MIND-A-STRAY

The killer opener thrash metal track with a melodic intro from my famous Ultimate Metal Trademark -album. Well, it's ain't the most sold LP on the planet but the resources and equipment that I made it with have probably been the worst that anyone have EVER recorded a full-length album with.
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This is a song about the madness and the resulting non-existant score of the warfare. I really feel that I got some true content and good thoughts and point of views on that song back when I was in the army in an 18 year old kid - hating it all and considering the whole army crap as a pure waste of...

The third track from the U.M.T. album.
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One of my first songs. The lyrics ain't probably so deep-meaning; they just tell about a guy whos whole life is based on cheating, lying, borrowing money, selfisness etc. So I guess, just maybe some of you folks know a person who lives like this. I do at least, so writing the long lyrics-wise was easy.
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Main rhythm guitar riff bunch your brains out and is still very simple. Tempo is a bit on the lower side so I guess it's still heavy metal. Who cares about the categorizes anyway...:)

The most successful of all of my songs. Millions of downloads worldwide during over 10 years.<p>
Some people think that this Ultimate Metal Trademark (1996) version is much better than our so-called high-quality studio versions made later on. This really possesses some original garage sound and the real down-to-earth feeling to it. Like the rest of the songs from the Ultimate Metal Trade mark-album also.
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Of that I have grown to be very proud of during these times of over-polished, equally-sounding crap that everyone produces these days.

This is the fourth song out of U.M.T. album and I composed this for my friend's funeral who committed suicide back in 1997. His father found him all face blue and limb and dead in the morning from Harri's room, with hanging from his shirt on a door-handle.<p>
You really should pay attention to the lyrics, sincfe I know for a fact that this song has saved many people from committing suicide.<p>
This song was earlier here in Mikseri and was in over-all number #1 position on the charts for 8 consecutive weeks and entered chart heaven. (Oletusarvo, paina muokataksesi)

Heh, this song really is something deviant from the rest of my material :)
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The rock'n'roll scale song made to my earlier girlfriend back in.. I can't remember when. A good live song, none the less!
<p> Especially people, who are not so much into metal, seem to LOVE this. On the other hand, those hard-core so called 'metal music professionals' seem to act like the regular rock polices and they always have some nagging about this song.
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Well, after all it will be ringing in your head for a while - liked it or not. And all the rock polices especially in Finland, don't bother commenting!

Women, yeah... I had a serius crush to a chick a long time ago and first she "let me understand", you know, and then she became a total shithead. I was so pissed that I made this song from those feelings.
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Terhi, I'm your Nemesis and I always will be. Remember that and see you in hell!! (Oletusarvo, paina muokataksesi)

This song (also from the UMT-album) tells a story about a family man who loses his whole family due to the actions of a cruel murderer and the criminal gets free without sentence due to the lack of evidence.
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This family guy then takes the justice to his own hands, since he knows the truth and goes after the murderer for a final vengeance of death. (Oletusarvo, paina muokataksesi)

This song reflects on the nature of on of the strongest deadly sins and feelings in human life; Greed.
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Greed can destroy your whole life, with very seldom gaining you anything good and positive.
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The lyrics are about an archeologiest who just can't resist going deeper and deeper inside tha ncient pyramide with the consequence of getting lost and trapped with all the riches in world in his lap
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The question is; Can you enjoy them in that position? Is money and all the riches in the world after all so important??
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Personally I think that if I can eat, sleep, buy a few things that...

This piece of sadness and melancholy was written in the late 90's in the windy and rainy November night in my earlier hometown Savonlinna, with my friend.
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You can really relate to the peaceful and a little sad feeling of the silent, cold autumn night only a few cars driving slowly on the road under the dim street lights.. (Oletusarvo, paina muokataksesi)

You're a peaceful dude?? Ever felt that you're being mistreated and that silent rage just slowly keeps building inside of you?
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"Beware of the peaceful man's rage", they say. They tease and abuse you until you finally crack and then all hell breaks loose.
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I'm talking by my own experience and I have to say that my past has made me 'colder' and very much more careful and in some ways even aggressive during the ywars. The result is that nobody steps on my feet again or breathes my ear. <p>
I was calm but I have become a type of a thunderous personality - but that's only a good thing if...

Ever wonder about growing old? Seeing those poor elders fighting over their survival on hospitals, wheel-chairs and with all the diseases and strong medication makes you scared? Well, that's what we all are facing up to - wether we wanted or not.
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This songs lyrics focus on our society that seems to handle the helpless elder just by hospitalizing and institutionalizing them - keeping their mouth shut with sedatives and strong pain-killers and with who-knows-what kind of m>.
<p>I have seen soooo many examples of this kind of abuse and frankly - even if I ain't a saint of any kind - it...

Pure thrash metal into you face!
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Everybody knows that a ain't a rasist nor I support nazism - merely just the opposite. What happened in Germany and Europe back in 30's and 40's of the last century, is one of the most unbelievable and shameful things in the history of the eras of madness in a written history, almost solely due to the lunatic geniosity of just one madman, who succeeded on getting lots of people on as his supporters.
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Nazism was a plaque, and deserves to be written lyrics of - and no in a supporting way but completely the opposite.
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These are one of the best lyrics...

This is actually the only song here in Mikseri.net outside my Ultimate Metal Trademark album.
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This is from the MIND-A-STRAY demo named "Anamorphica" back in 1995 and tells a sad stpry about a bunch of criminal cowboys who travel the land with their horses, looding and robbering places, raping women and what not.
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Once one of the cowboys gets a bullet after a screwed up robbery and he will be dead soon. The bunch rides to a distant, safe corner of a desert to spend the final moments with their dear friend with whom they rode together throughout all of their criminal and hunted lives....