4 posts tagged “heaven shall burn”

I think everyone can safely say that music is, or has been a big influence on their life.  How it can define and clarify your current mood, bring back distant memories or define an entire generation.  I think everyone has a particular piece of music that hits them the hardest; something that digs down deep and evokes the most emotion.

There are quite a few artists (and songs) that really "do it" for me.  Most of these I'll listen to while training in the gym or just when I'm on the road since I don't listen to the radio anymore.  The links to the songs listed are from within my Vox music library of tracks I uploaded.  Just open a separate tab to listen to the track while you browse (or continue reading).
 

• Danzig - Cold Eternal & Come to Silver
  
• Korn - Alone I break, Did my time, Everything I've Known, Alive, Tearjerker, Throw me away & Hushabye
  
• System of a Down - Lonely Day
  
• Hatebreed - Empty promises, Afflicted past, Driven by Suffering, Healing to Suffer again, I will be heard, Perseverance, Proven, Unloved, A lesson lived is a lesson learned, Another Day Another Vendetta, Confide in no one, The most truth, Defeatist & Give wings to my triumph
  
• Heaven Shall Burn - Black Tears
  
• Slipknot - Danger Keep Away, Vermillion, Vermillion Pt. 2, Vermillion Pt. 2 (Bloodstone Mix), Dead Memories & 'Til we die
  
• Marilyn Manson - Great big white world & In the valley of the shadow of death
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Someday never comes
  
• Cake - Never There, I will survive & Going the Distance
• Terry Reid - To be treated
• Nirvana - You know you're right, Oh Me & Where did you sleep last night?
• Linkin Park - Somewhere I belong
  
• 311 - Amber
• The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden
• Johnny Cash - Hurt
  
• Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
• Staind - It's been awhile
  
• Verve Pipe - Colorful
  
• Metallica - Astronomy, Turn the page, Tuesday's Gone, Fade to Black, Nothing else matters, The Unforgiven, The Unforgiven II, The Unforgiven III, The Outlaw Torn, Mama Said, The Memory Remains, Low Man's Lyric, Frantic, The Unnamed Feeling, Suicide & Redemption
  
• Stone Sour - Cardiff & ZZyyzx Rd.
  

Those were just to name a few.  I guess what I find so powerful about it, is you can hear in it (and develop a connection to it through personal experience): pain, suffering, desperation borne of sadness; a bit of insanity, but through it all an unbreakable resolve not to give up, not to lay down and let the events of your life roll over you (check out some Hatebreed's lyrics and you'll get where I'm going with this), so I think this makes it (the music and connection) all the more powerful.
 
I'm used to listening to these various artists on either my iPod or my iPhone during long road trips (more to come this fall now that college football is in season) to Lincoln, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, or where ever else I wanted to go for a day or two.  I like how I can just sit there in my car and just let my emotions wash over me regardless of my current mood while my mind wanders.   

This fluid feels like pain
This stoic mood is all in vain
I reach into the dark
I tear the sun and me apart
How many years ago
How many deaths I can't let go
My flesh is temporary, my God extraordinary

You.. can't.. kill.. my... mind
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness
I know tonight will end
but I won't give this life away again

Sifting through the seen debris
Oh my father call to me
This smoke is in my blood
This home is just no good
Save me from my bitterness
Give me up I did my best
Chalk this system full of shit
Lock this fucker lost in it

You.. can't.. kill.. my... mind
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness
I know tonight will end
but I won't give this life away
I won't give this life away again

A man surrendered
can never find his own forgiveness
I know my life will end
but I won't give tonight away
I won't give tonight away again

Oh yeah!

This fluid feels like pain
This ruin feels like rain
I reach into the past
My future's fading fast

How many years ago?
How many I let go?
My flesh is all I have
My face is happenstance

This smoke is in my blood
This life is not enough
This life is not enough
This life is not enough

\m/  Cheers  \m/

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Cover:
Usually, when I listen to a cover song, the original just can't be improved upon.  In this case, the German band Heaven Shall Burn did just that.  They took Edge of Sanity's "Black Tears" and made it their own.  I like the video editing in the Heaven Shall Burn version, how it cuts from video to a live performance. 

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Another song from Heaven Shall Burn.  I really dig this tune.  It's from their Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) album.  I would've just thrown the mp3 out there and pasted the lyrics, but I would rather the person listening to the track had some visual stimulation. 

Enjoy

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