Heralds of Pestilence Lyrics


v1

A RIVER OF BLOOD FLOWS THROUGH YOUR HANDS

A WORLD MOURNS THE DEEDS OF THE DAMNED

A RIVER OF SOULS BAYS FOR BLOOD

MISLED AND MISGUIDED FOR DAMNATIONS GOOD

THE TREACHEROUS VILE EMELNAKRU RAPE AWAY

THE DIGNIFIED UMMUM KIA

WEALTH OF THE ABHORRENT, OBSCENE FEAST OF GREED

ENGULFING AND SPREADING DECAY



CHORUS

BY  FIRE, BY FLOOD,

DESTRUCTIVE STORMS AND EVIL WINDS

HERALDS OF PESTILENCE,

THRONE BEARERS OF NINNKIGAL



v2

MURDEROUS THUNDER (ROARS) THE WAR CRY GOES OUT

SOON ALL SHALL BE LEFT IN THE WAKE

ABSOLUTE! RESOLUTE!

GLORIOUS! VICTORIOUS!

AS THE NEW DAWN ARISES, WAR SEALS THEIR FATE

SURVIVAL PRINCIPLE MUST NOW RECREATE

THE GROUND SHALL SPLIT BENEATH THEIR FEET

MASS IGNORANCE FALLEN IN NAR MATTARU



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THE EMQU (ZU) ARE FAR AWAY

WHEN COMETH THE UPRISING

THEY KNOW WHEN TO DRIFT AWAY

THEY GATHER AND REGROUP

DON’T TOLERATE FOOLS

A LESSON THAT YOU SHOULD LEARN



AND WHEN THIS WAR COMES TO

IT’S NATURAL END

THIS BARON WASTE SHALL AGAIN GROW

 KASHSHAPTU IN THE COVEN

THE BEAST ON THE LAND

AND NO WAY BACK FOR SANU SA BASU ITTI EZERU

CHORUS





GODS

(from "Chaos Prevails" promo 2004)

v1

I WAS AN ANGEL, WHO CRAVED TO BE A GOD

FIRST AMONG THE BLINDLY DOTING

DOWN THE PATH OF HOPEFUL ACCEPTANCE,

AND THEN I CHANGED MY MIND

I CAN SENSE HIM WITH ME IN TOTAL DARKNESS

THE MOST PERFECT ANGEL OF THEM ALL

I FELT MY SELF FORSAKEN, BUT NOWHERE NEAR

HIS SOLOMN GRIEF, I TAKE HIS WORDS AS MY BELIEF

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THERE'S NOTHING IN HELL TO SCARE ME

I FACE MY DEMONS EVERYDAY

KISS MY CHEEK, MOST ADORED?

WE WHO CRAVE TO BE GODS

I'M NOT THE RED HORNED DEVIL,

THAT YOU PORTRAY

JUST BEING WHO OPENED HIS EYES

TO THE POSSIBILITY, OF A DIFFERANT WAY

v2

IN DEFIANCE, THE PAIN I'VE SEEN, TORTURED BY MY

SOULLESS PRIDE

TIMES OF RUE, TIMES OF LAMENT ENDED SWIFTLY

BY HIS ARROGANCE

I WAS BORN TO MURDER THIS GLORIOUS WORLD

SHED LIGHT UPON MANKIND

THE ONE TO END THIER SUFFERING

REAP VENGEANCE ON THE BLIND

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NAIVETY A TRAIT, I THOUGHT RESERVED FOR MANKIND

YET I'M FORSAKEN BY THE ONE I LOVE, THE ONE I LOVED

v3

PURE HATRED REMAINS DEEP INSIDE MY DAMAGED BRAIN

I WAS MAJESTY, BROUGHT DOWN BY TRAVASTY, YOU

COULD NEVER ENDURE MY PAIN

HE WAS AROUND IN A TIME LONG BEFORE MAN

INVENTED GODS

CAST DOWN AND OUT BY THE ONE HE SERVED

HATRED FUELED BY THOSE ONCE BESIDE HIM

JEALOUS OF OUR GRACE

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