This beats the pants off Karate Kid: The Musical

A recent music discovery is Ludo - I've heard a few of their songs, but I'm still waiting for their main CD. The CD I have received already is "Broken Bride". It is a rock opera. It is amazing. And very sad, actually, albeit in a rockin' way. A scientist's wife dies in a car accident, and he builds a time machine to go back and save her - but by accident, he's transported alternately to the distant past and to the far, apocalyptic future. It has dinosaurs, zombies (a chorus of them), tragedy, mayoral suicide and a dragon. I suggest you check it out.


Excerpt from Part II: Save Our City

Mr. Mayor, the Mission burns
the zombies are marching, they close on the square
Families are cold, look down at their souls
huddled in camps on the old marble steps of City Hall
Faith in their God, that's all that they've got
Across the room, beyond the pane
the whole world is churning, bleeding and burning, hailstorms and ash
The moon is as blood
over the soldiers who sag in the mud.

CHORUS
Save our city
Keep our souls, Lord
Through the rapture
of this world.

Little boy, I'm just a man, a mere civil servant
against this tyrant God
I've allied with our King, salvation he brings
protecting the city against all the troops Heaven sent
but the dead walk again, this is the end.
Oh I'm just a man, my time has come
Long live King Simius! May he deliver us from this nightmare!
And with a blast like the sun
his lips are unwrapped from the barrel of his gun.

REPEAT CHORUS (Chorus OF ZOMBIES!)

Fought and fell for our great king
we burned alive and boiled
The dragon, red and wrathful calls
We rise and march once more.
Cursed in death, we starve for flesh
Our skin is cooked and curled
We'll eat our skin and smash them in
In Hell, we'll grind their bones.