Tree of rock and metal

09/21/2026

Next up on the list of favorite bands/musicians is the one and only DORO!!!! What’s your favorite songs by her/containing her voice? Whether written by her, or something she was included into?
For me what I like about her, is how kind and happy of a person she seems to be and constantly writes great music!

This is one of my favorite songs by her called “Raise Your Fist in The Air!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOGy0CvR9Y&list=RDOCOGy0CvR9Y&start_radio=1&pp=ygUUZG9ybyByYWlzZSB5b3VyIGZpc3SgBwHSBwkJJAwBhyohjO8%3D&ra=m

Lyrics:

I feel it in the air
Feel this life it's so unfair
Where you're born into is hit or miss
No more with living safe
When this world begin to shake
Kill them all– gotta kill the beast
Fight while you're alive

Raise your fist in the air– Raise your fist
Raise your hands up higher– hands up high
Raise your fist in the air– Raise your fist
We are hounds, hounds of fire

Raise your fist in the air– Raise your fist
Raise your hands up higher– hands up high
Raise your fist in the air– Raise your fist
We are hounds or hellfire

I'll fight until I die
Fight this fight to stay alive
In my heart I know I'll be alright
I know it's up to me
Change this world or let it be
Take a stand and lend a helping hand
Fight-fight till we die

09/20/2026

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TysWN3zdH4Y&list=RDTysWN3zdH4Y&start_radio=1&pp=ygUQcmV2YW1wIHdpbGQgY2FyZKAHAQ%3D%3D&ra=m
ReVamp “Wild Card”!!!

One of my favorite songs from this band!!!! I feel this band really gave an indication just how broad of a range Floor has! Both the how broad of a style of singing she can do but also vocal range and level of emotion she can bring to whatever song she sings! She has about a 4 octave range!
Which is your favorite song by/features Floor that you feel really shows her range and ability?

Lyrics:
Fool to believe this is all you get when you start talking to me
You'll find out that there is more than meets the eye
But will you see what I mean?
Come on dear, do you dare or are you empty hearted?
You'll see the fire
Desire's furtive flames
You'll see them lurking in the dark
Ignore the poison
It's a diverting test
I can be sweet behind the facade
But what's the truth?
I don't seem angelic
Seduction's a mind trick
And I'm quite a player
You'll freeze or you burn, now do you dare me for a ride?
Hear soothing words, they can be like honey but they falsely seduce for you haven't
Looked me deep in the eye
Oh, I can please
But I can also try to make your worst nightmare come alive
But what's the truth?
I don't seem angelic
Seduction's a mind trick and I'm quite a player
You'll freeze or you burn
But aren't I intriguing?
T wo faced, a wild card
A dangerous impulseyou can't fight it
Now do you dare me for a ride?
Luscious hearts
Your wild card
Tempting
Erratic minds
Your wild card
Do you play?
Make up my mind
Fight the demons inside
Be the light or the dark or the safe grey choose a side
Angelically blind
The naive girl entwined with seduction
Confined to nothing but prejudice

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09/20/2026

Next up is a band that I appreciate but sadly has disbanded, and even more sadly their original singer passed away in 2006 at such a young age!!! However when they were around, they wrote some of the best symphonic metal/gothic metal music in my opinion!!! Band is called Elis! What is your favorite songs by them?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4kUBGXLqqA&list=RDe4kUBGXLqqA&start_radio=1&pp=ygUKRWxpcyBoZWFydKAHAQ%3D%3D&ra=m
Elis “Heart in Chains”

This Remains one of my favorite songs by them!!

09/20/2026

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zu2aX_597PQ&list=RDzu2aX_597PQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUZYmxhY2sgc2FiYmF0aCBtZWdhbG9tYW5pYaAHAQ%3D%3D

Black Sabbath “Megalomania

This song remains one of my all time favorite songs! The heavy riffs from the very beginning to the whole atmosphere of the song, to the rather dark and intense lyrics!! The whole song genuinely feels like someone wrestling with their inner most thoughts and demons! To showing the person finally breaking free from the carnage the demons have brought to the persons life over the years.

What’s your favorite song that you feel is more than a song, and really seems to take its listener on a ride and really makes a person feel like they are in the song?

Lyrics:

I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
It started something that I could not control
Where can I run to now, the joke is on me
No sympathizing God, its insanity yeah
Why don’t you just get out of my life, yeah
Why don’t you just get out of my life, now
Why doesn’t everybody leave me alone, now
Why doesn’t everybody leave me alone, yeah
Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes
I mixed reality with pseudo god dreams
The ghost of violence was something I’d seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be the dream of my soul
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah
Why don’t you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don’t you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn’t everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn’t everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Well I feel something’s taking me I don’t know where
It’s like a trip inside a separate mind
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
Is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness
Want no more of sorrow
Realized when to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Now am I right if I fight
That I might just get away from you now
Sting me!
Well I feel something’s giving me the chance to return
It’s giving me the chance of saving my soul
Pictures of demigod are fading away
I’m going backwards but I’m in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow
Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now
Is there a way that I could pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right in my fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!
I’m really digging schizophrenia, the best of the earth
I’ve chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me but now it’s all mine
I simply try but he wants me to fail
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I’ve found my happiness, providence of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you yeah
Now I’m free let me see
That now instead, I won’t be led by you now
Free!

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09/20/2026

What’s your top 20 favorite classic rock/classic metal bands of all time?
Mine are:
1)Led Zeppelin
2) Black Sabbath
3) Billy Squire
4) Van Halen
5) Cactus
6) Montrose
7) The Hollies
8)ZZ Top
9) CCR
10) Queen
11) Nazareth
12) Alice Cooper
13) Deep Purple
14) Scorpions
15) Bob Seger
16) Aerosmith
17) Foreigner
18) Styx
19) Thin Lizzy
20) Cheap Trick

09/20/2026

In honor of one of my favorite singers, I want to share one of my favorite bands that she has been part of. I feel it is a band that has some great songs in the two albums they have! It is a Symphonic metal band called Trillium!!!

Yesterday the metal community received the news that Amanda Somerville has been diagnosed with a devastating diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor.
Being a fellow Michigander myself as well as someone who has had family members and loved ones diagnosed with a similar disease my heart goes out to her and her family! She has one of the best voices in music in my opinion, and one of the kindest hearts!!

So in honor and respect for her and the music she has done. I want to see everyone share with me a favorite song/music she has been part of!!! Let’s put together a whole list of music she has done!!

My favorite songs with her are from her first Trillium, this is one of my favorite songs off that album! Song is called: “Bow to the Ego”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYMsX2WfyNw&list=RDHYMsX2WfyNw&start_radio=1&pp=ygUXVHJpbGxpdW0gYm93IHRvIHRoZSB3Z2-gBwE%3D&ra=m

Lyrics:

If I give in will you leave it alone, tyrannous soul?
Seething, you leave me to dance on my own
Vexed and offended again
I ache, you take
It’s such a familiar subject
Irate outbreaks
We’re down to the final countdown

On your knees
You won’t get a “pretty please”
See and you will believe
I’d say your righteousness is barely legal
On your knees
No cure for this disease
Already feel the heat
I gotta get low
Now bow to the ego

Throwing your tantrum, I built up my wall
Brick after brick
No bed of roses awaiting your fall
Patience is slipping again
No shame, just blame
The air has the taste of sulphur
Low aim, untamed
This may be the final meltdown

On your knees
You won’t get a “pretty please”
See and you will believe
I’d say your righteousness is barely legal
On your knees
No cure for this disease
Already feel the heat
I gotta get low
Now bow to the ego

Please, Sir, won’t you ever think before you speak?
Now nothing can stop up this leak
I’m tired, so many egos to please
It’s draining me weak

My head’s bruised, all used
Is this what you really wanted?
Blown fuse, you lose
The one thing we all can count on...

09/20/2026

Time for another one of my favorite bands of all time that I had the pleasure of seeing live last night!!! The one and only Black Label Society!!! Zakk Wylde remains one of my favorite guitarists/musicians!!! Their discography is quite solid, and will hopefully stand the test of time!!!

What’s your favorite album or songs by them? What song first got you into them? Who has seen them live ?

09/20/2026

It has been an awesome year so far for concerts!!! It definitely feels like a year of fire for concerts, from a broad range of genres and it's been so good!!!

Here is the list of bands/concerts I've been to so far this year — and still more to come!!

Lacuna Coil, Escape The Fate, Avatar, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, Frozen Soul, Bleed From Within, Sylosis, Great American Ghost

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park concert series: The Wallflowers, Little Feat, ZZ Top, Ziggy Marley, Switchfoot with Anberlin

Upheaval Festival: Jinjer, Gojira, Papa Roach, Approaching Autumn, Dying Wish, Story of the Year, LANDMVRKS, Magnolia Park, Bilmuri and so many more!

Zakk Sabbath with Black Label Society and Dark Chapel

And still more to come!!! May live music always be around, because it brings all of us together and reminds us there is goodness in this world!

(It’s odd we are in a time when I can’t tag this many bands/entities in a post because else it gets flagged so I can’t tag anyone…)

09/20/2026

The Dark Chapel, Zakk Sabbath, and Black Label Society concert at GLC Live at 20 Monroe last night was incredible!!!!
Zakk Wylde remains one of my favorite guitarists of all time, the amount of energy and chaos that he puts into the music he writes or performs is so much fun!! Dario Lorina was also fun to see live as well!! I managed to catch 3 guitar picks at the show and I will hang on to them always!!

09/20/2026