February 19, 2008

Five Metal Lyrics From The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle plays under the moniker The Mountain Goats. Though the loudly strummed folk songs usually deal with tales of life, death and love, they always seem to have the most metal phrases ever sung over acoustic guitars (just look at that tshirt he’s wearing!).

This is my top five ‘Most Metal Lines’ from the newly released Mountain Goats album Heretic Pride:

5. “Piles of broken bricks, sign posts on the path
Every moment points towards the aftermath”

4. “I dreamnt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name”

3. “I cast my gaze towards the pavement
Too many blood stains on the ground
Rhode Island drops into the Ocean
No place to call home anymore”

2. “Ugly things in the darkness
Worse things in store
In the declining years
Of the long war”

1. “Bells ring in the tower, wolves howl in the hills
Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills
And a rabbit gives up somewhere, and a dozen hawks descend”

A side note, John Darnielle has written the upcoming 33 1/3rd book, Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality.

John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly.

5 Responses to “Five Metal Lyrics From The Mountain Goats”

  1. On 02/19/08 2:16 PM, sammy said:

    well, my favorite Mountain Goats has always been “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton”

  3. On 02/19/08 2:34 PM, Matt said:

    Yeah I love that song.

  5. On 02/19/08 6:59 PM, chxd said:

    old news…he often talks about metal (i.e. morbid angel/deicide)

  7. On 02/19/08 9:17 PM, Seth Werkheiser said:

    Yea, old news. Considering it’s lyrics from his new album. Genius.

  9. On 02/20/08 7:17 AM, Jay DiNitto said:

    Is that Cameron?

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