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Recoil – Want

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Here are a few twisted little verses that cut and gash like rusty razor blades:

“I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me.”
“I want matches in case I have to suddenly burn.”
“I want to write my secret across your sky.”
“I want to watch you lose control.”
“I want your touches to scar me so I’ll know where you’ve been.”
“I want to reach my hand into the dark and feel what reaches back.”
“I want to be there when your hot black rage rips wide open.”
“I want to know just how much you hate me so I can predict what you’ll do.”

Want more? Full lyrics:

https://genius.com/Recoil-want-lyrics^

Besides its assault on imagination, this song features one hell of a composition. It’s diverse, ruthless and in perfect rhythm and mood with the lyrics. Take a walk on the dark side together with Recoil and the best possible singer for such verses.

YouTube (decent quality, featuring a nice and dark fan-made video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZST-Ok7VUo^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

http://open.spotify.com/track/5iNQlXcx7pLgkwknQMhHcU^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

http://www.deezer.com/track/72935811^

This Weekly Song entry has been brought from the FaceBook archive of Weekly Song^. This exploration was originally started through a FaceBook page, about 13 months prior to launching Mentatul. Slowly but surely, the entire FaceBook archive will be brought here.

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Argaman – Walk On Your Way (Day)

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Warning: this track may contain traces of other dimensions. It may cause (at least) the perception of temporal shifting in the auditory cortex. Can be used by professionals to test the temporal lobe of the brain.

Jokes aside, never underestimate the beauty of tampering with and distorting rhythms. When done right, it’s exactly what a song needs to shine. Let yourself soar with this playful, airy tune and its dreamy singer.

“Walk on your way,
You paint your road,
Take off your load,
And be yourself.

Now you’re here,
Just keep it clear,
Without a fear,
the skies will tear.”

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location. And in case you’re wondering, yes, I did purchase Argaman’s album :).

https://argaman.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-your-way-day^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53JDSmLU9I^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/39XbyeLjVTZ0fEeJ1H8R1z^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/63182652^

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Darude – Sandstorm

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From beginning to end, this song is a sandstorm. It powers up mighty fast and, out of the blue, you’re catapulted straight into a dance frenzy. Or at least that’s probably the intention behind the unrelenting synth Gatling guns. The melody isn’t very complex, but all movements are well timed and interconnected to such a degree that this can become an addictive experience. This is the stuff that immortal songs are made of.

I can hardly believe this song is almost 20 years old. Its age, together with the sheer power carried by the sound waves definitely qualifies Sandstorm for the Blast from the Past category.

You can listen to the melody for free on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location. However, I found that the quality of the BandCamp recording is rather poor, much more so than other stuff that the website allows online play for. However, this may not be an issue when purchasing, because then you are entitled to get a FLAC file. The question remains if the FLAC file is genuine or coded form a questionable source. But anyway, here’s the link:

https://ministryofsound.bandcamp.com/track/darude-sandstorm^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRczGJ-4M5g^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/2kWB9IV8EHDOU9EjgxWFrF^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/63653810^

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Amorphis – Summer’s End

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I’m usually happy to hear what a few extra instruments can do to a metal song. It doesn’t matter if those instruments are physical or spawned from the digital innards of a synthesizer. What matters is how they are integrated with the rest of the orchestration. The solid riffing and drumming here is all laid upon a dreamy foundation, the perfect soundscape for the song’s eerie lyrics.

True to the roots of the group’s name, Amorphis has gone through quite a number of musical transformations. The band has become a successful example when it comes to incorporating other instruments into the traditional metal repertoire.

The melody hails from Amorphis’ Pasi Koskinen^ era, when they released a few progressive metal albums. The band has released many more albums after they changed to a new vocalist (Tomi Joutsen^) who brought a blast of fresh energy to the band’s music. This is surely not the last Amorphis song you’ll see around here.

“In the morning mist by the waning moon
through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root

[Chorus:]
Tread my path to summer’s end
This bequest I leave you she says
You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray

By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream
No love without sacrifice
No lige springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soils cold caress to rest we’ll lay”

Unfortunately, I can’t find any way of purchasing the album digitally from any ethical shop (such as BandCamp^).

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aXDr3a1utU^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4j3x8hnOJvHwe89efGZRCo^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/11125946^

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Michael Mayer – Mind Games (feat. Ed Macfarlane)

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Enough, enough, enough, enough, mind games.

I couldn’t help writing that. It’s because I love how the song starts. And guess what: I love how it continues even more, otherwise why would I even type these words?

Welcome to a musically playful exploration of a mentally complex topic. I feel that the vocals are spot on given the way the topic is approached (Ed does a great job of communicating a feeling of “this must end”). And when it comes to Michael Mayer’s music, I can only say that the way this song is layered and architected is highly entertaining. It’s almost as if two melodies are playing with each other. They’re very much alike and yet, with the use of (mostly) three simple chords, so different.

I tried to find the lyrics for the song (there’s some interesting sentences in there), but only found results that are clearly somebody’s (very) broken interpretation of what Ed sings. I can probably write a better “translation”, but I think it’s the artists that should publish the lyrics if they wish to.

Enough mind games!

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://michaelmayer.bandcamp.com/track/mind-games^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTt4i9knCY^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/59FxcA9nXTJO7d88SlyZSJ^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/130937706^

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Enigma – Gravity Of Love

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From the mysterious whispers to the crashing choirs, from the delicate bells to the shattering strength of the vocal delivery, this is an amazing journey of a song. It’s not only a musical masterpiece, but a lyrical one as well. Few songs manage to convey a mystical experience as well as this one.

It comes with a pretty daring video too. In this day and age, such images can easily be called sexually objectifying (towards women), but given that this is almost 20 years ago, I choose to value it for its challenging, somewhat anti-Christian symbolism. To be clear, I am not against any religion, but I do consider that challenging established norms can result in constructive intellectual experiences.

This is one of the very few songs that I can call “100 out of 100”.

“Turn around and smell what you don’t see
Close your eyes … it is so clear
Here’s the mirror, behind there is a screen
On both ways you can get in

Don’t think twice before you listen to your heart
Follow the trace for a new start

What you need and everything you’ll feel
Is just a question of the deal
In the eye of storm you’ll see a lonely dove
The experience of survival is the key
To the gravity of love

“O Fortuna velut Luna”

Woman:
The path of excess leads
to the tower of Wisdom

Man:
The path of excess leads
to the tower of Wisdom

Try to think about it
That’s the chance to live your life
And discover what it is
What’s the gravity of love”

Unfortunately, I can’t find any way of purchasing the album digitally from any ethical shop (such as BandCamp).

YouTube (decent quality, MUST SEE):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTV99Uy8hk^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/13iOPBvJOkIyqj3DtIEPe8^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/3130007^

This Weekly Song entry has been brought from the FaceBook archive of Weekly Song^. This exploration was originally started through a FaceBook page, about 13 months prior to launching Mentatul. Slowly but surely, the entire FaceBook archive will be brought here.

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Terry Oldfield – Be Still

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This is calm, transliterated into sound. In just a few words, the song delivers a message that is more meaningful than entire libraries of human imagination. Mystic choirs lay upon gentle percussion while chasing the playful song of Terry Oldfield’s magical flute.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location. And in case you’re wondering, yes, I did purchase Terry Oldfield’s album :).

https://terryoldfield.bandcamp.com/track/be-still^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6kjPIwHs8M^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/3sVqdn1swHyRjfmtZKJ00b^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/81719388^

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Florence And The Machine – Leave My Body

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This dreamy and melancholic song larva wastes no time metamorphosing into a bright, powerful flutter of sound, repeatedly crashing into the ground before lifting itself to the heavens. The vocals really stand out on this one; a fountain of light shining fearlessly in the face of life’s ultimate outcome.

“I’m gonna be released from behind these lines
And don’t care whether I live or die
And I’m losing blood, I’m gonna leave my bones
And I don’t want your heart it leaves me cold
[…]
I’m gonna leave my body (Moving up to higher ground)
I’m gonna lose my mind (History keeps pulling me down)
Said I’m gonna leave my body (Moving up to higher ground)
I’m gonna lose my mind (History keeps pulling me, pulling me down)
I don’t need a husband, don’t need no wife
And I don’t need the day, I don’t need the night, the night
Don’t need the birds let them fly away
And I don’t want the clouds, they never seem to stay
I don’t want no future (Want your future)
I don’t need no past (Need no past)
One grand moment (One grand moment)
Is all I ask”

Unfortunately, I can’t find any way of purchasing the album digitally from any ethical shop (such as BandCamp).

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2kYXbXPKYI^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ew15rnMFzIytOKVQOQuk7^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/54067881^

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Samael – Nautilus & Zeppelin

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Music can be a scientific laboratory. As the melody unfolds, the artists embark upon a musical experiment that really needs to be heard to be believed. This is a metal song, but it is submerged underneath 20,000 leagues of organic and spiritual evolution. At that depth, the echoes of an infinity of egos melt into a droning hymn to life, death, good and evil.

“Let me glow, let me flow
let me grow in you heart
in your mind
in your soul
anywhere, anytime, anyhow
when you want, when you need, when you know
I will be there for you
I will be there with you

The sea navigable
the sky has no limits
for those who are able
for understanding what does fit
to the world they’re heading for
to the life they’re looking for
let me take you on board
let me sail you to the shore”

Unfortunately, I can’t find any way of purchasing the album digitally from any ethical shop (such as BandCamp).

YouTube (poor quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRPUlB70rQ^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/1TXIlrx5i4ri9WOMsGsTWP^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/108935800^

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Solar Fields – Mystic Science

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Now here’s a trip if there ever was one! This baby will take you away, far away and then even further away and when you think it’s done, it’ll take you another couple of Universes away and just when you thought you landed, it’s gonna take flight again and drag you another dozen Universes in X directions at once, where X is the number of multiverse dimensions you’re in, factorial!

Musically, what we have here is a steady and unstoppable flowing song of devious construction. Layers upon layers of deep, suggestive sounds are quietly shifting into existence. I’ve measured the song with my Spirit Buoyancy Meter and it scored a juicy 83 kiloquantiverses. Not bad, not bad at all!

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location. And in case you’re wondering, yes, I did purchase Solar Fields’s album :).

https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/track/mystic-science-origin-2007-24bits^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiw9xnp0xIY^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4yRp0IVmlg0fE31dyCVb90^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/65190255^

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