Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno Full Studio Version {Part 1}

Song: Dante's Inferno (Part 1)
Album: Burnt Offerings
Artist: Iced Earth

Quite an amazing song. No doubt Iced Earth was following in Iron Maiden's footsteps of Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner for this. LOVE ICED EARTH! LOVE MAIDEN! LOVE METAL! (no not the H.I.M. album)

Part 1 Lyrics:

Through the fiery caverns we sail
Virgil at my side my guide and master
Questing through the nine plains of hell
Infernal wisdom shall fill my soul
Slowly now the days departing
The darkened air releases me
Frightening visions of my journey
Entrance me to limbo I'm not
Free

Abandon all hope who enter here
Enter the gates, Charon awaits

Abandon all hope who enter here
For this is where all things are left behind
Every doubt and every cowardice must die
Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair

The souls that wail on this plain pray for death
Denial is the reason for their suffering
Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath
The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need

Descention, thrusting to the second plain
Minos judges as his tail twines
Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls
A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas

Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames
Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain
Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time
The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time
The vicious beast Cerebus, three heads, blooded eyes
Tears his talons through the air, all the sinners cry

Down, be still thy cursed wolf
The master scorns its name
Dive to the next plain
The sullen and the vain
Suffer for greed
The prodigal they bleed
For all eternity
Plutus holds the key
[Lyrics from http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/icedearth/burntofferings.html#8]

I own no rights to anything. I'm just a fan of great metal music.
I simply had to upload this because there was no good just plain audio from the album.

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[metalhasmyballs2]

The new one sucks...

[JasoniGR]

@metalhasmyballs2

Indeed they are not latin lyrics. What it really says is a greek mantra which goes like:

"Ψάρια, παντεσπάνι, Θεία Φρόσω, σε μπανάνες" (x2)

A few people know this, since it is only stated in the lyrics of their Limited Collectors' edition album. I do own it, and additionally I am greek, so I can confirm this.

[garyheller55661]

What is sad is that probably only 1 out of 1000 of the people who like this song has actually read "The Divine Comedy" by Dante.

[GNR4Alife]

@perrottafamily1 yes, its correct

[beli577]

@JasoniGR what does that mean?

[Stratocaster777]

@garyheller55661 I've played the game, close enough...

[SecretWife56]

OK, my son is my authority on all things Metal! He suggested I would like this song and he is right! We were discussing Heavy Metal this evening on the phone and I told him Heavy Metal was Rock taken to the Extreme, combined with Classical Music and Opera, and he agreed with my analysis. And he is right, I do like this song. In my opinion Heavy Metal requires serious musical ability to play and is very INTENSE!

[patounboy]

@Perbear213 it is so satanic i can't even spell it

[dontiaedaivic]

i read the divine comedy also it was amazing although i had some trouble on the Latin :P ( also i kinda wish Virgil didn't leave after the inferno, i mean it made sense why, but still)

[MetaITV]

the live version kicks this in the balls!

[despotalex]

@garyheller55661 I'm one of them, wooooo :D