1. |
Eye of the Archdemon
05:19
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Crash against demon hordes
Grotesque evil stains our swords
We fight
Back to back my son and I
Bloodlust lies in blood-red eyes
Nameless power giving rise
To war
We resist forever more
Defy the demons’ eye
Stare into Death
Steel yourself against its sight
Battle cry our voices high
Attack!
Fate foresworn, the end is nigh
Thunder in the darkness heralds
Harbinger of our impending
Doom
Twisted titan from the gloom
Gaping, dripping maw of fangs appears above the mass of men
Lightning strikes reveal a row of razor spikes as bony claws descend
Ripping through the forward line
No retreat, this fight is mine
(Father) Demon,
(Archdemon) Insect.
(Father) Face me!
(Archdemon) Worthless.
(Father) Coward!
(Archdemon) Your insolence amuses me.
(Father) Wretched...
(Archdemon) I will...
(Father) creature,
(Archdemon) break you...
(Father) I have...
(Archdemon) swiftly.
(Father) come to end you!
(Archdemon) This world...
(Father) Witness...
(Archdemon) will be...
(Father) valor,
(Archdemon) ravaged!
(Father) prepared for this carnage!
(Archdemon) You are...
(Father) I am...
(Archdemon) misled.
(Father) certain.
(Archdemon) Instead,
(Father) Ready.
(Archdemon) YOU HAVE COME TO DIE!
NO!
This is the end.
My father’s dead.
The behemoth overhead delivers
me the same dark fate
But wait!
The vermin tide abates
Colossus halts, the Mountain draws its gaze
One eye meets mine, one last time
In sorrow, petrified, I’m left behind
DEFY THE DEMON’S EYE
STARE INTO DEATH
ATTACK!
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2. |
Spoils of War
06:30
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Approach the gate as one united
Bones adorn the bulwark inspiring terror
I push ahead of the suffocating dread - fueled by the fire of my vengeance ignited
Deserted, no outlet for my rage, plunging deeper into depths of despair
(CHORUS)
Onward to the Mountain
Onward to the Demons’ Core
March into the Mountain
Come to claim the Spoils of War
Onward mighty soldiers
This is what we’re fighting for
March on mighty warriors
Freedom, fame, the Spoils of War
Inside the labyrinth hive, a dismal dungeon of decay
No sign of the fiendish kind, only acrid stench remains
Caution turns the wary eye, provocation met with no reply
But a faint red glow in the tunnel down below beckons unto me and reveals my enemy
(CHORUS)
Revealed, a heinous form
Both figures frozen
Fear, his familiar storm
Blazing gaze upon the chosen
The stone retrieved from abandoned altar
Pulsing, flaring
Breaks into his mind with a forceful order
GO! NOW!
I feel the will of the one within
To press past and escape from the beast
But the claws baptized in my father’s demise
Drown its cries in a flood of hatred released
(Archdemon) The blood within your veins, upon my hands that scent remains...
(Hero) I’ll send you to your grave!
(Archdemon) The anger you embrace, puts a smile on my face...
(Hero) Justice is a debt that must be paid now for my father- taste my blade!
Death is all that now remains
Flee from whence you came! The swarm returns! You shall be slain!
Terror from the Mountain
Terror from the Demons’ Core
Monsters in the Mountain
Come to claim the Spoils of War
Frightened feeble soldiers
Is this what they’re fighting for?
Flee on, fragile warriors
Sinew, flesh, our Spoils of War
Get out of the Mountain!
Climb out of the Demons’ Core
Madness in the Mountain!
Suffering the Spoils of War
Running, ruined soldiers
What is it we’re really fighting for?
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3. |
The Tempering
04:33
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Screaming inferno impaling ataraxia
Demonic arrival unanticipated axiom
Indiscriminate insatiable swarm
Family adrift in this ravenous storm
Concentration convoluted as the carnage abounds
Snapping back to sons ensnared, archdemons surround
Set to drop the guillotine, but stayed by their Queen
A paralyzing presence emanates from the fiend
Cloaked in flesh-sewn wings and crowned with horns
Once elegant empress, now elegance scorned
Tyrannical temptress, with serpentine tail
Clutching wife in one claw in the other infant wails
Stated ultimatum: “The stone or their lives!”
Defeated, conceded in the hope they survive
A nod to the horde sends an archdemon for’d
Shambling with dread to the home my eyes led
(CHORUS)
Pound
Hammer of fate!
With a Relentless rhythm,
The Conductor of doom, Devastated, broken Down
Crushed by the weight
Regrets from the past
Retribution at last
Sentence passed
extinction
What was sought, cannot be found
Dragged inside, compelled to confess the offense on mantle’s crown
Lifeless stone, at first denied
Kindles rage, fanning the flames of merciless genocide
(CHORUS)
the gavel Pounds
Verdict of hate
With a
Cruel precision,
To mercy immune,
Casts us out, before the
Hounds!
There’s no escape!
No matter how fast
You run from the past, it Always
Comes at last
DEATH
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4. |
We Are Longhammer
06:11
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Burn
Eyes become embers of
Demonic light
Power unleashed
Symbiote might
Torn from the spectre of death
By vengeance
The morals of men
A cold shibboleth
Visions of pain
Tormenting memories fanning the flames
Of wrath unrestrained
Embracing the gift of the crimson stone
Chaos domain
Pulsating energy, maelstrom arcane
A force uncontained
Seeking a vessel, the emperor’s throne
Forge
Steel
Imbue the metal with rage
Sealed
Flames
Roar
Fueled by a limitless hunger for
War
Relics of yore
Slumbering trophies no more
Consuming the past in the pyre
Merging to one in the fire
Tools cast aside
Inferno immune
Reach into the molten mass
And draw out their doom
(CHORUS)
Hail Hail Hail
Longhammer
Hail Hail Hail
The Longhammer’s coming for you!
Hail Hail Hail
Longhammer
Hail Hail Hail
The Longhammer’s coming for you!
Raise high
The essence
Transcendence
Cast Down
Harden
Sealing the bargain
Forming the frame
Shaping the construct the power is claimed
Quenching
The pain
Burst from the fire
The weapon is named
(CHORUS)
Hail Hail
Longhammer
Hail Hail
The Longhammer’s coming for you!
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5. |
The Mountain
04:40
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Storm
Into the Mountain
Swarm
On the Horizon
Focus unbroken
drawn to the summit
Purpose found inside
Meet the wall of teeth and claws
Crashing through the tide
(CHORUS)
Rage! Onward and en-
Gage! Slaughter set
the Stage!
Vengeance feed the
Flame! Our hate will
Rise! Hammer to the
Sky! Shout the battle
Cry!
WE WILL NEVER DIE!
Vomit soaked
homunculi
Exploding chunks and gurgling cries
Smashing skeletons from their skin
Ripping limbs to stab their kin
Torn intestines in our teeth
Trample the weak underneath!
Blunt force decapitation
Grinding meat devastation
Offering the slain
To the monolith of
pain
(CHORUS)
THUNDER!
Drums from darkness deep…
HUNGER!
Fury from below, forcing all to flee!
Out of the Pit
A claw from the mist lifts
A steaming, dripping, oozing mutation
Tentacles bursting
from carcass
corrupted
One all consuming eye
Atop a maw of crooked spines, erratically
spasming with vacillation
Suddenly locks on the hunted!
Wretches! Failure!
Redemption in blood
Tear flesh as it floods and your
Sins are undone
Her titan of terror has come!
Nearing the gate
As one mind united
The bulwark adorned
With gonfalons of weeping gore
Past the portcullis
Carnage unnoticed
The tunnel in focus
A shadow approaches
Hideous visage, tumbling underneath, evaded!
Towering savage, the final reunion long awaited!
The beast is unchained! Berserker juggernaut!
The hammer is lowered preparing the onslaught!
A mountain of silence the targets are locked!
ONE OF THEM MUST DIE!
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(CHORUS)
Alone
In mourning, harmony lost
Consumed by an eternity
She’ll suffer the cost
Drift through despair
To the beckoning call
Forsaken she waits
For one final
assault
Welcome to the end of the line, bring what’s mine
You took what was ours, step aside, keep your life
I can keep the evil at bay
Time to end this all, step away
Only I (we) can end this
Insolence I will not abide, draw or die
Your army lies in ruin, destined by design
Unbearable bastard, I’ll tear you apart
One of us will die this night
Furious, thundering maelstrom of blows
Violent eruption bursting as the creeping madness takes hold
Falling to nothing as prowess unfolds
Witness the power of a terrible foe
A familiar sensation, all falls to red
As perception fades to rage in its stead
Power, taken
Vengeance, forsaken
Left with this hideous dread
(CHORUS)
Broken, battered
Still alive
A question, urgent
Must not be denied
Why?
I was chosen
I was right
Look in my eyes, insufferable fiend
Why this fate?
What does it mean?
We must leave.
It is time.
No more questions.
No more why.
Noooooooooooo!
This can’t be-
It was you all along, a betrayal unseen
Emptiness embraces, a future forlorn
Once a worthy Queen now abandoned and scorned
Hatred
Hunger
Flesh torn
Asunder
Born of corruption a vision grotesque
Arise from the magma, a curse coalesced
Twisting, writhing
Death dispossessed
Delirium, rising
Vengeance obsessed
Abomination from the Old One
Broken, ensnared
Carnage incarnate
Restraint now departed
Lashing out unimpaired
The anger inside
Cries out for your life
Give me what’s mine
Give me
What’s mine
End this
Vengeance
Ripped out at the spine
Moving on
From a destiny broken and gone
A few dogged steps to descend to the depths
Where a new dawn awaits for the strong
Fall Fall Fall
A god must fall
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7. |
The Thing in the Pit
05:56
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Stand
Blighted brood
Hasten to perish Upon an instinctive command
Limitless
A sinister prelude
Dripping with malice
Formless fanatics
primordial, savage From ancient chromatic
God
Of aeons unknown
Repulsive pulsation
Compulsive creation
Spawning the storm of
A shimmering swarm
Omnipotence shown
Consume and expand
To halt our advance
But their master is all we demand!
(Chorus)
FROM DOWN BELOW!
We hear it calling…
Alone in its lair,
The nightmare
Has become aware
NOW ALL WILL KNOW!
That madness the maw brings
A broken mind
Is all we will find!
Inside
THE THING IN THE PIT!
Crushing
THEM
ALL!
Endless storm
A psychotic struggle beneath the penumbra
Of an alien form
A deity scorned
Die!
Your new god arrives
Suffer the onslaught
Of hatreds combined
The ravenous peak Is the target we seek
Splattering, scattering, smashing the meek
Empowered, enraged by the havoc we wreak
Choke on defeat!
Demolish the wall
In ruin they fall
The eye of the storm Speaks a whispering call
MASTER
We will, not obey
ORDER
Chaos, is the way
ANGER
We are, not afraid
BUT YOU WILL BE
MAKER
Crumble! Be unmade!
RULER
All kings, meet the grave
POWER
Taken, unenslaved
BOW BEFORE ME
SLAUGHTER
We have, overcome
BUTCHER
Cut through, everyone
REAPER
Death is, overrun
ENDLESS TORMENT
SLUMBER
Rise and, be undone
HUNGER
The feast, has begun
DANGER
Nowhere, left to run
(Chorus)
Hammer high
Eyes alight
Incandescent wrath ignites
A boiling sphere of crackling veins
The world-core quakes as boulders cascade
Repulsed by the tempest uncontained
Focus your fury to end the tyrant’s reign!
THE THING IN THE PIT
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8. |
The Climb
03:20
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Die!
Empty embrace
Fall!
Essence displaced
Rise!
Terror gives chase
Fly!
Fight to find escape
From this
Release from the abyss,
A cliff
Stars dive from the Sky
alive
Souls ripped from a Life
denied
Shredded, sundered
Climb or die once more
(CHORUS)
What is this madness
A charnel house unseen
Writhing beasts of savage flesh
This carnival obscene
Fading from reality as muscles ache in pain the wretched fiends approach beneath asylum lingers out of reach
Bleed from stone below
Tide of teeth and bone
Broken, battered, sanity shattered
A thousand souls in an aberrant show
Bursting forth from the coginous crag
A tentacled limb tears tissue as it drags
Thought cast aside as pain overrides
Focusing the mind on the will to survive
Bodies raining down
Swallowed by the gnashing ground
(CHORUS)
Absence of humanity the creatures overrun
Scaling up the wall the lone survivor draws them all
Sea of Sharks surrounds
Wave of Wrath unbound
Broken, battered, sanity shattered
A lone figure looms against a horrid background
Growing weak, from the wounds, received
Rising ruin, refusing, reprieve
Drawing closer as strength begins to fail
A ravenous mound with a hideous wail
Agony allayed as panic takes hold
Insidious thoughts pulling eyes from the goal
Cast off despair and let death be denied
Steel your mind and climb
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9. |
Collectors
07:43
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Behold
An immaculate life
Unfettered by the shackles of strife
Free
From the burden of blight
Tranquil refuge adrift in the light
City unfolds as
The vision reveals
Shimmering shadows
A paradise surreal
Captivated by a dazzling design
Drawn in
by the opulence divine
A wondrous tapestry unfoldingas a bell begins to chime
Resounding wave of eminence
stills the march of time
All eyes to a glorious gate
Deliverance arrives
Peace now, child
Rejoice and smile
Angelic
guardian of fate
Be chosen and rise
Peace now, child
A lamb so mild...
Praise
The fortunate soul
Honored and anointed, to be extolled
Ascend
To glory tenfold
Bask in the glow of the gods we behold
Sullen miasma
Surrounds those left behind
Awaiting the moment
To join those inside
Colossal cavern painted crimson from on high
A solemn star hangs in an artificial sky
Destiny
Deliverance
Guided to the light
Beacon taking hold
She walks with weightless soul but
No!
Lies, revealed
Twisting horror
Pit devours
Pawns transfixed
All Fall
to meet their fate
Churn
Consume
Grinding gulf of doom
Ascend
Soon
Til silver sun entombs...
Roar!
This deception cannot stand
War!
Cleanse this scourge with iron hand
Fear dissolved, rage in its stead
A stone from earth to crush its head
Demon dead and staff retrieved
And now it’s time to lead
Fight!
Fight!
Vengeance for the souls now lost
Reclaim this world at any cost
Crashing onward into waves of dread
Tearing through the foe leaving droves of the dead
Fury now unbound
We kill to claim the tyrant’s crown
Scream!
The martyr’s cry
Under
The crimson sky
Die!
Die!
Brothers slain, they fall beside
The price of shattered lies
Assault halted by a harrowing sight
Madness coalesced
Tentacles infest a false paradise
Churning walls of flesh
Hold out
Sanity, battered down
But hope now found
We ride!
This is our
Fight!
Fight!
Vengeance for the souls now lost
Reclaim this world at any cost
Crashing onward into waves of dread
Tearing through the foe leaving droves of the dead
With one last strike undone
The day is won
Extinguished sun
A new dawn comes
But warning with a shout
What new terror mounts?
A thrumming from the chasm as
A mass of murder rushes out
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War cry
Sharp gaze
It is time
To take our aim
Ignite the sky
Force the fiends aside,
Hold fast
These creatures cannot last
Pulsing drone
Shadows grow
Twisted foes Approach
Forsaken
Souls taken, will overthrown
An endless void
Now their eternal home
All have perished, an empty world
Four left standing at the edge of creation
Abyss portends
Eradication, doom descends
As a crimson sky transcends
Prepare
The time has come
The Old One brings
The end of all things
Smite!
Slay!
Hold!
Them at bay!
A hero’s eyes
Shine inside
Their judgement arrives
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11. |
God Emperor
09:36
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The price Is paid
A life for existence
Saved
Made by essence
Of the Old One now slain
They live again
Sworn to a world reborn
A paradise reformed
What awaits from this monarch enthroned?
Rise
Rise
Rise
God Emperor of Mankind!
Forge
A world made anew
Molded from magma exhumed
Surge
From a maelstrom of flame
A monument raised from a tomb
Fortress
Ascend from the fumes
Spiraling outward
A city now blooms
A seat for a god at the peak
A shrine to a power renewed
A glorious city, made for all
Come and see the splendors within
Will you come forward, answer the call?
Our valiant procession of progress begins
(CHORUS)
Bow
Before your God
The Emperor arrives
Bow
Before your God
Bind your life to the grand design
Inside
The master provides
Legions burst through the gate
With iron hand
Shaping the land
Bending the earth as it quakes
Remnants destroyed
Framework deployed
Industries rise in his wake
Hunger depleted mortality cheated a deity seated an old world abates
Witness a marvelous world emerge
A triumph of will, a haven enfolds
Compelling obedient masses to serve
A radiant beacon for all to behold
(CHORUS)
Heed these words
Live and die unchained
One command returned
Obey
Bow
Before your God
The Emperor arrives
Bow
Before your God
The Emperor immortal, shall rule here for all time
Rise
Rise
Rise
God Emperor of Mankind!
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