Epicurean Music - Heavy Metal

I am looking forward to the suggestions in this category! I know what I think of as "Heavy Metal" but I am so stale on listening that I don't know where to begin on possible Epicurean friendly or Epicurean themed works.

I've never understood a single word of one of these songs but but with the lyrics it's easy!

This isn't heavy metal but it's a rock band's cover of It's a Sin by Pet Shop Boys

Okay when the post in the Heavy Metal list starts off "This isn't heavy metal but...." that's a bad sign! Martin you appear to be the expert on heavy metal - is this the proper category, or should we move this to another category? We ought to keep these threads going permanently so if we need another category we can create it. With a quick listen by me I find it indistinguishable from Heavy Metal, and the graphic seems to qualify too. Or maybe because the words are fairly intelligible that means it's NOT heavy metal?

Not necessarily my flavor, but it is topically appropriate:

I get what you mean, Eikadistes . It's a bit flowery. Too bad the lead singer seems to have had a cold at the time of recording. But anyway, a sweet little go-to-sleep kind of tune. Probably more effective than ASMR, although some in the EF will criticize such an emphasis on Tranquility.

In case there is any difficulty understanding the words, here they are below. Obviously the Epicurean point is "what is good is easy to obtain" ...or maybe "life is a cabaret!" ? ...or is it perhaps something completely else, like "Trying to enjoy life is ultimately A TOTAL WASTE OF F***ING TIME!!!".

I'm betting Joshua can interpret it. Uplifting stuff in any case:

The Gods of Epicurus, lyrics

“I am born from one-sided sacrifice

I am born from miscommunication

Piece me together from your broken spirits

Only to receive a whole less than its parts.”

As the Law commands you, “Enjoy,” the Commodity demands:

“Piece me together, exhaust your spirit

Pour it into me, expect nothing back

My blood is a failing comparison

And I can't save you from this hell you're in

I dwell in the pores of the merely existing

While you're sadly subsisting in its reflection

I am not a happy consciousness. I am not alive

Sell your soul for my being’s sake

Your condition will become my existing.”

Fetishized fragments of life promise nothing

They voicelessly respond, “I am your death

“I return nothing compared to what you sacrifice

I am unrequited love, I am less than my parts

Reflect back at a loss, turn yourself into stone for me.”

A desire born from the void

Between your mind and its Being

Its demand is silently screaming

“I’ll take you down with me

I’ll take you down to behold

Behold the spectacle of imaginary life

I become myth, myth becomes life

Life becomes being-towards-death.”

Though not exactly metal, it's a song about a soldier during World War 1 talking to a priest before he is executed for cowardice. I feel it's Epicurean in that he faces his death not through religion's demand for repentance or the promises of a world beyond, but in the memories of sensuality with his lover and drinking cider with his friends.