❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 19: A song with a two word title

I saw Visions Of Atlantis one week ago today, it felt fitting to share a song from them today. This might sound strange to many but I find metal music soothing in a way. The agressive guitar riffs, the pounding drum beats, the growls, the shrieks, something about it all just makes everything melt away, like my anger, my anxiety, is pulled into the music and away from me.

Not many of my friends are into metal so I go to these shows alone and I absolutely love it. I don’t have to worry about someone else’s timeline, or their enjoyment while at the venue; I do this just for me.

This song speaks about depression (the melancholy angel), a topic I'm much too intimately familiar with. But it also talks about recognizing it, and trying to break out of it. I've had to let go of many things in order to become the person I was meant to be, and I am the better for it. Metal takes on many topics, it isn't always what people perceive it to be.

"There you are, my melancholy angel
Taking me from grace to sorrows
Lust has gone and future is a stranger
Buried are all doves and swallows
I can see through the shadows of your mind
Poisoned tongue, magnetic monster
I will kill my melancholy angel
Waking from my darkest nights"


Visions Of Atlantis - Melancholy Angel

 
I learnt of this song via another thread here yesterday. It's a romantic little sonnet about the single life in the Southern US and courting the southern belles therein.

Mud Cricket

Hmm, I live in the "Southern US" and this song isn't available to me... every time I click on it I turn my phone off my phone shuts off.🤔
 
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