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Pandemic Playlist: Our Top 5 heavy metal tracks to feed your apocalyptic vision

For those in lockdown who fancy a bit of apocalyptic imagery in their minds, we have put together five epic metal tracks
PUBLISHED APR 5, 2020
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It's all doom and gloom on today's Pandemic Playlist.

As the world deals with the constant bad news over the past few years and especially now with the coronavirus pandemic, it can be difficult to some to not cook up various end-of-the-world imagery in one's head as we all are under lockdown. With the deaths of several beloved celebrities, many deemed each of the previous few years as the worst year ever, but it is probably safe to say 2020 should slide in there with that description.

For those who relish in the imaginations of impending doom, we have five songs listed below on just that! Enjoy.

Black Sabbath - 'Electric Funeral'

We kick off nuclear on our first track 'Electric Funeral' by one of the biggest metal pioneers of history.  Off Black Sabbath's 1970 album 'Paranoid', the song deals with the subject matter of a nuclear holocaust with lyrics such as "Reflex in the sky. Warn you you're gonna die. Storm coming, you better hide. From the atomic tide. Flashes in the sky. Turns houses into sites. Turns people into clay. Radiation, minds decay".

Listen to the remastered edition here.

Dimmu Borgir - 'Progenies of The Great Apocalypse'

One of the heaviest tracks on our list, 'Progenies of The Great Apocalypse', judging by the song's title alone, doesn't need much description. It is also notable that the album comes from their 2003 LP 'Death Cult Armageddon'. It opens with an epic score that sounds like a 'Batman' film action scene on steroids, leading to a hauntingly expanding climax with Immortal frontman Abbath featuring on the vocals and powerful symphonic music by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

'Progenies of The Great Apocalypse' is large-scale, brutal and enchanting; a worthy champion on an apocalyptic playlist.



 

Tool - 'Ænema'

Apocalyptic of a different kind, Tool's 'Ænema' is actually about frontman Maynard James Keenan's visions of an end to celebrity culture in Los Angeles in the 1990s, a culture that he clearly hates. The song's title is taken from the Latin word "Anima", meaning "soul" and combined with "enema".

Throughout the song, Keenan calls for rain to "flush it all away." In Verse 1 he sings "Some say the end is near. Some say we'll see Armageddon soon. Certainly hope we will. I sure could use a vacation from. This bullshit three ring circus sideshow".



 

In Flames - 'Come Clarity'

'Come Clarity' plays as one of the most melodic tracks on our list and fits the apocalyptic bill mainly due to its music video. In an isolated, lonely desert location, we see frontman Anders Fridén driving his car and a young girl holding a teddy bear and trying to hitch a ride. Following a meteor shower at the tail end of the video, Fridén stops his vehicle to give the girl a lift, but she disappears and all that remains is her teddy bear.



 

Creed - 'Who's Got My Back?

An 8-minute track of sadness, loneliness and a proposal of hope, 'Who's Got My Back?' comes as a storytelling piece of music and fits well as an escapist number in our apocalyptic list. The first verse goes "Run, hide, all that was sacred to us. Sacred to us, see the signs. The covenant has been broken by mankind. Leaving us with no shoulder, with no shoulder" before repeating "To rest our head on" at the refrain.

The song begs the question "What is the truth": A perfect riddle in such times.



 

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