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Tribunal of Penance
01:10
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Doomsday Riders
09:50
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When the black bells begin to call
A new dawn of decay
Four horsemen take the road
Greet the judgement day!
Year zero, no tomorrow
Time to conquer and slay
Four riders take the road
And all life fades away
Pestilence spits rot on the horde
War in red carries a sword
Here's famine - no time to cry
Hungry wolves ready to, ready to die!
World turns to mills of wither
Spilled blood poisons the well
And the wild beasts of the Earth
Drag you down to hell
Pestilence spits rot on the horde
War in red carries a sword
Here's famine - no time to cry
Hungry wolves ready to, ready to die!
Pestilence spits rot on the horde
War in red carries a sword
Here's famine - no time to cry
Hungry wolves ready to, ready to die!
When the lamb broke the fourth seal
I heard the voice so raw so real
The ashen one, the final death
Sets a pale cross above your head!
When the lamb broke the fourth seal
I heard the voice so raw so real
The ashen one, the final death
Sets a pale cross above your head!
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3. |
Heinrich Kramer
05:41
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A man with black heart
Corrupt soul dressed in godly skin
Made men plant seeds of hate
Grow fear and scorn within
His words are poison
Strengthen the herd to judge and doom
Have no fear Inquisitor
Lay me in that tomb!
You can push us down water 'till we suffocate
You can build us a pyre to mark our path to fade
Tell me now Kramer, what is on your mind?
The terror you created follows close behind
A man with a dark mind
Ordered to build a ducking stool
Tortured and murdered thousands
Why are you so cruel?
Beware his power
His holy instruments of pain
Symphonies of suffering
They make me bleed again
You can push us down water 'till we suffocate
You can build us a pyre to mark our path to fade
Tell me now Kramer, what is on your mind?
The terror you created follows close behind
Infection of torment
Old Kramer’s work has been done
His vengeance turned into curse
There’s nowhere to run
The hammer of witches
Holy ropes hanging from the trees
I promise Institoris
I’ll haunt you in your sleep!
You can push us down water 'till we suffocate
You can build us a pyre to mark our path to fade
Tell me now Kramer, what is on your mind?
The terror you created follows close behind
Push us down water 'till we suffocate!
Build us a pyre to mark our path to fade!
Face me now Kramer, tell me what you hide?
People fear what they don’t understand…
And you are terrified!
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4. |
XII: The Hanged Man
08:07
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Motionless
A man hanged up high
Lord Tranquillity
Is cruel lover
Forlorn heart
You were the tree
Now your world
Turns upside down
You suffocate
In the mouth of darkness
Nothing remains
You surrender
And sacrifice
All you have and more
Release your fear
Of losing all
Vultures sing a dirge above gallows
Hanged man don’t move
Don’t try to move!
Vultures sing a dirge above gallows
Hanged man, oh you
Can endure more!
As your spirit’s close to wither
The taste of life is bitter
You search for hope and fight but
Ropes are so tight!
And you’re bound to breathe but I know
There’s pain behind your last frozen dance
Searching for hope your fingers grope
The rope, the rope!
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5. |
Firecult
08:02
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Its body is open, hot blood shines golden
Breath of the evil
I lay under cold ground, swallow that stolen sound
It's rampant, primeval
Below there is something heaven never could give
A glowing dancer
Gods turn to ashes in their wooden churches
Fire's the answer
Shine on me bright light, shepherd me through the night
Where is my room?
Eternal flame come show me what I am from
Silver of moon
Feed me, thrill me, strengthen me firecult!
I’m mortal, I’m empty! Melt me in fire, fire, firecult!
I'm praying for fire
Raining down from the sky
Forging the form
Feeding the flame
As the acid smoke spreads
And the crosses smoldering
The towers of scorn
Are falling apart
And the mills of decay
Violent and eager
Keep forging the form
Of sinners and saints
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6. |
Plague Rose
04:38
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Below the realm of light, under marble white graves
Where the sun is black, chaos prevails
The earth is made from misery, from misery and pain
The bitter end flavors the rain
And grows
Plague rose
Garden of dry bones, red clay and blight
The barren soil sprouts a rose at night
Smells like death, it’s shiny and dark, glows like burning coal
Around its stem insects crawl
And grows
And grows
Rising fast, climbing on the walls
Spreading rot and fever with its spores
Herald of chaos, statue of loss, monument of grief
Crimson flower, putrid leaf
You gave it life
And made it thrive
This evil, this evil weed
Kills you in your sleep!
Can't you see
This dreadful tree?
This evil, this evil breed
Kills you in your sleep!
It grows!
The soil! The seed!
Around… grows... grows!
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7. |
Bottomless Pit Poetry
08:31
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Father of night hears your cry tonight
Bringer of fires thieves you life light, life light
He knows the worth of every soul
Cleans off every scandal deep in the hellhole, hellhole
His path, the left hand - pure delight
Give him your soul!
He will guide your trembling hand
Too late for you to hesitate
Walk his way, child!
Climb down into this bottomless pit
Goat is singing his song
So alluring, so strong:
Serve me, fear me, obey
I will light you the way
Remove your dress, take off needless shame
It's not a sin to dance around the flame
Grand serpent hisses and moves closer
To lay its head upon your shoulder
Goat is singing his song
So alluring, so strong
I know what your heart desire
Refuse the false Messiah!
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8. |
Dead Well
04:36
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Circle made of stone under the old yew tree
It’s here since the dawn of time, a hidden mystery
Dead well - deep and cold, tempts you to gaze into
The abyss, the blackness gazes also into you
And you’re fighting the night
Cause you know it’s right
But heaven, heaven is so far...
Here in death's cold embrace
The water mirrors your face
It swallows, it swallows up your tears
Dead well’s cruel profound
Echo in the time
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Devil Seed Budapest, Hungary
Doom metal from Hungary.
Stragessa: vocals
Rev. Hopkins: guitar
Elshadai: drums
Father Black: keyboards
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