What's all this fuss about?

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.

Mittwoch, 27. April 2011

Anaal Nathrakh - Volenti non fit iniuria

Anaal Nathrakh - Passion (2011)

The opening track of A.N. record to come has the title Volenti non fit iniuria. This is a common law doctine which means: To a willing person, no injury is done. First, I read Violenti... which would have been: To a violent person... and I thought, great latin title, typically Anaal Nathrakh, but here the wish was father of the thought.
Eingestellt von um
Labels: , ,

Keine Kommentare:

Kommentar veröffentlichen

Abonnieren Kommentare zum Post (Atom)