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Posted at February 25, 2017, 6:32 pm:

I'm back, and hoping this one will do better then, the my dying bride one did. This is a amazing DM band who manages to obtain insanley hard riffs and amazing lyrics (I'm listing to lashed to the slavestick now its awesome) First were going to start off with their first album "Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka" The first song we wil do is called,

Smashing The Antiu

Dragging The fettered Rebels
To the Block of Slaughter
Decapitated Headless
Naked and Bound
Captives Adorn my Shield

Arms Tied behind their Backs
Lying Bound in Agony
Fiends Hold them with Ropes
Awaiting Beheadment and Mutilation

Don't jump the gun, not all of their lyrics are this heavy/grotesque. Most of them are concering ancient stories, I will discuss that later. When I first read the lyrics to this song I was thinking to more on the lines of torture, or It made be tied to jesus christ, and the killing of him. What tipped me off about the torture part was the line "wating" though this could mean anything I'm thinking it more on the lines as torture, "Wating beheadment and mutilation" this song is basicley pointed on the lines of gore and exeacution. This may have to do with ancient egypts, heros and anti-heros.

Now we will move onto another song off the same album, this so is called...
Beneath Eternal Oceans Of Sand Just by reading the title of this song you can tell this is showing a more soft side to their writing

In the cosmos
There is balm as well as bitterness
And that balm is Nepenthe.

Yet underneath endless oceans of sand
I have not forgotten
Those who had betrayed me.
Silent and unmovable,
I am not sorry
For I had hated the light.

Hmm...In the line "and the balm is nepenthe, he is basicley making a metaphor used for the word greif or regret, the actuall defenition of it is to remedy someones greif. Now there is a nother word that might confuse you. The word is Cosmos, the lyrics used in this song are very conplex and you don't see tons of it used in the english language. The defenition of the word cosmos, is sort of like a fanatsy land, it is to retreive from chaos and greif and make peice in a normal and happy enviorment. Now we will look into some songs off some other albums. This album we are going to look into is called "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" (Oh and if you listen to the first couple seconds of the song black seeds of vengance you can even hear the vocals they are so deap. The next song we will look into is called...

Defiling The Gates Of Ishtar Here's a short passage from the song.

Impure am I,impure I spill my seed upon barren earth
And spit in the faces of the Goddess,unclean am I
Unclean I copulate with the hands of the God
And defile the Gates of Ishtar
Unblessed am I,unrepentant
Upon the altar of the Goddess,in filth I lay,in filth I desecrate

Before you get all confused by the song title, what he means when he says ishtar, he is referring to Babylonian and Assyrian goddess To the normal person it is just a metaphor for having to do with love and war. Many of their lyrics are based on mythology, in my writeup I will explain more a bout that. This song is most likely refering to religion, and impurity, basicley denying the holy god and the idea that man is lesser then a man but a animal, sometimes lesser. The line that really tipped me off when they mention upon the altar, many times bands will mention altar as sort of a metaphor for religion.

Now We will look into another song off black seeds of vengance. The song is called...

Multitude Of Foes Here is a short passage of the song.


Call Upon Thee My Father Amun for I am in the midst of A
Multitude of Foes
Abandoned by the Legions of Amun and Ra
Engulfed by the Heat of the Fire
Blood of the Impure Drips from my Weapons
Dismembered armies Rot in the Sun
Mekhi Kherit Au Aqu
Mtum thai Peten Nekht An Aqu

The word "RA" used in this passage might come along a little confusing. But it is farly simple to a standing of a army and sort of a bulwark (defence) alot of these lines are having to do with leaders of egypt leaders and ancient art work and artifacts. Though most death metal don't use these Nile knows its roots! Now the writeup (Oh I made a writeup about these guys before so Ill just stick it on here) Oh and its my birthday and my MX birthday and I got 1000 posts cool huh?

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