The Mountain Goats
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John Darnielle wrote this song after working for a couple of years as a psychiatric nurse at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California, working with kids. He eventually also wrote a novel on the same premise as part of the Bloomsbury Publishing 33 1/3 series on Black Sabbath’s third stu...
The best ever death metal band out of Denton
Were a couple of guys who'd been friends since grade school
One was named Cyrus, and the other was Jeff
And they practiced twice a week in Jeff's bedroom
The best ever death metal band out of Denton
Never settled on a name
But the top three contenders, after weeks of debate
Were "Satan's Fingers," and "The Killers," and "The Hospital Bombers"
Jeff and Cyrus believed in their hearts they were headed
For stage lights and Lear jets, and fortune and fame
So in script that made prominent use of a pentagram
They stenciled their drumheads and guitars with their names
This was how Cyrus got sent to the school
Where they told him he'd never be famous
And this was why Jeff
In the letters he'd write to his friend
Helped develop a plan to get even
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you
The best ever death metal band out of Denton
Will in time both outpace and outlive you
Hail Satan!
Hail Satan tonight!
Hail Satan!
Hail hail!
The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton was written by John Darnielle.
The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton was produced by John Darnielle.
The Mountain Goats released The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton on Tue Feb 19 2002.
John Darnielle before performing this song at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, NY on March 30, 2011:
“It is a song, like a lot of my songs, about survival, and about looking into the face of people who do not wish you the type of survival you would like to have, and thinking toward them, ‘I wish yo...