1. DISTURBING THE BEAST

(Instrumental)


2. STIGMATIZED

Stigmatized!
Step closer if you please...!
My body bares witness, can't you see
You can't deny your own eyes
This must be real... stigmatized!

So you speak to me about proof
But where once was skin now are wounds!
A skeptic life you should realize
This blood doesn't lie... stigmatized!

Why have I been chosen to be the manifestation of God?

I cannot take this anymore...!
Not by far believed, only scorned
Please, God, make this go away...
Or take me home
Why have I been chosen to be the manifestation of God?
I never asked for this...
God... set me free!


3. DRAW BLOOD

Unveil the veins that hold the blood
The victim is strapped, the demon is scared -
Quotations are voiced - the holy script
Held in its grip, the victim tosses and turns
Phrases are praised as the candles are burned
Time running short there's a life here at stake
Must hurry fast as the night now awaits...

Draw the blood - that sickens the mind
Draw the blood - let the evil run dry
Suck out the blood - that darkens the soul
Draw the blood - and pray for us all

Profanity reeks - condemning God and us all
Dietys clash - flames rise and fall
A legion of names are called out from the book...
Yet the night is so black, that darkness cooks...
The darkness cooks!

Held in its grip, the victim tosses and turns
Phrases are praised as the candles are burned
Time running short there's a life here at stake
Must hurry fast as the night now awaits!

Draw the blood - that sickens the mind
Draw the blood - let the evil run dry
Suck out the blood - that darkens the soul
Draw the blood - and pray for us all

Draw the blood
Draw the blood
Suck out the blood
Draw the blood


4. THE RITUAL

Silence - there is a ritual to be done
Midnight - A casket comes from underground
Howling - moon shines cold up above
Stay out - Stay clear of the graves
Why are you here?
You know the punishment

... The Ritual has begun

Candles - light up holes thru the thickest black
Chanting - phrases, Screaming - praises
Be gone - white magician and mourning wife
This place - no longer welcomes you..

Why are you here?
You know the punishment
... The Ritual has begun

Stand back - or know the consequence
These sights are not yours to see -
They aren't yours to know...

Rise from your bed!
Live, though still dead!
Loose are the powers that lied in the grave
Open lid caskets are freed from their slaves
Bodies now moving, back from the dead
Pray for the living, who are delivered instead

Why did you come?
You know the punishment
... The Ritual has been done.


5. ASHES

There's no meaning with life as it is...
There's no meaning, there's no meaning
There's no such thing as a life after this,
No such thing as an afterlife bliss
Float into oblivion

Born - burn - die
Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Fade away - burn away

Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Pass away - your soul astray

Your hollow words and self-righteous grin -
You're the cancer of this world we're living in
Puss and disease surround your every move...
Your every word... your every word
Dehumanize, manipulate, infiltrate, disintigrate

Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Fade away - burn away
Ashes to ashes and dust to death
Pass away - your should astray


6. PLAGUE RIDER

Swarming cross the nations, he reeks of Death,
Of suffering and pain
The unexpected visitor, the unforetold,
The uninvited guest

A swarming lethal mass, sickening and...
Indifferent to his rampage,
He feels no guilt - he feels no shame at all
He's struck down civilizations,
But millions are yet to fall..

A stench of putrid flesh, a dealer of death

One he spreads the seeds
...Of vile and foul disease
Bathe the world in plague

A trail of dead - in his way
A path of death - there's no escape
A companion of a man - a timeless faith
A festering evil - we all shall face

Burning, Melting, Freezing, Dying...!

One he spreads the seeds
...Of vile and foul disease
Bathe the world in plague

The seeds are alone he spreads
Disease of vile and fold
But in plague the world shall fall
Plaguerider
Plaguerider
Plaguerider
Plaguerider


7. DAMNED IN HELL

Burn, you're burning in Hell covered with
Sulfur you gag on the gas
Fired to a cross with a million nails,
Grinding the slave - slave to the grind
Thill - Enjoy
Yes, it's true
You might as well make the best of your fate
Damned in Hell
Damned in Hell

Sold, you sold your own soul.
You claimed out the price was too high
Seemingly peaceful, resting in your grave
Regret your deal, as the skin melts away

Ignite - Low - Shine
A human beacon in body and mind
Damned in Hell
Damned in Hell

Burning ambers of human flesh,
Open caskets form an endless mesh
Gigantic furnace of divine design, a bottomless gorge swallows all in line
Damned souls burning chasm demons laugh
Working fast
Line is long much to do...
Wait your turn they're coming for you
Damned in Hell
Damned in Hell
Damned in Hell


8. CROSSFIXATION

Golgotha lies silent
And the sand has drunk the blood
Black is the wind which make the crosses sway
Life stabwounds to the skin
Crossfixation
Crossfixation

Human ornamentation, a ghastly vaudeville
Had to entertain the masses
Had to keep them in fear
Crosses lean on these barren hills,
Daily tribunals daily kills
Crossfixation
Crossfixation
Crossfixation

Last of days sands of time running fast
Drag my cross thru the mob
Whipped and chained... dying young, dying young...
Dying young!

Blood and sweat - blinds my eyes -
No one weeps, no one cares
Count my steps up the hill - drag my cross...
Drag my cross
Nails are driven deep thru my limbs -
I'm hung to die, left in the sun to dry!!
Crossfixation
Crossfixation


9. THE WAIT OF THE PYRAMIDS

(Instrumental)


10. IMMORTAL DEATH

(Instrumental)


11. STYX

Jagged shore face a violent tide,
Total serenity cross the surface lies
The distance may not seem that far,
But the gap spans a lifetime no less no more

Welcome to your parting
I'll take you safely across
That boy can wait,
There's only room for one
See the absence of my shadow
Yet you know my name
I'm not the one you should fear
To me you're all the same

Dark water stretch a few inches deep
Yet fathomless darkness lays
Right under the keel
It's the end of the journey
But across you must go so shut up,
Sit down and don't rock the boat

It's the eve of your lifetime,
You know ones fate must end
Eternity lies before you,
So now it's time to repent
See the absence of my shadow
Yet you know my name
I'm not the one you should fear
To me you're all the same

Don't stick your band thru the surface
Yes, there's movements in the deep
... for those aren't really stars up above,
And it's hardly water beneath

Meet the Styx
Not evil, not good
Just a step on the way
You're a step on the way...

Jagged shore face a violent tide
Total serenity cross the surface lies
The distance may not seem that far,
But the gap spans a lifetime no less no more

Welcome to your parting
I'll take you safely across
That boy can wait,
There's only room for one

See the absence of my shadow,
Yet you know my name
I'm not the one you should fear
To me you're all the same
You're all the same
You're all the same
You're all the same


12. WAR PIECE

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13. CANNONFODDER

Feed the gun
Feed the guns

Marching for my country,
Marching off to die
Fight for king and glory,
Fight to stay alive
Storm another stronghold,
Kill another man
Rush the field before us -
With steady sword at hand
...With steady sword at hand!

The dead now count in legions,
But more will surely die
Sent into the action,
With no thought of human lives
Casualties are mounting,
From the guns upon the hill
God, they need to be silenced -
Charge them now we will
...Charge them now we will!

Feed the gun
Feed the guns

Meatgrinding projectiles,
Blowing through our ranks
Shrapnelridden soldiers down -
Bits and pieces all around
Rip the silence - Cannons brawl -
Bloodsoaked troops still dashing on
Shellshocked victims fall behind -
Keep formation on maintain the line

A thousand gun barrage
Drifts of men lie dead
Craters fill the landslide
Juggernauts of Death

Cannonfodder
Cannonfodder