Menoizikul; Midweek Musicalisms

There's burning going on in this video - but it has nothing to do with Burns' Suppers! This is a companion song to last week's 'concerto' piece by Nightwish. Here we have another Finnish group called Apocalyptica. I will tell you more about the band in a future post, but I would like to point out that, in terms of per capita, Finland ranks number one in the world for heavy metal bands; 42.6 bands per 100k population. The second is Iceland; 31.9/100k. The third is Sweden; 22.2/100k.

This heavy metal is heavy on strings. Cello strings, to be precise. Written in response to COVID and general environmental and political concerns, it's a hymn of angst. The guest singer is Joakim from Sabaton. I provide the lyrics for this one.

Our soul shivers in the cold and the darkness

Our bodies crumble from the weight laid upon us

We're just the prey on the hunting grounds

There's nothing we can do than to fight it

'Cause no man will ever stand to survive it

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down

But if we wanted the truth we wouldn't buy their lies

And follow the fools and their battle cries

For nothing we lose, and does it matter, matter if we live or die?

Matter if we live or die

If we live or die

We're out of reach from each other in the shadows

We lost count of the numbers in the death toll

These are faked and distorted times

Crying out for desperate measures

For a vengeance that will carry on forever

But the king will never pay for its price

So if we wanted the truth we wouldn't buy their lies

And follow the fools and their battle cries

For nothing we lose, and does it matter, matter if we live or die?

Matter if we live or die

Our soul shivers in the cold and the darkness

Our bodies crumble from the weight laid upon us

Nothing we can ever do than to fight it

No man will ever stand to survive it

But if we wanted the truth we wouldn't buy their lies

And follow the fools and their battle cries

For nothing we lose, and does it matter, matter if we live or die?

If we wanted the truth we wouldn't buy their lies

And follow the fools and their battle cries

For nothing we lose, and does it matter, matter if we live or die?

Matter if we live or

If we live or die

If we live or die