kiss of redemption,
My firebird!
You were the queen of the souls of all men
Before there was the w-o-r-d

The morning new, the morning red,
The fiery promise
Mad swirling smoke wheels round her head
Dedication to the queen of souls, her lost disciples
And when the fire’s work is done
Our time to be reborn

By pagan streams
A wind whips the leaves from the trees
And it is revealed to us
That we are dreams within dreams

Born from some wretched
Old imagination of yesteryear
Now all that grows in the skulls of the living
Are flowers of fear

The morning new, the morning red,
The fiery promise
Mad swirling smoke wheels round her head
Dedication to the queen of souls, her lost disciples
And when the fire’s work is done
Our time to be reborn

The morning new, the morning red,
The fiery promise
Mad swirling smoke wheels round her head
Dedication to the queen of souls, her lost disciples
And when the fire’s work is done
The phoenix now reborn

BONUS SONG!!!
This song is pretty self explanatory so I will let the lyrics speak for themselves on this one. No real reason for sharing this other than it just being an absolutely beautiful song both lyrically and musically. Enjoy.

“Never Ending Story”

Armies have conquered
And fallen in the end
Kingdoms have risen
Then buried by sand
The Earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
She puts us to sleep and
In her light we’ll awake
We’ll all be forgotten
There’s no endless fame
But everything we do
Is never in vain

We’re part of a story, part of a tale
We’re all on this journey
No one is to stay
Where ever it’s going
What is the way?

Forests and deserts
Rivers, blue seas
Mountains and valleys
Nothing here stays
While we think we witness
We are part of the scene
This never-ending story
Where will it lead to?
The earth is our mother
She gives and she takes
But she is also a part
A part of the tale

We’re part of a story, part of a tale
We’re all on this journey
No one is to stay
Where ever it’s going
What is the way?
We’re part of a story, part of a tale
Sometimes beautiful and sometimes insane
No one remembers how it began.