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A late-night walk through a cemetery can be like sex with Courtney Love … dark, creepy and terrifying. But unlike intercourse with said person, cemeteries can also be beautiful and serene. You know, as long as you’re not one of the tenants.
According to Feng Shui, if you live too close to a cemetery the disembodied souls of the dead can wander out of their graves and haunt nearby houses. No problem. As long as they don’t knock over my bamboo laughing Buddha fountain or screw up any nonphysical forces and energies. Also, please don’t knock over my “Bark at the Moon” lunchbox.
It wasn’t easy but I worked the graveyard shift to compile the ultimate 10 songs about our final resting place:
10
“Tripping Over Tombstones”
DevilDriver
Album: Winter Kills
Tombstone writings: “In my heart I’m at war, tripping over these tombstones…”
I once had sex in a graveyard. It was great! Until all the mourners started complaining.
9
“I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery”
Woods of Ypres
Album: Woods IV: The Green Album
Tombstone writings: “By summer I was gone, my remains stolen from the ground. My body never recovered and I was never found…”
If you could actually write your own obituary, it would sound something like this. An 8-minute beautifully depressing masterpiece. RIP David Gold.
8
“The Cemetery Angels”
Crowbar
Album: Severed the Wicked Hand
Tombstone writings: “You gave me wings and took the sky away, clawing and fighting to live another day…”
Kirk Windstein, The Beard of Doom, The Riff Lord, whatever he shall be called, has created a first rate cemetery slab of sludge with this angelic anthem.
7
“House By the Cemetery”
Wednesday 13
Album: Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying and the Dead
Tombstone writings: “I hear the devil and he’s calling me, in the house by the cemetery…”
Pretty decent chance that any band with an entire album about the dead and the motto “Life’s a Grave, Dig It” is going to chart on this cemetery list.
6
“At the Graves”
King Diamond
Album: Conspiracy
Tombstone writings: “In your mind you’ll hear them sing, every night at the graves…”
I don’t mind the sound of ghouls, spirits or ghosts singing nightly at the local cemetery. As long as it isn’t Maroon 5.
Album: Crucible
Tombstone writings: “Golgotha rise up from your tomb, devil’s had a taste of holy water…”
Golgotha is an ancient place of burial and the hill in Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. So, makes perfect sense that the Metal God wrote a song about it.
Album: Brain Drain
Tombstone writings: “I don’t wanna be buried in a Pet Sematary, I don’t want to live my life again…”
I wouldn’t want to be buried in a pet cemetery either. Just take me out in the backyard and bury me in a hole right next to the cat. If it’s good enough for old Fluffy, it’s good enough for me.
3
“Into the Crypts of Rays”
Celtic Frost
Album: Morbid Tales
Tombstone writings: “Gilles de Rais the perverted son, the holy man hanged by nobility, into the crypt of rays…”
A play on the name Gilles de Rais, who was convicted as a serial killer of children and hung in France. The one person even Jared Fogle can look down on.
Album: The Sound of White Noise
Tombstone writings: “I find love in what I steal, you should’ve let me rest in Potter’s Field…”
I find love in what I steal too. Hypothetically. That’s if I actually do steal. Allegedly. But really, who actually pays for Splenda these days?
Album: Cowboys From Hell
Tombstone writings: “Believe the word, I will unlock my door and pass the cemetery gates…”
I mean, seriously…how could this not be the world heavyweight cemetery champion? Simply put, it’s the Floyd Mayweather of burial ballads (without the tax evasion and domestic abuse).
Source: Loudwire.com
