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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