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Failsafe
05:18
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Burning skies - raining fire
Dowm on the helpless below
Hell has come - storming legions
Iron eagles - angels of death
Searing wings - roar as thunder
Burning the life right out of the night
Heavens above - slaughtered outright
Reducinf bodies to ashes and dust
No more tomorrows - sunrise on a dead world
Burning the shadows right into the walls
Paying the price in self sacrifice
Final breath - ends in fire
Fallout snows its seeds of death
Darkened skies - deadly quiet
Nuclear winter settles its frost
Pitiful end - human folly
Centuries of work now scattered to dust
Victor defeated - final chapter
Closing the book and set it alight
Failsafe - cannot be recalled
Flee to nowhere - death consumes all
Return to the earth from which you crawled
Return to darkness - return to dust
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2. |
Descent of Man
06:44
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Confront the chaos boiling in your mind
Question the doubt that confuses your will
Bitten by the serpent, caressed by original sin
Feasting on the fruit of the tree
Bright eyes now grow brighter
Shine out and illuminate the darkness…
A starless void seethes and froths confusion
The ebb and flow mark time
A challenge of reason confronts the flock
Dreaming of convention and binding absolutes
Dogma turns on an axis of belief
Collared by fear and its dowry of damnation
Revisit sacred texts, now forced to explain beyond imperium
Pronounce the living dead – yet still fear the remains
Piety digs a necropolis for the future
Encircled by iron wills, galvanized by serene faith
Shuttered consciences in denial at all costs
Declare encroaching darkness in spite of the light
Yet from a bully pulpit spews an intoxicating thought
Dreams of convention and binding absolutes
Faith in an idea to provincialize all creation
Borne of paralyzing process and ironclad mistrust
Playing the music of creation through a skipping media
Imperfection enshrined as a great destroyer
The liberating power of original sin
And the endowment of free will
Each twisted by the other into the Mark of Cain
Questions to confuse the doubt of your will
And avoid the chaos boiling in your mind
The likeness of being – shaken awake
Achieve what God has not?
The descent of man…
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Ashen Glory
05:27
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Across the deserts in flight to the Temple of the Sun
Ashen Glory – winged monarch, alights upon the pyre
His wings outstretched to embrace destiny
Ablaze with light, five-century cycle
Renewed
Ashen Glory set to blaze, bring the Heavens to Earth
Descend to rise, symbolize immortality
Proudly the Phoenix reigns in immortal fire
Assuage the anguish and fear of…
Oblivion
At third light appears the reborn majesty
In gold, in purple, in victory over death
Descend to rise – resplendent wings ablaze
Illuminate – trace the contours of time
Ashen Glory set to blaze, wings enfold, eternity…
Ashen Glory
Ashen Glory
Ashen Glory – descend to rise – death and glory
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire
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Demoralize
05:36
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Let us surround them
Speak the language of fire –
Scrawl blasphemy upon your shells
And rip from them salvation
Churn the corpses in the earth
Rain their departed back into their arms
Cover them in their brotherhood to embrace
Demoralize
Mark each sunrise with terror
And horror-illuminated sunsets with blood
Their valiant entrails as ribbons
Shredded to decorate enemy uniforms
Awarded to every survivor
Leave nothing to chance
The clenched fist of God bursting downward
Churn the corpses in the earth
Rain their departed back into their arms
Cover them with their brotherhood to embrace
Demoralize
Let it give no pleasure but relief
For our fear is just as great
And our uniforms decorated as theirs
Shredded crimson ribbons of brotherhood
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5. |
The Unburiable Dead
04:35
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Do not thank us
Pray your thanks to the unburiable dead
Those known but to God
Inter heroes’ remains with reverence
As death gives life its meaning
And where the world does not follow
Such sacrifice that makes all others seem very little
But pray your thanks to the unburiable dead
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6. |
Die By Power
03:40
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Megatons of mayhem
Bring cities to the ground
Deliverance of torture
Exterminate your minds
Brain eating metal parasites
Attack the false with greed
Vultures feed on carcasses
Infected with disease
Sonic blasts of mayhem
Destruction's ever near
The violent sounds of thrashing
Mayhem even Satan fears
Metal holocaust of devastation shall devour
Our cabinets hold armageddon
Die by power
Die by power
Fucken die by power
Die by fucken power
Now the battle is over
And victory is ours
Disbelievers' bodies lie slaughtered from the sound
Tidal waves of power
Smashing all in sight
We salute all true believers
Death metal rules tonight
Die by power
Die by power
Die by power
Fucken die by power
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Ironclad
06:16
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We've survived a firestorm of derision
And now their weaknes is revealed
The hydra called modernity has failed
And wether or not the flock understands...
The blood of our fathers must be justified
Justified at all costs
This faul, faul world ridden with apathy
has lost its place in all things
I am as the serpent's crest
Ouroborous and Regal at once
The world at the center of my coil
My tail consumed, leaves me hungry for more
Finding courage in the spheres
Horizons dark as ever before
Once you come this way
You'll never wish to return
The path is of fire and lit by pain
Stark truths are their own reward
Dreams and illusions shatter like glass
Sans sympathy for its own sake
I am as the serpent's crest
Ouroborous and Regal at once
The world at the center of my coil
Sans sympathy for its own sake
From nothingness to nothingness
Black clouds parting for the dawn
From far beyond the voices still sound
Made wretched by the distance we've come
I've lived to fight another day
The day of infaamy - declaration of war
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Ares Kingdom Kansas City, Missouri
Founded in 1996 by Chuck Keller and Mike Miller, Alex Blume and Doug Overbay were recruited in 2000, rounding out a line-up that would remain in place until Overbay stepped away in 2015. The band released four online-only 'best of' EPs during 2018 and 2019, and unleashed 'By the Light of Their Destruction' in May 2019. The feral and unrelenting 'In Darkness at Last' followed in September 2022. ... more
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