One the cover art for one of my Iron Maiden CDs (I believe it’s “Live After Death”), there is a tombstone enscribed with a quote from H.P. Lovecraft: “In stranger aeons even death may die.” When I noticed this a while back, I was immediately reminded of a song by another band that used that exact same line in a song. And while I can hear the way the line is sung and the music in the background with exceeding clarity, I can’t remember the song or the band. This has been driving me nuts for months. It doesn’t help that my brother will occasionally ask me if I’ve figured out where the quote is from just to irritate me.
I realize that I’m not giving you much to go on, and I apologize for not being more helpful. I don’t have the first idea how to communicate the melody in this forum, however. I’m just hoping that someone, somewhere will know what I’m talking about. I know I’m not hallucinating this song, even if I can’t remember more than a 2 or 3 second snippet of it.
I own MoP, and I can’t believe that I couldn’t figure that out myself. Of course, like Lockfist , I can’t stand the song and almost always skip over the track.
Glad I could help, Theological Ninja. I have actually been spinning this disk all week on my commute and decided not to skip the song today on account of this thread. I realized that the song has GOT to be a filler track, thrown on at the last minute. For one, I own a 4-disk Metallica “demo” album and this track is not on there, indicating that they didnt spend much time on it. In addition, its just plain boring the same few chords repeated over and over and over with some unemotional vox thrown in.
There are several metalheads floating around these boards so dont hestiate if you have another question.
Heh. My actual copy of MoP was lent to a friend before I moved to college and I still haven’t gotten it back, so the only way I know this song is by listening to S&M. If anybody can understand a word of what Hetfield’s mumble/growling about in half the songs on S&M, they’ve got better listening skills than I.
