Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas posts have reached the half way point, day 6. The five posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub and the Postal Service. This years theme is deeply dark and not very festive. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Captain Bonespurs in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. Yeah, kind of depressing of course, but these are twelve fabulous tracks and whatever happens. Music has, and will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon! Maybe I need to make them into a playlist, what do you think?
Today’s song comes from the legendary songwriter and troubadour Tom Waits. The track is “Earth Died Screaming” the opening track on his 1992 album ‘Bone Machine’ which reached number 26 on the UK album chart. In my opinion this is perhaps the scariest song in the series driven by the sparseness of the production and the even more gravelly than usual vocal performance from Mr. Waits.
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