Open the House - Arabesk Death Metal Edition

I posted the original version of this song on 3/18/2025 and it has garned exactly 1 view. So, I reworked it in Suno v5 as an Arabesk Death Metal song. Then I saw 🫶🫵Kry5tyn🖕🫵 upload a song as a video using CapCut which lets you view the video from the feed while also having a post.

I FOMO’d hard.

So, rather than simply swap out the audio, I spent way too much time today making a music video and uploading it as a Video Post. Now maybe this will get more than 1 view.

Open the House

This is a song from The Call of Mammitum.
Lyrics by Justin Zimmer¹, music generated by Suno.com (Full Playlist)

[intro]
(oooh-ooh-ooh, oooh-ooh-ooh)
Nobody sees death
Nobody sees the face of death 
Nobody hears the voice of death
No one can draw the shape of death

OPEN THE HOUSE! 
HEY DOORMAN, OPEN THE HOUSE!

[verse 1]
Cut away like grain in the field
The comely young man, 
the lovely young girl
the baby from her mother’s lap
the maiden in her wedding gown
Savage Death just cuts us all down.

[pre-chorus][shouted]
OPEN THE HOUSE! OPEN THE HOUSE!
HEY DOORMAN, OPEN THE HOUSE!

[chorus][powerful]
To the house whence none return,
Where kings bow low and wear no crowns.
Savage Death drags everyone down.

[verse 2]
When all the great gods assembled
With Mammitum, mother of fate
They assigned each a life
They assigned each a death
They marked out days for life,
but for death they set no end.

[pre-chorus][shouted]
OPEN THE HOUSE! OPEN THE HOUSE!
HEY DOORMAN, OPEN THE HOUSE!

[chorus][powerful]
To the house whence none return,
Where kings bow low and wear no crowns.
Savage Death drags everyone down.

[bridge][spoken word]
In the house where those who enter cannot leave,
On the road where travelling is one way only,
In that house those who stay are deprived of light,
Dust is their food, and clay their bread.
They are clothed, like birds, with feathers.
They see no sun. They dwell in darkness.

[breakdown][haunting female vocals]
oooh-ooh-ooh, oooh-ooh-ooh
Cherish the child who holds your hand
Laugh and love, dance and play 
Enjoy every treasure of life 
Before death drags them all away.
oooh-ooh-ooh, oooh-ooh-ooh

[verse 3]
We build a home for our children 
And they divide it when we’re gone
We fight wars over land and treasure 
And then the floods just wash it away
As dragonflies drift over the river
Their eyes upturned to the sun
Our ambitions rise and suddenly 
They all come undone.

[pre-chorus][shouted]
OPEN THE HOUSE! OPEN THE HOUSE!
HEY DOORMAN, OPEN THE HOUSE!

[chorus][powerful]
To the house whence none return,
Where kings bow low and wear no crowns.
Savage Death drags everyone down.

[break]

[haunting outro][haunting female vocals]
Cherish the child who holds your hand
Laugh and love, dance and play 
Enjoy every treasure of life 
Before death drags them all away.

[end]

1. Lyrics based on translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Descent of Inanna (Kramer/Wolkstein 1983, George 2003, Dalley 1989) Bridge excerpt: Enkidu’s dream of the underworld adapted from Gilgamesh Tab. VII (Dalley 1989, Pg.89).

Verses: Gilgamesh Tab X, Atrahasis Tab. III (George 2003, Dalley 1989).

Outro adapted from Gilgamesh Tab X. (Dalley, 1989, p.150).