Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas posts are now at day 7. The six posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub, the Postal Service and Tom Waits. This years theme is not very festive and is perhaps our darkest theme so far. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Putin’s Pedo Pet in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. These are twelve fabulous tracks despite the rather savage theme. 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? Some of you have contacted me with a resounding yes to the playlist. It will appear when we post the final installment a.k.a. day 12.
Today’s track is from Johnny Cash and the song is “The Man Comes Around”. The song gives itself to the title of the album it was featured on, ‘American IV: The Man Comes Around’. This was the fourth Johnny Cash album produced by Rick Rubin. It was the first in the American Recordings series to make the UK chart, it peaked at number 40 after its release in 2002. The song was released as a single in 2002 but failed to make the charts. The series produced six albums and lasted from 1994 until 2010. The lyrics reference the biblical book of revelations and were written by Cash years before this recording and they were updated for this record. The titular ‘man’ is most likely Jesus Christ. In my opinion this is a worthy part of our end of the world series!
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