1. UNSEAL GATE

(Instrumental)


2. RITUAL OF SACRIFICE

Phantoms of terror evoked by the priest
Hideous mockery of organic life
Nightmare sculptures awake from their sleep
Monstrous spawn from the edge of time

Chants of blasphemous insanity
A slave to the shapeless gods you will be
Dreadful symbols of human demise
Savage ritual of sacrifice

Kneel down before the ivory throne
Worship the symbols of the grotesque
Offer the blood of man and beast
To feed the horrors of the unknown

Bodies distorted in spasms of horror
Incisions and circular wounds
Hair burned off by pungent acid
Dispersion of acrid fumes
Mutilated beyond recognition
Exposure of bloodless skin
Faces transformed by soulless torture
Into staring masks of fear

Hallucinating echoes in your mind
Subconscious fear and agony combined
Howling in the maelstrom of insanity
Where reality ends and morbid dream begins


3. SEPULCHRAL WAYS

Obsessed with the unknown
Gruesome prophecies of doom
Secrets from fiend-inspired books
Dreadful visions from the catacombs

Sepulchral ways – Voices from below
Sepulchral ways – Penetrate your soul

Beyond the ancient graves
Monuments of rotting stone
Past the portals of the moldering tombs
Horrific work is to be done

Crushing the silence of centuries
In this forgotten necropolis
Certain bodies never decay
Legions of horror crawling in their graves

Descend into the chasm of immemorial decay
Horrified in this ossuary of the insane

Ghastly illusions and morbid phantasies
In the fatal grip of this blasphemous disease
No escape from this deserted city of the dead
Disembodied echoes penetrate your head

Necrophagous shadows
Ichor of the inner earth
Miasmal gases intoxicate
A morbid end of life is what awaits


4. BEYOND BODY, BEYOND LIFE

Repulsive forms to gain immortality
Black magic rites beyond sanity
Malicious exchanges of personality
Bodies switching with morbid intensity

Hideous journeys to stygian gates
Cyclopean ruins in the woods
Staircases down to nameless abysses
Forbidden places beyond space and time

My soul is locked inside this corpse

Vanquished souls – Engulfed by decay
Horrendous ways – Never to die

Beyond body – Monstrous intrusion
Bodies twitching in shivering motion
Beyond life – Twisted demise
Faces gazing with alien eyes

Ancient horrors from realms of corruption
Monstrous priests to keep them alive
Secrets of spiritual abominations
Blasphemous studies of the insane


5. TORN BY THE BEAST

Addicted to frightful emotional needs
Abhorrent practice of robbing the graves
Choosing the trophies with satanic taste
A nameless universe of terror and decay

Decomposed faces staring from jars of glass
Shrine of rotting decay
Pages of madness bound in human skin
Treasures of the defiled

Amulet of the unspeakable beast
Frightful symbol of the corpse eating cult
Violating the grave of the ghoul
Exhuming the grinning secrets of the earth

Torn to shreds by the beast

Leering jaws of horror
Shreds of flesh and hair
Centuries of corpses
Fleshless terror from the grave

Tortured by the bowls of the dead monstrosity
Drowning in a nightmare of morbidity
Haunted by the claws of the shapeless nemesis
Your reality nothing but a mass of mangled flesh


6. CHURCH OF DREAD

Deep inside these spectral walls horror is unleashed
Summoning of monstrous nightmares banished by the priests
Breeding ground of an evil older than mankind
Calling up awful things from the gulfs of night

Church of dread
Temple of all time and space
Church of dread
Gateway to your cosmic grave

Spectral world, unreachable beyond the purple haze
Ancient gods rise again from vortices of space
Gaze into the cosmic secrets of the glowing stone
Key to all the paradoxes of the worlds we know

Endless decades of silent entombment
Sleeping in sinister ruins
Call forth the haunter that stalks in darkness
Unspeakable blood sacrifice

Light seems dark and darkness seems light
Seeing with a sense that is not sight
On black wings through ultimate void
Die as you face the three-lobed burning eye


7. EYES THAT NEVER SHUT

Shunned ancient town of decay and desolation
Dwelling of a secret cult
Abominable tales of shadow-haunted past
Hidden forces of evil

Dealing with daemons
Biological degeneration
Faces of terror staring with malice
Amorphic shadows
Succumb to a contagious nightmare
Repugnant voices chanting in unearthly temples

Gateway to the secrets of a monstrous truth
Blasphemous reality
Pact with the ancient madness from the crawling depths
Realms of unfathomed horror

Menace from the deep
Children of the sea
Eyes that never shut
Degenerated fiends

Mixing with the bestial abnormalities
Transformation soon will lead to immortality

The dreams begin...
Blasphemous shapes appear, filling me with nameless horror
Praying monstrously at their sinister temples
Wandering through the labyrinths of the black abysses
I am one of them...


8. FEEDING THE GHOULS

Hiding in the ancient crypts
Dancing on the rotten graves
Laughter echoes through the night
From unlocked forbidden gates

Prowling in the tunnel holes
Creeping from forgotten vaults
Crawling through the cracks of death
From the sewers the attack

Blasphemous faces grinning with glaring eyes
Scabby claws ripping through the bones
Drooling lips - foaming at the mouth
Swarming armies lurking underground

Squatting circle of the dogs
Eat the dead with no remorse
Crowding like voracious maggots
Into desecrated tombs

Infiltrate humanity
To teach your children morbid ways
Creatures of insanity
Spreading madness and decay

Feeding the ghouls
Swarming like diseased rats
Through the bowels of the earth
Howling in the catacombs

Feeding the ghouls
Lying in wait for their prey
Corpses torn from the coffins
Feasting on the decomposed


9. FORBIDDEN WISDOM

Messengers of horror - Science of the dead
Spells and enchantments - Words in ancient tongue
Gruesome incantations of origin unknown
Key to cosmic secrets - Laws of the occult

Keepers of the secrets of the nameless cults
Abominable symbols older than mankind
Monstrous evocations of the ancient ones
Extradimensional portals to the gods

Rites of blasphemy
Speak the words to those who whisper in the deep
Fulfill the prophecy
Unseal the gate

Necromantic ways
Bringers of decay
Gateways to beyond
Fear the unhallowed works of forbidden wisdom


10. PLUNGING TO MEGADEATH (HALLOWS EVE COVER)

Warriors on horseback from out of the sky coming to take you away
Your life as it stands now in their hands it lies; you won't live another full day
Man now he wonders just when he will die; searching and seeking the truth
For now he wants but one thing on this earth; the perilous fortunes of youth

Plunging to Megadeth
Seeking the truth
Plunging to Megadeth
Searching the youth
Plunge to Megadeath

You live for tomorrow we live for today; our strength's held here within our youth
Man soars through space but he still wonders who lies and just who speaks the truth
Worrying won't bring you one bit of good; if you die you'll die not at will
You'll soon be feeling the cold hand of doom; is your blood behinning to chill?

Nighttime falls in the city
You're lying alone in your bed
The pictures in your dreams isn't pretty
The tombstone lies there at your head