Written by Bulletdodger on 25.12.2008 at 16:31

Voice of the Soul by Death , Axiom of Akercocke or Raining of Blood by Slayer.

Three awesome songs...but has actually Axiom anything to do with a funeral (I mean, lyrics about death for example) or is it just that you like these songs?

Written by Elio on 27.12.2008 at 19:08

Three awesome songs...but has actually Axiom anything to do with a funeral (I mean, lyrics about death for example) or is it just that you like these songs?

I like all 3 songs very much.
Axiom doesn't have anything to do with a funeral , I just like it a lot and because of one part of the song :
"I believe that when I die I shall rot
and nothing of my ego shall survive"
It's pretty pessimistic , but what else can I expect from my funeral .

Man, i don't know what song i would play at my funeral, i actually find it kinda cheesy, but i'd love a gravestone like this one:

Most Motorhead tombstone ever ^^

Written by LeChron James on 28.12.2008 at 01:34

Most Motorhead tombstone ever ^^

its a deal.
also: Guardians Of Asgaard (Amon Amarth)
For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica)
You Were But A Ghost In My Arm (Agalloch)
and if there is a time left : Wicker Man (Iron Maiden)

I'd have them play eternal tears of sorrows the river flows frozen...that would be a sad day

Thrash Til' Death - Destruction, or Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath, or Hallowed Be Thy Name - Maiden.

Written by Thrashard on 02.01.2009 at 03:57

Thrash Til' Death - Destruction, or Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath, or Hallowed Be Thy Name - Maiden.

solid choices, all of them are completely appropriate.

Hallowed Be Thy Name would be great or Descend the Shades Of Night by Machine Head...although I think no one reall WILL play them at my funeral... lol

...To Live For My Death... by Shape Of Despair. Why? Just listen to it. That song really sums it all up.

The End of August by Woods Of Ypres
The Arrival by Skepticism
and
Communion by Shroud of Bereavement.

What better to play at a Funeral than Funeral Doom ?

"The Answer Lies Within" by Dream Theater to remind my loved ones to face each day with both eyes open wide.
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" By Maiden, just because that song means so much to me.
"Holy Wars" By MegaDeth because of the messege that it holds and because it means so much to me.
"Casting Shade/Prelude to Destruction" By Shadows Fall so people can have some nice Acoustics to fall back on.
"When Silence Conquers" by Vomitory so that my brother and my friends can Mosh with my Casket!

Nobody lives forever - Hallows Eve (Thrash classic band)

A Past and Future Secret of Blind guardian. for sure, since the first time i heard this song.

I'd sure as hell not want stuff that just focuses on being intensely sorrowful. No funeral doom or depressive black metal. I'd never want to be mourned in such a way. Instead, what I want is for everyone who knew me to get together and get so fucking drunk they wouldn't even know that I died, and just remember the good times. There's no need to encourage the attendants to be sad. As such, I'd rather choose something that I feel some sort of personal connection to (a song that to me actually MEANS something). Examples of this would be:

Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
Burzum - Erblicket Die Toechter Des Firmanents
Hellhammer - Messiah
Iron Maiden - Murders In The Rue Morgue
Bathory - Foreverdark Woods

But then again, it really matters very little to me. I'm dead anyway...

Written by ForeverDarkWoods on 10.01.2009 at 23:58

I'd sure as hell not want stuff that just focuses on being intensely sorrowful. No funeral doom or depressive black metal. I'd never want to be mourned in such a way. Instead, what I want is for everyone who knew me to get together and get so fucking drunk they wouldn't even know that I died, and just remember the good times. There's no need to encourage the attendants to be sad. As such, I'd rather choose something that I feel some sort of personal connection to (a song that to me actually MEANS something). Examples of this would be:

Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
Burzum - Erblicket Die Toechter Des Firmanents
Hellhammer - Messiah
Iron Maiden - Murders In The Rue Morgue
Bathory - Foreverdark Woods

But then again, it really matters very little to me. I'm dead anyway...

That's an interesting point of view. Though, I don't think that would work...
Since it's a funeral I WOULD choose something to fit that special ocassion. Not that I want to make anyone sad, it's just that, well some people would be pretty happy on that day, so I can't make them sad even if I tried.
So, my choice goes to the good-old Nortt. Songs : Evig Hvile. Nattetale, Glemt, Graven. Graven is piano only, but it's spooky and depressive. Kicks ass.

I am to metal for a funeral

Hmm prob Sentenced - End of the Road

I am quite sure somebody already mentioned it, but it would be great (too band I won't notice XD) to have the Candlemass version of the Marche Funebre.

Something wildly unsuitable probably. That would make it an accurate celebration of my life.

Darkthrone - Cromlech

"Yes, flee over river styx and join the dead wirh joy..."

If you haven't heard Gamma Ray before, try these tunes, then feel free to die:
Farewell (i'll keep this song for me)
Pray
The Silence
Heaven Or Hell
Afterlife

i just love to die when i listen to'em

there are some very good choices like:

Savatage - Believe
Rage - All this Time
Emperor - Thorns on my Grave
Hypocrisy - No Regrets
Manowar - the Crown and the Ring
Bathory - Hammerheart
Pain - Fade Away

now i'm listening to Heaven can wait (iron maiden), well that definitely doesen't work if you're in a death mode....

Sleeping Stars by Wintersun.
Sign of the Southern Cross by Black Sabbath.
Dunkelheit by Burzum.

To name a couple. There's probably more, but I don't feel like naming anymore.

What a cheesy idea Blind Guardian - Ashes to Ashes kind of fits
or, Rhapsody - Lamento Eroico, and everybody would say "Farewell, beloved Narloth... Your memory will march with us forever against the hordes of the black Lord..." and raise their swords to the sky

I think it should be Kamelot's farewell,or maybe 'Til death unites us"(Norther)lol

Pain - Have A Drink On Me

Probably.

My song has to be Sentenced - May today become the day it's so nice and i love those lyrics

Let's see now, i guess the choices would be up to my close ones. In this situation, metal friends. I assume they will play something that i've always talked about, like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Motorhead and so on.

But if i had listed them before my death, i'd make something like this...

1. Graveworm - The day i die
2. Slayer - Disciple
3. Satyricon - KING
4. Tiamat - Cold seed
5. Within temptation - Memories

yeah, rather commercial ones i guess.

As a celebration of my life, Judas Priest: Rock Hard Ride Free!

I would have Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath played.