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The Metal Thread

This is my favorite Turkish metal band, and one of my favorite songs from them:

Bir (it means "one")

I will translate the lyrics:

Fire, Earth, Air, Rain have given you life
You were given a heart, a soul, a mind, and they all showed you the way

In this one lifetime's adventure, tell me your story. What meaning did you get from it? What is in your soul?

Chorus:
Don't be of afraid of this or that
Not of death, not of life
Whatever you see in this world
Are all one, all from Truth (=God in Turkish)

Your ancestors had the honor of writing books and teaching you
The priests acted as your guide, narrating it to you, full of inaccuracies

In today's world, they are all the same, they are all the highest
Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, Buddha
They all knew everything about you.

Humanity is searching for itself
The world is rotating millimeter by millimeter
If you run away from it all today
You will be burdened with an incompleted task.

Chorus

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The melodic guitar parts are mimicing very common Turkish folk music motifs, in a certain "makam" called Hüseyni, for which the closest analogue western musical scale is Dorian.
 
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Dance of Death

This is a song about an ecstatic experience with entity contact through ingesting the sacrament. He says "I had one drink but no more," but that either means a drink of Ayahuasca, or a puff of spice ;⁠-⁠)

BTW Iron Maiden songs always feel light in energy to me, like an antithesis to the visual art that they represent themselves with. And likewise, in this song when the singer says "they had ascended from Hell" what I hear is "they had descended from Heaven" 😁

Bonus: here is a cute fairy version of the same song, with mushrooms as the sacrament Dance of Wild Fairies
 
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Since my very young age I was interested in Metal, and generally music with instruments like guitar, bass guitar and drums. I never liked them growling vocals tho, but I was still listening to Metal despite the vocals, basically because I had no choice, those riffs were too sweet. Nowadays, thanks to editing programs I can enjoy a lot of songs in their instrumenal versions. But if the lyrics and vocals are good, its a big plus.

Here are some of my favourites
Have fun







 
A lot of bands that I like are metal-adjacent, rather than fully metal, but I like to dip into some metal, as well…




 
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I had a friend who played me this 35 odd years ago and it blew me away and i listened to it today a long time after i last heard it and it still does it for me. My friend died of a heart attack while painting his house about ten years ago. He did a hell of a lot of speed and Lemmy was his hero. We had fallen out with each other in about 1992 and never spoken since. Ive tried not to fall out with any friend since...


This was the first metal band i saw in concert. Me and my mates were all about 13 years old and we kept sticking our heads in the speakers after drinking half a pint of lager each. We were deaf for a week after. I think they are still doing the rounds today. Never got the proper recognition for being a proto thrash band..

 
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