MAY’Tallica Day 8 – So Let It Be Written…. Metallica
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 14: (L to R) Musicians Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett, of Metallica, perform at The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Benefit at the Wiltern Theater on May 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Today’s pick is Creeping Death off of Ride the Lightning. They opened with this song when I saw them in the summer of 1992 with Guns ‘N Roses. Just a ripper of a song.
Listener RJ Day said “I love the energy of “Creeping Death.” It also prepared me for my first Passover Seder in 1993. I was very young and dating a Jewish guy. I was the only Gentile at a very fancy dinner, but I knew exactly what we were reading during the Seder. I said “This is Creeping Death!””
Creeping Death
Slaves, Hebrews born to serveTo the PharaohHeed, to his every wordLive in fear
Faith of the unknown oneThe delivererWait, something must be doneFour hundred years
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneI’m sent here by the chosen one
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneTo kill the first-born Pharaoh sonI’m creeping death
Now, let my people goLand of GoshenGo, I will be with theeBush of fire
Blood, running red and strongDown the NilePlague, darkness three days longHail to fire
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneI’m sent here by the chosen one
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneTo kill the first-born Pharaoh sonI’m creeping death
Die by my hand (die)I creep across the land (die)Killing first-born man (die)
Die by my hand (die)I creep across the land (die)Killing first born man (die)
I rule the midnight airThe destroyerBorn, I shall soon be thereDeadly mass
I creep the steps and floorFinal darknessBlood, lambs blood painted doorI shall pass
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneI’m sent here by the chosen one
So let it be writtenSo let it be doneTo kill the first-born Pharaoh sonI’m creeping death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AMNdYJbocI
-Meltdown-
Flashback: Metallica at the Pontiac Silverdome in 2003
Meltdown started on the mighty WRIF on the evening of Halloween, 1995. Technically, his first on-air shift was the morning of November 1st. Moving to the Motor City from Buffalo, N.Y., he has built a career and family. Over his almost three-decade stint at RIFF, he's had the privilege to work with some of the biggest personalities in Detroit radio history. He boasts of being just the second-afternoon drive jock in the station's illustrious 53-year history.
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