Monster

Lamentations
Copyright 2021 Ryan Zohar
All rights reserved
Do not reproduce without the Author's permission.

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
I died in shadow
In a land I was a stranger to
I fell in the carnage
amongst the bullets as they flew
They raised a toast to us
but time has slowly let us down
They called me a hero
but it means so little now

[Chorus]
Who am I, what have I done
nothing to show for my rusted gun
with each new dawn we slip away				
they've forgotten us
and the price we paid

[Verse 2]
Another headstone
scribbled with forgotten names
my contributions
insured the world would surely change

They laid a flag on me
as they laid my corpse to rest
They told my wife I was a hero
for the bullets in my chest

[Chorus]
Who am I, what have I done
an empty name with an empty gun
caught in time's relentless flow
we're just pictures now
they will never know

[Bridge]
The world has forgotten all we've done
the next generation is blinded by the sun
and as time goes by, it depreciates	
for a sacrifice they just can't relate

[Chorus]
Who was I, what did I Do
we fought to change what we refused
our sacrifices overlooked
empty names in history books

Remember me, what we achieved
we died for what they'll never see
forsaken for the peace we earned
I guess that they will never learn

Lamentations

A cover of Diggy Diggy Hole I did to make a bit more... eh, brutal. 

Check out the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0

PS: I did this without permission, but I'm not making any money off my music so... eat it.

Diggy Diggy Hole (Heavy Metal Cover)

A traditional Christmas song as performed by Lizz Zohar. Arrangement and orchestration by Steel Angel Media.

Angels We Have Heard On High - Lizz

Djent 1

In celebration of 10 years, I went back and redid this from 2009. I'm probably going to ask Lizz to sing it. 

Make it through the night

A future so uncertain
blinded by our quizical minds
you and I push for the same
though love may keep us blind

for o'er the hills and far away
a kingdom in our hearts
will we survive the price we pay
or will it tear us apart

don't worry about a thing
I am by your side
if we don't make it through the night
then baby please don't cry
the waves are crashing down on us
and I don't want to die
if we don't make it through the night
then I'll lay by your side

angry voices shrill and high
criticize my lullaby
a future eases into unrest
but it will pass us by

don't be afraid of what may come
for I dear hold the key
in my heart is endless love
and I want you to share it with me

Chorus

so now embrace me dear
and hold your last breath
there is no danger or fear
that can keep us apart in death

Make It Through The Night (2016) Finished Draft

"Interstellar" 
Written, recorded and produced by Ryan Zohar

[Intro]
My heart beat races within me
as they count away
I spoke the words I've chosen
with so much left to say
I still see your face
when I close my eyes
did I say what I needed
to leave you behind

[Intro]
The endless sky surrounds me
as I drift into the stars
travelling at the speed of light
I'm nowhere close but I've come so far
is there life beyond the system
as of yet is to be found
it has to be so much better
than the life I left on the ground

endless swirls of dazzling light
dancing through my point of view
with every solar system passing
I discover something new
is there life beyond the system
or should I just turn around
it has to be so much better
than the mess I left on the ground

I'm going interstellar
to the heart of space
where I'm alone with my thoughts
and my demons I can face
The stars know my transgressions
let them judge me true
I'm going interstellar
to escape from you

Engage the rocket thrusters
I prepare for sleep
there is no going back now
I've come too far I'm in too deep
is there still salvation
for my isolated soul
I'm going interstellar 
escaping gravity's pull

I know you will forget me
as will everyone else
if I ever make it back there
there will be no one left
As I close my eyes
and breathe in deep
I still see your face
even in my sleep 

I'm going interstellar
to the heart of space
where I'm alone with my thoughts
and my demons I can face
The stars know my transgressions
let them judge me true
I'm going interstellar
to escape from you

[Musical Break]

I'm going interstellar
to the heart of space
Where I can love your memory
and my demons know their place
the stars know my transgressions
and it leaves me blue
Even interstellar
I can't escape from you

Interstellar - Single

Minority Report
By Steel Angel Opera
Copyright 2017

Come you one and all
give me your sick and poor
we will give you freedom
tax-funded house and more
healthcare, welfare
money in the bank
all you have to do is be a victim in the ranks 

if you have a drop of blood
that really isn't yours
and if you slave your life away
but still you come poor
government subsidies 
are waiting at your door
color doesn't matter to 
the minority report

[Chorus]
HEY YOU
Do you feel uneasy and oppressed?
HEY YOU
Does working leave you anxious and depressed?
HEY YOU
Come to us, you can rely on me
SIGN UP
and use your individuality
HEY YOU
You deserve a mansion on a hill
HEY YOU
we'll give it to you with a little pill
LISTEN LISTEN
as we fill your ears with swollen lies
YOU ARE A MINORITY
Come get your piece of pie

So you woke up yesterday
and feel a little hexed
you chopped off your manhood
so that you could change your sex
now you want a handout
and you feel abused
because the system doesn't cater
to the sexually confused

Well listen up, the time is here
stand up for your rights
you deserve to be yourself
and self-identify
so before you let yourself
fall to hipocrisy
jump on the bandwagon
and be a minority
[Chorus]
[Outro]

Minority Report

I hate you. You know who you are. This is for you.

Well you can't see the road I'm on
you're blind to all the ghosts that haunt my life
and you don't know what kind of man I am
I live my life on the tip of a double edged knife

(Musical Break)

You can't see through this shield on my soul
you can't see the black and twisted hole
you don't know me like you think you do
So I warn you now I'm all fucked up and it's all because of you

Chorus
Because You are the one who ripped my soul apart
and You are the one who tore out my heart
It was you, only you and you alone
you wrecked my mind, you wrecked my love and you left me cold as stone
it was you

This train wreck that was my so called life
is now a faded memory in the fog
I hold within my fingers what's left of my mind
nothing's been the same since you've been gone

Chorus
Because You are the one who ripped my soul apart
and You are the one who tore out my heart
It was you, only you and you alone
you wrecked my mind, you wrecked my love and you left me cold as stone
it was you
X2

So, Xyza wanted to know what I was doing in the studio, and I told asked her if she wanted to listen. She says, "It's alright." I say, "What would make it better?"

She goes, "Some singing voices." I chuckle and say, "Sweetheart, this is more of a screaming type of music - but you wanna see what you can do with it?" 

Next thing I know she's on the microphone blabbing on about Darkness in the night or something, no rhythm and no pitch control. Cute, right? So then I go, "Hey Xyza, give me a grrr." She does, it's weak. Then I'm like, "how about something a little more, guttural."

What follows is the demon that I awoke in the studio that night.

Epic Death Metal Scream Sampler - 6 Year Old

There you see her
in the shadows of the dark
dancing in the moonlight
sitting in the park
she always looks the same
torn up jeans and black ts
drenched in the rain
Beauty walks through the streets
you know her story
everyone around here does
whispered names in secrecy
a tragic tale of shattered love

she stands in the darkness
of graveyards every day
leaving flowers on tombstones
of the lives she takes
Beauty holds her head high
as another victim feeds
marching them through the darkness
her army of evil deeds

Beauty wears her burden
as if it was just another thing
she feeds on lives of the helpless
and shows them all that death can bring
his mark upon her neck
she never will forget
one cold night in his arms
an eternity of regret
every night emerging
to fulfill the task he gave her
promises of when shes done
he'll return and save her

she stands in the darkness
of graveyards every day
leaving flowers on tombstones
of the lives she takes
Beauty holds her head high
as another victim feeds
marching them through the darkness
with her army of evil deeds

she stands proud among them
the leader of everything
beauty surrounds her
her eyes the first thing you see
dramatic sorrow
of her life you can feel
as you give in
at her feet you kneel

by: Brittney Dawn Westbrook

Beauty

Darwin Strikes Again - Composed and written by Ryan Zohar, Copyright 2019

Lyrics
Little jimmy grew up on a hippie farm
but his mommy and his daddy never meant no harm
but they tended the grass at the local barn
and they smoked that shit like cheech and chong
when he tried to enter school at the age of thirteen
he found out his parents don't believe in vaccines
so as a homeschooler little Jimmy was a weasel
it's too bad the poor bastard had to die of measels

Cindy was a blond girl from southern cali
grew up in the burbs with a modern family
drove a hybrid car to save the world
but never grew up out of her valley girl world
now at nineteen she sits in her room and cries
because the world outside caught her by surprise
if she slits her wrist its natural I guess
for Darwin to strike again

Darwin strikes again x4

Bobby boy liked to run his mouth
his opinion was gold though, so he needed to shout
it's really fucking hard to give a damn
when you've got a million followers on Instagram
one day Bobby boy picked a fight online
never thinking it would bite him back in due time
so when he picked a fight with a bro named Matt
10 bangers chopped him up in a laundromat
Karen never saved a dime for school 
she was too busy getting drunk with her local fools
one day a cute doctor caught her eye
so when she asked him on a date she got denied
see it's hard to be attractive when you're broke as a joke
and if you've never been to college or know how to vote
Karen got left in her Cul-de-Sac
Surrounded by the meth heads that she called her friends

Chucky G likes popping caps
both guns and mushrooms to be exact
one day little chucky went a bit extreme
and overdid it on his dose of mushroom tea
he was pretty harmless, never been to jail
but that isn't where he ended up in this tale
he was arguing philosophy with a coat
and called the cops when it threatened to slit his throat
Shayla just couldn't get enough of that dick
now she's buried in debt and a single mom to six kids
and she cries and cries that she can't find love
even though she cheated on every single one
Now she's on welfare living in court
cuz she ain't getting shit from child support
she cries to the heavens for a light from above
but what really needs is to use a penis glove

For fuck's sake, they're called condoms and they're fucking free, you can get them almost anywhere! Go talk to your fucking doctor, Jesus!

Darwin Strikes Again x4

So on a personal note I think all of you stupid motherfuckers out there deserve to die
I hope you fucking kill yourselves you stupid fucks
And the next time you decide to do something fucking stupid
I hope Darwin bends you over and FUCKS YOU in the ASS

Darwin Strikes Again!

A cover I did of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence". 

Sound Of Silence

V1R@S

A remake of a song I wrote a few years ago. New and Improved!

She grew up watching indy flicks
wants to be in the corpse bride
The Rocky Horror picture show
sings the anthem of her life

She wears black on sundays
black lipstick and fingernails
listens to black metal
she's an angel straight from hell

She's a rebel without a cause
Gothic girl, Gothic girl
a damned soul who walks the earth lost
in love with the dead
her world is laced with red
straight to her head
Gothic Girl

The people round her fear her
she represents everything they're not
she's hated on by everyone
even her parents thinks she's lost

But she don't give a fuck about that
she's her and that's all she knows
black ribbons hanging from her dreadlocks
and tears ripped in her fishnet hose

She's a rebel without a cause
Gothic girl, Gothic girl
a damned soul who walks the earth lost
in love with the dead
her world is laced with red
straight to her head
Gothic Girl

Scratch me 
bite me 
Rape me 
Enjoy me
Taste the blood
I spill for you
Hurt me
kill me
fuck me
slay me
Gothic Girl
I'm the one for you

(Added 2013)
Now and then I see her
still wearing her gothic clothes
but the ring on her finger
tells me no, no no no no!!

I wonder if she remembers
the way we kissed that August night
on the gravestone of a forgotten soul
in the shadow of the moonlight

She's a rebel without a cause
Gothic girl, Gothic girl
a damned soul who walks the earth lost
in love with the dead
her world is laced with red
straight to her head
Gothic Girl



Gothic Girl 2013

A little diddly I wrote for Clan Draugadrottin at an SCA event.

Until Off to Valhalla we go

Unsheath you sword
and bear your shield
for the battle 
will not yeild

the fear won't hold
but victory will
so sing strong warrior
and drink your fill

Chorus
Tomorrow is another day
but will we live, who can say
and should the morrow make us cold
off to Valhalla we'll go

Kiss your women
hold them tight
for this may be
your final night

Drink your mead
in all its delight
the battle comes
tomorrow we fight

Chorus
Tomorrow is another day
but will we live, who can say
and should the morrow make us cold
off to Valhalla we'll go

Mercenaries 
vagabonds
warriors weak 
and warriors strong

May Odin watch 
o'er our final hour
as blood spilled
for glory and power

Chorus
Tomorrow is another day
but will we live, who can say
and the should the battle leave us cold
then off to Valhalla we'll go

 


The Warrior's Hymn (Off to Valhalla We'll Go)

Steel Angel Opera started as a Symphonic Metal collaboration of artists from around the world. Amongst our artists, we featured Lady Ember (lead singer) from Ottawa, Canada, Pulse Projection (Rhythm and electronic production) from Eastern WA, USA, and Steel Angel (Director, producer, yadda yadda yadda) from Bangor, WA, USA.

Steel Angel Opera is currently the solo project of Ryan Zohar, who writes as a hobby. Genres include Metal, Industrial, Synthpop, Djent, background music and media services recordings.

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