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Mar. 21st, 2007 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Tuesday was sunny in the morning but I didn't realize that until I left for work. It had been pouring rain the night before. I wished I'd gone for a morning walk.
Wednesday was sunny and I did go for a morning walk. That's good. I did that Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday. I figure if I manage a 40 minute walk 4 days of the week I'm doing good; more than that is even better.
Tuesday night I was listening to my iPod and it occurred to me that I wanted to make a soundtrack for a certain type of song -- dark, menacing, the kind I might listen to while playing my current City of Heroes character, who is a katana-wielder and whose current look is kinda demonic looking. I was specifically listening to a song by Without Face, a goth metal band that leans towards the early style of goth metal, in which up to three types of voices are present (usually a beautiful female vocal and a growling male vocal, but in this case a "clean" male vocal as well). The male vocalist has a more death-metal style I guess -- I have a hard time pegging all the different styles and the names for them, but rather than a deep growl or bark he has that higher-pitched unearthly screech like you hear from Jari in Ensiferum and Wintersun. It can be a very eerie sound, and Without Face at times sounds both beautiful and dark, sinister, menacing.
And I've been listening to a few other goth metal bands and I decided on the spot to assemble a playlist of such music. It's funny how I used to make mix tapes, and then mix cds, but my first response today is to think of making a playlist for my iPod.
Anyway I called it my "Dark Stalker" mix and threw in several tunes from Heavenly's Dust to Dust (songs about a vampire), Not Ready To Die from Demon Hunter, The Violin of Eric Zahn from Without Face, Tales From Heaven or Hell from Elis (a song about the death of singer Sabine's father, and speculation on what, if anything, lay beyond death -- quite a haunting song and probably moreso if you consider that Sabine died before the cd was completed). Also "Across The Highlands" from Kamelot, "Madness Strikes At Night" from Stratovarius, "Not Your Fairytale" from Sonata Arctica, some Wintersun, and anything else I could think to add that was dark, menacing, or good for a dangerous sword-wielding hunter type to be listening to.
One thing I wrote down was "I Am A Razor". I had a song in mind but I couldn't remember the title or the band or even the lyrics, only that there was a line in there something like that somewhere. I knew I owned the cd, and that it was an 80's metal band, but I could not for the life of me remember anything more about it. Tuesday night I tried to look through my cds hoping to come across it (if I still had it) but I own so many cds and had no idea where to start, so I finally gave up.
But it bugged me. You know how it is when you're trying to remember something and only the vaguest details come to mind. It's just on the tip of your tongue, just out of your reach. It was going to drive me crazy until I could remember what it was.
On my walk Wednesday morning I listened to my new Dark Stalker mix mark I, and I again wondered about the song that I couldn't quite remember. I knew the lyrics were about being a dangerous bad-ass, and I remembered that I'd put it on a mix tape I'd made a long, long time ago of songs that I felt fit the character Gally (aka Alita) from the series Gunmm (aka Battle Angel Alita). It'd be nice to find that tape again, I'm sure I still have it but it's probably in a box in my closet, buried somewhere. But it did remind me that I'd placed some Hearthrob songs on that mix tape -- songs like "Hooligans" and "Bright Green Day" which have a dark, somewhat menacing undercurrent. Reminded me that Curve might be a nice addition to my mix too.
The band "Accept" kept going through my head. I knew it wasn't the band I was trying to think of, but the band I was searching for was a similar band -- a classic metal/thrash band from the eighties that I really wasn't a big fan of, but I owned one of their cds and I liked this particular song. I decided I could search the internet and eventually figure out the answer to my riddle.
Searches on "I am a razor" and the like turned up nothing, and I remembered enough to know that wasn't anything like the actual song title. Reading about Accept didn't really help, but I clicked from their Wiki entry to an entry on Heavy Metal, and down in the Thrash section it listed the four progenitors of Thrash as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax.
As soon as I saw the name Anthrax I knew that was the band. I found the cd on my shelf -- The Persistence of Time -- and ripped it to my hard drive. The song I was looking for was "In My World". The chorus is: "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, Nothing touches me, I'm a walking razor blade. Face the face of fear, Face the face of death. Laugh when others tear, Hate when others laugh."
Bingo! That was it!
Wednesday was sunny and I did go for a morning walk. That's good. I did that Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday. I figure if I manage a 40 minute walk 4 days of the week I'm doing good; more than that is even better.
Tuesday night I was listening to my iPod and it occurred to me that I wanted to make a soundtrack for a certain type of song -- dark, menacing, the kind I might listen to while playing my current City of Heroes character, who is a katana-wielder and whose current look is kinda demonic looking. I was specifically listening to a song by Without Face, a goth metal band that leans towards the early style of goth metal, in which up to three types of voices are present (usually a beautiful female vocal and a growling male vocal, but in this case a "clean" male vocal as well). The male vocalist has a more death-metal style I guess -- I have a hard time pegging all the different styles and the names for them, but rather than a deep growl or bark he has that higher-pitched unearthly screech like you hear from Jari in Ensiferum and Wintersun. It can be a very eerie sound, and Without Face at times sounds both beautiful and dark, sinister, menacing.
And I've been listening to a few other goth metal bands and I decided on the spot to assemble a playlist of such music. It's funny how I used to make mix tapes, and then mix cds, but my first response today is to think of making a playlist for my iPod.
Anyway I called it my "Dark Stalker" mix and threw in several tunes from Heavenly's Dust to Dust (songs about a vampire), Not Ready To Die from Demon Hunter, The Violin of Eric Zahn from Without Face, Tales From Heaven or Hell from Elis (a song about the death of singer Sabine's father, and speculation on what, if anything, lay beyond death -- quite a haunting song and probably moreso if you consider that Sabine died before the cd was completed). Also "Across The Highlands" from Kamelot, "Madness Strikes At Night" from Stratovarius, "Not Your Fairytale" from Sonata Arctica, some Wintersun, and anything else I could think to add that was dark, menacing, or good for a dangerous sword-wielding hunter type to be listening to.
One thing I wrote down was "I Am A Razor". I had a song in mind but I couldn't remember the title or the band or even the lyrics, only that there was a line in there something like that somewhere. I knew I owned the cd, and that it was an 80's metal band, but I could not for the life of me remember anything more about it. Tuesday night I tried to look through my cds hoping to come across it (if I still had it) but I own so many cds and had no idea where to start, so I finally gave up.
But it bugged me. You know how it is when you're trying to remember something and only the vaguest details come to mind. It's just on the tip of your tongue, just out of your reach. It was going to drive me crazy until I could remember what it was.
On my walk Wednesday morning I listened to my new Dark Stalker mix mark I, and I again wondered about the song that I couldn't quite remember. I knew the lyrics were about being a dangerous bad-ass, and I remembered that I'd put it on a mix tape I'd made a long, long time ago of songs that I felt fit the character Gally (aka Alita) from the series Gunmm (aka Battle Angel Alita). It'd be nice to find that tape again, I'm sure I still have it but it's probably in a box in my closet, buried somewhere. But it did remind me that I'd placed some Hearthrob songs on that mix tape -- songs like "Hooligans" and "Bright Green Day" which have a dark, somewhat menacing undercurrent. Reminded me that Curve might be a nice addition to my mix too.
The band "Accept" kept going through my head. I knew it wasn't the band I was trying to think of, but the band I was searching for was a similar band -- a classic metal/thrash band from the eighties that I really wasn't a big fan of, but I owned one of their cds and I liked this particular song. I decided I could search the internet and eventually figure out the answer to my riddle.
Searches on "I am a razor" and the like turned up nothing, and I remembered enough to know that wasn't anything like the actual song title. Reading about Accept didn't really help, but I clicked from their Wiki entry to an entry on Heavy Metal, and down in the Thrash section it listed the four progenitors of Thrash as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax.
As soon as I saw the name Anthrax I knew that was the band. I found the cd on my shelf -- The Persistence of Time -- and ripped it to my hard drive. The song I was looking for was "In My World". The chorus is: "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, Nothing touches me, I'm a walking razor blade. Face the face of fear, Face the face of death. Laugh when others tear, Hate when others laugh."
Bingo! That was it!
