1. |
Failsafe (12" Version)
06:18
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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. |
Solis Lacus (2005)
05:05
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They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance...
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they wait
Images of the victory
Burn as the central fire,
Like the Lord of Worlds
A great Creator, a great Destroyer
With alpha and omega as standards
(Convulsion, chaos and delusion between them)
To symbolize omnipotence
Beyond all litanies of man
An awakening for the spirit
The era of rebirth
Courage grows like the tail of a comet
As it falls inward - to destiny
Rise red Star, God of war
Midnight crimson eye on the skyline
Riding high in the dawn-lit sky
Staring as if at an eclipsed sun
Passing from the realms of light and life...
The realms of sound now stilled
Surging like the tide, empty skies begin to glow
They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they await...
The era of rebirth
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3. |
Vultures in the Sky
03:55
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Can't you see we don't care about you?
Can't you see we don't want your kind?
We give you weapons to kill each other
Can't you see, or are you blind?
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky looking for the dead
Vultures in your sky
You're doing just what we want you to do
killing off your population
We've got you by your stupid pride
Rewarding it with frustration
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky looking for the dead
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky, they're looking for the dead
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4. |
Imperium
04:14
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5. |
Firestorm Redemption
04:55
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I am the offspring of resignation
Adopted by the fires of discontent
Optimism becomes an opiate
Survival and glory to the brave
Struggle stirs the human spirit
Kept keen on the grindstone of tool
Pain and fear light the fire
But how high to stoke the flame?
Burn
Can the sheep be awakened?
I see signs of life flicker and die
Countless as the stars are our choices
The road has forged before us - now choose
Not this time, a new way must be forged
Forged to or from hell - we choose
Salvation just within reach
But how high must we stoke the flames?
Burn, Burn, Burn
The sanctimonious rabble cries louder
Opposition for its own sake
All caught within this maze
How many wolves are there among us?
If discipline is born through struggle...
Where is it now?
Unconcious and buried by apathy
A cleansing firestorm gathers and grows...
The cloudless night sky glows at the horizon
But the zenith remains black as pitch
Silent flashes like summer lightning
Dawn approaches - the morning
Horned moon rises
This morning will be like no other
Firestorm awaits beneath the skyline
Awaits to consume our timid world
Because it's time to burn again
Thunder sounds a warning
But no one stirs to rise
Silence descends like a funeral shroud
A final chance passes
The firestorm consumes the dead
Burn, Burn, Burn
White phosphorous flames reaching higher
Heaven chokes on the smoke
Mesmerized by the light of their own death
Burning out forever
The dust - borne by the wind...
Slash and burn and slash and burn and turn to fire...
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6. |
The Undying Fire (2005)
02:58
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Children of confusion awake!
Grasp the reigns of power
And as we master this world
Our cleansing fires consume the placid
The Hydra of modern piety beckons
Provoking our deepest convictions
Our coils of strength & virtue
Arise like a diamond-backed serpent
Many heads of deviance clamor
Denying this new morning twilight
They spit poison and contempt upon us
But we wear their scorn with pride
From the mountains to the hinterlands
Burns this Undying Fire...
Recreants could not extinguish it
The everlasting standard restored
Restoration: the Icon & Sword
An enduring standard is raised...
Restoration of the Undying Fire
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7. |
The Scourge
05:22
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8. |
Lamentations
04:45
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Few know the true lined face of Mars
To charge across the desolation
Bayonets fixed for close quarter...
Sawbacks gleam red perspiration
Who among us would dare...
Dare to walk the killing fields?
The heather that drank the blood of our fathers
And bled from trenches...slashed...
By what authority are we granted peace?
Over dead bodies of the more worthy
More worthy than we
Like the moth, we serve the light blindly
Ever colliding with another servant
Capitulation, resignation
The rot seeps everywhere
An unstemmed tide of ruin
Entropy gathers & engulfs instead
Few know the true lined face of mars
But the lessons of the learned
Drawn from killing & burning fields
Offer a tourniquet to staunch the flow
But we'd rather stand & bleat
Flashes of the storm our only light
Perhaps it's time to burn again
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9. |
Solis Lacus
04:52
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They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance...
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they wait
Images of the victory
Burn as the central fire,
Like the Lord of Worlds
A great Creator, a great Destroyer
With alpha and omega as standards
(Convulsion, chaos and delusion between them)
To symbolize omnipotence
Beyond all litanies of man
An awakening for the spirit
The era of rebirth
Courage grows like the tail of a comet
As it falls inward - to destiny
Rise red Star, God of war
Midnight crimson eye on the skyline
Riding high in the dawn-lit sky
Staring as if at an eclipsed sun
Passing from the realms of light and life...
The realms of sound now stilled
Surging like the tide, empty skies begin to glow
They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they await...
The era of rebirth
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10. |
Of Death and Dying
02:46
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11. |
Solis Lacus
05:10
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They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance...
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they wait
Images of the victory
Burn as the central fire,
Like the Lord of Worlds
A great Creator, a great Destroyer
With alpha and omega as standards
(Convulsion, chaos and delusion between them)
To symbolize omnipotence
Beyond all litanies of man
An awakening for the spirit
The era of rebirth
Courage grows like the tail of a comet
As it falls inward - to destiny
Rise red Star, God of war
Midnight crimson eye on the skyline
Riding high in the dawnlit sky
Staring as if at an eclipsed sun
Passing from the realms of light and life...
The realms of sound now stilled
Surging like the tide, empty skies begin to glow
They wander as motes of dust
In a reserve as vast as all space
(The space between the worlds)
Here where the light shines but dimly
Coiled and staring as the adder-
Are courage and defiance
With eyes of fire and wings of gold
They watch and they await...
The era of rebirth
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12. |
The Undying Fire
02:50
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Children of confusion awake!
Grasp the reigns of power
And as we master this world,
Our cleansing fires consume the placid
The Hydra of modern piety beckons-
Provoking our deepest convictions
Our coils of strength and virtue
Arise like a diamond backed serpent
Many heads of deviance clamor
Denying this new morning twilight,
They spit poison and contempt upon us
But we wear their scorn with pride.
From the mountains to the hinterlands
Burns this Undying Fire...
Recreants could not extinguish it,
The everlasting standard restored
Restoration: the Icon and Sword
An enduring standard is raised...
Restoration of the Undying Fire
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13. |
Blue Harvest
04:57
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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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