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Exordium
01:29
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2. |
Herders of the Weak
03:30
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"What is more harmful than any vice?
Active sympathy for the ill-constituted and weak - Christianity"
(Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist")
THRASH!
Delusions are a catalyst for void intent
False comfort obtained through prayer
Indoctrinated into dogmatic thought
This church will burn
Effigy of lies
Burning - Herders of the weak
A slave to faith, your eyes are sown
The willing are deceived
Transcendence comes from deep within
Not fables you've believed
Delusions are a catalyst for void intent
False comfort obtained through prayer
Indoctrinated into dogmatic thought
The sheep are always blind
A slave to faith, your eyes are sown
The willing are deceived
Transcendence comes from deep within
Not fables you've believed
Reject salvation
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3. |
Yersinia Pestis
02:53
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The death ships in Messina
Filled with corpses and the moribund
Bleeding through, liquefying the lungs
They cough their last rites in blood
For those who looked at the sick
Welcomed the pest in their sight
Abandoned by god - Left to die
This punishment won't discriminate
White hoods with red crosses
Following the path of despair
The act of sacrificial adoration
Becomes a spectacle for the damned
Saturate the burial grounds
Layer upon layer of bodies
Fill the trenches by the thousands
The great pestilence now owns the land
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4. |
Master Machine
02:58
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Brains shelved away, encased
False stimuli, simulated reality... injected
Master machine controls itself
Composing disgusting harmony
Damned to industrial hell. Hell
Paranoia's awareness disguise
Never its laws to be defied
Sterilized behind the eyes
Rationalizing lies
Forever bound to their own neurosis
The end of autonomy
Violent genesis before humanity's end
Pulled underground, silenced, beaten to nought
An onslaught of agony awaits
Paranoia's awareness disguise
Never its laws to be defied
Sterilized behind the eyes
Rationalizing lies
The end of autonomy
Race to survive on the cutting edge
Slip, and fall - Lose a limb
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5. |
Call of the Blackbird
02:42
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The coming of our era will mark the end of yours
Spitting acid - Thrashing mad
We'll take you out by force
Imminent destruction, your days and nights are few
Barking hounds - Deadly sounds
We're coming after you
Torture and sadism - We'll tear you limb from limb
Haunting laughter in the night
All your hopes are dimmed
Swallow your teeth by the dozen
No one can save you now
We have become death
But death becomes you
Roaring metal thunder - Your final day is here
Pain, evil, and terror
We're made of what you fear
Smoke on the horizon - The glow of burning flesh
Feeds the fire in the sky
Inhale the scent of death
The ground gives way
Reaching for the heavens. Your prayers will not be heard
Reigning death - One last breath
The call of the blackbird
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6. |
In Apathy
03:39
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Restless grow the hoards hysterical
Macrocosm of one
Blackened soul
Cognitive snares to trap the psyche
Universe of the petty
Mass addiction to psychopathology
Blinded by a sheen of disdain on their eyes
Till the objective can never be seen
While the rest die by their own idle hand
Suicide in apathy
In apathy
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7. |
Shepherd Pig
03:14
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The palpable dichotomy of privilege and despair
A man subdued down on his knees. Beaten until impaired
For questioning authority and refusing to submit
You will be forced to comply. Shaped hit by hit
We've been taught to respect (you've been taught to respect)
A worthless oath
We've been taught to abide (to abide by)
A pig and shepherd's clothes
Ensure eternal drudgery
Conceited, all destroying
Power trip - Permanent
We've been taught to respect (you've been taught to respect)
A worthless oath
We've been taught to abide (to abide by)
A pig and shepherd's clothes
Abuse obsessed. Misled at best.
The business side of oppression
Betray their brothers. Kill another
Calmly walk away
Loyal to a bleak oligarchy
Your city's biggest street gang wears a badge on blue
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8. |
Lowest Common Dominator
02:41
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Invert every symbol pervert every cause (hoarding broken thoughts)
Toxic psychosis, viral insanity (crushing the world with shame)
Dogmatic belief in their own madness
The sensation of idiocy
Highest reaches
Fall to the lowest of the low
Breeding captains for ships of fools
Grow the finger to fit the ring
Human chain diminished to the weakest fucking link
Lowest common dominator
Highest reaches
Fall to the lowest of the low
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Chosen Enemy
03:01
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An offering to the void
Inconsequential display of auto-flagellation and pain
Never seen
Palms to the sky implore, beg, and beseech
The light will never reach
Never heard
Descend as you weep
To the hell in your mind
Shepherds of the meek
Leeches- Parasites
Means to no end
Purpose is futility
Blind the young - Console the old
With the promise of divinity
Desires of abomination
Suffocated in chastity
The nature of your being
Is your chosen enemy
Exsanguinate to cleanse
Consumed by the flame in a self-made hell
Descend as you weep
To the hell in your mind
Shepherds of the meek
Leeches- Parasites
Means to no end
Purpose is futility
Blind the young - Console the old
With the promise of divinity
Desires of abomination
Suffocated in chastity
The nature of your being
Is your chosen enemy
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10. |
Absolved in Flames
02:06
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A list of condemnations nailed to the church door
The sentence: heretic manifesto
Your sins absolved in flames
Rebaptised in agony
Submerged in torment
The blood of the holy is the nectar of deceit
Dusk prolonged as fires light the night
A cross above the crematory
The righteous burn as we watch them die
We cut off the reaching hand with no compassion and no remorse
For the preachers and their flock
Our offering to chaos
Stabbed in the chest, beaten to death
Driven back to Nazareth
Inverted crucifixion impalement
Wedges in every joint driven with hammers
Soon you'll meet the one you fear more than us
Preachers burn in piles and dangle from the gallows
The blood of the holy is the nectar of deceit
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11. |
None
05:14
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The altar is burning
A sanctuary turned to ash
Destroying all that is holy
The blood of sheep drips from our hands
Lawless lawmakers
Inherently corrupt
The rulers have been slain
And then there were two
Molotov rain
The enforcers will succumb
To the fury of the riots
A pig beheaded - A dying cop
Lawless lawmakers
Inherently corrupt
The rulers have been slain
And then there was one
And then there were two
And then there was one
And then there were none
Hunting those who hide in towers controlling the fate of all
Against the wall lined up to die
No pity as the tyrants fall
And then there were none
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