Heavy Metal Enlightenment

[Pm Me Famous Quotes]

I've always viewed metal as a genre that personally raises my consciousness. Often the heavy, high energy instrumentals are a catalyst for emotionally charged and provocative lyrics that I find super inspiring. Here are some of my faves, I would love to hear any recommendations that y'all have!

 

Silvera - Gojira

Time to open your eyes to this genocide
When you clear your mind you see it all
You're receiving the gold of a better life
When you change yourself, you change the world

 

Mastodon - Tread lightly 

Open your eyes
Take a deep breath and return to life
Wake up and fight
Fight for the love and the burning light

 

Oroborus - Silvera

On the peaks of radiant mountains
This truth is growing before me
My attention fixed on the silence
Rediscover life while I'm breathing

 

A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath

Just remember love is life
And hate is living death
Treat your life for what its worth
And live for every breath
Looking back I've lived and learned
But now I'm wondering
Here I wait and only guess
What this next life will bring

Quantum Flux - Northlane

 

Can't you see the joy of life is right before your eyes?
Infinite bliss, infinite love
Take a chance, close your eyes and just dream
It sets me free
Why can't you see the joy of life is right before your eyes?
Infinite bliss, infinite love
Take a chance, close your eyes and just dream

We walk around blinded like children in the dark
So cold and so empty, how did this even start
It's time to remember what it's like to feel alive

 

Reflection - Tool

So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason

 

Majesety - Ghost
Old One,
Master
All beauty lies within you

Come What May - Iced Earth

Can't you see what's plain as day
It's always been there inside of you
One saving grace that's hard to face
Embracing the truth will change your fate
It's up to you and the path you choose
To be led to the slaughter or lead the way
The quest for light, a worthwhile fight
Will you have what it takes?
Come what may

If you'd just look
Look inside yourselves
You'll find the answers to your pain
The hardest road
The hardest road to enlightenment
Presents a constant test
Of your resolve
Time for you
Time for you is running out
The human race must evolve
Must evolve

Apocryphon - The Sword

Darkness and light entwine
Everything is all the time
All around you points align
Everything is all the time

You want to live for eternity
To see behind the veil
Everything comes around again
The serpent eats its tail

Empty Temples- The Sword

We must give up the old ways
Though they've served us well
The rituals havelost meaning
What were temples are shells
But there is a new path
That always has been
As we set foot upon it
Let us fear not the end
Let go of all that binds you
Your kind will always find you
An endless series of meaningless tasks
Each one distracting us all from the last
Look all around at the things you've been given
What do you see?
Beauty and splendor, destruction and ruin
All in your memory

The Motherload - Mastodon

If you want you can will it
You can have it
I can put it right there in your hands

Roots Remain - Mastodon

The end is not the end you see
It's just the recognition of a memory

Explosia - Gojira

Jealousy will crush you to the bones
Unless you open up and let it go
I've only seen too much of it
I'm bursting open while you set the tone

You ignored this fury too long, I explode
Bring back to life this anger, let it grow
Put aside mind traps and false beliefs
These heavyweights created pull you down

[Guru Fat Bastard]

 

[ivankiss]

Great stuff! How about some 'shuggah tho?

Drowned in this screaming silence
Embraced by shadows, they tear me
The wormholes free my eyes

The blood boils - it knows
My thoughts burn as minds liquefy, vaporize
Reality scorched by this fixed state

All beginnings slain by ends
I seep down into the black to breathe

Drifting to merge with the past
My tongue licks the residue of the future

Bitter taste, the wombs of claws call me
Filth rips them open. The stillborn start to move
Lidless eyes twitching beneath a sheet of rot
They reach out, they want to kiss - It matters not

In dreams it speaks to me of the truth that means
Reality

 

[_Archangel_]

I feel like I needed a thread like this! Maybe a answer to anyone that think that metal is just stage red barking. 

This high is all that's left of us
A hallucinogenic conservation that without, I am captious
There is complacency in knowledge and desire in wisdom
They will be found entwined behind the final curtain
Speak over me body, mind and soul
Lose all self-control
At once, I'm sinking into desolation, overwhelmed by fascination
This common case I'm bound to face amidst this self-induced cerebral recreation.
Speak over me body, mind and soul
Bleed into the deep
Let go, we must lose all self-control
Let go of letting go and hold on to something whole
The butchering of a beast or birth to enduring peace
Infinite darkness or incessant ease
Speak over me body, mind and soul

Lose all self-control
Ultraviolet eyes
Speak over me body, mind and soul
Bleed into the deep
Let go, we must lose all self-control
Let go of letting go, and hold on to something whole
We are not what we seem. A living fiction and hidden theme
Allow the ephemeral ecstasy to course through every vein
This enlightenment is temporary and may never come again
Ultraviolet eyes
We are not what we seem
A living fiction and hidden theme
Violet hues are comforting, tracing through my mind, consoling me