1. A klezmer band from New York, Unit… Read Full Bio ↴There are 12 artists called Golem:
1. A klezmer band from New York, United States
2. A krautrock band from Germany
3. A pop rock band from Chile
4. A death metal band from Germany
5. A dubstep DJ from Croatia
6. A power metal band from Dominican Republic
7. A Japanese doom metal band
8. An Italian Electronic Melodic Death/Groove Metal band
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1. A New York City-based 6-piece klezmer band called Golem; most lyrics are belted out in Yiddish, Ladino, or even Slavic langauges, self-described "Eastern European folk-punk band". They were founded in 2001 by Annette Ezekiel and current members include Annette Ezekiel, Aaron Diskin, Alicia Jo Rabins, Curtis Hasselbring, Taylor Bergren-Chrisman and Tim Monaghan.
2. An obscure instrumental Krautrock band from the 70s. Their album Orion Awakes (1973) belongs to Pyramid Records archives.
3. A Chilean Pop rock band consisting in vocalist Rodrigo Quiroga, bassist Manuel Burgos, second guitarist and backing vocalist Olivia Alarcón, and drummer Marco Soto. They released their debut homonym album in 2003, and since their first appearance with their song "Creer", they have gained themselves a position as one of the most respected bands in the Chilean Indie scene, releasing their acoustic album "Unplugged" in 2004, the re-edition of their first album with new material in 2005, and their second studio album, "Pausa", in 2007. They are currently working on their third studio album, as well as acting as support band for the solo project of chilean singer Claudio Valenzuela, vocalist of the alternative rock band Lucybell.
4. A German Death Metal band who like to sing about many vivid and interesting topics. Like Mythology! And Fate! And also, Darkness! And Frank Herbert!!!
5. A Croatian DJ playing deep dubstep/drum'n'bass music in popular crew from Split under name LoopJunkies (organized in 2004.).
6. Dominican Republic Power Metal Band (DRPMB for short)
The only song recorded which can be found here is called "Oda Al Fuego" (Ode To Fire),
7. A Japanese doom/drone/stench band.
Sometimes
Golem Lyrics
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In this way your today will never come
Can't you see your are wasting your best times
Entrapped, entombed, slowly dying
Don't you think I'm a wise man
Someone can tell what's good or bad
I only know the way you are walking through
Sometimes you have to stop
Sometimes someone to listen to
Sometimes you need to grasp the hand
Someone is holding out to you
Fear not the words of this weird man
Some tips from an unexpected friend
Your life, the mirror of my own
My chance to have someone that's gone
I want you to know
No place where you can hide
And just there I go
To take you and your secret cry
I know the road
To come back when it is time
To face the world
Trust me, I'll be your guide
Sometimes you have to stop
Sometimes someone to listen to
Sometimes you need to grasp the hand
Someone is holding out to you
Fear not the words of this weird man
Some tips from an unexpected friend
Your life, the mirror of my own
My chance to have someone that's gone
I want you to know
No place where you can hide
And just there I go
To take you and your secret cry
I know the road
To come back when it is time
To face the world
Trust me, I'll be your guide
I want you to know
No place where you can hide
And just there I go
To take you and your secret cry
I know the road
To come back when it is time
To face the world
Trust me, I'll be your guide
The song "Sometimes" by Golem is a reflective piece that encourages listeners to live in the present and move forward from their past. The first verse warns against dwelling on past memories, as this can prevent individuals from enjoying their current experiences. The lyrics suggest that people who are consumed by their past are slowly dying, and that it is important to focus on the present in order to keep living.
The second verse introduces the idea of relying on others for guidance. The singer suggests that he is a wise person, with enough experience to tell what is good or bad. The lyrics go on to say that the singer has taken risks and learned from his experiences. He can therefore guide others through similar challenges. The chorus emphasizes that sometimes, people need to stop, listen, and take advice from someone who is willing to offer a helping hand. The final verse notes that the singer has gone through similar struggles and provides listeners with reassurance that he can serve as a trusted guide.
Overall, "Sometimes" is a song that reflects on the importance of living in the present, learning from past experiences, and relying on the support of others. The lyrics offer a message of hope and encouragement to listeners who may be struggling to move forward.
Line by Line Meaning
Stop refreshing thoughts of your past days
Do not dwell on your past experiences
In this way your today will never come
If you constantly think of the past, you'll never enjoy the present
Can't you see your are wasting your best times
You are wasting your time by not focusing on the present
Entrapped, entombed, slowly dying
Continuously living in the past will only make you feel stuck and suffocated, leading to a slow deterioration of your life
Don't you think I'm a wise man
I have gained wisdom from my life experiences
Someone can tell what's good or bad
I can identify right from wrong
I only know the way you are walking through
I understand the path you are currently on
I got lost, I came back, so now I know
I have been through difficult times but have learned from them
Sometimes you have to stop
Pause and take a break
Sometimes someone to listen to
It can be helpful to have someone to talk to
Sometimes you need to grasp the hand
Sometimes you need help or support
Someone is holding out to you
Someone is willing to help you
Fear not the words of this weird man
Do not be afraid of someone who seems unusual or different
Some tips from an unexpected friend
I can give advice as a friend who may be unexpected but is still helpful
Your life, the mirror of my own
I can relate to your experiences in my own life
My chance to have someone that's gone
I want to be there for you in a way that I wish someone had been there for me
No place where you can hide
There is no need to hide from me or your problems
And just there I go
I am here for you
To take you and your secret cry
I am here to support you through your inner conflicts
I know the road
I have experience and knowledge to guide you
To come back when it is time
To come back stronger when you are ready
To face the world
To confront your problems and challenges
Trust me, I'll be your guide
Have faith in me, I am here to help you
Contributed by Jacob O. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
GodfreyKnowlegehunter
Some thoughts......
This timeline supposition is bound to the idea of the scripts becoming complex enough that weirdness begins to happen.
Other golem concepts have other but similar issues.
The golem with the cores of precious gems or other things that requires magical glyphs.
This would likely end up in the same vein. But would be limited by the availability of gems. Untill someone figures out how to manufacturer the needed gem in a lab.
I ran across a story somewhere that described an ancient villain that bound the flesh of dwarves with that of stone. Making golems with the soul+ flesh of a sentent being.
Some I think broke from his control and learned to communicate again.
With this a society that before death encouraged the elders to transform into golem form to fight long with them. ( A step up from the undead in my opinion)
A thought about the script based golems.
Ink, paper, and the material that makes up the golem are all things that need to be accessed to maintain a continuous flow of golums.
Everything breaks down eventually. + War inevitably causes casualties.
A monarch that is totally dependent on a single type of golem is going to have a supply bottle neck somewhere. That if this point is pinched off. The whole support base for his military and economy would dissolve.
A likely reason golem based nations don't appear to often.
The parts that are needed to create always have an expensive magical and likely rare component.
That either can run out or be lost in conflict.
There are also golems that are more robotic in nature.
The way they move is through wires in a medium or plant like veins flowing through the medium they are created from.
Such as the DND warforged.
Great example of consequences of messing with weaponizing life.
Pyre
Tom: "I like to take an optimistic view of industrialization, but..."
Proceeds to describe the screaming nightmare/desperate wet dream of capitalism, where all labor is done by dutiful machines controlled by one or two people through the input of a couple commands, who then reap all of the profit.
Then proceeds to describe the fantasy equivalent of the one meaningful hypothesis we have about making true AI: you get a network that learns until it can think, reason, and make decisions like a person.
Because at that point it IS a person, thank you Masamune Shirow. Or Diane Duane, and "store enough magical energy in one place for long enough, and it will become self-aware."
And what happens next could be anything. D&D and Starfinder have both explored this, with Warforged and Androids respectively.
Or maybe golems really do just stay rare, incredibly dangerous tools of powerful arcanists. Shoutout to the guy on the last video who responded to this exact observation in those comments:
"Congratulations, you've discovered tanks."
Marco Genovesi
I think it would be worth looking into limitations of modern automation.
In most cases the biggest issue is startup cost. I.e. most jobs can be automated already but the automation that could replace them is vastly more expensive than having someone do that.
A classic example is final assembly of smartphones. Yes it can be automated. But it's a complex task and preparing the lines to do that would be more expensive than hiring some low-pay third world country workers.
Another one is for small production runs. Real automation makes sense over manpower only if you are making big enough production batches to justify the investment to set up the production lines.
And even then, the cost of a production line does not increase linearly with the amount of production capacity, the price increases more slowly. So for example you can get a line that produces 10x but is less than 5x more expensive.
For Golems I'd say they are a decent analog to modern automation. They are very expensive to make (in both materials and skill/time of a highly trained wizard), their programming when doing complex tasks is also complex and testing it to make sure they don't do bad things is also expensive.
A very important point is the material cost. Yes in the books it's said 10k 50k or whatever gold coin monetary amount. But that does not automatically those materials are available in an infinite amount to anybody that has the coin to buy.
A middle-age-ish society has A LOT LESS access to materials, because there is less people and less trade and less technology and less everything. Iron was not commonplace or "cheap".
So can you theoretically make a golem farm worker? yes. Can you make enough to replace the peons in any reasonable time scale? Probably not.
Is it cheap and reliable as just having a peon in indentured servitude? Usually not.
Now if there is a farmer shortage because they flee, get eaten, are too depressed to make kids so their numbers drop, then it might make more sense to start Golem-izing the farming, but even then it will be slow.
In a way, Golems follow the same logic as magic users. Why aren't all jobs done by wizards? Because they are relatively rare and expensive to train, so their time is too valuable to have one dude run around spamming Prestidigitation to clean the castle.
Yes you can have a process start where slowly over decades there is a change and then eventually you end up where everybody is a wizard and golems do every menial task and the janitor is spamming Prestidigitation to clean the school's toilets. But that's something that will happen on a longer time scale like in the real world with automation.
For undead the main limitation afaik was the control limit per necromancer, as undead don't really take programming and if they are not under necrodaddy's control they revert to feral.
Zahylon
Golems wouls, "realisitcally" be the combustion engines of a fantasy world, kicking industralization into orbit.
Picture an engine, just a cilinder with a gear/pivot sticking out, now...make an Iron Golem in such shape, it only needs to follow ONE directive; "spin the gear as fast as this lever tells you to do" ...now you have a pseudo-engine.
Fueled by Mana instead of Gas.
Such Golem-Engine will become the Car, the Mill, the Tractor and many other machines.
Soon you'll have tanks, planes, battleships.
The transmission won't need to be magical, but mechanical, only the Golem-Engine is magical, simply refueled by pouring a mana potion into the "fuel" compartment. So simple even your average soldier can do it.
The Future of Warfare
The Grungeon Master
Just to clarify, for the first part of the video I am discussing clay golems (I.e. those created from clay, prayers, scrolls and magic), which is where my expectation of the golem being a cheap enough labour substitute comes from. Certainly, if we start making clockwork or magically reinforced iron golems, this notion is right out of the window, which I kind of address in the second part.
Chase Phifer
Just gonna say it, but if a world has a lot of magic users, there shouldn't even be economics as we know it. It should be a moneyless post-scarcity society. You mean to tell me that wizards are abundant and can cast fireballs and resurrection, but can't make a simple cheeseburger 🍔😂
Magic users should be the replicators (star trek analog) or create replicators for the world.
Shroom
@Chase Phifer Depends on the magic system. Maybe they can't make food throwing a fireball is pretty damn different to making a burger. Although it would still be an abundant energy source.
starburst98
For comparison in dnd, the most basic food making spell is "goodberry", it makes 10 magical berries that can satiate a normal human for 1 day, they also lose their power after 24 hours. It is a 1st level spell, but only druids and rangers can learn it, the classes that need more harmony with nature to gain. You can't force a druid to sit inside all day and repeatesly cast the spell, that would probably damage their nature harmony mojo and they would lose the ability to cast it. Also, despite being first level it takes long rest to restore uses of it, so it is practically a once per day spell. The kind of spellcasters that get high level and have a lot of spell slots are ether ancient and have studied for decades, or adventurers who need the explody spells to fight the monsters to get exp to get those level. All said and done, it is extremely difficult to make mass amounts for food for many people.
Shroom
@starburst98 Though even if your magic system had no way of making food it could certainly help make growing it easier. What if fire spells were used to heat greenhouses without needing to use fuel for example.
Aiden Potter
I think what most people don’t understand about labor saving devices is how hard they are to make. Back when steam engines were invented they were a novelty. Same with robot. Same with gunpowder. Golems in worlds like dnd probably serve the same role as humanoid robots do in our world. Pretty uncommon, some countries have a few doing service jobs because they look cool. But that’s about it. It just isn’t economical to mass produce them.
Endymion Selene
Key word would be, "Yet".
the Prince of Awesomeness
the thing with Golems is that they are strong and can be used to carry stuff, but then also golems are expensive and can't do as much work at the time as any other human but they don't need to rest, futher more it cost more to create a golem then it cost to keep a labure force on the payroll for the rest of thair lifes. it would ether be something a stupidly rich persion commisioned or/and they would see more use in societies with less strong races
thekaxmax
depends entirely on cost, and that's setting-dependant. Also, note that a golem will last forever unless deliberately damaged, so long-lived species will take that into account.
Also note that a golem can do work that mortals can't, like standing in lava.
manuel ferrari
@thekaxmax However, golems are incapable of performing complex tasks and fill the same role as a very large and strong humanoid, nothing to justify the insane cost. Unless very specific situations, such as a mine with unbreathable air, they are never worth it as a workforce.
As soldiers or guards on the other hand...