Genres I never knew existed

Found via Wikipedia's article on the heavy metal umlaut, Blöödhag, who it describes as a "library/scifi metal band".

To quote their own website, "BlöödHag play short heavy metal songs about science fiction and fantasy authors". Since they do them in incomprehensible death-metal style, the site has some handy lyrics.


Arthur C. Clarke

Is this just a myth? Consciousness exists
Because of this monolithic obelisk genesis
Rewrite the ironic bit. His literary gift's eclipsed
By Kubrick and a Script, but undiminished by it!
Matters of security, he wasn't kept in the dark
For his help in the direction and perfection of radar
Now his life's one long weekend he's only speakin' in Sri Lank
Nobody parts the sea or starts an odyssey like Arthur C. Clarke!

Give it to 'em hard!! Hard SF!! ...Hey!!

Rendezvous With Rama. The Nine Names of God.
Childhood's End and then The Fountain of Paradise.
Then when we land on Venus or maybe Mars
Then when we touch the monolith-
Then we see the truth: Oh my God. It's full of stars!

Give it to 'em hard!! Hard SF!! ...Hey!!

Their recordings include The Dewey Decibel System, Gorgeous Ladies Of Writing, Hooked On Demonics "Book on Tape", Necrotic Bibliophilia, Appetite for Deconstruction, and Thomas M. Disch Split 7.


Also, just as silly but slightly more risque, jesusandrew quotes an amusing poem here.