1. WORLD, BURN FOR US

When I stare
Up to the nightsky
My eyes blaze with excitement
A spark in my eyes
Ignites the fire
That will set this world aflame
It will purify, create and redeem
The great foreshadowing has become true

The moon is descending
Into an ocean of flames
Brightly illuminated
By the last burning stars

The final tide is coming in
A drowning ember morphing the earth
Leaving a sea of ashes
Embedded into simmering stone

The moon is descending
Into an ocean of flames
Souls are ascending
Waiting to be reborn

Unite the forces of chaos
And groom yourself for theurgy
Arson is preluding
Our world´s end

The chancel of summoning
World - burn for us
World - die for us
World - lay down for us
Arson is the prelude
To worlds end

The moon is descending
Into an ocean of flames
An army of a thousand sparks
Bursts into fulmination and doom

Unite the forces of chaos
And groom yourself for theurgy
Arson is preluding
Our world´s end

Arson is preluding
Our world´s end

The chancel of summoning
World - burn for us
World - die for us
World - lay down for us
Fire is the nocturn
While the world ends

World - how you fought for us
World - you died for us
Oh world - you buried us
World - sunken in chaos


2. CATASTROPHE IN FLESH

The result of a tragedy
A catastrophe made in flesh
As one of a million
Oddities in human suffering

Enwrapped in skin, imprisoned and cocooned
Like a moth with torn off wings
Crestfallen, helplessly trapped in a vessel
Alive but cast in concrete

It´s a last masterpiece
The final composition of creation
A symphony of disability
To the stable pounding of heart

The feeling of blood pumping
Unable to slit the vein
Artificial respiration
Life made possible due to machines

Abandoned hope during countless hours
Life in a real nutshell – SUICIDE
Craving for murder, crush the machine
Begging for someone to end this agony

It´s a last masterpiece
The final composition of creation
A symphony of disability
To the stable pounding of heart

Constant desire to scream
To make yourself heard
Sick of being the subject
Of their experiments ending up in pain

Umbral entities are recurring
Rising to examinate
Deliberating, unable to decide
Unable to end this suffering

Where there is a will
There is not always a way
The only remedy is accepting
The inner peace in the eternal now
Imprisoned forever – locked in
Imprisoned forever – locked in


3. TOWARDS THE CHASM

Time has revealed that this world
Is destined to end up in fire
To finally serve its purpose
As a giant golden tomb
The human parasite
Cancer of mankind
Blight of a dying era
Buried by time and dust

Anno domini
Two-hundred forty-six
An ancient dynasty
Opened up the throats of a million slaves
To give birth
To six thousand sculptures
The terracotta army
Deep down in the mausoleum
By letting liters of blood flow
To ensure the passage of the emperor
Delusions of grandeur
And egomania
Blaze the trail for the devil

It rises among us
Slowly creeping
Dissension leading to chaos
Unleashing horrors
The world has never seen before
Excelling ourselves in bloodiness

It has always been there
In our mind
The primal instinct
The will to kill each other
The desire for war

The light over Persia
Reveals the demons of ferocity
As giant piles of skulls
Tower over Nishapur
The greatest homage
To revenge itself
Build by the golden horde
In the name of the emperor

Evil is the beast
Within every man
Concealed by flesh
Bursting out somewhere in time

Now – Ukraine, 2022
A spark from the east
Glares upon the blood moon
While red rain is falling
Falling on trembling
Donbas soil
A single death is a tragedy
A million deaths a statistic

It rises among us
Slowly creeping
Dissension leading
To chaos
Unleashing horrors
The world has never seen before
Excelling ourselves in bloodiness

It has always been there
In our mind
The primal instinct
The will to kill each other
The desire for war


4. DEMISE OF THE GILDED AGE

A thick red tread
Finely spun through ages
Million hammer blows
Have forged the world´s fate
Swung by the mighty ones
The ones to rule humanity

Black cloaks and masks
Illuminated by the light
Daggers and wounds
Devout burning eyes
Initiation
Upraise the chalice
Drink our lordly blood
As one we shall reign

Disclosure and liberty
As a pawn
The bargain
For darkest mysteries

Black cloaks and masks
Symbols carved in stone
Giant golden halls
Provenance of mastery
Ascension
Upraise the chalice
Drink our lordly blood
As one we shall reign

We are the plague
That has once overcome this world
And we are the builders
Of nowadays sickened society
We are morgan
Rockefeller and rothschild
We hold inconceivable wealth
And create our own law

Black cloaks and masks
The beginning of betrayal
Daggers and stab wounds
To end the world order
Liberation
Upraise the skulls
Drink their lordly blood
Behold the symbol of victory

Liberation
Upraise the skulls
Drink their lordly blood
Behold the symbol of victory


5. AFTER THOUSAND OF YEARS

Purged by the black flame
Eradicated by the raging mob
After hundreds of years
We took law in our hands

Together we became kings
We were the justice
And we were the ones
To set ourselves in power

Regent
The one on the trough
Empery
Remptation of might
Corruption
Rise and fall
History
Always repeats itself
History
Always repeats itself

With great power
Comes great squalidness

Regent
The one on the trough
Empery
Temptation of might
Corruption
Rise and fall
History
Always repeats itself


6. PERENNIAL LUNACY

This world has become
A fucking place
Of perpetual lunacy
Malicious obedience paired
With boundless, everlasting asininity

Like tin soldiers on crack
Viewless, without any prospects
Grinding themselves to the reckless beat
Of the galley drums until they die

Raise foolery
Minimize individuality
Sacrifice them all
To the gods of economic growth

Raise the profit
Minimize the costs
Sacrifice them all
To the calf of gold

Constantly grinding
The flesh of the slaves
A juicy hog
In a gilded cage

Keeping up appearances
Of the holy cow
The legal competition
Following like choirboys
Eyeless directly into the chasm

Covenant of lies
Retender of benevolence
Seduction through wealth
Fallacious future
A knife in the back
Is the price of success

Raise foolery
Minimize individuality
Sacrifice them all
To the gods of economic growth

Raise the profit
Minimize the costs
Sacrifice them all
To the calf of gold

Constantly grinding
The flesh of the slaves
A juicy hog
In a gilded cage

Elimination of the futile old
Cheap young flesh
Bring them all
To the slaughter


7. OF RAPTURE AND DISOLUTION

A grave shall be
Among the seeds of a tree
As one of them
Returning to last forever

To rise up again
Gnarled and high
Receiving the crown
Deserved a long time ago

With thick roots
And many limbs
An appropriate memorial
Of what has been

Offering a perch
For faithful disciples
To find peace
In eternal subsistence

A grave shall be
In a wooden shelter
Dragged down and buried
In homelands bloody soil

Eaten by worms
Embraced by natures beauty
Returning to darkness
Returning to earth

Entombment means freedom
From a physical shell
Across the path of death
To reach the astral world

To become a revenant
Reaching back to the earth
Breathing new life
Into another human shell

A grave shall be
Within the flames of purgatory
To redeem all sins
And leave ashes behind

Ashes scattered from a cliff
Nebulized and carried
By the winds of time
To spread until the end of the world

Entombment means freedom
From a physical shell
Across the path of death
To reach the astral world

To become a revenant
Reaching back to the earth
Breathing new life
Into another human shell

A grave can be
In the cold windy mountains
At the bottom of a crevice
Splintered to thousand pieces

Frozen stiff, preserved
Inferior to the summit
Rock immersed in blood
cCnvas for mortality


8. TOTENRUHE

Dichter, schwerer Nebel
Kriecht feucht und kalt
Über das Gräbermeer
Getaucht in gespenstische Stille

So liegt der Gottesacker
An einer verlassenen Kapelle
Der Stein bemoost, voller Flechten
Welch entvölkerter, blinder Fleck auf Erden

Es zieht ein Raunen
Durch die Bäume der Grabesallee
Als ein Mensch mit Spaten
Grausam die Ruhe bricht

Jeder Stich ins nasse Gras
Öffnet die Pforte
Ein weiteres Stück
Und ebnet den Pfad

Den Pfad hinab
In die heilsame Dunkelheit
Dorthin wo Leben
Untragbar und das Jetzt Ewigkeit ist

Die Harmonie aus Erdreich,
Gebeinen und Wurzelwerk
Die Ruhe der Toten
Jäh beendet - gestört

Eilig gräbt die zitternde Hand
Bringt Schaufel um Schaufel Erd’ empor
Völlig versunken ins Graben
Versammeln sich rings um ihn die Toten zum Tanz

Der Tanz der Toten
Wird zum Sog
Zum Sog hinab
In die eiskalte Dunkelheit
Dorthin wo Leben
Nichtig und fortan nur Ewigkeit ist

Der getriebene Gräber
Mitsamt der Leiche verschüttet
Welch reglos Bild von Frieden
In Ewigkeit
Amen - gebenedeit

Totenruhe - gespenstische Stille
Totenruhe – Harmonie
Totenruhe – das letzte Sakrament


9. FRONTSCHWEIN (MARDUK COVER)

Howling fury, reap the sky - pale winds of death unleashed
Storm of iron - gale of steel ; erupting demon fist
In praise of death we celebrate the hunger for the kill
Into pandemonium - stench of scorched flesh
Boiled blood, charred bones
All heaven exult as destruction spreads its wings

Cracked horizon, bleeding ground, cold ruin branches out
Falling into livid dust - prophets of steel arise
Warbound ! Frontschwein ! back to the panther line
Willingly triumphing in eternal death, decay, ruin
Yet the only victory belongs unto the flies

Armored count - wood-splinters swirling
Red pawns keeps falling
Armored count - breathing smoke and sparks
Once again falling down

Fastsack, westsack - cognac infused attack
Barrage after barrage, torn apart like paper sacks
Machine guns preaching, engines roar - merciful faith no more
Into pandemonium - stench of scorched flesh, broiled skin, burnt hair
All heaven exult as destruction spreads its wings
Death - decay - ruin
Yet the only victory belongs unto the flies