Imaginos :Black & Silver

john paine jpaine at LINKNET.KITSAP.LIB.WA.US
Fri Feb 23 14:57:59 EST 1996


On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Andrew A. Apold wrote:

> >>From Siege: "World Without End!"
> >
> >This line also appears in the song "Heavy Metal: Black and Silver".
>
> Hmmmm  methinks not.  The recent issue of Heavy Metal talked about the
> influence of the movie:

> Then, once we HM>looked at the script, the music flowed, and we did five
> songs in a few days.:"
>
> While I'm not sure I can nail down exactly which five songs, it seems clear
> that both "The Pact" and "Heavy Metal: The Black and the Silver" would be
> two of them.  Two songs by other artists contained the words "Heavy Metal"
> in the title (Hagar's "Heavy Metal" and Felder's "Heavy Metal (takin' a
> ride)").
>
> Oddly, I would guess the one song they did use, "Veteran of the Psychic
> Wars" was not influenced by the movie, since it was a Moorcock tunes
> grounded firmly with references to earlier works of his...

The movie may not have been influenced by the song, nor the song by the
movie - but they both fit - and the correspondence s visible to all.
They both work together.


- passerby



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