Ancient Back to the Land of the Dead 1. Land of the Dead The lord of this world is laughing, but how long? My pain has been so strong Just because I once was wrong! My journey's over, it's time to come back! Born in the land of the dead! I was born in the land of the dead The pain from a ghastly terraine hurt My spirit was slain with fierce Like a suicidal mission In dark grounds, as my soul was torn! My journey's over, it's time to come back! Born in the land of the dead! I was born in the land of the dead Born in the land of the dead! I was born in the land of the dead Then where will you go? Where will you go?! Evade the lands where the winds of hades blow! You may go blind in the freezing snow! Born in the land of the dead! I was born in the land of the dead Land of the dead 2. Beyond the Blood Moon Chaos, fear, turmoil, despair Millions dazed, trapped in the snare The ancient vexer spinning its web A degenerate spider in an infinite lab! What lies beyond the blood moon? Will the end occur too soon? What lies beneath the bloody tribute? The ancient vexer devoured our roots! Trembling sagacity, what is to come? Dread of a fireball's strike from beyond Shivering grounds in a growing rage Prepare to face the final stage! "Tales of the ancients" Ridiculed and scorned! Antediluvian spirits fight To propagate the stygian night! Like a helix spinning free Moving on continuously A serpent is coming quietly 'til it swallows society Forever spinning humanity, eliminating sobriety Who will find the little vent, to be set free?! 3. The Sempiternal Haze Haze! A sempiternal haze Befogs and betrays Lies! The sempiternal lies Blinding venom in pernicious disguise Flee out of the haze! See the hellion ablaze! Flee out of the haze! Burn! The sempiternal haze! Insidious servants, agenda in place Shred! You can see the figures shred Crush them to cinders, no remnants to spread Flee out of the haze! See the hellion ablaze! Flee out of the haze! See the hellion's disgrace Deep in the ceaseless mist A deathlike silence lives Through aeons of time it ameliorates The sempiternal haze! Burn! The sempiternal haze! Drifting along its infinite chase Life in the haze benumbs cerebration Facing the serpent, you face termination! Flee out of the haze! See the hellion ablaze! Flee out of the haze! See the hellion's disgrace Out of the haze! 4. The Empyrean Sword When will the veil be lifted? When will the haze be cleared? When will the spiral be fractured and veered? When will the vexer surface? What's in its endless furnace? When will the disarray be eternally impaired? Grasp the empyrean sword! The slay the hordes Grasp the ethereal sword! Sleep, how long will you sleep? You know, the abyss is deep! Lift up the sword! Slay the poisonous hordes of deceit Lift up the sword! Time has come to clean out the filth Flush out the incessant filth! Before time runs out, grasp the empyrean sword! When will the veil be lifted? When will the haze be cleared? When will the spiral be fractured and veered? When will the vexer surface? What's in its endless furnace? When will the disarray be eternally impaired? Grasp the empyrean sword! Sleep, how long will you sleep? You see, the abyss is deep! Laughs, though you can not hear The vexer laughs, while it fathoms your fear A tree of pretence, growing inside And causes rot! Lift up the sword! Slay the poisonous hordes of deceit Lift up the sword! Time has come to clean out the filth Flush out the incessant filth! 5. The Ancient Disarray A disarray invades your mind Disquietude, but what's behind? The ancient vexer fights to keep you blind! Can't be denied, it's everywhere Can't be perceived, but it's there It drags your soul into perennial despair! Cold disarray! You live or you obey, the ancient disarray! Cold disarray! A sickening display, the ancient disarray! Like a quicksand it pulls you in A wicked mud that you're drowning in While sinking endlessly, discern the wicked grin Putrefaction will be revealed No longer will it be concealed When we'll see the end, our final fate is sealed Cold disarray! You live or you obey, the ancient disarray! Cold disarray! A sickening display, the ancient disarray! The ultimate betrayal! The ancient disarray! Ringing in your head Voices from the dead Ringing in your head As your tears turns red 6. Occlude the Gates How does the vexer work? How does it warp your mind? Can the spiral be fractured? Can the accord be unsigned? Occlude the gates! Wipe out the poison within Occlude the gates Your hallways are such an easy way in! Can it be fought at all? Can it be revealed to us all? Once the serpents appear The wounds may last for years and years, and years Occlude the gates! Wipe out the poison within Occlude the gates Your hallways are such an easy way in! 7. The Excruciating Journey, Part I: Defiance and Rage Captured in a cage, a lion in spiteful rage Misplaced and pried in a land of vapidness Erase the rules! Discard the servitude Expunge the filth! Invert the slavery Erase the rules! Discard the drapery Expunge the filth! Invert the impoundment The crude zealot is ready to evacuate! Erase the rules! Discard the servitude Expunge the filth! Invert the slavery Erase the rules! Discard the drapery Expunge the filth! Invert the impoundment A heart filled with disgust and hate! Life has taken its toll It's time to break lose It's time to break... out! Erase the rules! Discard the servitude Expunge the filth! Invert the slavery Erase the rules! Discard the drapery Expunge the filth! Invert the impoundment There was nothing left now that could hold him back The forbidden fruits and pleasures seemed just too sweet And so, the venom is injected The ancient foul gives the kiss of death... 8. The Excruciating Journey, Part II: The Prodigal Years The years passed by, one by one The venom was flowing free in his veins Nothing could disturb the zealot and his euphoric life A slight sense of hazy wickedness was welt at times However, it offered no disturbance to his devious ways The elated life was pleasing and serene Thoughts or apprehension of a future were far and away Undisturbing to his joyful life and bliss The venom had surely done its job Any any trace of discernment was far gone... 9. The Excruciating Journey, Part III: The Awakening Rot! Grime! Angst and blight! The crepuscular horizon reveals a lurid penumbra! Trapped inside a spiral of an endless consternation Can't tell up from down or even feel a sturdy ground Just a neverending disarray, can't avoid going astray Life a fly in a flushing toilet Surely seems the end has come At last, clarity arrives The awakening comes as a freezing wind Comprehension is washing out the murkiness All along, the rules were not of slavery Seeing the paths and trails now and where they lead Both abyss and light, becomes so visible and clear Seeing the wicked trap that led his life astray A bitter wrath starts building up inside Conceiving the immense and morbid putridness The endless tunnel has a shimmering light in the end But the way is long and excruciating "That rotten filthy beast, such a foul deceiver!" "I will despise and curse it, until the very end!" "This one shall surely never see the light" "What a childish and pathetic struggle" "I can see its schemes and ensnaring powers" "But the laughs will come to and end" And so, the batles goes on... After many years with blinding fiends The light feels so sharp, a needle in the eye! And the vexer fights in its endless crooked ways With its traps and vast delusive haze At last it seems the door has been shut The endless tunnel the torment now has past This purifying air revives the newborn one The unfettered life, has just begun! Free! Finally unchained! Free! From the awful misery! A magnificent rebirth and clarity has come! Free from the slavery! 10. Death Will Die Death! Your time has come Ashes slowly you'll become Wail! Too late to plead Hea the ancient dragon speak See your days are all revealed Every stain is unconcealed Out of lifeless dust appears Tales that break you down to tears From the land of death you leave What's next you can't conceive The ancient dragon laughs Unveils its grisly wrath Its sempiternal haze Beguiled the human race Its ancient disarray A spiral of dismay The spiral of decay! Death may die Death will die! Transcendent realms arise Death will die! At last you meet your ancient foe He gifts you now your bitter end His ugly mask revealed at last His great disguise, his great demise! So the vexer dies, his reign is not supreme See a greater one at last has won Death is just the beginning of eternity! Death may die, death will die! Another realm, breaks forth The light of the world takes command Kills the haze with an instant fire Death may die Death will die! 11. The Spiral In the spiral of the wicked one Downwards in the madness they move on Until the night is done they go on In the spiral of the wicked one In haziness they foolishly move on But when the dawn will come They'll be gone In the spiral hope seems lost Exculptation turns to frost Rapidly encroaches minds Viciously leaves them blind In the spiral what do they find? Ascendancy, it eats their minds Deep in their blackened hearts They're being torn apart! When the spiral's energy embarks It arrogates their thrones with a demon's mark Just in then end they meet The ancient rotten shark! In the spiral of the wicked one Amaranthine despair until it's done Fed by perdition's spark It's moving on 12. Petrified by Their End It was such a fine and bloodless day There were no more signs of the decay The memories had faded from the awful disarray! No more fear of the noxious fiends Gone was ghostly war machines Life was in its finest age Gone was ostentatious rage The clock was ticking, but nobody knew the time Nobody saw the writing on the wall Nobody could perceive the heinous wrath to come Exultation and peace were high and low Then the sky turned black! A voice of infinite dimensions was heard Through all the lands and dales it rang and blared The omnipresent utterance just carried on and on In black and white they all gently came Without a trace of transgression or shame So neat and devious, pertinent! No room for discontent! Agenda had been set Deprive and seize the helpless rats Beguile the feeble ones And swipe their wretched homes! So vicious and unjust Forced the masses into dust While crushing bones and limbs Homage to nefarious kings They surely did not know the time For the judgement comes in time Before they found their door They found the scarlet whore! It was the end and fall Their backs against the wall Nobody spoke at all Nobody standing tall Petrified by the end Vilified in the end! 13. 13 Candles (Bathory cover) Now the night lays dark and cold Upon a world at sleep Across he world sweeps a crimson haze Now the virgin's seal is broken The fertility rite is complete And the seed is sown in a holy place Born a child of the underworld The fire and flame Born a child of the underworld Desire and pain Born a child of the underworld Evil prevail Born a child of the underworld... Now the day is slowly fading The 12th night is comed Prepare soon the virgin shall give birth To the son of Satan, Child of Hell Spread the news across the universe Satan's child is born tonight by womb untouched and pure All Hell rejoice the birth of the Son Laced in sin Child of Hell The spirit of lust and pain Baptised in sacred angel blood Now Evil can prevail The fire and flame Desire and pain Evil prevail Born a child of the underworld... So light the 13 Candles