Holy Mother - Holy Diver

Holy Diver, from the band Holy Mother, from the album Holy Dio, a tribute to the voice of metal.
This video is aimed at everyone who thinks that the KSE cover is better than Dio's. This is (almost) the middle ground. This is basically Dio's version, almost with KSE's vocals, without the screaming during the bridge. See for yourself.

As for the deeper meaning of the song, I found this on songfacts.com:
There are two characters in this song: the tiger, and the holy diver. The tiger is the Sun God ("the cat in the blue is coming after you, holy diver") and the holy diver is an ordinary person who sees the hypocrisy of religion ("the velvet lies") and finds himself lost ("in the midnight sea" or darkness). There are "shiny diamonds" or stars as if "the eyes of the cat" were in both "the black and blue" or night sky as well as day. The impulse here is to get away from religion ("something is coming for you") but still seek that guiding light ("race for the morning"). The paradox is quickly realized ("you can hide in the Sun until you see the light"): that which he is running from he is also searching for. So, the conclusion is to "ride," "jump on," mount the tiger, taking personal control of his beliefs and rejecting organized religion. Generally speaking, things are not always what they seem. (Is the demon on the cover drowning the priest, or the priest drowning the demon?) The tiger looks dirty but there is nothing wrong with him. You can feel his love, but don't let your guard down.
-Skeletim, USA, NJ

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dio
• Killswitch
• Engage
• KSE
• Holy
• Diver
• Cover
• Metal
• Mother

[ReneeNme]

I've got this CD and a good one it is too.

[tmdkshaft]

ReneeNme! long time no see! Just something I'd like to point out, did you notice that this album has two covers of the same song on it (Stratovarius and Primal fear both covered Kill the King)?

[mrlizard8]

owns the shit out of kill switch engage, thier shitty screaming vocals should have never been in such a bad ass song

[Diofan1952]

Very good cover, I like it! Thanks \m/

[iambuddhacat]

@epicted77 being of the same generation as you and of a similar mindset... i gotta go with over 9000

[epicted77]

@clouren1 are you kidding me?!? Slipknot is the faggyest band ever! well those guys are entitled to thier dumbass opinion but the fact is slipknot only has one good song

[epicted77]

@aldenty hell yeah i do

[aldenty]

220 :-), Hope you listen to old Metallica though...

[aldenty]

I wish this generation was even better than the 80's... There's not much nowadays though...

[clouren1]

@epicted77 I know what you mean, I'm 18. There were even some guys I knew who said they liked metal and they told me that slipknot was the best band ever better than metallica and dio could ever hope to be. I hate our generation :(

[epicted77]

*sigh* im sixteen i play base and everyone thinks im an idiot cuz i hate justin beiber and listen to metallica and dio

On a scale of one to twenty how retarded is my generation

[NoneBuriedDeeper]

Holy Mother was a great band people should find their music



[erdoqanful]

nice one