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22 July 2005
Ladies and Gentleman... Bloodhag "BlöödHag play short heavy metal songs about science fiction and fantasy authors." They also pelt their audiences with books.
chorus: -Nothing' s ever the way it looks!
The K is for kickin' your ass with great books!
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Genius! Paranoid lunatic!
Lies, Incorporated - Valis and Ubik
You got to stay the fuck back from Philip K. Dick!
Though he wrote some crap to pay the rent
Anyone could see his mind was bent
Everything is a lie. Reality is a sham.
Am I a Replicant? I don't know who the fuck I am!
Repeat chorus!
They are really death metal and I only pick that nit to explain that the songs are basically unintelligble as well as totally brilliant. I know they say heavy metal, but they are not.
Here are the lyrics to my girl, Rocktavia:
After armageddon shredded pieces of the human race
Xenogenesis, mated into creatures free of hate
Immortals burn patterns through infinity
To shape the face and fate of Humanity
Don't make Octavia write for a hundred years
Because you treat black women as good as guys with pointed ears
Teach Kindred in a history class
Your kid's a guaranteed genius if they pass
Her characters evoke the same rich note
As if spoke from the baritone of her own throat
After Wild Seed's sown a new society's regrown
You'll never be alone, you'll sit beside her throne
Mind Of My Mind!
Thanks for the info, Divine_Wino. Reading that they were heavy metal, I had no particular interest in listening to them, and just read the lyrics, but now that I know they're death metal, I've give them a listen.