These extremely metal song titles: which is the most metal?

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I was hoping, by not posting this in ILM, that people would focus more on how amazing the titles were than the songs themselves. I think I'd actually be disappointed if I were to hear the songs. I cannot imagine that the music of mere mortals could possibly hold the amount of sheer metal dripping from those titles.

'fucking wizard' as a title sounds more like guys at an auto shop complaining about a high maintenance customer. 'this fucking wizard, he comes in asking for blah blah blah'
'invalid prodigy' sounds like you're at an ATM, but instead of entering a PIN, you have to present one of a handful of savants that follow you around.

not particularly metal, is what i mean.

Fucking Wizard ftw

irl lols at 'Fucking Wizard', so voted for that

really liking 'Quiet These Paintings Are' too but it borders on Gothic

"darken thy flesh" sounds like marinating drumsticks for fried chicken prep.
also "skin coat" and "undigested remains"

vegan metal chef would be displeased.

Like...I cannot express how deeply I love all of these. They are both unfathomably dumb and somehow spectacularly brilliant. I honestly don't know which one I'll pick. Probably the hardest ILX poll ever.

Just want to throw a quick shout-out to the verbal gymnastics of "Antithesis Of Light".

Too Close Enough To Touch

stereophonics next album?

some of these would make for good 'draw something' phrases

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even without their musical referents, these touch on different vibes in the whole "metal" aesthetic. "Those Beneath the Moaning Castle" is in the Eddison/Tolkien fantasy-oriented metal stream, which meets black metal at a lot of points: evocative, fodder for daydreaming. "Undigested Remains," that's a goregrind vibe, slasher-movie gross-you-out stuff. "In Ashen Tears (Thus I Cry)" feels like doom-goth stuff to me, the stuff that sells crazy numbers in Europe and whose vibe I just can't really ever lock into. "Invalid Prodigy" feels like a tech-death title, it's the one I'm most curious about so I checked it - slower death metal actually, quite good. But yeah - this feels like comparing the titles of science fiction books to horror books to spy novels or something, it's a pretty wide range of moods

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This gives me an idea for a new SN.

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Decaying in Liquid Putrefaction

I like To Stryde Monoceros' Dark Pendulum

To Stryde Monoceros' Dark Pendulum sounds more like an of Montreal song title to me

too much doomy gloomy life-pain bullshit here. in deathless tombs of woe we moulder everlasting. bleah.

otoh, "german dental work", "crawling through broken children" and "fucking wizard" are awesome, even if the latter does sound like a ron weasley swear. "into the unfathomed tower" and "those beneath the moaning castle" have a nice, retro-nerdy AD&D vibe. "teeth of lions rule the divine" and "a shaving of the horn that speared you" are quite poetic (unsurprisingly sourced from earth and sunn). also like "pile of doubt", "tibetan quaaludes", and "too close enough to touch", though though they don't particularly metal.

had to go with "fucking wizard"

"...though they don't sound particularly metal."

this fucking wizard

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I like To Stryde Monoceros' Dark Pendulum

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, June 5, 2012 10:54 PM (Yesterday)

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