I Am the Fear — Simon & Garfunkel × Iron Maiden | When Isolation Becomes Terror

I am a rock. I am an island. I am the fear I was hiding from all along.

I Am the Fear fuses Simon & Garfunkel's devastating "I Am a Rock" with the atmospheric terror of Iron Maiden's "Fear of the Dark." The folk confession becomes a metal epic. The fortress becomes a prison. The protection becomes the darkness.

Both songs were always about the same thing: the things we build to keep the world out eventually become the things that trap us inside.

Track 4 from "Tom & Jerry Meet Eddie" — our tribute series exploring what happens when folk poetry collides with NWOBHM power.
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🎸 ABOUT THE LESSER MORTALS

Seven musicians from Bangalore, India, carrying five decades of rock DNA in their blood. Two vocalists who trade fire. Three guitarists who speak in harmony. A rhythm section that locks like a vault and swings like a wrecking ball. Democratic songwriting. No frontman hierarchy. Just the song.

We believe in witnesses, not prophets — music that observes rather than preaches, that asks questions rather than delivers answers.
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 — Atmospheric intro / "A winter's day..."
1:06 — Verse 1: Deep and dark December
1:35 — First declaration: "I am a rock, I am an island"
1:56 — Verse 2: The fortress built
2:40 — Verse 3: "Don't talk of love"
3:29 — Verse 4: "I have my books"
3:58 — Final declaration + devastating outro
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🎵 THE HYBRID

Original folk source: "I Am a Rock" — Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
Metal framework: "Fear of the Dark" — Iron Maiden (1992)
Arrangement: The Lesser Mortals (2025)

This is a tribute recording — a love letter to both artists. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original artists or their estates.
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💬 THE TRUTH WE FOUND

Paul Simon wrote "I Am a Rock" as irony — the narrator is lying to himself, and we're supposed to hear it. But most people miss that. They hear strength in "I touch no one and no one touches me."

We wanted to make the tragedy impossible to miss. The fear isn't out there in the dark. It's inside the walls you built to feel safe.
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💬 WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

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