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Altar of the Skull
04:27
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Altar of the Skull
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In a landscape in a place unknown to us all
Beyond doorways to the void, unconscious travel
I plummet like a shooting star, wakened as I fall
And plunge into the heart of a riddle to unravel
Psychologic struggle, psychopathic war
Night without end, a fear that I must face
Trepanator chisel into my skull I bore
Searching what awaits me, release or disgrace
On the altar of the skull burns the fire of sacrifice
Power of my will as the gods roll the dice
If every man's indeed a star let me burn the night away
Kindled by the fury of a just man led astray
Degenerate, now an incubus, tempted by a snake
Once dormant now awake, untethered to the stake
Psychologic surge, I retaliate
Dark might I wield, a fire burns strong
State of true aggression beyond love and hate
Doubtful what is right, subjective what is wrong
On the altar of the skull I'm sacrificed unto my mind
I'll leave myself behind and follow on, no longer blind
Energy that slithers up my spinal cord
Had! Aiwass dictates as he holds Damocles' sword
Opening the pages of the wrathful book of the Lord
Cardinal points greeted clockwise, the circle is complete
Summoning my inner powers, a task that's no mean feat
Facing inner struggles and demons that I meet
On the altar of the skull burns the fire of sacrifice
Power of my will as the gods roll the dice
On the altar of the skull I'm sacrificed unto my mind
I'll leave myself behind and follow on, no longer blind
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2. |
Extreme Barbarity
02:39
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Extreme Barbarity
Savage rituals held under the light of the full moon
Bloody sacrifices before black stones roughly hewn
Boneclad sorcerers howling imprecations dire
Skulls on wooden posts standing all around the fire
Evil eyes - masks of wrath
Obscene cries
Muscled limbs dragging victims to the sacrifice
Dreadful pleads for mercy met by cold unflinching eyes
Nameless gods of death and war invoked in the night
By hoarse and booming voices overpowering screams of fright
Horrid fate in the dark - a cold shining blade
Thundering drums - time to die - crushed by fear and hate
Forest filled with the noise of vile revelry
Fire and blades - bloodshed - extreme barbarity
Eaten still alive, flesh consumed by tribal men
Hecatomb where victims meet their tragic gruesome end
Human skin used as garment by the evil priests
Flayed cadavers are now trophies for these human beasts
Evil priests
Morbid fate
Fatal terror
Evil
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3. |
The Doors of Perception
04:08
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Rituals from the dawn of time are whispered to my ears
Disembodied voices speaking of my hopes and fears
Wise old men, palaeolithic knowledge they impart
On to a quest to worlds beyond I know I must depart
I must now depart
I swallow the food of the gods and go beyond the gates
And leave behind concrete reality that dissipates
A landscape that cannot be seen appears before my eyes
And there's no end to all the things that I now realise
Hallucinations may be just naked reality
Through the leaves I behold the light of eternity
Shackles of the mind
Now I leave behind
Scenes unparalleled
Vistas unbeheld
Avoiding traps that might cast me into insanity
The truth is that never before I had seen with clarity
Back in the world where always I have felt rather estranged
I'll find some peace in knowing how I am forever changed
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4. |
Fires of Sacrifice
01:23
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5. |
Lethal Manhunt
03:02
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Lethal Manhunt
Blue lights flashing
I'm hunted by the law
I feel my veins bulging
In my hands a bloody saw
They draw nearer
Black dogs bark
Perpetrator
I've left my mark
Tonight
I kill
Tonight
I die
The lethal manhunt goes on
I'm still hiding
And ready to kill again
The law enforcers
Are still searching for their man
Some will fall
Under my blade
To meet the Reaper
Through rivers of blood I wade
The lethal manhunt goes on
Tonight, to die
The killer soon to be gone
Taken dead, not alive
Forever his memory condemned
They draw nearer
Black dogs bark
Perpetrator
I've left my mark
At last I now have lost my grip on sanity
Their bullets will release me
And in death I'll be set free
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I know as I walk through this Hell
That sanctity is a sham
That the moment we are born
is the moment we are damned
in this valley of death
Evil lurks on Gehenna
Ubiquitous
Love means pain on Gehenna
Pain for us
No justice on Gehenna
Anywhere
Suffering on Gehenna
Take your share
When we see the light we expect that we'll live
A rich and fruitful life
But this is but a fleeting passage through Hell
Where we deal with loss and strife
Enjoy while you can the good things that you have
Everything passes away
All will be gone tomorrow
Or maybe even gone today
Open your eyes on Gehenna
Enjoy the tour
Don't care much on Gehenna
Only death is sure
Life's a bitch on Gehenna
But live somehow
The we die on Gehenna
Where to now?
When the burden of affliction weighs
Remember all will be lost
Everything you try to grasp
Will eventually charge the cost
Look at the sky change forever
Relentless, day follows night
Such is the shift in your life
Between the ends of black and white
Hell is real on Earth
What you take from this life can't be kept in a vault
And very soon you will be gone
Learn what to attach to and what to detach from
For dusk follows the dawn
Endure life on Gehenna
Maybe learn
Will you be wise on Gehenna
Dismiss concern
To live and die on Gehenna
An episode
No blessing on Gehenna
But a curse bestowed
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7. |
Terminal Possesion
03:08
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I fell prey to possession
The day that followed a Metal mass
The demon that lurks in liquid form
Unannounced appeared, to possess
At the den of no compromise
I could have been a bit more wise
After farewells and goodbyes
I couldn't board that fucking metal thing that flies
what's it called
Looking in my eyes
Evil in disguise
Along the road, I might have guessed
My brain subdued, I felt possessed
In order to free me from the beast
Perhaps we should be driving to an exorcist
Yeah... call for the exorcist!
Stricken with convulsions and speaking in tongues
But I couldn't blame Christianity (for once)
The classics far better suit my taste
And the spirit of Bacchus was mocking me
On the ground at Zaventem
There I found I couldn't give a damn
Life's a passage through an earthly plane
And earthly I was bound to remain
So I have come to decide
To turn my care towards the lofty sky
Do not let it bite your pride
When others pronounce you not fit to fly!
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8. |
Jungle War
03:51
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Hear the screams of terror as the bombs fall all around
Soldiers panic, shooting every ammunition round
Explosions mixed with screams are most terrible a sound
Brothers fall forever and their blood spills on the ground
Death at war
Brother killing brother
Maddening war
Die by superior command
Blood and gore
Man destroying man
Massive roar
Meeting their untimely end
Defy your death
Your blood is spilled
Psychotic path
You order children to be killed
All crimes are allowed in the scenario of war
Such will be forever as it's always been before
In the heart
Of the dark
Living green hell
Where many fell
Leaves are tinged with blood, gunpowder's smell so strong
Keep on killing, never wondering what is right or wrong
Some were dying wounded, left behind for dead
A state easily solved with a machete to their head
Death at war
Brother killing brother
Maddening war
Die by superior command
Blood and gore
Man destroying man
Massive roar
Meeting their untimely end
To defy death
Is it a sin
A desperate game
In the end you never win
All crimes are allowed in the scenario of war
But you could never be prepared for what you had in store
Death at war
Jungle war
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9. |
Let Sleeping Dog Lie
03:30
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An echo from the past
Whispering, it calls
From ancient depths it comes
The dark plutonian halls
Once the roving beasts
Struck terror in the night
Foaming at the mouth
With red eyes shining bright
Mind your words
Beware!
Let sleeping dogs lie
In the night of times
Old relics lie buried
Under sand and dust
Derelict, passed on
Metal dark and stained
By decay and rust
Dark fade, grim shade
Black earth we tread
Under the glade
Cracked mirror hidden deep
Beautiful the beasts
When they are asleep
Let us bless
The sleep of beasts
Dreamless
May they rest in peace
Your gaze settled
On the frost
And you longed
For what was lost
Let the buried rest
And hope it's for the best
Chance that bloomed before
Quoth the raven, nevermore
In the night
Beware
Let sleeping dogs lie
In the night of times
Old relics lie buried
Under sand and dust
Derelict, passed on
Metal dark and stained
By decay and rust
Dark fade, grim shade
Black earth we tread
Under the glade
Cracked mirror hidden deep
Beautiful the beasts
When they are asleep
Legacy of terror
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10. |
HellThrasher
04:13
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In a stormy night
He fell from the sky
More than just a man
But maybe also not divine
Long hair in the wind
Skulls and tattoos
Forearms filled with spikes
He lives to win though born to lose
Defiant raging power
Impossible to tame
He knows no remorse
No regrets and no shame
He just cares about the vinyls
that fill up his shelves
And if you think he's rude and vicious
You can actually just go fuck yourselves
Lo and behold
The Hellthrasher
20th century demigod
A planet gone bleaker
Deity of thunder
That booms from an electric speaker
Archetype
Rebellious and strong
Enemy born against
A western world gone wrong
Hedonist and wild
He follows no law but his own
Playing on eleven
He's Metal to the bone
When the night comes down
To raise Hell he arrives
WHen Metal starts to pound
Repent for your lives
Hellthrasher
Lo and behold
The Hellthrasher
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11. |
Black Sacristy
04:07
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Perpetratör Lisbon, Portugal
Perpetratör came to be in 2008 as a Thrash Metal project, having the ball really started rolling in 2012. The debut album, ‘Thermonuclear Epiphany’, was recorded and released by Stormspell Records in January 2014. A split 7" with Hellbastard was released the same year. As of January 2018, the sophomore 'Altered Beast' is unleashed upon the world via Caverna Abismal Records. ... more
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