DEMONS & WIZARDS - The Gunslinger (Lyric Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 30 май 2019
  • DEMONS & WIZARDS - The Gunslinger (Lyric Video). Taken from the album "Touched By The Crimson King". The 2019 Re-issue of the album is out June 7th! Order now: DemonsWizards.lnk.to/TBTCKRem...
    DEMONS & WIZARDS are back!
    Founded in 1999 by Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) and Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth), DEMONS & WIZARDS released two highly acclaimed albums “Demons & Wizards” (2000) and “Touched by the Crimson King” (2005). The band is currently working on their highly anticipated third studio album, which is scheduled to be released in early 2020. Prior to that, DEMONS & WIZARDS will celebrate a massive return to stages worldwide!
    Video by www.srfilm.co.uk
    Furthermore, remastered & expanded editions of the previous two albums are out June 7, 2019 as luxurious Gatefold 2LP+LP-booklet editions, as limited edition digipak CDs and on all digital platforms. Order them now!
    “Demons & Wizards (Remasters 2019)”: demonswizards.lnk.to/DWRemast...
    “Touched By The Crimson King (Remasters 2019): demonswizards.lnk.to/TBTCKRem...
    DEMONS & WIZARDS on Tour 2019
    EUROPEAN DATES
    May 31 - Saarbrücken, Germany - Garage
    June 1 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
    June 2 - Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
    June 8 - Sölvesborg, Sweden - Sweden Rock Festival
    Jun 10 - Moscow, Russia - Izvestiya Hall
    June 20 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Copenhell Festival
    June 21 - Clisson, France - Hellfest
    June 22 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Metal Meeting
    June 28 - Dokkum, Netherlands - Dokk’em Open Air
    June 29 - Kiel, Germany - Kieler Woche
    June 30 - London, United Kingdom - Islington Assembly Hall
    July 4 - Barcelona, Spain - Barcelona Rock Fest
    July 6 - Chania, Greece - Chania Rock Festival
    July 25 - Tolmin, Slovenia - Metaldays
    August 1-3 - Wacken, Germany - Wacken Open Air
    AMERICAN & CANADIAN DATES
    August 17 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
    August 20 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO
    August 21 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore
    August 22 - Portland, OR - Roseland
    August 24 - Denver, CO - The Summit Theater
    August 26 - Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey Live
    August 28 - Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall
    August 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater
    August 31 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
    September 1 - Montreal, QC - Corona Theatre
    September 4 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
    September 5 - New York, NY - The Playstation Theater
    September 7 - Atlanta, GA - Progpower
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  • @redsabre69
    @redsabre69 2 года назад +15

    The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed...

  • @SGTvolcan
    @SGTvolcan 5 лет назад +26

    I'm relieved that it's actually bullets going across the screen and not the casings and all.

  • @brianhamilton5195
    @brianhamilton5195 5 лет назад +29

    Stephen King has to hear this song! It's about his Gunslinger Roland! Awesome!

  • @aibdrummer
    @aibdrummer 5 лет назад +76

    I always wondered what Stephen King's opinion was about this album back in the day.

    • @JzelMoniK
      @JzelMoniK 5 лет назад +26

      I think I heard he was really into heavy metal, so there is a huge probability he is liking it !

    • @BananaDucshortz
      @BananaDucshortz 5 лет назад +27

      Stephen King is a known metalhead. I'm sure he's heard this... at least I hope he has. The album as a whole isn't the best but there's some truly killer tracks on it regardless.

    • @jonmyers8681
      @jonmyers8681 5 лет назад +10

      I'm sure he loves it, especially considering the quality of the music. This whole album is badass, as are the books.

    • @aibdrummer
      @aibdrummer 5 лет назад +8

      @@jonmyers8681 I have to agree. The books are some of the greatest stories ever told, and this album is just as killer today as it was back in 2005.

    • @jamesnewcomb9834
      @jamesnewcomb9834 3 года назад +4

      @@JzelMoniK hes specifically named anthrax metallica and megadeth in his novels. specifically anthrax and megadeth in book 3 of the dark tower

  • @CarlosPanades
    @CarlosPanades 5 лет назад +20

    I love every single song of Demons & Wizards and I am so glad they came back to Spotify with a Remastered version of their albuns, I headbang to them since 1999.

  • @RaiKov
    @RaiKov 5 лет назад +126

    LONG DAYS AND PLEASANT NIGHTS TO YOU!
    MAY IT DO YA FINE, SAY THANKYA

    • @metaldave08096
      @metaldave08096 5 лет назад +9

      RaiKov and May you have twice as many my friend.

    • @WhiskeyBrewer
      @WhiskeyBrewer 5 лет назад +1

      Till me we again in the clearing at the end of the path

    • @jonmyers8681
      @jonmyers8681 5 лет назад +6

      Thankee-sai

    • @Stevenirons
      @Stevenirons 4 года назад +2

      Yar, and twice as many to yours.

    • @raymondkidwell7135
      @raymondkidwell7135 4 года назад

      @@jonmyers8681 finally someone that can speak English. Thank-ya is not a word in the other realm

  • @dannyg4383
    @dannyg4383 5 лет назад +8

    Demons and Wizards fled across RUclips, and I followed them...

  • @chetmcgovern9985
    @chetmcgovern9985 Год назад +3

    I want a painting of Hansi like that for my house.

  • @MichaelHolmgaard
    @MichaelHolmgaard 5 лет назад +147

    It's incredible how a mere side project ends up as some of the finest and most unique metal of all time. Hope to hear as much epic stuff on the new album

    • @AgentFour
      @AgentFour 5 лет назад +3

      What new album?

    • @ohnenamen22
      @ohnenamen22 5 лет назад +4

      @@AgentFour they will Release a New Album in 2020 i think.

    • @MichaelHolmgaard
      @MichaelHolmgaard 5 лет назад +3

      @@ohnenamen22 Yeah that's what I heard also

    • @IcedDog
      @IcedDog 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, sometimes it works out that way. Another that comes to mind is Cain's Offering, members of Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica, two great albums so far.

    • @MichaelHolmgaard
      @MichaelHolmgaard 5 лет назад +3

      @@IcedDog I've never heard about that project. But Cain's Offering is a super badass name! I'll check it out for sure

  • @nikolasstormblessed5240
    @nikolasstormblessed5240 5 лет назад +6

    Roland would be pleased !! You have not forgotten the faces of your fathers !

  • @Starring159
    @Starring159 5 лет назад +57

    all hail the crimson king

  • @thefeleapz4144
    @thefeleapz4144 4 года назад +8

    Thank you, Razorfist. Cool song :)

  • @Vektordeformacio
    @Vektordeformacio 4 года назад +10

    Razorfist showed it in his arizona vs guns video. I am pleased

    • @SirCandyMint
      @SirCandyMint 2 года назад +1

      FOR THE GLORY OF TANITH
      FOR THE MEMORY OF VERGHAST
      AND FOR THE THE FURY OF BELLADON

  • @anotherguttersnipe2
    @anotherguttersnipe2 4 года назад +5

    GOD, FUCKING SPEED!

  • @metamagic9142
    @metamagic9142 5 лет назад +31

    Can't wait for the Fiddler.

  • @FatalArrivalMetal
    @FatalArrivalMetal 5 лет назад +29

    Jon Schaffer - the "WRIST of DEATH". Awesome and tight riffing! Great song! \m/ \m/

    • @kylekatarn5964
      @kylekatarn5964 5 лет назад +3

      One of my favorite guitarists from a rhythm and composition standpoint. Tone, texture, crispness of delivery, just one of the absolute best.
      And yes, I'm biased because of my Avatar and Username lol! 😜

    • @Abc-tx4zr
      @Abc-tx4zr 3 года назад

      wouldnt the wrist of death be more appropriately belonging to hetfield? this is more like the whole arm of death, unless youve never played metal sorry not trying to sound like im insulting you

    • @carlosluismendez7392
      @carlosluismendez7392 2 года назад +3

      @@Abc-tx4zr Schaffer is a much better rhythm player than Hetfield.

    • @Abc-tx4zr
      @Abc-tx4zr 2 года назад

      @@carlosluismendez7392 creeping is more difficult than any tremolo picking Schaffer does barely any one ever plays it properly

  • @nuhvel
    @nuhvel 5 лет назад +7

    Jon Schaffer! My King and hero

  • @antheathetiefling8581
    @antheathetiefling8581 5 лет назад +12

    "Don't you understand? YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT!"
    - Percival Frederickstin Von mussel Kolwaski De Rolo III

  • @faeriemae
    @faeriemae 5 лет назад +16

    I am so hyped for the new album

  • @evilbliz
    @evilbliz 5 лет назад +8

    Melodic raw, energetic goodness. This is a game changer.

  • @madmaxboy898
    @madmaxboy898 5 лет назад +6

    What a voice !!!!!amazing album

  • @rootreinlavery2442
    @rootreinlavery2442 4 года назад +2

    All things serve the beam.

  • @jasonsandoff4119
    @jasonsandoff4119 5 лет назад +4

    I just saw this song play live at Graspop Metal Meeting. The band is awesome.

  • @metal4571
    @metal4571 5 лет назад +10

    Can’t wait to listen to Blood on my hands!

  • @mosselliadelt
    @mosselliadelt 5 лет назад +4

    Can't wait to see them in Toronto 🤘

    • @socatoas666
      @socatoas666 5 лет назад

      I wish they would come west dont want to go to to just to see them

  • @SiriusDraconis
    @SiriusDraconis 5 лет назад +10

    takes me back to 2006 when i bought this album. time portals anyone

  • @dabba_dabba
    @dabba_dabba 3 года назад +24

    Whenever somebody asks me what The Dark Tower is, a big smile crosses my face as I play them this song first before going into it

  • @TrueGloryMetalChannel
    @TrueGloryMetalChannel 5 лет назад +55

    Amazing ... It's hard to spoil a good album .. Hansi God

  • @mizhard
    @mizhard 5 лет назад +4

    "Done is done
    Yes, there will be no taking back
    Every journey must come to an end"
    Are you sure? Hell is repetition, so...

  • @MySerpentine
    @MySerpentine 4 года назад +1

    Death for his soul-kin and blood-kin, but never ever for him. Damn him.

  • @viking6217
    @viking6217 5 лет назад +10

    Wacken 2019 live🖤🤘🔊

  • @swamplord85
    @swamplord85 5 лет назад +5

    Fiddler, along with all of the rest of these remastered albums are available on Amazon right now (mp3 only). Go get ‘em!!

  • @RodrigoDigoJunho
    @RodrigoDigoJunho 5 лет назад +39

    Stop this mystery and say soon: Demons & Wizards will launch a CD WITH NEW SONGS ! It's going to be the best of the year ! 🤘😎🤘

    • @adamortiz5846
      @adamortiz5846 5 лет назад +7

      January 2020 is the tentative release date for the new album

    • @elektrik_exekutioner6822
      @elektrik_exekutioner6822 5 лет назад +6

      What mystery? The new album has been announced for a while now

    • @TheCrimsonIdol987
      @TheCrimsonIdol987 4 года назад +2

      Their new album is out. It rocks!

  • @RobertWilliams-gl5hd
    @RobertWilliams-gl5hd 2 года назад +1

    Say thank ya, for the beams are safe

  • @BEHEDETY
    @BEHEDETY 5 лет назад +2

    Yes!

  • @alexisthibodeau1300
    @alexisthibodeau1300 4 года назад +2

    Sound like Precious Jerusalem... but heavier... I LOVE IT!!! \m/

  • @FrogOf4Chan
    @FrogOf4Chan 5 лет назад +3

    Thankee sai!

  • @kebabimpaler
    @kebabimpaler 5 лет назад +2

    Ah this is amazing an old favourite

  • @somelucifrostguy9208
    @somelucifrostguy9208 5 лет назад +2

    Never expected to see this. I thank Gan.

  • @joshuahudson3975
    @joshuahudson3975 5 лет назад +2

    Awesome video, now if we can just get an awesome fiddler on the green =)

  • @KocaAyaklar
    @KocaAyaklar 5 лет назад +1

    Amazing. Wooow

  • @MongooseTacticool
    @MongooseTacticool Год назад +1

    "Long days and pleasant nights, sai"

  • @Opethianaut
    @Opethianaut 5 лет назад

    Great track! Desperately awaiting for the new album! All the best! Do right by it 💯🤘🤘

  • @robrich634
    @robrich634 5 лет назад +4

    Favorite song of the album

  • @kylelouw
    @kylelouw 3 года назад

    You should be paid for this. Thank you

  • @davidkoss93
    @davidkoss93 5 лет назад

    Amazing

  • @rodrigo3732
    @rodrigo3732 5 лет назад +13

    The last dark tower book i,ve read was the wolves of calla,i need to get to song of sussannah soon.

    • @hectortheking3619
      @hectortheking3619 5 лет назад

      Song of Sussannah is probably my least favorite out of the 7 books, but the Dark Tower is really quite good! Wolves of Calla is still personally my overall favorite, though. The Dark Tower has a pretty satisfying and appropriate ending.

    • @rodrigo3732
      @rodrigo3732 5 лет назад

      @@hectortheking3619 I enjoyed the wolves of the calla. But wizard and glass was an absolute delight. Almost perfect.

    • @hectortheking3619
      @hectortheking3619 5 лет назад +1

      @Rodrigo The problem with Wizard and Glass for me personally was that it felt like the past of Roland dragged on too long at a certain point. Sure, it was cool to know more about Roland, but I was absolutely hooked on the present. For me, it had a really strong start with Blaine, and a very strong end once Roland's story ends. I'm glad you got more enjoyment out of that one than I did, though!

    • @rodrigo3732
      @rodrigo3732 5 лет назад

      @@hectortheking3619 I loved it exactly because of Roland and Susan story. The more western vibe. It,s basically a flashback book. Like 90% of it is flashback,so i get why that would be a problem to some people,but i loved it.

    • @burningmisery
      @burningmisery 5 лет назад

      Read and reread The Dark Tower...because ka is a wheel.

  • @LucaBoncompagni
    @LucaBoncompagni 5 лет назад

    WOW!

  • @Henrikim
    @Henrikim 5 лет назад +11

    Holy Shit!
    Dark Tower + Demons & Wizards!!!

    • @chaos9chao
      @chaos9chao 5 лет назад +1

      Yep, was listening to the albums whilst reading the Dark Tower, definitely made the experience even more amazing

    • @socatoas666
      @socatoas666 5 лет назад

      Yes the whole album is amazing too touched by the crimson king

  • @pallomagc
    @pallomagc 5 лет назад

    Great! 🤘

  • @zabozix
    @zabozix 5 лет назад

    amazing

  • @OliveOilFan
    @OliveOilFan 4 года назад +5

    Razorfist brought me here

  • @AnabelB.
    @AnabelB. 5 лет назад +7

    I started to listen to this band just For Hansi Kursh but their music Is amazing! Fucking Love this song!

    • @socatoas666
      @socatoas666 5 лет назад +3

      Hansi and schaffer together is what got me hooked

    • @metalhead666118
      @metalhead666118 5 лет назад +4

      Anabel Benicio 2 great artists together, don’t get much better

    • @A_Ducky
      @A_Ducky 5 лет назад +1

      I started because of all 3 giants: Hansi, Stephen King, and Jon.
      Can't wait to get my paws on the 3rd album! Already know it's gonna be epic.. how could it not?
      My only (probably unfulfilled) wish would be to see D&W live this summer (disabled.. and 2 closest places where they will play are each 10hr drive one way 😢 ). I can only hope Wacken gig will be professionally recorded & uploaded on RUclips (or even sold as a DVD). 🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @dirkwillemdikland6180
    @dirkwillemdikland6180 5 лет назад +1

    only a few hours till i see them live dokkum open air 28th of june 2019 netherlands :) finally !!!!!!!

  • @minstrelstork7596
    @minstrelstork7596 2 года назад +2

    Songs to sing
    Song of Turtle
    And the Cry of the Bear
    Awake
    I can sense it
    Still I'm afraid
    Tower Road lies ahead
    Commala-come-ka
    Ka has come to me
    Grey old fellow
    If you finally failed the test
    What would it mean?
    We're getting near
    We're getting near
    Maid of sorrow
    Your time goes by
    Fade away
    Fade
    "Say thank, ya" for the beams are safe my friend
    Long days and pleasant nights for you
    Save me
    The final chord
    Don't let it end like this
    No, not like this
    Tell me
    When things were finally getting out of hand
    It's out of hand
    Entangled, I am captured
    You have put a spell on me
    The last in line
    The Gunslinger's line
    The sacrifice of innocence
    This work needs to be done
    Now blow the horn
    Hail to the gun!
    Done is done
    Yes, there will be no taking back
    Every journey must come to an end
    All hail to the Gunslinger
    Praise to the Dinh and the King
    Beyond our reach, out of control
    Save me
    To touch the rose it will not bring release
    No taking back
    Come save me
    There are other worlds
    But surely none like this
    The world has changed
    Done is done
    Yes, there will be no taking back
    The word is the law
    Law is Ka
    The end of the road lies
    Straight ahead it lies
    I'm feeling pure
    The end of the road lies
    The sacrifice of innocence
    The hailing of the gun
    My way was death and madness
    Now let the tower come
    Done is done
    Yes, there will be no taking back
    And every journey must come to an end
    All hail to the Gunslinger
    Praise to the Dinh and the King
    Beyond our reach, out of control

  • @WhiskeyBrewer
    @WhiskeyBrewer 5 лет назад +3

    Its getting re-released? Awesome

  • @morgan1211
    @morgan1211 4 года назад +3

    god fucking speed

  • @DieHumanless
    @DieHumanless 4 года назад +1

    This song would be an A+ but the very end stumbles and fizzles.

  • @sketchv
    @sketchv 5 лет назад +1

    Well done!

  • @jessefulton8841
    @jessefulton8841 5 лет назад +4

    I can see this as a song for a dark tower tv show

    • @kylekatarn5964
      @kylekatarn5964 5 лет назад +3

      That would be damned cool, thow in Terror Train and the Title Track to this album while you're at it too.

  • @hernanp3036
    @hernanp3036 2 года назад

    extraordinaria

  • @epicmage82
    @epicmage82 5 лет назад +1

    Fucking yes!!!!!!

  • @kadir7286
    @kadir7286 5 лет назад +6

    I thought it was Iced Earth when I first listened.

    • @krisdaschwab912
      @krisdaschwab912 5 лет назад +9

      You do know that is partially true, right?

    • @kadir7286
      @kadir7286 5 лет назад +1

      @@krisdaschwab912 Oh really?

    • @kadir7286
      @kadir7286 5 лет назад

      I didn't know that.

    • @tominatorxx
      @tominatorxx 5 лет назад +11

      @@kadir7286 Demons & Wizards is a side project of the rythm guitarist/founder of Iced Earth (Jon Schaffer) and the singer of Blind Guardian (Hansi Kürsch). They have been good friends for many years and wanted to make an album together which resulted in the self titled album in 2000. And in 2005 they brought out Touched By The Crimson King (this song is part of that album).
      So if the riffs reminded you of an Iced Earth album, that's not so strange. ;)

  • @LadyTheStrange
    @LadyTheStrange 5 лет назад +2

    awesome!!!but my favourite is "Crimson King", please make a lyrics or music video for this amazing song!

  • @projectavalongame
    @projectavalongame 5 лет назад

    the remaster sounds fuckin tight! so often do remasters miss the mark but this is amazing

  • @Veronica-xt3ol
    @Veronica-xt3ol 5 лет назад +1

    ♡♡♡

  • @man78249
    @man78249 5 лет назад +1

    Amazing, very good!Thx!

  • @werewolf2206
    @werewolf2206 5 лет назад +2

    🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @christinejauregui5345
    @christinejauregui5345 5 лет назад +2

    😍

  • @AwesomeMetalBands
    @AwesomeMetalBands 5 лет назад +3

    A*W*E*S*O*M*E

  • @j.b.7094
    @j.b.7094 5 лет назад +2

    Cool. See you in Wacken. You're headliner.

  • @Voc_spooksauce
    @Voc_spooksauce 5 лет назад +2

    Say "thank" for the *beans* are safe my friend.

  • @gildlg8684
    @gildlg8684 3 года назад

    BOBBY JARZOMBEK KILLS IT ON THE DRUMS.

  • @vlwflw1635
    @vlwflw1635 5 лет назад +39

    Fiddler on the green !?

  • @Itzaraya1
    @Itzaraya1 5 лет назад +1

    Oy is best boy

  • @Themadness42
    @Themadness42 4 года назад +1

    I knew The Dark Tower wasn't great when it didn't have Demons and Wizards in it

    • @metaldave08096
      @metaldave08096 2 года назад

      The Dark Tower is a masterpiece.

    • @ometta7
      @ometta7 Год назад

      Mia, Mordred Deschain, The Oracle in the Cyclopean Mountains, The Speaking Demon, The Door Demon, Dandelo, Walter O'Dim and The Crimson King.

    • @Themadness42
      @Themadness42 Год назад +1

      @@metaldave08096 I meant the movie

    • @metaldave08096
      @metaldave08096 Год назад +2

      @@Themadness42 oh yeah the movie was absolute trash!!

  • @undisputedattitude2902
    @undisputedattitude2902 5 лет назад

    Oh fucking gosh, this sounds amazing 🤘🤘🤘

  • @Abc-tx4zr
    @Abc-tx4zr 3 года назад +1

    I LIKE TURTLES

  • @KAOTSOUKI
    @KAOTSOUKI 5 лет назад

    \m/ namaste. goosebumps \m/

  • @jonmyers8681
    @jonmyers8681 5 лет назад +1

    Love the animated Crimson King! Hmmm... I wonder where Steve got that name from? It couldn't be King Crimson by any chance?

    • @metaldave08096
      @metaldave08096 2 года назад +3

      That’s exactly where he got it from…

  • @duriandthepri
    @duriandthepri 5 лет назад +12

    My first thought was, he lied in every word,
    that hoary cripple, with the malicious eye
    askance to watch the working of his lie
    on mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
    suprpression of the glee, that pursed and scored
    its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.
    what else should he be set for, with his staff?
    what, save to waylay with his lies, ensnare
    all travelers who might find him posted there,
    and ask the road? i guessed what skull-like laugh
    would break, what crutch 'gin write my epitaph
    for pastime in the dusty thoroughfare,
    if at his counsel i should turn aside
    into that ominous tract which, all agree,
    hides the dark tower. yet acquiesingly
    i did turn as he pointed: neither pride
    nor hope rekindling at the end described,
    so much as gladness that some end might be.
    for, what with my whole world-wide wandering,
    what with my search drawn out through years, my hope
    dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
    with that obstreperous joy success would bring,-
    i hardly tried now to rebuke the spring
    my heart made, finding failure in its scope.
    as when a sick man very near to death
    seems dead indeed, and feels begin and end
    the tears and takes the farewell of each friend,
    and hears one bid the other go, draw breath
    freelier outside, ("since all is o'er," he saith,
    "and the blow fallen no grieving can amend";)
    while some discuss if near the other graves
    be room enough for this, and when a day
    suits best for carrying the corpse away,
    with care about the banners, scarves and staves:
    and still the man hears all, and only craves
    he may not shame such tender love and stay.
    thus, i had so long suffered in this quest,
    heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ
    so many times among "the band"- to wit,
    the knights who to the dark tower's search addressed
    their steps- that just to fail as they, seemed best,
    and all the doubt was now- should i be fit?
    so, quiet as despair, i turned from him,
    that hateful cripple, out of his highway
    into the path he pointed. all the day
    had been a dreary one at best, and dim
    was settling to its close, yet shot one grim
    red leer to see the plain catch its estray.
    for mark! no sooner was i fairly found
    pledged to the plain, after a pace or two,
    than, pausing to throw backward a last view
    o'er the safe road, 'twas gone; gray plain all round:
    nothing but plain to the horizon's bound.
    i might go on; naught else remained to do.
    so, on i went. i think i never saw
    such starved ignoble nature; nothing throve:
    for flowers- as well expect a cedar grove!
    but cockle, spurge, according to their law
    might propagate their kind, with none to awe,
    you'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
    no! penury, inertness and grimace,
    in some strange sort, were the land's portion. "see
    or shut your eyes," said nature peevishly,
    "it nothing skills: i cannot help my case:
    'tis the last judgment's fire must cure this place,
    calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."
    if there pushed any ragged thistle-stalk
    above its mates, the head was chopped; the bents
    were jealous else. what made those holes and rents
    in the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk
    all hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk
    pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
    as for the grass, it grew as scant as hair
    in leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud
    which underneath looked kneaded up with blood.
    one stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,
    stood stupefied, however he came there:
    thrust out past service from the devil's stud!
    alive? he might be dead for aught i know,
    with that red gaunt and collapsed neck a-strain,
    and shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
    seldom went such grotesqueness with such woe;
    i never saw a brute i hated so;
    he must be wicked to deserve such pain.
    i shut my eyes and turned them on my heart.
    as a man calls for wine before he fights,
    i asked one draught of earlier, happier sights,
    ere fitly i could hope to play my part.
    think first, fight afterwards- the soldier's art:
    one taste of the old time sets all to rights.
    not it! i fancied cuthbert's reddening face
    beneath its garniture of curly gold,
    dear fellow, till i almost felt him fold
    an arm in mine to fix me to the place,
    that way he used. alas, one night's disgrace!
    out went my heart's new fire and left it cold.
    giles then, the soul of honor- there he stands
    frank as ten years ago when knighted first.
    what honest man should dare (he said) he durst.
    good - but the scene shifts - faugh! what hangman-hands
    pin to his breast a parchment? his own hands
    read it. poor traitor, spit upon and curst!
    better this present than a past like that;
    back to my darkening path again!
    no sound, no sight as far as eye could strain.
    will the night send a howlet or a bat?
    i asked: when something on the dismal flat
    came to arrest my thoughts and change their train.
    a sudden little river crossed my path
    as unexpexted as a serpent comes.
    no sluggish tide congenial to the glooms;
    this, as it frothed by, might have been a bath
    for the fiend's glowing hoof- to see the wrath
    of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
    so petty yet so spiteful! all along,
    low scrubby alders kneeled down over it;
    drenched willows flung themselves headlong in a fit
    of mute despair, a suicidal throng:
    the river which had done them all wrong,
    whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit.
    which, while i forded,- good saints, how i feared
    to set my foot upon a dead man's cheek,
    each step, or feel the spear i thrust to seek
    for hollows, tangled in his hair or beard!
    - it may have been a water rat i speared,
    but, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.
    glad was i when i reached the other bank.
    now for a better country. vain presage!
    who were the strugglers, what war did they wage,
    whose savage trample thus could pad the dank
    soil to a plash? toads in a poisoned tank,
    or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage-
    the fight must so have seemed in that fell cirque.
    what penned them there, with all the plain to choose?
    no footprint leading to that horrid mews,
    none out of it. mad brewage set to work
    their brains, no doubt, like galley-slaves the turk
    pits for his pastime, christians against jews.
    and more than that- a furlong on- why, there!
    what bad use was that engine for, that wheel,
    or brake, not wheel- that harrow fit to reel
    men's bodies out like silk? with all the air
    of tophet's tool, on earth left unaware,
    or brought to sharpen its rusty teeth of steel.
    then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood,
    next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth
    desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth,
    makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood
    changes and off he goes!) within a rood-
    bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
    now blotches rankling, colored gay and grim,
    now patches where some leanness of the soil's
    broke into moss or substance like boils;
    then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him
    like a disturbed mouth that splits its rim
    gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
    and just as far as ever from the end!
    naught in the distance but the evening, naught
    to point my footstep further! at the thought,
    a great black bird, apollyon's bosom-friend,
    sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned
    that brushed my cap- perchance the guide i sought.
    for, looking up, aware i somehow grew,
    'spite of the dusk, the plain had given place
    all round to mountains- with such name to grace
    mere ugly heights and heaps now stolen in view.
    how thus they had surprised me,- solve it, you!
    how to get from them was no clearer case.
    yet half i seemed to recognize some trick
    of mischief happened to me, god knows when-
    in a bad dream perhaps. here ended, then,
    progress this way. when, in the very nick
    of giving up, one more time, came a click
    as when a trap shuts- you're inside the den!
    burningly it came on me all at once,
    this was the place! those two hills on the right,
    crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn in fight;
    while to the left, a tall scalped mountain... dunce,
    dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce,
    after a life spent training for the sight!
    what in the midst lay but the tower itself?
    the round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart,
    built of brown stone, without a counterpart
    in the whole world. the tempest's mocking elf
    points to the shipman thus the unseen self
    he strikes on, only when the timbers start.
    not see? because of night perhaps?- why, day
    came back again for that! before it left,
    the dying sunset kindled through a cleft:
    the hills, like giants at a hunting, lay,
    chin upon hand, to see the game at bay,-
    "now stab and end the creature- to the heft!"
    not hear? when noise was everywhere! it tolled
    increasing like a bell. names in my ears
    of all the lost adventurers my peers,-
    how such a one was strong, and such was bold,
    and such was fortunate, yet each of old
    lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
    there they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met
    to view the last of me, a living frame
    for one more picture! in a sheet of flame
    i saw them and i knew them all. and yet
    dauntless the slug-horn to my lips set,
    and blew. "childe roland to the dark tower came."

    • @julespulp214
      @julespulp214 5 лет назад +3

      My favorite part
      i shut my eyes and turned them on my heart.
      as a man calls for wine before he fights,
      i asked one draught of earlier, happier sights,
      ere fitly i could hope to play my part.
      think first, fight afterwards- the soldier's art:
      one taste of the old time sets all to rights.

  • @raymondkidwell7135
    @raymondkidwell7135 4 года назад +4

    Anybody have a popkin?

    • @ometta7
      @ometta7 2 года назад +1

      Tooter fish OK?

  • @WolfkinNorthclaw
    @WolfkinNorthclaw Год назад

    Song for Rocket Raccoon here, with how much he loves guns.

  • @lvz3655
    @lvz3655 5 лет назад +1

    4:23 Terror train...atras

  • @jasonkane6368
    @jasonkane6368 Год назад

    I wonder if Stephen king heard this song

  • @florentabbe9721
    @florentabbe9721 5 лет назад +1

    Shit I can't go to hellfest this year ... please other dates in France !!

  • @rivlesbeware
    @rivlesbeware 4 года назад

    At 1:44 isn't that the demon guy from the blind guardian video war feeds war?

  • @archer1949
    @archer1949 3 года назад

    Go then, there are other worlds than this.

  • @MysticLycium
    @MysticLycium 4 года назад

    Hey, this is the same company that makes animated / lyric videos for Opeth. :3

  • @chrisandrews6185
    @chrisandrews6185 Год назад +11

    I literally bawled like a baby when Eddie died. Broke my freaking heart.

  • @mikeprado30
    @mikeprado30 Год назад

    3:41 Tell me if there's any other guitar riff as strong as this one nowadays!

  • @ILLRICARDO
    @ILLRICARDO 5 лет назад +5

    thinking about playing this on the guitar using only downstrokes, makes my hand hurt.....

  • @filthylittlecreature8164
    @filthylittlecreature8164 4 года назад

    These auto-generated lyrics really hit.

  • @evertoncampos6556
    @evertoncampos6556 5 лет назад

    Vivement le 21 juin! See you at Hellfest!!!

  • @KAOTSOUKI
    @KAOTSOUKI 5 лет назад +1

    Riff to fix your brain. \m/

  • @Werihaser
    @Werihaser 5 лет назад

    Illuminati!

  • @raymondkidwell7135
    @raymondkidwell7135 4 года назад +2

    "Say thank ya" what does that mean? Do you mean Thankee Sai?

    • @ometta7
      @ometta7 2 года назад +3

      I believe they're different dialects. Like, "say thankya" is the low speech and "thankee sai" is the high speech.

  • @SyrianAtheist
    @SyrianAtheist 5 лет назад

    When is Fiddler coming??????????????

  • @chaos9chao
    @chaos9chao 5 лет назад +1

    Soo, who is the grey old fellow supposed to be? Roland?

  • @todds5956
    @todds5956 4 года назад

    Good stuff. No Jorn and Allen but ok