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Trollstormur:
--- Quote from: Signum_Tenebrae ---Mother Of Abominations is just silly. Being a Lovecraft FANATIC myself (I have a Lovecraftian tattoo, and it's only the first one of entire sleeves when I get the money) it saddens me to see his work butchered by lyrics such as..
Mother of abomoinations
Our Lady Overkill
Smothering the congregationg
Grips the cosmic wheel
A lover of acceleration
No mercy nor breaks applied
I see dead stars collide
In Her cold unflinching powerslide
Comparing ancient slumbering Gods from beyond the stars to. . to. . cars? And since when is Cthulhu a female? It must be that I-want-to-fuck-everything syndrome Dani has.
--- End quote ---
Are you sure he's not talking about Shub-Niggurath, the 'Black goat of the woods with a thousand young'?
Signum_Tenebrae:
--- Quote from: Trollstormur ---
--- Quote from: Signum_Tenebrae ---Mother Of Abominations is just silly. Being a Lovecraft FANATIC myself (I have a Lovecraftian tattoo, and it's only the first one of entire sleeves when I get the money) it saddens me to see his work butchered by lyrics such as..
Mother of abomoinations
Our Lady Overkill
Smothering the congregationg
Grips the cosmic wheel
A lover of acceleration
No mercy nor breaks applied
I see dead stars collide
In Her cold unflinching powerslide
Comparing ancient slumbering Gods from beyond the stars to. . to. . cars? And since when is Cthulhu a female? It must be that I-want-to-fuck-everything syndrome Dani has.
--- End quote ---
Are you sure he's not talking about Shub-Niggurath, the 'Black goat of the woods with a thousand young'?
--- End quote ---
Pretty sure. In the beginning of the song there is a chant. . "Iä, Iä, Cthulhu Fhtagn!"
Futher evidence is that there is a new COF shirt (I haven't seen the shirt, but a favorite artist of mine designed the artwork which I've seen) which is the Mother of Abominations shirt. On the front is a big picture of Cthulhu rising out of the water.
Another passage from the song reads..
Instrumental in stripping gods
To neuter and lash Her slaves
Thereafter
Her laughter
Shalt sound aloft the crashing waves
Crashing waves? A reference to Cthulhu sleeping beneath the sea in R'lyeh.
So, all in all, no I don't think it is Shub-Niggurath he is talking about.
KharBevNor:
Live presence wasn't as good as it could have been. The venue is crap anyway both atmospherically and acoustically so a bit of leeway there. No mallcore kids though: we never got them over here to anywhere near the American extent anyway, and they're dying out now as they trend-hop to emo. Besides, it was an over-16's show.
Dani has been making EVERYTHING female in his lyrics for ages anyway, so why not Cthulhu? CoF aren't exactly a reverent band. Their complete lack of really taking themselves seriously to any real extent is something often overlooked (by both detractors and the dumber or more humorless fans), but something I've always enjoyed about them.
What's wrong with those lyrics btw? The extended metaphor reminds me of Martin Walkyier's songwriting, and that can never, ever, ever be a bad thing.
Signum_Tenebrae:
The lyrics just strike me as lame and half-assed compared to some of their older work. Here's an example of some lyrics from the new album.
Click your heels
Three times six
The stars are fixed
May I climb and get you one?
The palace at Versailles never held your tongue
Nor did heaven ever weather
The crosses that you came upon
Dirty little soul frigger
Dirty little soul frigger
Dirty little soul frigger
Dirty little soul frigger
Dirty little soul frigger
Dirty little soul frigger
Cunt (Cunt)
Gilded cunt
Oh, you gilded cunt
Cunt
Cunt
Versus some older material:
A lurid moon looms; phosphorent, evil
Yesod vested in despotic upheaval
Silvering wolves that scarlet forest snow
Forgotten ones ebter as above, so below
The trees groan aghast as ghostly pallored clouds are rent
When the drunken earth heaves, sweep aside seas to ascend
From Sheol's dank haunted wilderness
Thy seal upon Nuit's starry vault to incense the sleepers, dead
Or perhaps..
Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night
Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light
A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas
Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed
To the ravenous wolves that the elements led
From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease
Through the maw of the woods, a black carriage was drawn
Flanked by barbed lightning that hissed of the storm
(Gilded in crests of Carpathian breed)
Bringing slaves to the sodomite for the new-born
On that eve when the Countess' own came deformed
A tragedy crept to the name Bathory
I just think his lyrics have been going downhill for a while.
KharBevNor:
Yes, the new album is somewhat poor/dumbed down (though flashes still remain, some of the lyrics to Nymphetamine are quite nice) I just thought that particular passage wasn't that bad, really. I think Dani may just of run out of long words to use and obscure horror films to reference.
But fuck yes, Gilded Cunt is a stupid song. Makes a good chant-along live, but it's a stupid song.
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