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01. Flesh Storm

Music & lyrics by King
Take a deep breath
'Cause it all starts now
When you pull the fuckin' pin
The shrapnel burns as it tears into your skin

Ever wonder what it takes
to be questioning your faith
This is what it's like when
It happens every God damn Day

Violence is a way of life

Shards of life
Like confetti in the air
The flesh storm grows
As it breeds despair

You hear the screams
in the distance, fighting the resistance
Not cries of war
These are just the sounds of pain

It's all just psychotic devotion
manipulated with no discretion

(Lead - Hanneman)

Killing's in style
and it's now the main event
The cameras are whores
for the daily bloodshed
Like a junkie
Hungry for a fix of anything
The media devours and feasts upon the inhumane

Violence is our way of life

It's all too fuckin clear
We can never coincide
So lets all drink to genocide
All the venomous sights
Border on the arcane
In times of war
everything is bound by pain.

Its all just psychotic devotion
Manipulated with no discretion
Warfare knows no compassion
thrives with no evolution
Unstable minds exacerbate
unrest in peace.

(Lead - King)

There's no future
The world is dead
So save that last
Bullet for your head
Only the fallen have won
Because the fallen can't run
My vision's not obscure
For war there is no cure
So hear the only law
Men killing men for someone else's cause
Its all just psychotic devotion
Manipulated with no discretion
Its all just psychotic devotion
Manipulated with no discretion

02. Catalyst

Music & lyrics by King
Attitude is my addiction
I live life with no regret
Unlike you it's my conviction
That sets me apart from the rest

I live for competition
Your cynicism only makes me stronger
I am the culmination
Setting the standard that all will follow

I live it every day
Don't know another way

Within my eyes there's devastation and fury
You can't understand
In my fight
Win by attrition i bring with it all that I fucking am!!

All that I fucking am!!

You never dealt with such rejection
Licking your wounds that won't fucking heal
You've never seen so much aggression
I am the scream to your fucking silence

I live it every day
Don't know another way

Attitude is my addiction
I live life with no regret
Unlike you it's my affliction
that creates the template of all that i am

All that I fucking am!!

You know and i know
No matter what you say
You'll be beaten today
Like every other day

Something about you
Keeps you from letting go
Of lame obsessions
Built up inside you
Forget the guesswork
You're staring at the source
Gazing into my eyes
You'll see there's no remorse
Cause this is my war
All day and every day
It's all about the conflict
Yeah!

Bring on the competition
Your pessimism only makes me stronger
I am the culmination
The fucking standard that all will follow

I live it every day
Don't know another way

03. Skeleton Christ

Music & lyrics by King
Unbound God's creation
Has grown into the sinner
abandoned innocence
Impenitent transgressor
Escape mortality
They say your life can change
If you take God's hand
Embrace rebirth
Your cleansing's so divine
To be reborn in God's eyes

You'll never touch God's hand
You'll never taste God's breath
Because you'll never see the second coming
Life's too short to be focused on insanity
I've seen the ways of God
I'll take the devil any day
Hail Satan

1st solo ( Lead - King )

Your faith has atrophied
And rots in hell's asylum
Despondence tears you down
A free-falling social stain
Escape atrocity
They say your life can change

If you take God's hand
Embrace rebirth
Your cleansing's so divine
To be reborn in God's lies


You'll never touch God's hand
You'll never taste God's breath
Because you'll never see the second coming
It's all a fuckin' mockery
No grasp upon reality
It's mind control for
Compulsory religion and the Skeleton Christ

You'll never touch God's hand
You'll never taste God's breath
Because you'll never see the second coming
I laugh at the abortion known as Christianity

I've seen the ways of God
I'll take the devil any day
Hail Satan

2nd solo ( Lead - King )

You'll never touch God's hand
You'll never taste God's breath
Because you'll never see the second coming
It's all a fuckin' mockery
No grasp upon reality
It's mind control for
Compulsory religion and the Skeleton Christ

3rd solo ( Lead - Hanneman )

04. Eyes Of The Insane

Music by Hanneman
Lyrics by Araya
A soldier's heart
Reflecting back at me
I keep seeing mutilated faces
Even in my dreams
Distorted images
Flashing rapidly
Psychotically abusing me
Devouring my brain

The eyes of the insane
On a demented campaign
Tortured Spirits
Will not let me rest
These thoughts of mutilated faces
Completely possessed
Fragmented images
Flashing rapidly
Psychotically abusing me
Worming through my head!

Shell shock
battle fatigue
overwhelming anxiety
Flashbacks
panic attacks
Death raising it's ugly face at me.
Got to make it stop
Can't take it anymore
The dead keep haunting me
They just keep coming back for more

The eyes of the insane
on a demented campaign
Flashbacks
Panic attacks
Death raising it's ugly face at me
Got to make it stop
Can't take it anymore
Death's face is haunting me
It just keeps coming back for more!

(Lead - King,Hanneman,King,Hanneman,King)

Got to make it stop
Can't take it anymore

Death's face is haunting me
It just keeps coming back for more

A soldier
Of misfortune
I owe my pain and suffering
To this hell
These demons
Ripping through my soul
Evil's relentless hostility
Won't let me sleep.

Shell shock
Battle fatigue
Devastating insanity
Flashbacks
Panic attacks
Death's riding
He's coming for me

05. Jihad

Music by Hanneman
Lyrics by Hanneman / Araya
I have witnessed your death
I've seen it many times
Your tortured screams
Your decrepit little mind
I've followed strong with
But then because it bleeds
Whence in the end again
Let the pillars fall

I will see you burned alive
Screaming for your God
I will hunt you down again for Him

God won't judge what I've down
He crawls upon my feet
A privileged pain beneath
Bury all your dead
Unsplintered bones
I walk
Sifting through the blood
Besieged to fear
Await the coming of the God!

I will watch you die again for Him

Blood is raining downward
The searing faces duck
Conquered, divide within
Terrorize the mind
I seek the end
It's your holstering in hand
Your self reflection now spilling from the sky

I will see you burned alive
Screaming for your God
I will watch you die

This is God's war
God's war
This is God's war
God's war

War of holy principles
I've seen God's helping your destruction
Slit the throat of heathen man
And let his blood dilute the water
Bury your dead

Your God
He rapes his big believe
We've switched shame with sorrow
I'll take his towers from the world
Bereaved upon your death bed

This is God's war
God's war
This is God's war
God's war
The holy war

Be optimistic, happy, and calm
Show no fear or anxiety
Smile at the face of God
And your reward will be eternity
Holy warriors your patience will be justified
Everything is for Him
You must not comfort the enemy before you kill it
Strike as champions at the heart of the non-believers
Strike above the neck and at all extremities
For this is a point of no return for almighty God
God will give victory to his faithful servants
When you reach ground zero you will have killed the enemy
The great Satan!

06. Consfearacy

Music & lyrics by King
I need to redefine
All the things I hate today
Politics that fail
From a president derailed
I hate the shit economy
It might as well be sodomy
I know that in the end
I'm expected to pretend

But I can't relate
To your verbal idiocy
No one's in control
When the government's the enemy

So light the fuse
Impose your views
Consfearacy is anarchy

Actions of hostility
Breeds conformity
Annihilation will begin
Extermination from within

So light the fuse
Impose your views
Confearacy
Insanity

I need to redefine
How I see the world today
Seems that all the war
Didn't even up the score
It's only mind pollution
There is no resolution
Still I know that in the end
I'm expected to pretend
That I can't think for myself
Blame it all on someone else
Half-hearted smile
While you look the other way
I can't relate
To your verbal idiocy
No one's in control
When the government's the enemy

So light the fuse
Impose your views
Confearacy
Complacency
Is your demise

07. Catatonic

Music & lyrics by King
Fear is just interpretation
Feeds my motivation
Our time together is
A bloodbath of serenity
Plead no more
There's no confusing the finale
Excitation
My rancid passion is electrified

Accept this
My religion of torture
I can't see any purity
Just imperfection and obscenity
My blood soaked hands devise
Your slow methodic demise
Asphyxiate the world
It's blind without me

Catatonic
Catatonic
I'm numb in priceless solitude
Exhilarating keeping pieces of you near

Visions of decapitation
My mental masturbation
I try to resurrect
Your consciousness your intellect
Once so pure
Your pain excites and it tests me
Excitation
The empty state emitting from your eyes

Embrace it
My religion of torture
All I see are the impurities
The imperfections and obscenities

Accept it
The religion of torture
Excitation
The rancid passion coming from your eyes

My blood soaked hands devise
Your slow methodic demise
Asphyxiate the world
It's blind without me

Catatonic
Catatonic
I'm numb in priceless solitude
Exterminating all the voiceless multitudes
I can't stop because it's so hypnotic
Catatonic

08. Black Serenade

Music by Hanneman
Lyrics by Hanneman / Araya
Terrorize your frozen eyes stare deep in me
Paralyzed inside death feeds on your pain
Pretty lace in hate you wear my scars
Terrified you find that you push me too far

Your repulsiveness reminds me of dead flesh
Rotting corpse the smell of your putrid fucking soul
Petrified that I decide the moment of your death
Belongs to me the taste is sweet it so unreal
Your God weeps, it bleeds, it begs for me
God is letting you recover

[solo Hanneman]

Welcome to my Black Serenade
The entrance to my hell your pain
Scream your song the Black Serenade
Live in fear a mind insane

Voice inside my head
Your face still shows itself to me
Telling me you're dead
Staring at your lifeless body
I saw you fucking die
My minds tearing itself apart
Screaming from the inside
Release this pain from my fucking heart

Destroy the empty shell
Smash away the haunting fear
I hate your endless stare
Watching as I fuck your corpse

Welcome to my Black Serenade
The entrance to my hell your pain
Walk on through a tortured mind
You'll scream your song in time

Welcome to my Black Serenade
The entrance to my hell your pain
Flesh is burnt the black serenade
Live in fear no coming back

[solo King]

Welcome to my Black Serenade
The entrance to my hell your pain
Walk on through a tortured mind
You'll scream your song in time

Welcome to my Black Serenade
The entrance to my hell your pain
Flesh is burnt the Black Serenade
Live in fear death is back

09. Cult

Music & lyrics by King
Oppression is the holy law
In God I distrust
In time His monuments will fall
Like ashes to dust
Is war and greed the master plan?
The bible's where it all began
Its propaganda sells despair
And spreads the virus everywhere

Religion is hate
Religion is fear
Religion is war

Religion is rape
Religion's obscene
Religion's a whore

The pestilence is Jesus Christ
There never was a sacrifice
No man upon the crucifix
Beware the cult of purity
Infectious imbecility
I've made my choice. Six Six Six

Corruption breeds the pedophile
Don't pray for the priest
Confession finds the lonely child
God preys on the weak
You think your soul still can be saved
I think you're fucking miles away
Scream out loud here's where you begin
Forgive me father for i have sinned

Religion is hate
Religion is fear
Religion is war

Religion is rape
Religion's obscene
Religion's a whore

The target's fucking Jesus Christ
I would've lead the sacrifice
And nailed him to the crucifix
Beware the cult of purity
Infectious imbecility
I've made my choice. Six Six Six

Jesus is pain
Jesus is gore
Jesus is the blood
That's spilled in war
He's everything
He's all things dead
He's pulling on the trigger
Pointed at your head

Through fear you're sold into the fraud
Revelation revolution
I see through your Christ illusion

The war on terror just drags along
My war with God is growing strong
His propaganda sells despair
And spread the violence everywhere

Religion is hate
Religion is fear
Religion is war

Religion is rape
Religion's obscene
Religion's a whore

There is no fuckin' Jesus Christ
There never was a sacrifice
No man upon the crucifix
Beware the cult of purity
Infectious imbecility
I've made my choice. Six Six Six

10. Supremist

Music & lyrics by King
Crushing all your worthless goals
I define control
Your pain's my fucking ecstasy
So putrid is my world of tyranny

To accentuate your desperation
Flesh from bone I'll rip and tear
I hate the fact that we breath the same air

Helpless as I dominate
I won't celebrate
Until you've all been crucified
I can not rest till everyone has died

I can't stand the victim in you
Infecting everything that I do
I will eradicate
Obliterate depopulate
Divine atrocious suffering
Cleansation of the weak
Supremacy

Pissing on your faith
Incinerate God's whore
Perpetual is my reign
I will eat your soul

Must maintain control of the weak

Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free
Must maintain control of the weak
Must contain the minds of the free

11. Final Six

Surrender your cloth and collar priest
There's no need for your beliefs in war
This is a place for heathens
Into that darkness fires illuminate
Grotesquely swollen by the heat
A half-burned corpse hanging naked
A stream is poisoned by the dead
I ghostly light, debris of war

Lead us to the brink of extinction
The time has come for you now to finish it

What has man become a funeral pyre
Now that judgement's near prepare to die
Need to suffer lust for power mindless hunger never win

Final six is here the cycle ends

I have come for you my child
And the gift I bring is murder
Sumarian death in eastern winds
Face the father of your terror
Godless warheads wait to breath
Set their sights on history
Distant silhouettes of the dead
Blacken face screams through the ashes

Lead us to the brink of extinction
The time has come for you now to finish it

What has man become a funeral pyre
Now that judgement's near prepare to die
Need to suffer lust for power mindless hunger never win

Final six is here the cycle ends

Mankind owes his pain to hell
As he brings the end upon himself
Arms rising from the ashes
In the ghastly light of human flares
Berith soldiers capture souls
Shadows of human sacrifice
The return of everything that's dead
A cryptic promise from the heavens

Lead us to the brink of extinction
The time has come for you now to finish it

Dead flowers for a faceless dead
A city engulfed by the smell of the death
Bodies piled beneath the mist
Walking dead among the living
The world will bleed while horseman ride
Now that God has wept for Judas
Days are numbered find your grave
Forever trying to escape to hell