Oh, Sleeper - "The Marriage Of Steel And Skin"

From the album, "Children Of Fire," available in stores & online now from Solid State Records! Download your copy at iTunes - bit.ly/nOI3a9 or Amazon MP3 - bit.ly/nxYBw6

[@ajc40341]

This song is still absolute top tier

[@Ocelot911]

this band is anointed period

[@sephrinx4958]

Holy fuck this song is extraordinarily brutal

[@pyr0manic15]

I just saw these guys live, and when he screams " I'll merry a blade to his throat" the crowd went insane..

[@BrianBridges]

1:35 "I now pronounce you man and knife."

[@nathanaelterzano2892]

It's beautiful

[@lloydfloyd15]

1:35 my favorite breakdown of all time

[@qwertyasdfg1261]

THIS ALBUM IS A COMPLETE MASTERPIECE!

[@burnurfurniture]

This song is about a father finding his daughter home, in a bed of blood. (her virginity has been robbed, due to rape). the father, like any father, is furious, and feels like he is the judge to kill the rapist. this seems harsh, but you have to remember, this is album is about the book of Revelation.

[@SVFOOTBALL33]

You definatly have to listen multiple times to get the full effect of this song

[@ThomasMegabezemboy]

Christians make the best metal, hands down T. Agnostic

[@damienbradshaw]

truth

[@El.Sasquatcho69]

I was in a Christian metal band and before we got distracted. Like smoking greenery an really some members egos more than anything. We were well on the way to being nifty. I think it was because of no distractions like partying gets in the way. I played in bands after an everyone had to smoke or drink during or before. An no offense I got creative sure but it threw off practice so bad. I wished I could go back I'd never started smoking in the first place. An this is coming from someone non religious it just tainted my whole mindset as a crutch for other things I felt.

[@CantNoScope]

Love this chorus, one of the best of ALL FRICKIN TIME

[@curtomaru8077]

The screams are fucking amazing

[@MetalMatron]

I wish I could tell my Dad what happened to us was not his fault. I feel like my silence on that subject directly contributed to his early death 😭

[@jowieseph]

Heavy af ❤

[@adrianyimboskates]

This is by far my favorite song on the album!

[@thefight4god]

when i start to head bang to a song that means i accept it, and understand it's meaning this song blew me away and hearing it a second time that's when i started headbanging because i believe in the message of the song ~God Bless~

[@ViXencra]

Gave me chills. God bless these guys. :)

[@penguinfromtheholy]

True man, people get too upset about different types of music and the lyrical content, if you don't like it, don't listen to it, if you like it, go for it! I go to Church sometimes, I'm not religious at all, but I enjoy learning more about it, as I do many different culteral and religious beliefs, it's interesting stuff either way imo :p

[@infernoxiv8700]

James Erwin explains in an interview that the new album takes place after "Son of the Morning" and follows the life of a Priest and his atheist daughter. The album is a spin on the rapture and explores how people would react in end times. At the beginning of the record, the Priest takes the role of judge now that he thinks God is dead and follows the daughter's path of finding God throughout the record. ^Copied from Wikipedia, just in case anyone was confused as to what the message is.

[@maxwelld23]

So powerful and amazing .

[@matthewburns3828]

oh,sleeper has done a god job love this song!

[@Sasuke3303]

"I’ll stand for the fires of the victims Left to die Left to die And I’ll stay until their cowards on a pyre Burned alive Burning alive" Wow, really powerful lyrics...I love Oh, Sleeper!

[@iamwildrift3665]

My favorite part.

[@exxinoxx7399]

This song is insane 🔥🔥

[@trishaxgore]

this is like the movie saw...in a song.....thats sick!!!!!!

[@Gaelheretic4]

You can't just shed your soul and let run all your thirsting tongues, love it.

[@TheVidSquids]

I LOVE THIS ALBUM!!!!

[@Aetyruzen]

Thanks, I'm gonna check them out now!

[@infernoxiv8700]

Brutal! The message is so intense. God, I love these guys. I'LL MARRY A BLADE TO HIS THROAT!!!!! :D

[@LK_EBM]

Thank you! You should do the meaning for all their songs!

[@kmmnderkoala]

there are several other songs that you should listen to before the family ruin. its a concept album, they're meant to be listened to in order, plus, the family ruin references claws of a god and means to believe, so those should be heard first.

[@metallicxx]

I need more songs that channel as much anger as this one

[@dayoftheVictor]

especially in The Family Ruin. it's all connected so reference to the previous tracks is made. not many bands do this type of things in their album but it's cool this way. i consider the album lyrically superior to many other 2011 releases.

[@oto1995oto]

@AuGustAbhor this album follows a story, so if you don t know all songs from it, you will probably understand it worng way. my advice is to read all lyrics of this album and also see an article in wikipedia about this album, you will get important information:) sorry for my bad english

[@michaelcalabria1772]

0:25 love it

[@MichaelMyers333]

This song is Fucking Amazing

[@TheBros2theend]

God bless

[@kwandersonusmc]

this song makes me think about when Noah's sons killed all the men in the small village because one of the men from the village had defiled Noah's daughter.

[@tavansickle]

You mean Jacob's sons?

[@midnighthymn]

@@tavansickle Lol yes

[@tavansickle]

@@midnighthymn I agree with the sentiment, though.

[@midnighthymn]

@@tavansickle I just wonder if he'll even respond since it's literally been 8 years.

[@tavansickle]

@@midnighthymn Probably not, but it would be cool. Lol.

[@TheBros2theend]

God bless heal and save you

[@Mikeyprs21]

You sir, won the internet

[@XquisiteHarmonies]

Heck Yeah.

[@Dimii256]

i is jizzing like hell!

[@StopTheClip]

@kah2017 i think hush yael is actually a different story tho. hush yael is the mom's point of view of what happened in her life. and hush yael is also a true event that occurred

[@diabangical]

The father, the zealot. "Our Judge is dead, but one must reside to bring down judgement." It sounds like the bed of blood is referring to the lyrics of the previous song. As he is a zealous believer in his Captain, any doubt, her doubt, specifically would be seen as an attack (of sorts), of course it has to come from somewhere, hence "What man has entered my home?" Here he starts his decline, assuming the role of Judge, and carrying forth acts of murder without any real direction....

[@xydex99]

So, CUUTT, CUUUTTT till the head comes offff!!! XDDD

[@xxDiiamondisHerexx]

I Love You.

[@multivman1]

whether you be a Christian or Atheist I believe has no point to this music, its good music for all, Christians can look at it as a renewal of faith Atheist's can look at it as an awesome story captured in an album and as a society that "prides itself on being free" we all should feel free to express our views in a non detrimental way towards our fellow human. served

[@thefight4god]

anyone know why this is called "The Marriage of Steel and skin" i know all about the concept of the album but i just don't know why this song is titled this

[@raiderlaw4]

Intense lyrics..

[@StopTheClip]

@kah2017 i know probably Hush Yael is the only one i fully Understand. and is probably on of the best in the Album.

[@cbrad27]

Nope. That's later in the album, on "The Family Ruin"

[@D17FaTaLiTy]

alot of oh sleepers song titles are in different songs of theres:3

[@somethingbeaster]

0 people can go...oh. 70 people rock!

[@setiwoh]

i'am confused by what their singing about...the persons who he want's to burn, to cut their head off? who exactly?

[@Aetyruzen]

Guys, thumbs up please. You HAVE to listen to "The Family Ruin" to get the full message. This is only a part of it. PLEASE listen to The Family Ruin after this song.

[@Flambchop]

Reading a lot of comments posted on all the songs on here, and it seams like it's just a whole bunch of controversy about God. Well, I'm just going to say it seams a little too much for a huge explosion to have happened by itself. I do believe there is a God that loves every man, and is willing to accept them into his kingdom. I've also seen people on here being a little hostile toward the atheists and agnostics commenting on a christian band. Remember, the Lord wouldn't hang around the people who followed Him all the time, but instead hung around the sinners and ones who were lost. I'm open to comments from Christians and Agnostics/Atheists alike.

[@smiglo112]

If you're right, and the god exists (which i don't believe he does, but that has nothing to do with what i'm going to say) and i mean YOUR god, not some Egyptian god of death or maybe Slavic god or gods or something, i really think he'd welcome all humans to stay at his side, no matter if he/she was a believer or not, if he/she was a religious person or not. After all, according to your religion god loves all humans, so why would he hate anyone, simply because he chose to go his own path, and not believe in him?

[@sbsnate2312]

Sidewinder This is not a direct answer to your question, but if you would accept Him and His Word, then you will understand why is that you ask.

[@smiglo112]

Sebastián Natanael Murillo Barrantes Never going to happen, i'm not going to betray my own beliefs... If i did that, what kind of a person would i be? Only weakminded people change their beliefs like *snap* done! Well that's oversimplifying of course, but i hope you understand what i'm trying to say? Because there are people, who believe in one thing, and then something happens, and they change their mind in a mater of days. Thus i'm not going to accept the word of christian god, same as i'm not going to believe in Allah, who btw is the same one, nor am i going to pray to Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Slavic or other gods, because i don't believe in them, and i doubt anything will change it. And the question is still up, according to christian and jewish religions, god created human and treats him like his child, and gave him free will. Why then should he punish people for chosing not to believe in him? I can understand if someone would misuse the free will, and do bad things, like murder... But simply going by and chosing your own way of life in no way is worth punishing. And if the god would do that, then your religion is all wrong, cause he's not a loving and caring creator of the world, but rather someone brutal, who likes to punish people, and wants them to follow his word exactly, and created free will only to punish people for chosing differently. Thus you have Allah then!

[@mage_of_pollution]

+88ThePilot Nope, this answers nobodies questions. Anyone smart enough to realize it, anyway. Heh. There's no WAY "He" is perfect if he said he created us perfect, then we go on to fuck everything up. He created us that way. Whoopsies, says God, and throws the ones that he created into Hell. Besides the sinner he, emphasize this, throws THE CHILDREN INTO HELL. ALL OF THEM. Seriously? Unless people with free will and decisions follow his every footstep, he throws them into eternal torture. You can't tell me that THIS makes any sense whatsoever. Amen to the Potato God. He lets his people go. XD

[@mage_of_pollution]

Well, like I said, he created us perfect, so why would we break away from that perfection? We were perfectly fine in our condition. So why would we be tempted? >_> It just doesn't make sense.

[@MetalCrusade777]

"And we'll stay till their cowards_____________________on a pyre." Does that visually bother anyone else as much as me? Or the fact that "they're" is spelled wrong?

[@justinorel6592]

Oh Chariot

[@Jestinhall]

@MetalCrusade777 not really

[@LilyRose-ge7yy]

2:00 🩵💙🖤💜💛

[@multivman1]

hows about everyone chill out and listen to the music, no? oh well, ok here's my stance, I believe in God, I believe that pastafarianism brings up some excellent point, If you are a christian that likes slayer or bring me the horizon then whats to say a non christian cant like oh sleeper or underoath? stories have meaning a majority of the time and either you identify with that meaning or you still find it a good book, either way doesn't make you anymore right or wrong then the other person.

[@Karnage515]

@xxDiiamondisHerexx I think we should just stay friends.

[@penguinfromtheholy]

I can see it a bit

[@metal4meaning]

Wow, what a screamer.

[@imgoingberserk5918]

Someone a said this ong is about Jesus. Though I agree that the art in music is that a song can be perceived differently by different people. But, the original meaning of the song is about a man who hunts down and kills the rapist of his daughter.

[@lust_for_snipers8951]

Hiøtr Björnson Snepill this song is telling a story of the man empowered by vengeance, but it actually represents how God will avenge his people in the book of Psalms. The cowards are the ones who make martyrs out of Christians.

[@Bubumbaful]

Everybody. . let us put religious disputes aside; there are forums for that. . .

[@ishroom321]

LMFAO I love that, keyboard warrior :P Grammar Police, Keyboard Nazi's?? :)

[@burnurfurniture]

After the original battle of God and lucifer. Where there's a period of 'silence'. The father is more than likely the man Micah says in a interview is a 'christian' who's a proclaimed christian, but doesn't walk it in real life. the daughter is a complete non-believer.

[@jbouthiettejr]

In the story, God has disappeared. The father (a holy man, I believe) feels abandoned, but as the beginning of this song explains, he'll take it upon himself to enforce God's moral law, apparently starting with his daughter's rapist. And in doing so, he seals his power-hungry fate...

[@silverstar671]

I'm glad someone is pointing out how terrible sex trafficing is.

[@CrossSpot]

Please everyone. STOP AND MEDITATE FOR OUR VICTORY!

[@ghostgate82]

I think this song might just be about the Antichrist violating the bride of Christ (the Church).

[@executer40]

I feel sad too, bro. Let's remember and act upon the love, aye? But I dunno, the lack of grammar does make for interesting interpretations. The, uhh, dichotomy by tony, probably shouldn't be there in the first place.

[@MrBluedevil0913]

this is about Jesus

[@MrEgofreak]

So is your language.

[@judetubeshoahedcasajb8777]

Wretched's Telegram sent me.

[@devxrogames]

Oh god, not another immature fifteen year-old who just learned his/her first curse words.

[@AsTheDayDies]

What I got from it was that the girl in the story has gotten raped and the father goes out and kills the one who did it.

[@DustyTheDog]

i just had an eargasm... =/

[@MyAssassin36]

So someone rhapped his daughter? I dont completly understand

[@RsAndTechno]

go to google and type do a barrell roll :D

[@cbrad27]

1:35 I always think of Assassin's Creed.

[@Rivor66]

Sorry but I thought this was Christian band, I'm not, but I can't help but wonder how can you write lyrics about such revenge and be Christian as well? My personal opinion on how to handle a major offence like rape is totally irrelevant. One more thought...How can you burn alive someone if you 've previously cut his head off?

[@Rivor66]

Rivor66 I don't mean to dis the band, I just found them today, but those two questions arised instantly. By the way, I really liked some of their music (and lyrics)

[@nathanolander8150]

Rivor66 i thought similar things upon first learning of the band, but though our God is a God of love and mercy, he is also a very just God, with righteous anger, there are many examples of this in the old testament, entire families were stoned to death because of one mans sin. to us humans this seems extreme, but we are used to sin, God is Holy and cannot tolerate be in the prescence of sin, which is why he sent his son to die on the cross and rise again, paying the debts for our sins, we are washed in his blood, instead of seeing the sinners we are that deserve eternal hell, He sees Christians with the same love that he has for his son. the old testament was under an old covenent with God, where executions and sacrifices were absolutely necessary for us (not that God needed it but we did) but after Christ we have new ways of dealing with things being backed by Christs love. sorry i kinda rambled on but i hope this helps im just really passionate about it lol

[@yeffug]

Rivor66 Lead guy explains album in this vid and how it can be confused and taken out of context. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4Godoeanpysrrc

[@SwishaSilva]

Each album is a story, from beginning to end. Watch the interviews with their vocalists Micah and he explains it pretty well. You're basically just brushing the surface when you look at the lyrics

[@chrisepperson5597]

Very legitimate question, In context of the album, he later turns to this song in family ruin. "Who took a license to kill without cost." In this song he says, "Our judge is dead, (Being God), but one must reside to bring down judgement." He's assuming the position of God. Nietszche, the atheist himself said this in his quote "God is Dead." "Will we not have to become gods ourselves worthy of such a deed?"

[@isxtian]

Ignorance inspired this song since natural disasters exists since the beginning of the human race!

[@Dimii256]

and to think i hated them last year, wtf was wrong with me?! :\

[@TheBros2theend]

Jesus Christ loves you

[@Revision8theories]

You will stand? You barely praise God with your music😠 Unfortunate cause they play so good.

[@Bubumbaful]

Na nigga im 18

[@RsAndTechno]

@MyAssassin36 raped?

[@devxrogames]

Oh god, not another keyboard warrior.

[@dylankalb9775]

THIS IS SCREAMO ITS CHRISTIAN BUT DONT EXPECT SO MUCH SWEET AND INNOCENT LYRICS

[@bespear73]

It's metalcore not screamo.

[@JinxxBootheBrink1313]

im atheist tbh, not that its relevant anyway, and i love this band to death but the incorrect use of "their" still bothers me to this day.

[@penguinfromtheholy]

Lmfao, you're like 12, relax bro :p

[@rockaholicangel523]

This is not Christ like.

[@cwheels01]

That's the point. We do things that aren't Christ-like against God's will. And He weeps. Listen to Family Reunion on this album.

[@sterling9314]

Listen to the whole album. This is part of a larger story that they’re telling.