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Nachtmusik (intro)
02:10
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(Instrumental)
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The Devil's Rain
06:46
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The Desert harbours Secrets
Unpleasant to the Eyes of Man
Lurking there, the Witch Cult
Eager to obey the Dark Command
Prisoners of Darkness
Enslavement Eternal
Within the Book of Corbis
Within the Devil's Journal
Creeping through the Colonies
Insidious Diabolic Flood
Well-respected Pilgrims
Had signed their Names in Blood
The Coven was Discovered
Their Punishment Infernal
He-Who-Had-Betrayed Them
Now possessed the Journal
Displaced Souls Without the Book
Centuries of Living... Death
Dwelling - Hating in the Desert
The Will of CORBIS shall prevail!
Few would stand against Them
Evil would decimate the Land
What could topple Corbis
With the Book returned to his Hand?
The Orb of Souls - screaming
The End to Years of Pain
The Orb of Souls - shattered
Conjuring the DEVIL'S RAIN!
The Devil's Rain dissolved Them,
The Evil lived no more...
The Flesh of Satan's Legions
Now Pools of twitching GORE!
And what became of Corbis
Within his Master's Wrath?
He Lives inside the Mirror,
In every Human's Laugh...
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The Rats In The Walls
08:09
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Exham Priory - I took up residence in '23
Cult of Blasphemy - The Ghastly Secret in my family
Legendary sins - The portly Captain Norrys filled me in
Phantom scurryings - The nightmare infestation now begins
Twilit grotto filled with fungous things
The Daemon Swineherd leers and grins
RATS! Raining from the sky
Haunting, killing, eating 'till they die
Nigger-Man, my cat - led us to the source of phantom rats
The Sub-Cellar below - with its ancient bloody sacrificial stone
In Exham's lowest place - Nigger-Man scratched at the Altar's base
Beneath the stone we found - a bone-littered stairway leading... down
Twilit grotto, sub-humanity
That Daemon Swineherd looks like me!
RATS! raining from the sky
Haunting, killing, eating 'till we die
with dread -
we descend -
ever down -
underground
Eerie twilight shows the way, We hesitate - We're only men...
Is that nightmare grotto real? What waits for us around the bend...
NO! ALL IS TRUE
SEE! NIGHTMARE REMAINS
VAST PILES OF DEATH
BONES CANNIBAL HELL!
BUTCHERED HUMAN SHEEP
HORRID BODY PITS
SOMETHING CALLING ME
MADNESS! YAWNING PITS
Running into darkness, evil hunger in my brain
The tainted blood of DeLaPoer is burning in my veins
They found me staring in the black beneath the priory
Near the half-devoured Captain Norrys - They say that it was me!
"...Now they have blown up Exham Priory, taken my Nigger-Man away from me, and shut me into this barred room at Hanwell with fearful whispers about my heredity and experience... When I speak of poor Norrys they accuse me of a hideous thing, but they must know that I did not do it. They must know it was the rats; the slithering scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, THE RATS IN THE WALLS." - H.P. LOVECRAFT
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With This Ring...
11:15
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Since you are you and I am me,
Our love above ground can never be
Cold black earth must be our bed;
Within the worms we shall be wed
For I so loved
And you so loved
Too much, too well
This living... Hell
-chorus-
I take your trembling hand in mine
Feel the chill run down your spine
Our future dangles overhead
With this ring... I thee dead
With you I scaled the heights of pleasure
Your soul became my cherished treasure
(But) We also plumbed the depths of horror
In which did you find solace more?
For you are a poison
As I am the Plague
In my blackest view
I can only love you
-repeat chorus-
For better, for worse
Prepare the hearse
Here comes the bride
The knot is tied
-repeat chorus-
"A wedding ring binds like a noose",
Bear with me as I make this truth
We loved, we're lost, we must be brave
Each tender kiss deepened our grave
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
A kick and a shove
Ends - and begins - this love
-repeat chorus-
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5. |
We Are Those Men
04:31
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Elimination of human waste
Eternal force behind our eyes
Your life of lies creates our hate
Your breed spawns flies - Your soul no prize
+CHORUS+
Men of honour, beyond your ken
Die Übermensch - We are those men
The master race we've always been
Death lives in us - We are those men
None mourn your loss - a comic scene
A mission done in black and red
Reborn through rot beneath the green
Our birth means DEATH! Envy the dead...
+CHORUS+
Vengeance made flesh defining fear
Darkness congeals to kill again
The evil that men do with cheer
We laugh - You DIE! We are those men...!
+CHORUS+
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The Haunter Of The Dark
07:02
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"...Of the Shining Trapezohedron, Blake speaks often, calling it a window on all time and space, and tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on Dark Yuggoth, before ever the Old Ones brought it to Earth, to be peered on eons later in Lemoria by the first human beings. It crossed strange lands and stronger seas... The Pharaoh Nephren-Ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt and there did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. Then it slept in the ruins of that evil fane which the priests and the new Pharaoh had destroyed, 'till the delver's spade once more brought it forth to curse mankind..." - H.P. LOVECRAFT
To the church two miles away
Atop the ancient Federal Hill
Blake's attention returned each night
and like a fool he ventured forth...
Where angels had fled - Where innocents had bled
He climbs to his fate - The HAUNTER awaits...
Horror sixty years concealed
half-glimpsed in stained glass blasphemies
Research and dreams had led him here
The tower staircase beckoned him...
Where all light had fled - Where all Hope was dead
He climbs to his fate - The HAUNTER awaits...
The 7 Icons behind 7 chairs
surrounded a peculiar masterpiece
A Pedestal of strange angles
on which Blake found the key to his demise
A Curious Box in which he found
The Legendary Stone of Nephren-Ka
The corner hid, thick with cobwebs,
The Ladder leading to the Tower's ATTIC...
NOISES FROM ABOVE? HYPNOTIC STONE EFFECT?
STARE INTO THE BOX - SOMETHING STARING BACK!
Blake awoke on the attic ladder
the foetid stench and the sound ABOVE
Running madly, Nervous Breakdown
the light goes out, the THING goes free!
Where man lived in peace - Now comes the Beast
The Sun rises Black - The HAUNTER IS BACK!!!
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7. |
Generation X'd
04:31
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See College Joe, he's politically correct!
On weekends he + Buffy march in protests ('till they sweat)
This week they love that band that preaches brotherhood and change
Jump off that band's wagon and in front of a train!
Body pierced faggot tattooed hairspray sissy boy
Your cliche' "rebel" fashions only serve to annoy
To your surprise you'll find when Daddy's money is all spent
You lookalike losers lack the wits to pay the rent
+chorus+
Self-righteousness has made you blind,
Our 2 step plan for you is plain:
If you wanna free your mind,
We'll split your skull, kick out your brain!
Strike a pose that won't offend,
Which "worthy cause" comes next?
Your bleeding heart is just a trend -
You're Generation X'd
Peer pressure poser, doing drugs so you FIT IN
Give a try to CYANIDE: Be the first to DIE and win!
Tie-dyed retro rat, peace symbol anti-hate,
A beaten weakling victimized eternally = your fate!
+chorus+
Monster truck redneck sucking courage from a can,
Unlike you, I need no help to prove that I'm a man.
GANG MEMBER COWARD - A true man stands alone...
REAL gangsters died with DILLINGER and AL CAPONE
Directionless whiners known as Generation X -
Your spineless drivel makes your parents wish they'd never met!
"Respect, my brother" and all that other crap that you've been fed...
The only respect that you deserve is what we show the DEAD
+chorus+
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8. |
The Horror Of Dracula
08:33
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•I. IN TRANSYLVANIA
The Carpathians were sheer and bleak
The coachman gathered speed
Red Eyed Wolves or Howling Ghosts?
On Harker would they feed?
Castle gates now loomed unyielding
The Coachman passed right through
And Thirteen steps led to a doorway
That Harker foolishly descended to...
"WELCOME"
a leering corpse-white face emerged from shadows
"I AM DRACULA"
the shadows came from him
"ENTER..."
the Blackness from within was lit by candles
"YOU ARE NOW MY GUEST"
...and Harker's soul flickered
"LISTEN..."
the figure whispered as he seated Harker
"CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT"
the howling Wolves like Ghosts
"EAT, DRINK..."
food and wine were laid out in abundance
"I NEVER DRINK... WINE"
The Contracts were discussed and signed
The sale of Carfax Abbey
The price was paid with ancient gold
England's newest homeowner - DEATH!
A Portrait caught the Noble's eye
of Harker's promised - Mina
She would be His and Harker Damned!
The Enslavement began...
"OBEY"
His eyes burned red, transfixing Harker
"I AM DRACULA"
the shadows moved and whispered
"NOW, SEE"
from the shadows came three spectral Women
"HERE ARE YOUR NEW BRIDES"
the Women bared their Fangs
"FAREWELL..."
Dracula had turned to leave the crypt
"ENJOY YOUR LIVING DEATH"
the Fiends surrounded Harker
"KNOW THIS..."
the sickly pleasure of their teeth in his flesh
"MINA'S SOUL IS MINE!"
The ship that sailed, the DEMETER,
Delivered DEATH to England's shore
Caskets filled with Transylvanian soil,
RATS, infested with Black Plague
One by One, He took the crewmen
Cadavers piling in the hold
Until the ship arrived in England,
Its Deadly Cargo now UNLEASHED!
•II. ENGLAND BY NIGHT
The Transylvanian was accepted
Into polite society
He cast his spell of doom on Mina
While feeding on her closest friends
Into the fray was called Van Helsing
With Esoteric Expertise
He identified the Vampire's Mark
and made his way to Carfax Abbey
"MORTAL"
The Vampire's Shadow fell across Van Helsing
"I AM DRACULA"
the Fiend remained unseen
"ENTER..."
Van Helsing climbed the rotting staircase
"PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM!"
the Vampire's Face appeared
"HUMAN..."
an Icy Hand clawed at Van Helsing's throat
"YOUR MEDDLING IS THROUGH"
the Hunter now the Hunted
"NOW - DIE!"
Van Helsing fumbled in his jacket pocket
"BY THE HAND OF DRACULA"
Van Helsing pulled out of his pocket
A crucifix of Silver pure
The Vampire gasped and covered his Eyes
Red Eyes that lured men to their Doom
But as Van Helsing poised the Stake,
the Vampire dealt a Mighty Blow -
Van Helsing crumpled - unconscious,
but too soon came.... SUNRISE
•III. BATTLE IN CARFAX ABBEY
Van Helsing rose, the NIGHT had come
The Footsteps echoed from BELOW
The Two Combatants met once more
Would UNDEATH end or linger on?
The Vampire's Lair had been defiled,
His Nemesis would DIE IN PAIN!
The Struggle carried on throughout the Night
Van Helsing's stamina was on the wane
and Dracula would soon possess his soul
His REIGN of TERROR endless! It would seem...
Van Helsing broke the Vampire's death grip
and, by the clock, he saw the time had
come to play his Final Hand,
he leaped upon the table, and he
tore the Tapestry to now reveal
the Window that the Tapestry concealed
The RISING SUN caught DRACULA full force
The SUNLIGHT melted flesh off ancient bones...
A PILE OF DUST AND SIGNET RING WAS ALL THAT NOW REMAINED OF... HIM
"BUT A FOOL IS HE THAT HAS BELIEF THAT DEATH ITSELF CAN... DIE"
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