decayingdave

Because me and Spike are complete night-owls, we have alot of free time on our hands at night. Aswell as mandatory drinking and the occaisional game of *whispers* Warhammer we have alot of time left over to play music...

But, if you've heard the noise even a 15w Bass amp can crank out in the dead of night, the problem of noise pollution and such is an inescapable one. Seeing as playing our instruments unplugged yields little to no sound compared to levels I'm used to working with in the daytime, I find it hard to do anything that's entirely productive.

Realising this problem, I looked into finding a way to keep myself musically occupied in the witching hours, and I found that the one thing that I can do that is little louder than a pen scribbling down on paper is to write lyrics.

Now, I'm not claiming to be some lyrical genius, but I have had alot of experience with writing - If anyone here is familiar with my DA page (Unlikely at best!), I've got a whole series of short stories on sci-fi/horror/ish stuff. I even wrote a short graphic novel a few years back.

Though I've got experience with writing stories (and if you've been stalking me on the forums, you'll see I have a knack for lowering the tone in most musical arguments) It's still not entirely easy to decide upon exactly what to do... So that's when I thought to myself ''What Sort of Lyrical Direction Do I Want To Take?''. Well, I'd obviously want to convey how I feel about the world, and my stance towards common idealogy... No doubt that's a No-Brainer, seeing as it's Black Metal and all!

But still, I find that when people sing about themes and such that they've made up from the top of their head, when listening to the lyrics you find it all abit vague and confusing. I think a good place to start looking for decent examples of heavily themed songs was by looking at Iron Maiden's works, during the 80's. they sang about many age old figureheads of empires and all the people that founded western culture. Well, I think that ''Alexander The Great'' was a great song, but singing about a prosperous and inspirational character isn't clever enough for my liking, hence the reason why I'm turning that ideology on it's head with the first song I'm writing - ''Attilla''.

I'm not sure whether people will be familiar with Attilla The Hun, so I'll make this brief - He came from the eastern steppe and he and all his horse riding mates united all of the hunic clans and drove down onto the plains of europe, annihilating city after city, country after country and so forth... He wielded a rusted blade called ''The Scourge of God'' and his warriors specialised in cavalry archery, which made them un-defeatable when they fought against the slow moving heavy infantry armies of Europe. Though he was seemingly unstoppable, his story ends when he meets the pope and then sees some apparent error in his ways... Now, I know I've been vague in describing such an essetial piece of history, but doesn't the end of that story seem like utter BULLSHIT? I believe it was a coverup, seeing as christians have to take a high-ground wherever they can in history, I say that it was the pope and his dullards who fled in fear, and when the Hunnic clans ran out of food and inertia, they simply returned to the steppe.

Whether it was a cover-up or not, I cannot prove it either way - Seeing as history's a murky business that, for all we today know, could merely be a fiction. But still, I think that honouring a warrior for his heroic deeds and not for what he did to give me some apparently ''decent'' society (alexader the great anyone?) is far better than glorifying any character who apparently benefitted the west.

As for the song, I've got a fair few of the lyrics sorted and I know that I'd like to make it sound epic, much like the ''Battle Metal'' of europe... and seeing as Attilla was the knife to the throat of mono-theisism, I think that throwing in Black Metal elements would compliment the theme well.

There's only one problem... I bet it's been done before!