Pretend you're the biggest metal musician in the world. One day you die, boohoo - what bands would you want to play at your funeral and what songs would they play? Think carefully about this, remember it's your funeral and going out to some brutal death metal wouldnt really fit.
I'd have Pantera reform (yes im the best and they'd get back together just for me) and play Hollow, then have Kreator play The Patriarch (would like a tab of that song here also), Pantera play Cemetary Gates and then have them do a cover of Knockin of Heaven's door as I'm lowered into the ground.
Then I'd get everyone I know to push Pantera into my grave so they are forever with me.

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id come to your funeral and shit on your grave

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Cemetery Gates is all i will ever ask for

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and i'd come haunt you

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i think i d have some jethro tull playin, somet like beastie. and then after that perhaps some death, like symbol or without judgement

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whahahahaha, that'd actually be proper fucking funny to see, but disprectful to the dead dude especially if it was Nothingface4TehWin ,as he seems pretty cool

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Slayer - Disciple then id have the priest scream HAIL SATAN and set my casket on fire.

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even funnier is that he'll be shitting on the suffocating bodies of Pantera, considering they are possibly the most popular band on this forums.

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i would have deströyer 666 playing "australian and anti-christ." this would be followed up by "when i die, i wanna die violently" by atomizer. lastly, pantera would reform and play "suicide note" part 1 and 2, then cemetary gates.

at this point, i would be buried by the dudes paid to do it, then they (the undertakers and bands) would all pack up and leave cos there wouldnt be anyone else i reckon.

Megadeth-A Tout Le Monde

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I'd ask Azagthoth of Morbid Angel to show up and play "In Remembrence" as I'm fed into the cremation furnace.

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lets have a Doom Metal funeral - what a thought, DOOM bands at a funeral!?!?

My Dying Bride, Within Tears, the Funeral Orchestra and Shape of Despair to end everything off.

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Alice in Chains- Love, Hate, Love
Morbid Angel- Desolate Ways (acoustic)
Stone Temple Pilots- No Memory (acoustic)

Those songs are very atmospheric. I'd also put some happy music on just so the people at my funeral wouldn't be depressed. I don't want everybody to be depressed just because I'm dead. I'd also like to be buried without a casket, about 3 or 4 feet below the surface instead of six, so my body could decompose faster and complete the circle of life, so to speak. I'm sure it sounds cheesy. That should also be deep enough to where I'm not going to be unburied by scavengers. That would be a messy situation, scavengers dragging my skeletal remains all around. People would be terrified upon finding fragments of me in their backyards and such, think of the police calls.

I have no idea why I've spent so much time thinking about this, and the fact that I've noticed seems to have unnerved me a little bit. Perhaps I'm more melancholy than I previously thought.

most especially not for me cause i dont listen to that

For my funeral i would have "the old rover" by Mithotyn played. I think it would perfectly fit with the situation. I think that not many people here have heard much of them. Because of this, i feel the need to post the lyrics to the song i would have played at my funeral...

Mithotyn-the old rover
I'm an old rover tired of this world
let me follow the whirlpool of life
into the world of happiness
that lies on the other side of death.
Grant me my deepest wish
that I patiently yearn for.
To wander the vales of solitude
and to ride the sky on invisible wings.
I will keep the spying hawk company
and bleed with the dove in its claws.
I will hunt with the wolfpack
and share pain with the deer in their jaws.
A tired and travelled old man I am,
my mind is rich but my health is poor.
Let me begin my final trip,
my soul will fly free forever more.
For many decades I've walked this world
now it's time to pass it on
to the younger generations,
as I leave with great expectations.

...i really cant think of a more suitable song for my death. Not to mention that it is my favorite band.

A little thing id like to share:
About 6 months ago my grandpa was on his deathbed. I visited him and i sung this very song to him. He couldnt move, speak, or feel, but i know he could hear me.

man youre really on a mithotyn kick...i cant seem to find around the oaken table online anywhere....

i was just kidding around with the shitting comment

id have opeth "to bid you farewell" and tom waits "the heart of a saturday night"

neither are appropriate per se, but great songs

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Why?

Suffocation - Liege Of Inveracity
Nile - Ruins

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Visceral Bleeding - State of Putrefaction.

Har.

It will be

Morbid Angel- Desolate Ways
or
Iced earth - watching over me

well maybe if it floats your boat, but even though I really like death metal i wouldnt want it played at my funeral.

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stratovarius - 4000 rainy nights
death - perennial quest

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Dark Tranquility - Not Built To Last
Mithotyn - Hail Me
Falconer - Enter The Glade

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omg! my favourite song by my favourite band, and its appropriate! how the hell could i forget

that means its not your favourite song by your favourite band

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Fuck not having death metal, for my funeral first i'd like to have my corpse impaled on a stake/pole about 4-5m in the air. Then a few days of non-stop death & black metal would commence from bands such as Deeds of Flesh, Psycroptic, Necrophagist, Astriaal, Emperor, Yattering, Anata, Morbid Angel, Immortal, Dark Funeral, Origin, Nile, Cryptopsy, Exhumed, Immolation & Suffocation so I can decay in ecstasy, for all to see..... at the end, when I smell like a mouldy ham & cheese sandwich, I would be brought down and placed in a casket with my guitar, and subsequently set on fire, forever to jam with Schuldiner in the afterlife.

Yeah, I think that'll do.


On the other hand, maybe I would return as a zombie and kill all these sick metal bastards and take them with me yeah.

yeah thats a good plan too.

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Have been for quite some time just now speaking a bit more of it though. If you're ok with ebay, id say its surely the best place to get mithotyn stuff, as it is the best place to get many hard-to-find things. Im still looking for Gathered around the oaken table's original print, but for now the newer print doesnt leave my case because i burnt a copy of it to ensure it would not be damaged through use, as i do with all my favorite cds.

I would have these 4 songs play in this order:

Children Of Bodom - Red Light In My Eyes
Iced Earth - Declaration Day
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Arch Enemy - Snow Bound

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Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Megadeth - Trust
Metallica - Nothing else matters or fade to black

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Well, Seth Putnam would be the priest. And Dark Funeral would do a cover of Alice in Chain's Rain When I Die. Then Vehemence would play Spirit of the Soldier as they lowered me into the ground. Then Seth would say a few words which would be more like roast than a eulogy.

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Seth Putnam is an idiot.

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I second that.

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Ruins, that song RULES! Nobody else who has heard it that I know likes it, they say it's too slow, and too repetitive... but what the hell would they know, it kicks ass

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Anyway, my funeral...

I'd have Dark Tranquility play Therein to start things off, coz I play that song all the time when I'm going to sleep (it conjures some awesome dreams), and after somebody says a speech or something (if they do), then Dissection would play 'where dead angels lie', and that would be the beginning of a concert where dark tranquility, dissection, mithotyn, samael, and at the gates would play... and shitloads of other bands which i wont mention coz there are too many of them. Obituary would play too, but they wouldn't sing coz I hate the vocals but the riffs are pretty cool.
Anal cunt would be there, just to bag the crap out of everyone because thats just what they do. Even though their music sucks somewhat... AHA, they wouldn't play any music, they'd sit in the corner and scare the children and call everyone fags, because it's so lame that you have to laugh. Except... I'd be dead and therefore couldnt. It's late, and I'm bored. You can probably tell.

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Thirded. Or whatever.

Id start it off with
Death - Open Casket
then lead into
Possessed - Burning in Hell
followed by
Immolation - Burial Grounds
and as i rose from the grave
Death - Zombie Ritual
with the deathforce of
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill playing as a mutilated all who watched

And of course Autopsy - Service for a Vacant Coffin somewhere in their
Alittle Venom - In League With Satan
Somewhere at the end i would have Gorguts - Nostalgia playing and the whole thing would fade out with Myrmidon (yes my own band so what) with the song Return to the Voiceless Chamber.

"Open Casket" is the best song Death did before they started to mellow and mature on Spiritual Healing. Very good song.

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I agree fucking A my Girlfriends little brother had me learn that song and teach him it (it was the first song by someone else i ever learned all the way through, as i usually am not one to learn total covers i throw in my own shit and what not) and i play it all the time, the first two Death albums are how i learned all my technique and that song is what inspired me to learn pinch harmonics that opening da da Da da Da nuaaaaahhhhh GREAT FUCKING RIFF DECIMATING THE MIND TOTALLY BRAINWAVE OVERLOAD OF GREATNESS, I do like the lead work on Spiritual Healing though, because James Murphy + Chuch Schuldiner > Joo... O yeh another song i want at my Funeral/Rebirth party afterwords the song Obituary - Godly Beings

Id have Slayer play Angel of Death while im being creamated.

nah, altar of sacrifice, for the 'enter to the realm of saaatttaaannnnnn' bit. that bit is sexual.

I know I allready posted a few songs, but I would probably also have Metallica play Fade To Black, and Sanitarium or something. I would also have Alexi Laiho be the main dude that would say everything at the service and shit. I guess you would call them a preacher, but Alexi is definately no preecher

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Scratch all that. The only song i'd have played is Falconer - Portals Of Light
It would be the only song played, as anything else would diminish it's beauty and brilliance.
Here's the lyrics, but if you havn't heard this track, you honestly don't know what your missing out on, as not i (nor anyone else for that matter) has the vocabulary required to explain the sheer awesomeness of this work of art.

I sit here by your side
and weep you goodbye,
I'm singing songs of sorrow for you
true gentle rose of mine.
Upon my arm I've tied a ribbon in black
although I know too well that this
will not ever bring you back.

I feel so astray inside
as I know you're far away.
Let my love shine and be your guide
on your way towards the portals of light.

A lonely candle burns for you my only love,
meanwhile you roam the clouds among
heaven's angels high above.
What is there left to live for
as you've gone away?
Hope's lost forevermore,
I'll mourn you 'till the end of days.

Hear, my love,
hear my cry of deepest grief
as I weep for you eternally.
Praying for your soul
and for light and for relief
as I shed your tears of misery.

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good lyrics, lots of feeling in them. Doesn't sound like a song i would like though...

nile - Blessed dead