VADER LYRICS
Live In Japan (1998)
1. Damien (Intro)
2. Sothis
3. Distant Dream
4. Black To The Blind
5. Silent Empire
6. Blood Of Kingu
7. Carnal
8. Red Passage
9. Panzerstoss (Intro)
10. Reborn In Flames
11. Fractal Light
12. From Beyond (Intro)
13. Crucified Ones
14. Foetus God
15. Black Sabbath
16. Reign In Blood
17. Omen (Outro)
18. Dark Age
19. Kingdom
1. Damien (Intro)
2. Sothis
No more a thing I knew... transformed - transfigured
transcended... in an endless progress cycle
DNA metamorphosis... of the dying cells
into something that will last... last forever
immortal... my soul... alone under...
the cracking skies... on trembling Earth
closing the eye... of blinding Sun
WHO AM I? - a question... alredy answered
I am who I am... no less, no more
destined to be... never to extinct
remaining after... everything dies
remaining... a Dog Star's Son... beyond the Sun
for ever... and more
3. Distant Dream
["... to Know, means possessing Wisdom, to use Wisdom, means Art., but using]
[Art, means danger and sometimes warnings come too late..."]
Oh, blessed be the Grand Watchers
Who are not from a Race of Man
But from beyond the times of the Gods
Lurking forever about the barriers
Thou who are the One in Three and Three in One
With the names that set a soul ablaze
KUA MASS SSARATU -
Thy Sword of Flames
I have never heard your voices so close
Unknowable, unspeakable chants
Torn into the billion pieces
Enslaved in crypts upon the stars
Rites not to be spoken
Harbingers of chasmal light
Forever kept alive
Upon the wizard's seal
- The conjuration of the fire
I call thee fierce Dog here, before me
SHTAH! Appear! Conjuration!
Carven signs engraved upon the bow!
BARRA MASS SSARATU BARRA!
Behold the worthless formula
Seeking ever to hold the Ancient Powers
Now devoured is thy mind
Such are laws of the grey stone star...
4. Black To The Blind
["Black to the blind" is a quotation from "BOOK OF THE LAW" (LIBER AL vel]
[LEGIS), written down by A. Crowley. Years later he commented it thus: "The]
[uninitiated perceive only darkness in night: the wise perceive the golden]
[stars in the vault of azure." The same can be said of us, worshipping the]
[Goddess in the true riteless ceremony of existence.]
Black to the blind is She above
and black to the blind we seem to be
god-fearing sheep will never perceive
the embodiment of the lust divine
Nothingness thickens and bends down
a new creation taking its primal breath
this world's eternity vacuum unfolds
dissolution of things stiff and dead
Black to the blind
Starry transocean of Goddess' womb
pleasures landscapes and drops of pain
from vulva furnace in gracious trance
dark theology explained in light
Trample the temple of gods aborted
body denial, servile renouncement
turn your eyes inward and chant
unto the Gate of self-born None
Black to the blind
Heresy of the most superior kind
to all of you I preach clearly now
let no rapture be out of reach
death is easy, life means extasy
Black to the blind seems She Above
blue and gold is seen to the seeing
intoxicate the inner expressions
to keep the eyes aware and vigilant
Black to the blind is She above
and black to the blind we seem to be
god-fearing sheep will never perceive
the embodiment of the lust divine
Trample the temple of gods aborted
body denial, servile renouncement
turn your eyes inward and chant
unto the Gate of self-born None
Black to the blind
5. Silent Empire
[Trystero is the name of the oldest conspiracy in the world which started off]
[in the early XIII century and has supposedly survived until our times. In]
[modern times the Trystero couriers used waste bins to pass their secret]
[messages. The main aim of the organization was undermining of all official]
[power in all its guises. Trystero is reported to have been active in America]
[for the past 200 years, but no definite evidence has ever been found.]
We await the silent empire
The timeless domain of disinherited ones
We do believe in silence
All that is hidden and hushed serves our quest
The spaceless kingdom of ones that expect
The nameless worshippers of future to come
When the courier's sign glimmers in the dark
We rise our eyes in wait
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
We wish to disremember the defeated cause
Lost in the maze of the world
We restlessly seek way out and up
To evil towers, to another fall from grace into pride
There in the world they think they conspire
How pitiful seems their toil and plot
We drop out letters into waste bins in the streets
And gather to read the words of those who concoct
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
The empire, it is in us
The horn, there you can see
The message, this should come soon Trystero, the name we behold
We're from the outer empire
Our heads - that's where it dwells
Our hearts - that's where it ripens
Our hopes - that's where it reigns
You'd better never antagonize the horn
We await the silent empire
6. Blood Of Kingu
[And was not Man created from the blood of Kingu, commander of the hordes of]
[the Ancient Ones? Does not Man possess in his spirit the seed of rebellion]
[against the Elder Gods? And the blood of Man is the blood of vengeance. And]
[the blood of Man is the Spirit of vengeance. And the power of Man is the power]
[of the Ancient Ones. And this is the Covenant. ]
[Of the Forgotten Generations of Man - taken from "The Magan Text"]
We - from the blood of the dead
We're burning with fury and hate
Bloody vengeance still growing in us
Waiting for mighty lords who'll praise again
Cry of the dreaming-dead
Still existing in my head
They are spawn of the lords
And venom of the evil gods
Through the caverns of the earth the creep
Still waiting for the right time
They revolt against the holiness
Leading me the mighty realm of madness
Primal lords
Eternal creatures of the earth
Moved before the upcoming revolt
Listen to your sickest dreams
Awakening of the fallen is written in us
Secular war
Among the giants of universe
And race of man created in hate
Lead your thoughts beyond the time
And wake up the ancestry of our entity
Distant worlds
Abominations unaffected
Waiting for the rebirth of the ancient race
All creatures of darkness arise
I open my mind for coming of the lords
7. Carnal
[And was not Man created from the blood of Kingu, commander of the hordes of]
[the Ancient Ones? Does not Man possess in his spirit the seed of rebellion]
[against the Elder Gods? And the blood of Man is the blood of vengeance. And]
[the blood of Man is the Spirit of vengeance. And the power of Man is the power]
[of the Ancient Ones. And this is the Covenant. ]
[Of the Forgotten Generations of Man - taken from "The Magan Text"]
We - from the blood of the dead
We're burning with fury and hate
Bloody vengeance still growing in us
Waiting for mighty lords who'll praise again
Cry of the dreaming-dead
Still existing in my head
They are spawn of the lords
And venom of the evil gods
Through the caverns of the earth the creep
Still waiting for the right time
They revolt against the holiness
Leading me the mighty realm of madness
Primal lords
Eternal creatures of the earth
Moved before the upcoming revolt
Listen to your sickest dreams
Awakening of the fallen is written in us
Secular war
Among the giants of universe
And race of man created in hate
Lead your thoughts beyond the time
And wake up the ancestry of our entity
Distant worlds
Abominations unaffected
Waiting for the rebirth of the ancient race
All creatures of darkness arise
I open my mind for coming of the lords
8. Red Passage
["The red passage of Samadhi, Blood-Vision"]
[Kenneth Grant]
A dive up with head down
moth-winged Angel's shriek
excretion condensed
diginity disrespect
The Crown of Manhood
means nothing here
not for the sheep they pray
they bless the buther's knife
A chant of turbid light
sombre consolation
caryr me, oh Hydra Mother
to gods of festering wounds
The Crown of Manhood
means nothing here
not for the sheep they pray
they bless the buther's knife
A chant of turbid light
sombre consolation
carry me, of Hydra Mother
to gods of festering wounds
9. Panzerstoss (Intro)
10. Reborn In Flames
Comes the time of fear and pain
The human race is bleeding away!
The earth covered by ashes and flesh
Dying in terrible decay
Freezing winds freezing it all
What fire hasn't burnt
Blackened blood flooding the graves
Messiah will never return!
Unholy words of ancient prophecy
Now come true - the dead rise from hell...
Toxic storms attack from the sky
Spreading the light of deadly pleasure
Nuclear mutants buried alive
In blasting dust of dying world
Atomic falls putrefy human brains
The living dead creep in bloody bog
The lord of hate was awaken by death
Before you die, can see the end!
All will burn in his breath
His eyes paralyze every life
The demons wheel above his head
Like vultures seeking the flesh
All will burn in his breath
His eyes paralyze every life
All demons transformed into grubs
To make the globe a stinking rot
Born to destroy the holy ghost to the end
Now finished wars of God
His name is the Exterminator
Covering the earth with vaporous rot
The real messiah reborn in flames
Creator was the hell
He's killer of the world of the living
The dead worship his majesty
Comes the time of wrath and death
Heaven has turned blood-red fire
Crucified souls vomiting the blood
In embrace of mortal desire
Freezing winds that froze that all
What fire has already burnt
Blackened blood flooding the corpses
Messiah will never return!
No return!!!
11. Fractal Light
[The lyric is a necessarily very general and simplified take on Chaos Magick -]
[a modern system of thought that allows for the combination of mixing of all]
[other systems and canons as long as they suit purposes of a mage.]
Persistence of vision is not enough
The common point is a law
All systems do converge at last
The mage's will is done
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
No bonds, no checks, no nots
All is permitted now
The sphere glows red in the dark
The navel's point is marked
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
Take all the runes, collect the rites
The psychonaut departs right now
The world is open before your arms
Evolve, change, and rise
Persistence of vision is not enough
The common point is a law
All systems do converge at last
The mage's will is done
The fractal light
Chaos controls
The fractal light
12. From Beyond (Intro)
13. Crucified Ones
Mortal crosses standing in the row,
Seem to reach up to the burning sky,
Damned souls grouping on the dark,
Going round the stretched arms.
Bodies, faces,
Unnaturally bended in pain,
Lifeless eyes staring at the space,
Persecution of the dying has begun.
Here's the place of alteration,
Where life turns into other form,
Dark ritual of demons procreation,
Hear the cries - of the crucified ones.
Throbbing fleshes in the rhythm of thunder,
Blasphemy in light of raving bolts,
Nailed hands greeting angry gods,
Coming fourth to feast in blood.
Bodies, faces,
Unnaturally changed in lust,
Purple fluids streams on the wood,
Like tears of dying cross....
Here's the place of the alteration,
Where gods turn into temporal form,
Dark ritual of demons procreation,
Come on! Leave your life and join the dead in hell.
Masters of forgotten arts,
Deign to look at your servant,
Acceptance my greatest sacrifice,
Send revenge on bastard's seed!
O come to me!
I beg thee, open wide the gates,
All fiends of fiends,
From the deep sleep of dark abyss arrive!
Pazuzu, the evil one,
Lord, who feeds on angels cries!
Bless the damned, curse the blessed, crucify them.
14. Foetus God
["For the high point their teology consists of these two things: hissing at]
[demons and skething the cross on their foreheads."]
[Flavius Claudius Julianus (332-363)]
[Roman Caesar (Julian the Apostate) (361-363)]
["What are the fruits of Chrisianity? Bigotry, superstition and persecution."]
[James Madison (1751-1836)]
[US fourth President (1809-1817)]
Foetus god descends in silence
a bastard deity for us to believe
blasphemy of gen collage
in backward sombre involution
Foetus god abortion of the Diine
latent rape of wet, lewd womb
man-made myth to blunt in mind
the vilest offence of five senses
Undone miracles never to come
invalid rise of slave thought
the only light its dawn can shed
is from burnt wisdom and shimmering greed
Thine is not the Kingdom
no trace of strength I see
no Mercy to expect
a seed of claws upon your lips
As pure wit turns into effusions
we, snakes of Truth, ex and devour
gods manifested in twisted images
astrally hunted in shadow and soul
Sweet holy shiftless godsend meat
I bet you listen to this psalm of me
Sweet holy shiftless godsend meat
I bet you listen to this psalm of me
little by little, one by one
the thorns become the real crown
Thine is not the Kingdom
no trace of strength I see
no Mercy to expect
a seed of claws upon your lips
15. Black Sabbath
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh nooooo!
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please help me!
Is it the end my friend?
Satan's coming 'round the bend
People running 'cause they're scared
The people better go and beware!
No, no, please no!
16. Reign In Blood
[Originally by Slayer (Lyrics - Haneman, King, Music - Hanneman)]
Trapped in purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition
The sky is turning red
Return to power draws near
Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears
Abolish the rules made of stone
Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past
Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above
Awaiting the hour of reprisal
Your time slips away
Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure
Now I shall reign in blood!
17. Omen (Outro)
18. Dark Age
Strange visions dreams my mind,
When I'm walking through the night,
Each time I see the visage of the moon,
Dead cities amongst the sands,
Under the black abyss of seas,
Does madness seize my soul?
The elder race,
From beyond the stars,
Eternal watchers,
Of sphere of no return,
Seven seals,
Of seven mighty gates,
Abominations,
That come true within me.
Here's the key by which I can summon the forgotten world,
Unnatural desire of the knowledge of the gods,
Lust eating up the brain wherein there isn't fear yet,
I break the sleep of spectral friends,
Tear open the unseen, ghostly screen,
I make free for all ways for demons now,
And ruin the tombs of sacred souls....
An epileptic trance is entering my body,
to break all control rule of this mind
A boiling brain addicted to madness,
In which every night is like a horror dream.
Shudder in the dark breath,
Old evil blowing icily from the dark,
Wrapped in a shroud of mystery,
Faint voices from beyond the spaces,
Sample a dark universe,
domain of the strange aces,
With the angry gods,
Best forgotten and left undiscovered.
You know, of course,
I'll be back from the dead,
Blessing the blackness in glory,
Of billions of years,
On collapsed stars,
In rituals of the ancient race!
19. Kingdom
[bonus video track]
The band's line-up on this album is:
Peter (voc, g)
Mauser (g)
Shambo (b)
Doc (dr)
This is a live album recorded on 1998.08.31 at Club Quattro, Tokyo, Japan.
Released in Poland as an Enhanced CD in contains Kingdom videoclip as a bonus
(CD only, of course). Multimedia part is somewhat broken, though.
Release info
Version Where Label
Enhanced CD Poland Metal Mind Records
Japanese Japan Marquee / Avalon
(Metal Mind Productions, 1998)
Lyrics in plain text format
