Kingu's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #TheTowerOfBabel "so we can all discover strange tongues and familiar feelings and watch our tower reach the sky."
Screaming Dead - Tower Of Babel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVS8BJ5PdE
Going literal for the opening to this multi-lingual odyssey with this banger from UK horror punk outfit, the Screaming Dead. (It was this, or Skyscraper by Bad Religion for this spot.)
Korpiklaani - Saunaan
https://korpiklaani.bandcamp.com/track/saunaan
About the pleasures of staying up all night drinking in the sauna. Also, listen to Olli Vanska's violin work.
Lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/korpiklaani-saunaan-lyrics#translations
Epileptics - Suicide Season (prod. M¥KKA)
https://epileptics.bandcamp.com/track/suicide-season-prod-m-kka
I'm still into that one Mexican trap artist to an unhealthy degree
Ritualmord - Spår
https://ritualmord.bandcamp.com/track/sp-r-2
Rough machine translation of the Swedish lyrics:
"My whole body screams no
But it's just the feelings that bother me
It's just me who hears me out here
It's just me who bothers me in here
How can we talk about what we do not understand?
Do we have to pretend there are no tracks?
Do we need to open more wounds?"
Worhs - À vivre à mort
https://worhs.bandcamp.com/track/vivre-mort
French black metal song that I'm going to go ahead and call as being about being trans, particularly the last verse, which begins "I was the sister of the man who killed me".
But the first couplet is my favourite:
«J'ai vu un vice
Et m’y suis plongée >
("I saw a vice and I dived into it.")