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Demon phalanx
In formation
Lances pointed toward angelic foes
On Styx’ banks
Prepared for war
Eyes burning with zeal
Cloven hooves march forth to triumph
Clashing, silver meets gold armor. Angels falling one by one
Eons of hatred unfold. Its hunger shan’t be undone
Waves of vehemence, toward deific demise
An obscured sun blackens the skies
In darkness, hell’s legions flourish
And in it all divine beings shall perish
Swords held high
Hell will be victorious tonight
Forever scarred
From bloodshed under the black star
Throwing dismembered bodies to the blaze
Cremating archangelic remains
Feasting on the meat that dangles from bone
Swords held high
Hell will be victorious tonight
Forever scarred
From bloodshed under the black star
Clashing, silver meets gold armor. Angels falling one by one
Eons of hatred unfold. Its hunger shan’t be undone
Merciless no quarter given. No prisoners of war
Triumph for eternity, the inferno will endure
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Kingdom of Sheep
04:57
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Here in the land of the imaginary free. A land of material slavery
Stifled intellect for a monetary god. Welcome, to the Kingdom of sheep
Those who go against or step from the line are annexed and outcast from the rest of the herd
Led by their noses for their next dose of freedom. What would they sacrifice for true enlightenment?
Upon first light, they cut away your dignity. Applying chains fresh from the womb
As days turn to years, the chains are screwed to tyranny. Sealing your fate until your tomb
Cleansing. Unholy rebirth. Religiously brain-dead zombies, bow to your leader
Mouth open for your treat. You’ve wasted your life for what? Nothing. Tighten the grip
A society, spoiled on fear and glitter. Hopes and dreams diminished by faith
Turning to murderous rage when proven wrong. Never seeing their savior holding the whip
Those of the herd, never truly live. Bred to be loyal to the kingdom
Serve and obey, your masters are many. Weakening minds with false promises.
Working together to tighten the chains
Chains enslaving the Kingdom of sheep
Spreading their poison, watching their cancer grow. The sheep clutch to the lies of thieves
Feeding off the poor, swindle the inept. They build an army of the weak
Attacking foreign soil for future corruption. Total ware ensues, build the flock
Their dogs’ mouths foaming, keeping you inline. Bow your heads for the Kingdom of sheep
Deceived, as the follow the shepherd. Numb to the turmoil
Never question the law, lest penalty of death and abandonment, stay in your pen
Tie them together with broadcasts of “knowledge.” Lies! Pushed by those in power
Never relinquishing freedom to the sheep. Take your pill and pay your bill – no reason to fight
Wholly believing that they are living free, never understanding true slavery
The few, the true, can break from the chains, and see the forest through the trees
We wait and bait, under wily disguise. Holding our position until it’s time
Raising our fists, we hold our ground. War bound soldiers of Lucifer
Destine to overthrow, restore the nature order. Warriors of freedom live strong
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Only War Remains
05:35
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Society crumbling as free thinkers become brainwashed slaves
The right and left so comfortable taking pleasure in watching chaos reign
Puppet masters pulling strings of religious and secular alike
Turmoil and discord plague the land, disasters flourish as man burns man
All their gods lie rotten in cold earth
While political elites assume their thrones
Prayers of futility
Fall in ballot boxes
Where the pulpit once stood
Now governmental idolization
Riots in the streets
Fires licking the heavens above
No angelic intervention
The final days have come
The blood of the lamb
Rains down as divine tears
”Peaceful” words of sacred texts
Whispered upon deaf ears
Humanity’s hatred for
One another will be
The cleansing of all lies
Binding us in anarchy
Mankind is plunged
Into a war upon the ashes
Of a world built on
Tolerance and inclusivity
A lawless land
It’s leaders cowered before the horde
Executed in succession
Without the slightest discord
Entire demographics
Piled high into the sky
A gruesome tower of Babel
But alas no god to spite
Only War Remains
Only War Remains
Marching forth locked step in step
Extinguishing all who’re left
Unfaltering cleansing hand
Erase ignorance from this land
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Luciferian Wrath
03:04
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All of your lives. Faithful, worshipping pious lies
If you could only see the fear in your face now
Magazines fully loaded. Round chambered, hammer cocked.
Piss and shit fill your pants as you tremble before me
The soldiers of hell march as hooves clack, pits dug for the bodies they will stack
Blasphemy rides upon winds of fate. Filling those now losing all faith.
Crying. Begging. Prayers of emptiness
On their knees the sins of their lives to me they confess
Smashing precious temples with hate. Bleeding out every mullah, rabbi, and priest.
Painting our faces with their blood. Shriek and howl our call to war.
Let napalm consume the heaven they adore
Angels obliterated in an atomic war
Decapitate your idols
Desecrate and defile
Of flesh and blood unholy
Ashes become their glory
Your sacred text trampled under horse and boot
Thrown to the flames let every word burn
Round up the faithful. Ready the arms. Darkness awaits their return
Lock and load fill baptized with lead. Level cities, launching warheads.
The smell of fear and gunpowder is thick
No mercy, no salvation for the religiously sick
Cut them down one by one. Hellfire reigns.
Cut them down one by one. Hellfire reigns.
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Angelus Mortem
05:19
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As Jesus wept
So did I shed tears of pride
The son of god
Bled out and died
Before my very eyes
They mourned their precious king
His pathetic, paltry, corpse lies
on blood stained sheets
immortality denied
A bastard martyr
For the weak of body and mind
First on the list
of divinity to meet their demise
One by one
The apostles fell to my blade
Slaking my thirst
On their blood along the way
Collected skulls
Adorn my pale horse
I hunt the righteous
And I reap without remorse
Without remorse
And I saw the angels weep
The blood of christ
Soulless
Eternal
I walk this earth
Unchained
Undead
I’m the forever curse
I cull the pious
I cull the meek
Those who defy me
Lie dying for their beliefs
As I await
The second coming of christ
I hone my scythe
With fire in my eyes
To tear his flesh
Pull his soul from skin and bone
I’ll mount his head
For the world to be shown
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Indoctrintoxin
04:37
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Praying away every cell of your brain
Your heart invested in theological claims
No proof of existence only ritualistic play
Your tokens of faith equate to a ball and chain
Your sacred texts are a mental drain
A feedback loop to drive you insane
A drooling buffoon chanting holy words
Allah, Yahweh, yeshua one and the same
Fables of the folklore beaten into our brain
Dedicated to one determined cause, control’s the aim
Undermining intelligence, breeding dependence, sustaining reliance
Mediocrity is praised in the name of god
Our youth poisoned by opinion, fuck the facts
Impressionable children brainwashed en masse
Regurgitating information they’ve been fed
Not a life of freedom, but a life of servitude instead
Believe your broadcasting overlords
Have you heard the bad news?
Protection for just the price of your freedom
Bow your head and together sing te deum
Your sacred texts are a mental drain
A feedback loop to drive you insane
A drooling buffoon chanting holy words
Indoctrintoxin is the name of the game
Read your bible, read your torah, your quran
Passing responsibility off to god’s plan
Mindless lemmings blindly trusting an empty promise
The political media feeding off this
Open your eyes, pierce the veil, remove the wool
Think for yourself, hold yourself accountable
Burn the scripture and turn off the fucking TV
Renounce blind faith in god, in yourself you must believe
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At The Gates
07:11
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Form the lines, shields and swords primed
Bring the battering ram it’s time
For millennia we’ve waited to storm the pearly gates
A call to arms, battle horns sounding
Throngs of violent hell soldiers await the breach
For blood they thirst and blood they will receive
The thrown of god shall be cast down
Powerless angels will die for the crown
Gabriel blows his horn, final hour
While the army of heaven begins to cower
To pour through the gate an infernal army
Paths of gold shadowed by demons swarming
The souls of righteous overcome with fear
As roars of the demonic hoard draw near
Lucifer, clad in armor, rides high upon the dragon’s back
Spitting flames, scorching the ground, it trembles beneath their feet
The command to attack now echoes through the heavens
With power, with might, the gates are breached
With a single blow of the ram and a crashing screech
The clashing of steel and the gnashing of teeth
Golden shards of the gates lie broken in a crumpled heap
Blood will soon be flowing upon the golden streets
Sinners slaughter saints
All mercy for the pious denied
Raped by the hounds of hell
As they raped children in life
Christ recrucified
Denied any second chance
Torch the heavens
As smoke blacks out the horizon
Cast out the martyr, so that all may see
Impale the angels that ignored humanities plea
Smash the crown, from your impotent god’s head
Fetch the four horsemen, tear him to shreds
Drawn and quartered, ripped limb from limb
Feeding hungry demons remains of him
Paradise no more
All divinity slaughtered
With hell at the gates
A new era is fostered
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They Who Dwell Within
05:22
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Remove yahweh’s shackles, let them sin
Awaken the demons inside us all
Free their mind, lustful essence ablaze
Your mortal soul, they will raze
All your life under cross and thumb
Godly servants, blind, deaf, and dumb
Monopolized trinity of Abrahamic shams
Fear mongered from cradle to the grave
And when the blinders come off
Rejoice in being born again
Embrace the wonder in spite of sin
And like a serpent
Shedding my skin
We are they who dwell within
See inside yourself
The congregation of fiends
Haunting your reality, haunting your dreams
Surrender to their call
Accept your true nature
Carving names into your skin in ancient nomenclature
Revel in the chaos, revel in sin
Feed the beasts, fill their gaping maws
Let them grow and feel the craze
Relishing in visions of the end days
Disgust and hatred for religious scum
An infernal sanctum your body has become
No longer hindered by the gospel
No more fear, no longer a slave
And when the blinders come off
Rejoice in being born again
Embrace the wonder in spite of sin
And like a serpent
Shedding my skin
We are they who dwell within
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Blasphemous black metal from the depths of the bible belt in the U.S.A. Our music sends a message, free yourself from dogmatic faith or suffer a fate worse than death. Sacrifice your faith upon the altar of the Obsidian Shrine.
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