Revenant - Prophecies of a Dying World (1991)

Information

Artist – Revenant

Album – Prophecies of a Dying World

Label – Nuclear Blast Records

Released – April 1991

Type – Full-length

Genre – Death/Thrash; Death Metal; Thrash Metal

Notes

Music video

- The Unearthly (A Quest)

Trivia:
- Henry Veggian said in an interview once that this album's lyrical content was influenced by some work of H.P. Lovecraft.

Recording

Assistant producers Chris Milnes & Revenant.
Recorded at Quantum Sound, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.

Identifiers

Barcode: 727361600211
Label Code: LC 7027
Rights Society: GEMA

Tracklist

1. Prophecy of a Dying World – 06:14 >

I spoke to horrors of a dying planet Creatures of a drying sea Nature was forever altered, warped by reality A truth to me was then revealed, born on the wings of destiny Decaying in my silent grave I spoke to kings of heirless thrones An oath to me there was sung The prophecy of their bones I saw by the light of a dying sun A world drowned in blood Descent into ancient crypts of purity unpolluted Transformed to a point of light my essence reconstituted I prepare to carry my burden, prophet of a dying world Into the endless continuum Fated servant to mankind Born predestined to let sound The herald of our doom "And the empires will rise and grow mighty, Engulfing all humanity in their tireless domination, erasing The past and twisting the future... in ancient tombs forgotten Spirits will wither and die, and from the dust of these Crypts there shall rise an entity born of vengeful winds, And from his soul beings will spew forth, abominations Of consciousness who will corrupt and weaken the world, Twisting dreams into nightmares, creating new pain, a suffering That will last forever, and curse our lives through all time..." Apocalyptic visions invade, and the grave opens before me... I ascend from eternal crypts my purity reinstated Cleansed of my human faults I accept the existence to which I am fated Returned to my silent grave Mute witness to our end An oath it is that I now sing The harmony of my suffering I speak to those who shall forever be Twisted spirits who refuse to die Skeletons of forgotten kings In swollen tombs of man they lie I see by the light of a dying sun A world drowning in blood...

2. Spawn – 05:21 >

Within the tombs of the centuries The gods of the void awaken What has past is retribution The mirror of our damnation In the seeds of time Negative beings leave their spawn Demented obscenities manifest Ravenous appetite led by insanity - A thousand years of misery In the seeds of time My image appears in fury Raging through the centuries To avenge my progenitors For now that I am free The time is at hand No safety in my judgement When my vengeance engulfs the eart Damnation born upon pestilent winds Unleashing the fury of those reborn Armageddon descends upon apocalyptic horses Driven by warriors of hate Emissaries of vengeance ride forth from the sun Flames consume our dying worlds And all the blood shed by the past In violent glory shall cleanse the earth at last SPAWN - malevolent beings rise Ghastly hunger in their eyes SPAWN - The breed of abhorrence Mankind's abomination SPAWN - Devourers of the earth Creatures of the abyss SPAWN - Precursors to our failure Children of the beyond

3. Ancestral Shadows – 06:51 >

Awoken from dormancy I find myself alone Standing in primordial ruin Of an ancestry unknown, a race of elder gods Dreams caress my agony as I live in decay My spirit pines for a time before humanity Voices haunt my sleep As I travel by the moon Vibrations from the dawn of time Shadows beckon me Cannot resit my heritage I leave behind a corpse Torn back through the ages Through the memories and dust To lands of ancestral shadows... Arrived my visions a reality My reign to survive eternity An emperor of chaos A ghost of insanity Enthroned I am now king Dominating prehistory A forgotten lord of blasphemy But soon the time shall come When I awake in frenzy To slaughter the invaders Known to me as man

4. The Unearthly (A Quest) – 04:45 >

I am sinking into caverns of my mind Dark abyss has opened Into breathless midnight I lose identity Subterranean descent into ultra conscious non existence Abstractions are elusive, reality confining Illusions are redefining As I approach my genetic core As I approach the unearthly World of grotesque images Abrasive complexities threaten Symbolic metaphors approach Thoughts devour thoughts Through my being unexplored Times ceases continuity Shroud of weightless life Plunging into depths unknown The unearthly - Isolated within Sub atomic reasoning Creatures uncertain distances Between reality and consciousness Temporal existence disintegrates into micro molecular infinity Representations of ideas cloud eternal skies beyond the minds eye Thoughts devour, thoughts devour, thoughts devour...

5. Asphyxiated Time – 07:55

6. Distant Eyes – 07:16

7. Valedictions – 07:30

Total length: 45:52

Lineup

Band Members

    Henry Veggian – Vocals, Guitars

    Dave Jengo – Guitars

    Tim Scott – Bass, Vocals (backing)

    Will Corcoran (R.I.P. 2022) – Drums

Miscellaneous Staff

    Bill Klatt – Producer, Engineering

    Cally – Cover art (uncredited)

    Chris Milnes – Producer (assistant)

    Markus Staiger – Executive producer

    Repro Desaster – Cover concept

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Num Skull - Ritually Abused (1988)

Information

Artist – Num Skull

Album – Ritually Abused

Label – Medusa Records

Released – 1988

Type – Full-length

Genre – Death/Thrash; Death Metal; Thrash Metal

Notes

Recording

Recorded and mixed at Opus Recording Studio, Gurnee, Illinois.
Mastered at Capitol Records, Hollywood, California.

Identifiers

Barcode: 018777227315
Matrix / Runout (Side A): S-20188 72273-1-A G-1 △ 21602 1-1 MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Side B): S-20189 72273-1-B G-1 △ 21602X 1-1 MASTERED BY CAPITOL

Tracklist

1. The End – 00:16 >

The End is near!

2. Ritually Abused – 04:42 >

Satan, He lives today in children who's minds decay Their elders have lost their way From Jesus to Baphomet, and worlds of Unholy Are used to alter their brains They're teaching them worship of evil Not heavens in the sky So wake up and see today some children have no escape Or freedom, or hope to pray They're banished from the normal play Actions of their elders are focused on unfocused ways They're learning ato live out their life In sick mollific ways Saddened priest of white religious worship Fall to their knees in disbelief Shattered hopes ot one essential worship The lord almighty "Jesus Christ" Time will pass though both religious last The books of both will flood the earth Future or past, existence of Black Mass Has threatened the meaning of our birth Weak little children six years into life Are forced to betray the blessed cross Caressing the Dead and tasting the blood Tormented and ritually abused, so it is done The words of the priest The rings of the bell pollute the air The chalice is drained, Satan is praised A frantic orgy ends the Mass Impression is made, a young mind is stained The knowledge of freedom denied First had come guilt the parents had built A trouble mind corrupts the child Involuntary use of Black Evil religion Foul Witchcraft and spells of Demonism Young mind amounting to a smidgen A forgotton child of Unholyman's upbringing

3. Death and Innocence – 04:59 >

[Act I] Executed for something that you've never done Your life has barely even just begun You swear every last one would pay You promise to return from the Grave As a man of religion you will die But the promise of God is lies Your faith was given all in vain Hope - mere illusion in your brain Free from grace of Holy Rest Absolute nocturnal death Soon lie in the grave awaiting those to be repaid The trial - how long you have waited for this day Guilt is what you hope they won't say But luck forgot your name this day! Sent to Death Die No delay Now in your grave you rot, deep inside your cemetary plot Your epitaph spells out lies, as a friend looks down and cries Break the brace of certain death, return from your eternal rest Strike out from your very grace, soon they all will be repaid As you rot awaiting your great transition Patience is a virtue in this plight Hell's price for rebirth and reprisal Long awaited Many Full Moon nights [Act II] Now the time has ended, your corpse has fallen to dust Your Blessed Death the jury's invitation For you're falsified unjust Now you'll gain the satisfaction of your unrelenting thirst But the Hell that's expected now a violence getting worse [Act III] My soul is reborn with hatred and scorn For vengeance of death and not prison Beware of my toll I'll torture your soul From the Black of Hell I have risen The jurors die in cold blood in their bed For the verdict that left me dead And for the lawyer the went unsaid A pathetic man from Havard now dead The judge will be torn at his seams For the hammer that smashed my dreams Now they're all here in Hell They learned a lesson I can tell [Act IV] Free from all the misery, I killed those who sentenced me Sent to die at twenty-three, now I roam the fiery sea A case with no evidence ends in Death an Innocence Easy people are misled Soon victims of Undead

4. No Morals – 02:26 >

There was a man who had a plan that took a bit of wit He took the earth, made human birth And left it all to sit With just one guide he's set asidein which we were to learn To choose his path or feel his wrath and go to Hell and burn! We all believe in this way Believing that we should all pray Life slips away No more beliefs As violence and death comes our way Its all the same, quite like a game but not upon a board A complex one, not for fun - created by the Lord You cannot win by choosing sin kwoning Hell awaits Just sing his song and play until you reach the Gate Such a struggle always trouble, not what you'd been taugh Turn to sin and soon begin to loose your train of thought Now to you, nothing true - you've lost your sense of care And now the game is not the same and was never even fair

5. Friday's Child – 04:55 >

The night was dark/moon was full/fog was thick/the air was cool The sense was set without regret, all that come shall not forget They gathered here and all did follow To greet the child of no tomorrow To see the speed of life and death To feel the strength of Satan's breath It happens every hundred years When mortals choose their strengh in fear They'll sacrifice a newborn child Bred to die all the while Friday's child will die at birth, a test of faith to prove their worth They conjure Satan to bring him higher The infant screams while bathing in fire The Mass of Hoods that make the crows close to Death Chants get loud.... The Witch is cast into labor.... She pleads but nothing can save her Sound of birth - hear it cry Soaked in blood - ready to die Altar of Fire burning hot This is Hell, heaven is naugh Feel the fire, hear the call The sickness of Satan fills them all Watch the saviour take his final fall!

6. Off with Your Head – 03:35 >

After the victim's final plea, from the scene you will flee Then you wait until the night, keep yourself out of sight Hiding out in the trees, cold sweat as you freeze French come hunt you down, await the trial back in town Off with your head! Soon you'll be dead! Bloody and red! Corporation Pull-in Evidence piles high, jury looks you in the eye Primitive society, convicts you - you're guilty From your window you will see where your figure is to be You can't sleep, you can't eat 'cause you know that you're Dead meat Time has come, you will die - see the fear in your eyes Drop the blade, hear the chop - now your life and all will stop Off with your head! Now you are dead! The blood is so red! Off with your head! Off with your head!

7. The Henchman – 04:47 >

I was born "The Master of Death", creation of Hell "Lucifer's Breath" Sent to kill drifting through time, entering souls controlling their minds I killed the King, I shot the Pope I raped your wife and then make her choke Once as a priest I killed a goat Now in the night I cut your fucking throat! Day after day, year after year Breeding the dead, the reason I am here I never die - I'm Death it selves I fill the ground and I fill the shelves Electric chair - I pulled the switch And in the past I drowned a Witch I killed the Jews they threw in a ditch I put the dead into their crypt I stalk you/I hunt you/I chase you/I rape you! I shoot you/I choke you/I stab you/I burn you! I beat you/I axe you/I drowm you/I chop you! They bleed as they plead as they cry and then die!

8. Pirate's Night – 04:39 >

Cannon balls are waiting - heavy, hard, and black Waiting for the time, in which we will attack Jolly Roger is flying high, seeks you like a scout Treasure, death, and piracy is what we're all about We climb abroad your ship to penetrate your neck To leave you in the blood spilled across the deck And if we let you live you'll have to walk the plank You know you can't survive this homicidial prank With vultures above and serpents below Out on the high seas there is no place to go It's Pirate's Night, Pirate's Night They're out to kill, they set sail tonight We'll sail up the coast to rip a little more And leave behind the helpless ships To coat the ocean's floor Blackbird and Captain Hook A few that keep the faith! We all stand together Though each other we hate With the heavens above and Hell below We still pledge to kill, to rape and to rogue

9. Turn of a Screw – 04:13 >

The Devil's dungeon has trapped inside Your cynical thoughts of death Endless suspicion, driven solely To trouble your knowledge of release Twisting and turning I'm urging Questioned oppression that you deplore Searching for answers, there are none in store All leading to reasons of when you will die Soundless hysteria echoes so loudly Through channels of your brain Shredding your lucidity Caused by the constant driving crave Seeking and searching you look for the key Too clever, so never will you be free Harassing and haunting Excision of mercy, all ceasing of soundness Confounded you lose The foolishness of yourself has found you Locked up in a cage Discretion of your brain Has left you knowledgeless of your Age You know not yourself, you know not existence Your insight on life is unknown You trouble yourself with Theory of Death Inversion in you has shown Your mind is in pieces, your conscience is dead Your activities are restained You've hounded yourself with Theory of Death You've driven yourself insane

10. Kiss Me, Kill Me – 05:02 >

I met there by the stairs She seemed to catch my eye An unkwon love sent from above The last before I die We carried on through the years, getting worse and worse As time went on our love was gone, never ending course I couldn't see why she left me All I could see was death I'd made my mind to leave behind My body, my life, my breath I'll buy a gun, have some fun Blowing my brains out the back A helpless try to make her cry As I perish into the black She kissed me, she killed me The love that onve filled me turned black inside my heart She kissed me, she killed me Life no longer thrills me - death to me my only friend Soon to be just a memory I sit and stare at the gun On this night, a silent night My life of death has begun On to my lips th cold barrel sits Aiming for my instant death I pull the lever, its now or never As I breath my final breath She kissed me, she killed me The bullet that fills me will stop the sorrow and hell She kissed me, she killed me You know I go willingly leaving this world behind

11. Rigor Mortis – 02:50 >

Asleep at dawn, awake at dust Arise in the night time my right time for lust Morbid dreams, unreal it seams Down to the morgue as our Lord lies asleep Creeping in unleashing sin To invade the decayed corpse within I love the touch almost too much Sensing a thrill from the chill as I touch Stiff and cold she lied Her life has gone to hide Her fluids have all dried The smell of death inside Reeking, leaking As I plunge deep inside Searching for love that I knew I would find Down at the morgue there are stored at this time Bodies that rot, lie dormant till their time Awaiting the seeds that I bring Relentless affection, perfection, injection No presence of mercy in sight Love after death, no heartbeat no breath the contents of this horrid plight Losing my mind falling in love with the dead!

Total length: 42:24

Lineup

Band Members

    Rob Charrier – Bass

    Skip McGullam – Vocals

    Eric Seiller – Guitars

    Tom Brandner – Guitars

    Jeff McGullam – Drums

Miscellaneous Staff

    Gary E. Modica – Executive producer

    Scott Jackson Studios – Cover art

    Sister Bertrille – Design

    Jack Cordt – Photography

    Eric Greif (R.I.P. 2021) – Producer, Songwriting (track 1)

    Alan Pangelinan – Engineering

    Eddy Schreyer – Mastering

    Peter J. Lupini – Producer (Assistant)

    Skip McGullam – Songwriting

    Tom Brandner – Songwriting

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Killing - Face the Madness (2021)

Information

Artist – Killing

Album – Face the Madness

Label – Mighty Music

Released – August 13th, 2021

Type – Full-length

Genre – Thrash Metal

Notes

Music videos

- Kill Everyone

Recording

Recorded and mixed at Dead Rat Studio, Åarhus, Denmark , August 2020.
Mastered at Audiosiege, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Tracklist

1. Kill Everyone – 02:04 >

Living as zombies Men on the edge At the toxic asylum we live Guided by voices Mission is clear We are the takers of life Future or the past Life will never last I am seeing so clear Try to forgive Try to forget What they did to us I can hear the voices sing Kill everyone Pills don’t work Doctor was a jerk He’ll never be missed Along with his staff Cut up in half Smile as we leave them to rot I can hear the voices sing Kill everyone Adrenaline rush Feeling so high Walls covered in blood Forget therapy Kill to be free Finally we can check out I can hear the voices sing Kill everyone

2. Before Violence Strikes – 03:24 >

Bloody madness Floods the streets Terror lives here One more night in hell Trusting no one Hide or fight Paranoia Who will live to tell? Running for your life Before the violence strikes Spare those words to god He won’t save you now Driven by a force A dark power inside Death under the moon Beware – here comes the purge Sound of chaos A world of decay Mind of demise Claims another soul Running for your life Before the violence strikes Spare those words to god He won’t save you now Driven by a force A dark power inside Death under the moon Beware – here comes the purge Running for your life Before the violence strikes Spare those words to god He won’t save you now Driven by a force A dark power inside Death under the moon Beware – here comes the purge

3. Don’t Get Mad, Get Evil – 04:51 >

I’m a war machine I’ve been kept so clean And I‘m ready to strike Searching around the town For another fight Each day the bottles gather up And I’m losing my mind They took away my everything Now I’m stuck in the void Each drop of blood Every broken bone Has taught me a thing That revenge is best served cold And a little morbid Each day the bottles gather up And I’m fading away They took away my everything Now I’m stuck in the void Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil All soaked in blood I walk the streets With a grin on my face There is no point of return From this state of mind Each day the bodies gather up As I’m killing away They took away my everything Now I’m taking their lives Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Try to stop myself Know that this is wrong And everything I do Is not really me The madness has to end Have to kill myself But before I do Something must be done Kill everything and everyone who was part of this regim That made us all fight in this war I’ll make you beg I’ll make you crawl I’ll make you bleed out on the floor Until you wither and you die There is no ending to this madness I think I got a little carried away Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil Don’t get mad, get evil

4. See You in Hell – 04:47 >

For my sins I’m condemned To walk my last mile Death is reaching out for me I’m not scared For the fate that awaits My last journey is a new beginning As life is leaving me You’ll hear me laughing out I’ll see you in hell My body starts to rot in the frozen soil My new form is taking over I can travel throughout worlds Hunt and track you down Thoughts of death will feel like heaven And when you feel me near I’ll whisper in your ear I’ll see you in hell In the chains you will hang In the flames you will burn From the knives you will bleed From the pain you will scream Welcome to your new home Where the weak become strong Caught in a never-ending maze Tortured forever Don’t you feel at home?

5. Legion of Hate – 03:35 >

We are the riders of crushing demise Thrown to the lions, left here to die Life in the shadows never to be tamed by them Nightmares of evil takes me away Hellish aggression Meet our legion Vengeance of fire Blood from the skies We are the horror – meet our legion of hate We are the sickness, the venom in your mind Shocking your values, ending your life Striking with fire, a future in flames will burn you Nightmares of evil takes me away Hellish aggression Meet our legion Vengeance of fire Blood from the skies We are the horror – meet our legion Pain is all you’ll ever know See the sadness watch it grow You are now a prisoner in our own mind Every thought is my command Every deed and every plan Was created by our legion of hate Nightmares of evil takes me away Hellish aggression Meet our legion Vengeance of fire Blood from the skies We are the horror – meet our legion Nightmares of evil takes me away Hellish aggression Meet our legion Vengeance of fire Blood from the skies We are the horror – meet our legion

6. Straight Out of Kattegat – 05:23 >

In the dark deep of night Far away from shore Rust breaks through the waves An oversight to deplore Leaking nuclear waste Painting the ocean green Swallowed by the waves Spawning a killing machine Feeling the rumble below The essence of horror you’ll know Shredding through all in its path Straight out of Kattegat Ship after ship disappear No witnesses, talks or tales Scrapes of blood in the sea Among steel and torn up sails Questions line up in their heads As pieces of men float ashore Is this thieves, pirates of worse A monstrous beast of war Feeling the rumble below The essence of horror you’ll know Shredding through all in its path Straight out of Kattegat Out of the fog a creature of rage Is tearing the vessel apart Hull in splinters, panic arise Everyone fear for their lives Over the side they try to escape Into the freezing abyss Facing the beast, the terrible fate Within the maw of the damned Man overboard Leaders of the world Gather their forces strong To end the terror for good To right what went wrong Days and weeks they searched For the creature they would kill And in the dark deep of night They would finally bend to its will Feeling the rumble below The essence of horror you’ll know Shredding through all in its path Straight out of Kattegat

7. One Last Victim – 04:53 >

I am schizophrenic Hallucinating about death A dark desire Is waking in my mind Suppress those inner needs Avoid to feed the beast A little death And pain is all I need It’s time to summon the beast One last victim is all I need No more control it will unfold A growing lust My hand is reaching Out for that old knife Stalking the streets at night This will be my last kill I promise you again Just like last time It’s time to summon the beast One last victim is all I need

8. 1942 – 04:47 >

Listen to the troops They are marching in our streets Population crying in fear Living by the rules 1942 – first resistance crew Sneaking through the night With a mission on their head Gang of friends Are out to sabotage the enemy 1942 – first resistance crew Staying low Spying in the foe You hold your breath Hiding in the dark Boys become men Someone talked Revealed our plan this night A rat we have to lay down To rest in pieces More and more will join our troop Now the eagle of iron shall fall Casualties will come Crying over the lives That we lost in the war Their death and bravery Will never be forgotten 1942 – first resistance crew

9. Killed in Action – 06:54 >

The daylight is fading away I’m sickened by the thought Of another night in this hell How long must we go on Until we are through? When will we reach the end Escape from here War War The tears fall from my eyes Life fades away Was this a fair price to pay For victory The night reveals our fate A dying hope We will never forget Our judgement day War War The tears fall from my eyes Life fades away Was this a fair price to pay For victory Can’t move Can’t speak I’m turning cold Can’t see Can’t feel I’m all alone Hoping Screaming From within Crying Dying Fall to the ground I am fading away Each second slows my heart I’m breathing out It gets darker now If not for peace What was it for? If not for us Who was it for?

Total length: 40:38

Lineup

Band Members

    Jesper Fogh Skousen – Drums

    Kristian Snedker Johannessen – Guitars

    Rasmus Holm Sørensen – Guitars

    Rasmus Soelberg – Vocals, Bass

Miscellaneous Staff

    Brad Boatright – Mastering

    Camilla Lundbye Photography – Photography

    Jacob Bredahl – Recording, Mixing

    Mario López – Artwork

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Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn (2019)

Information

Artist – Oath of Cruelty

Album – Summary Execution at Dawn

Label – Dark Descent Records

Released – December 1st, 2019

Type – Full-length

Genre – Death/Thrash; Death Metal; Thrash Metal

Notes

Recording

Recorded at GAB Recordings, Irving, TX and at Audio Alive Studio, Spring, TX.
Mastered at Mammoth Sound Mastering, San Francisco, CA.

Identifiers

Barcode: 767870659102

Tracklist

1. Pounding Hooves of Shrapnel – 02:38 >

Beyond the concussive array of wicked blast Cauterizing punished landscapes To mitigate this infection called life Heroic troops of imperial 'liberation' Reburied into warm soil Rhythmic pound of carpet-bombing raid Failing in a boiling mist of grime Choked on blood and chlorine vomit Drinking forth from the bitter elixir of death Trained upon the hammer blows of ordnance smashing down Airless, stifling bricked-up makeshift bunkers Infrastructure devastated, months of hundred-year duration Long-resigned to the ravages of barbarous imperial greed Pound, the hooves of shrapnel - rap upon the raising gate Plunging into panoramic rifle combat Nationalistic, idiotic apathetic throngs Sinister, kakistocratic scum Beyond the concussive array of wicked blast Cauterizing punished landscapes To mitigate this infection called life Heroic troops of imperial 'liberation' Reburied into warm soil Rhythmic pound of carpet-bombing raid

2. Stabbing Forth with Invincible Damnation – 03:12 >

Rivers of steel - projectiled assault - the rites of mass perforation Maschinegewehr null acht frases an entire generation The pungency of a mud heavily comingled with human entrails The soil tilled through pulverized bones of seventeen million men Luster - gleaming - apex of engineering Precision machinery dealing death Vaulting up a ladder from a trench into a very certain end A stiffening limb, bleached by sun, tank is over-rolling The metallic helm - a leathery deathmask's scarce concealment Industrial gears turn ever faster - incinerating Orgy of burning propulsion Luster - gleaming - apex of engineering Precision machinery dealing death Vaulting up a ladder from a trench into a very certain end Woe, the mistral of screaming lead's forge Pummeling shells cleave open earth, and swallow legions Young, frightened conscripts, already fearful in their state From the harrowing experiences in the warfare that they've faced Prematurely worn, those who yet survive - adorned in crude prosthetics Woe, the mistral of screaming lead's forge Pummeling shells cleave open earth, swift death infliction Frantic gunfire flurry - death-dealing armaments Trenches bogged down in the slaughter

3. Through Alchemy and Killing – 03:07 >

Fear the fiendish despot, robes of highest faith Sickening pallor and a gluttonous wrath Fingernails are eaten - severed, but with mirth Deny the origin of man Sinister usurper, yielding evil scepter The wine of carrion's draw Splitting the wicked finger - grinding into dust Relent - the bountiless catch A clasp for power - coerce the shrewd with brutish force Duped by the esoteric - behold, the idiot demagogue Concealed in a copse of blackened birch A hovel of stone filled with distilling apparatus Talismans and meaningless trinkets Idiots gather around a cauldron Coercing the shrewd with brutish force Worshiper of nothing - mumbling incantations Of stifled, dumbened magic Appeal to an empty sky - stinking rites of incense Thrice inbred, the foolish convene in towers A clasp for power - coerce the shrewd with brutish force Duped by the esoteric - behold, the idiot demagogue Forging steel in an unclean fire - through alchemy and killing Sacrifice and dark wherewithal - through alchemy and killing

4. Pathogenic Winds of Swarm – 03:46 >

Opened, the trade routes to The newest whims and wonder The morning's call Hearkens ships into the port Unceremonious entry Gives way to rivers of rats Scurrying into the sleeping township Skin impregnated with ooze Flowing in, pestilential vermin hordes Yellowed eyes of diseased consternation Growing nearer A plane of grim acceptance Sickened sanguine respiration Living wind of Pathogenic eastern swarm Carving through Carriageways and cobblestones Festering, tumescent throngs Inches away from merciful expiration Doorways mount With the pale and inanimate corpses Newly ascended into The forgotten blackness Vomit upon vomit Creaking wheels Of the laborer's cart ...Heavy, but with human timber Laboring long past the dusk, In rites of cadaveric disposal Courts of the scared and the proud Likewise disappear in the Great equalizing cull Those who have the means Wall themselves off in languid exile For years to pass unceremoniously, AS the ranks of commoners thin Not a moat or wall can cease, However, the plague Opened, the trade routes to The newest whims and wonder The morning's call Hearkens ships into the port Unceremonious entry Gives way to rivers of rats Scurrying into the sleeping township Skin impregnated with ooze Living wind of Pathogenic eastern swarm Carving through Carriageways and cobblestones Vomit upon vomit Festering, tumescent throngs Yellowed eyes of consternation

5. Into the Chamber of Death – 04:00 >

Hunks of human bone adorning caves of untold torture Skull's grey matter breached by a hammered awl A picturesque mountain valley, a backdrop to muffed screams The blacksmith's heated iron searing flesh Strangled for kicks - into the chamber of death Or to extract confession from the heretic or witch Broke at the wheel - into the chamber of death - imposed with impunity Bloated count of noble breeding, harvesting the townspeople For the amusement of a day A man's belly flayed open, intestines put to the crank Bowels extracted - rolled out to waking eyes Unrinsed, uncleansed tripes sold back at the market To unknowing cannibalistic throngs Strangled for kicks - into the chamber of death Or to extract confession from the heretic or witch Broke at the wheel - into the chamber of death - imposed with impunity Strapped to the rack, burned with candles, Cartilage popping, shoulders breaking Muffled screams trouble no ears Sawed in half, disfigured, castrated or branded Buried alive, subjected to strappado Drawn and quartered, disemboweled, fed to rats Burned at the stake, gibbeted or flayed Arbitrary, senseless atrocities Behold the executioner - into the chamber of death Roughly hewn cape - cloaking the blade of the bayonet, Rusty with the dirty detritus from a week past Rural boredom - perverse sadist Sawed in half, disfigured, castrated or branded Buried alive, subjected to strappado Drawn and quartered, disemboweled, fed to rats Burned at the stake

6. At the Tyrant's Behest – 04:44 >

A burly horde of men clad in fur - fearsomely beheading Synchronizing steps of the horses' hooves To launch upon the opposing force A hail of arrows blocking out the sun Rain of penetrating steelcraft Better off to never look up and receive a projectile through the eye At the behest of the tyrant Enough to make us lay down our lives Casual whim of a fattened, evil despot Condemn the envoy Doubling back in the valley Corned off by the mountains in the north Blood-curdling screams of the barbarians A prelude to the full-scale carnage Inhuman rites in the abbatoir Vanquished warriors as far as the eyes can see Chopped and half-dismembered Slowly bleeding out Feasted upon in a vulturous swarm Combing through the fallen opposing force Surveying the slaughter Walk up to them with the knife Slit their throats and feed them to the birds

7. Victory Rites of Exsanguination – 03:38 >

Trudging over the mountains in a ceaseless, hated campaign of intergenerational murder fields of livestock cut down, but at a whim unmitigated slaughter watched upon whipping by those never sleeping victory rites of exsanguination peeling back the fingernails, hammering out the teeth with sickening revelry confined, inured to bitterly subsist on a paté of liquified virgins, and a slurry of thrice-boiled offal, fat, and the remains of the like-minded watched upon whipping by those never sleeping victory rites of exsanguination peeling back the fingernails, hammering out the teeth with sickening revelry (solo: dave) cannibalistic barbaric hordes languidly masticating jerkied human flesh watched upon whipping by those never sleeping victory rites of exsanguination peeling back the fingernails, hammering out the teeth with sickening revelry simmering the scalps, hooves boiled into jelly with the defleshed heads of our families, roots, and the juice of wild pigs horizontal abdomen slits filled with hungering rats chewing noisily and innocently in a verminous orgy of evisceration (solo: danny) ceaseless, the turning of the wheel wintry wood keeps on, ever-turning prolonging your plight, to what end you know not ripped into shreds

8. Denied Birth (Merciless cover) – 03:52 >

Painfully awaiting the night Never to see the light Is this the price I must pay A stench of dirt and decay Give me power I don't want to be weak Show me the glory and light that I seek Nocturnal life I can't stand it any longer Years pass by and my pain grows stronger A little hope I need it so bad Give me life which I never had Life or death it's something between It's a sight you never would believe I'm unborn but my soul is alive So why is my birth denied Give me life or is it too late Hear my cry and my pray Denied birth There is no god Just pain and starvation I'm here all alone Awaiting my souls damnation My souls damnation...

9. Summary Execution at Dawn – 04:17 >

Yesterday we prayed to alabaster nothingness But in four nights hence The sun would not rise again upon us - reduced but to few Six thousand strong when we left the gates The stone walls of our land Soon set upon by strange and fearsome men Assailing in ambush like dogs to wild game What is certain, that we know ...Dawn brings our doom Summarily slain with the rise of the sun Attacking our ranks as though possessed Frenzied, knowing neither mercy nor pain As they drank the blood of our steeds And cleaned the flesh off the limbs of our brothers Those who they burdened but to live, They carried us in carts, hewn in crude cages Wrists and feet bound in repurposed sinew ...Prizes paraded over long caravans What is certain, that we know ...Dawn brings our doom Summarily slain with the rise of the sun Craving already the indulgent release of our swift death We're carried along on the interminable trek Traversing through highlands with massifs and steep scarps Solemn and somber, taste the fear - dread of what's to come We come at last to a yawning, wide gorge With a visible layer of human remains The swarm of birds makes a deafening din Even in this weakened condition, our vision growing blurry Our reason dulled and imbecilic, We understand, yet, what lies ahead Halting parade of beasts, riders, and prisoners ...The resonant weight of slowing hoofsteps We lie, wretched, hapless and gangrenous Ritual chants, stringed instruments and drumbeats Begin to play - somber music belying our grim fate What is certain, that we know ...Dawn brings our doom Summarily slain with the rise of the sun

Total length: 33:14

Lineup

Band Members

    Matt Mayhem – Drums

    Dave of Death – Vocals, Guitars

    Archfiend – Guitars

Miscellaneous Staff

    E. Henderson – Graphic design, Layout

    D. Killer – Mixing

    Daniel Shaw – Cover art

    Dan Randall – Mastering

    Garry Brents – Recording

    Mike BBQ – Recording

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