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Album |
Goths |
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Released |
May 19, 2017 |
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Length |
4:10 |
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Previous Track |
"Shelved" |
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For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands is the 11th song on the album Goths.
Lyrics[]
Set the spectrum for the greyscale, that's better Favor bold fonts in blackletter Star-crossed lovers and their tragic fates And that one Celtic Frost record Almost everybody hates Candlelight playing its tricks on the walls of the cave Hauling these songs to the night from the mouth of the grave Mark the map out for the treasure don't say where Find the octave in the shadow and stay there Sleep till sunset, stay up late Bleed bile all night Into an SM58 Candlelight playing its tricks on the walls of the cave Hauling these songs to the night from the mouth of the grave Finally head west, but it's a dead end Come home dead broke but still among friends Keep what's precious, drop what's not Without a second thought There's not so many of us But you don't know any of us Work like a gravedigger, let the blood spill Headline really big festivals Every other summer in Brazil Candlelight playing its tricks on the walls of the cave Hauling these songs to the night from the mouth of the grave
Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]
- "That song is more from the perspective of going to see metal bands in the U.S., because a lot of the U.S. market is often scene or trend driven, right? Because of arts funding issues and stuff like that, if something becomes less popular, then it becomes way less viable to do it. When thrash metal was big, German and Austrian thrash metal bands could come over and tour.
- But when that style of music fades a little bit, we don’t have…in Europe there are these giant festivals that get a lot of funding from the government, and private funding, too, so the styles of music don’t have to extinguish if the hotness diminishes a little bit.
- I was thinking about Moonspell and how they’re huge in some countries—I don’t know where they’d play in the U.S. Sometimes you’ll go see a club metal show and you can totally tell that the band is used playing for a much bigger audience…they’re too big for the room! Everyone wants to play the U.S., it’s a market you hope to crack as a band, and I was thinking about that. Everyone has their bigger markets." -- Observer interview
Things Referenced in this Song[]
- The Shure SM58 is a unidirectional dynamic vocal microphone for professional vocal use in sound reinforcement and studio recording.
Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]
Videos of this Song[]
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Track list: "Rain in Soho" • "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds" • "The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Unicorn Tolerance" • "Stench of the Unburied" • "Wear Black" • "Paid in Cocaine" • "Rage of Travers" • "Shelved" • "For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands" • "Abandoned Flesh" |