Latin lyrics in Heavy Metal music are a common phenomenon. The darker the music, the more evil the band wanna be. What's better than using an old, mysterious, hardly understandable, cryptic, medieval and therefore almost satanic language? Unfortunately bands seldom know how to use this language properly. So, instead of evoking the demons of the realm of evil, they just evoke a hop-frog. Clatu verata nicto! - The most of you know what happened after this wrongly spoken spell.
Normally, two questions are the result of the fact that you've just read a latin phrase: - What does it mean? (almost everybody) - Is it correct? (just a few latin aficionados)
This page doesn't want to make fun of mistakes in latin lyrics. I wanna answer the first question to everybody who is interested. The second question is just for myself or for the two or three weird guys out there or for bands which are thinking about using a latin phrase as well. You can contact me if you want.
Did you find some latin in heavy metal music? Do you wanna know what it means? Do you think the name of your beloved band could be latin? - Send me an email and help me to enrich this page. Write to: heavylatin (at) gmx (dot) net
Help needed?
Are you musician and right now afraid of my teacher-like red pencil (you shouldn't)? Do you want to use latin in your song? Feel free to contact me and I'm fond of giving you some humble piece of advice.
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