Symphony X - Paradise Lost *SUBSCRIBER REQUEST* (GRANNY METALHEAD REACTS) 

You are very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

Hey Mark! Thanks for the info and for letting me know I was kinda right about the song. It's been AGES since I read Paradise Lost so I don't remember too much about it. I'm glad you liked the shirt. I think the only song I might've heard (and I'm not even sure that I have heard it) from that album is The Trooper. If I did, it was only once a very very long time ago but I've always liked the album cover. I'm just weird that way. LOL Always a pleasure to see you hun. 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

Hey Chris!! Always a pleasure to see ya! I do want to check out music from the artists who appeared in The Day That the World Breaks Down so I'm so grateful that you gave me some suggestions ESPECIALLY the Dream Theater ones. I've heard of DT but never any of their music but Blind Guardian is entirely new to me. I'm gonna have to go back and see who these guys were in the Ayreon video - I've forgotten already. Sux getting old LOL All the best to you and yours. 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

I'd second Pull me Under and Under a Glass Moon. I don't know too much about Metropolis pt 1

Hey Alexander! How are ya doing? I really want to hear more from Russell Allen and I've read a few suggestions here that I'm really lookin forward to checking out. Some were from Adrenaline Mob so I might check them out before I return to Symphony X. Always great to see you my friend. All the best to you and yours. 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

@@GrannyMetalheadTV We are doing well to very well atm, regarding ukriane only 800 miles away and covid, you alwayg put an smile on my Face. i second Metal Mark, ghreat Maiden SHirt, wonderfull Longplayer, yet Not still is my GOAT Maiden Album:) Stell well you two, and enjoy yourself! Stay healthy Alexander Nürnberg Mittelfranken out:)

Oh YES! Thank you for the suggestions because I really would love to hear more from Russell Allen. 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

Yes, I do want to check out Dream Theater. I've heard OF them for years but never got around to listening to their stuff. I also look forward to hearing more Symphony X. They were so good! 🤘Thanks for watching!🤘 Kelly

Home is probably my all time favorite recording by DT.

The chorus "Looking down..." is the response to the verses by Lucifer by the Archangel Michael, taking in the end of the paradise intended for Adam & Eve. Crying for what was and what might have been, but is now gone forever. My take - and this is only my theory, I have no idea if it was intentional, you'd have to ask Russell - is that for the first two songs on the album, Russell sings it harshly because it is from the point of view of Lucifer as he rebels and fights against heaven; he is angry, he is raging, and he wants to take it up to God. When we come to this song Paradise Lost, Lucifer is, as you say, in a moment of reflection where the rage has temporarily subsided, and he can see the results of his actions and thinks "Did I do the right thing or not?", hence the softer vocal tone as Lucifer ponders his actions. He realises, however, that he has set himself onto a path, and rightly or wrongly he has to follow that path through to its conclusion; he can't go back and it is too late to stop. His actions have created his character. Which brings him to the heart-wrending line in the bridge where he declares "I'll savour the downfall of paradise", not because he is pleased with it, but rather he is ":savouring" it in a bitter ironic sense of "yeah, I guess that's all my doing". And even then the songwriting gives it a final turn of the knife.:"I'll savour the downfall..." - pause, allow Lucifer to look around and take it all in, and then, almost sorrowfully but with final fatal acceptance "...of paradise". Or I could simply be reading waaay too much into it!

@@b.k.4954 no, they're a prog metal band, and the rest of the album has subtleties like that, so i think it is intentional