01. Innocence and Wrath (1:02) / 02. The Usurper (3:24) - 03. Jewel Throne (3:59) / 04. Down of Meggido (5:42) - 05. Eternal Summer - 06. Circle of the Tyrants - 07. (Beyond The) North Winds (3:04) - 08. Fainted Eyes (5:00) - 09. Tears in A Prophet\'s Dream (2:30) - 10. Necromentical Screams (6:06)

In June of 1984, one of the most influentual bands in heavy metal history was born - Celtic Frost ! The Swiss Gods of Extreme Metal present with their first full-length record their best one. It was high time after the both EPs "Morbid Tales" and "Emperor\'s Return". And this is a absolutely mighty work: "To Mega Therion" is an album for the eternity! A classic, which is unmatched until today.

>> Innocence And Wrath
(Instrumental)

>> The Usurper
Lend Me Your Steel-Bearing Hand . So I May Reign The Jewel Throne . My Soul Feels The Gods\' Demand . As The Lost Kings Uphold My Side . Blood And Sand . Mark Their Way . The Usurper\'s Tears . Guide My Sword . Fantasia Slept In My Thoughts . As I Was A Son Of Infinity . The Emperor . Forgotten . Rests In My Dreams . As Back To The Wall I Start My Conquest . Innocence And Wrath . Now Lie Far Beyond . As We Cross The Deserts . To Reach The Fortress\' Gates . Tragic Serenades . Are Whispered In The Wind . As Eyes In Fury . Grant Us Our Strength . (They\'re) Throning On The Dignity Of Might . But The Successor Is To Enter The Hall . False Truth Saw Them Climbing The Steps . But I Remain The Jewel Throne\'s Choice

Music: Tom G. Warrior, May/June 1985 // Lyrics: Tom G. Warrior, August 1985 // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Ain/Steiner, June/August 1985
(Inspired by "Hear the Battle of the Swords" and "The Sign of the Usurper" by Tom G. Warrior)

>> Jewel Throne
Once Prayed To My Gods . Searching For The Whistled Memories . Empty Eyes Are Staring Now . To My Feet A Land Of Sorrow . I\'m The King . Sitting In The Dark . Hiding From The Shadows Of The Wind . Wafts Of Might . Wine Of Fire . I Was Called To Taste . Silver Horses Brought Us Here . To The Edge Of The Universe . We Left The Falling Walls . As The Stars\' Collapse Began . Now I Rest On The Highest Steps . Revealed The Eternal Frontier . As I Gaze From The Jewel Throne . To The Portal Of Infinity . Fallen Have The "Chosen Ones" . Debris Remains In The Dust . Far Behind . Beyond The Sands . The Wind Sings To Those Who Fell . Forever Now . My Hands Lay Down The Poisoned Weapons . I Will Pray To My Gods . Searching For The Mysteries

Music: Tom G. Warrior, August 1985 // Lyrics: Tom Warrior, September 1985 // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Steiner, August 1985

>> Dawn Of Meggido
Humiliated In Human Form . We Have To Die To Be Reborn . Awaiting The Final Judgement . The Dawn Now Lifts . Subjects Of Flesh . Slaves Of Lust . The Cross Has Failed . You Won\'t See The Coming Fall . A Diviner\'s Fire And Soil . Flames . Like Flowers . Like Blood . Fires Of Freedom . Flowers Of Doom . A Surface Of Hateful Hope . Oh Subjects Of Pain . Lovers Of Death . You Will Feel . The Yearning Flames . Flames Like Tongues . Like Cries . Pant For Kisses . For Bites . Seven Steps . And We\'re One . Humiliated . In Human Thoughts . The Frost . It Bites . Your Inner Heart . Frozen Is The Flame . In Every Eye . The Lord Will Come . Broken Ice . The Fire Will Burn . Gleaming Ways . We\'ll Never Be Reborn . Prenatal Death\'s Redeemed Our Lives . (Into His Hand) We Demand Our Hearts . The Lord And We Are One

Reed St. Mark: Drums, Timpani // Thomas Gabriel Warrior: Voice, Guitars // Dominic Steiner: Bass // Wolf Bender: French Horn
Music: Tom G. Warrior, Summer 1984, Jan., Feb., April 1985 // Lyrics: Tom Warrior, April/May 1985

Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Ain, April 1985 //Classical Arrangement By Dominic Steiner, September 1985

>> Eternal Summer
The Pyramids Tremble . Darken The Sun . The Sky Turns Red . They Reached The Wall Of No Return And The Breeze Has Stopped . Who Wore The Crown Will Never Be Known . Might Is Broken . For All We\'ll Drown Into The Sand . What Will Remain? . Inverted Horizons . Denied Truth And Blinded Eyes . The Titans Arise . The Monuments Fall . We Cannot Halt . Wishful Pleads At Last Came True . Some Always Knew . The Clouds Burn . Or Is It Fire? . The Gods Wince . Human Pride And Megalomania . The Titans Watched It All . The Trace Led To Nowhere . Wrath Had To Come . As Ushers At The Gates . To Ecstasy And Excess . All Turn Their Backs . They Won\'t Give Us Any Rest . The Fires Won\'t Redeem . Illuminated Is The Night . The Eternal Summer . When They Came High From The Sphere On Shrieking Wings . Now They\'re Trapped On The Ground . To Heat And Dust . And The Eye Is Glowing Above

Reed St. Mark: Drums // Thomas Gabriel Warrior: Voice, Guitars // Dominic Steiner: Bass
Music: Tom G. Warrior, September 1985 // Lyrics:Tom G. Warrior, September 1985 // Arranged By:Warrior/St. Mark/Steiner, September 1985

>> Circle Of The Tyrants
After The Battle Is Over . And The Sands Have Drunken The Blood . All That There Remains . Is The Bitterness Of Delusion . The Immortality Of The Gods . Sits By Their Side . As They Leave The Walls Behind . To Reach The Jewel\'s Gleam . The Days Have Come . When The Steel Will Rule . And Upon His Head . A Crown Of Gold . Your Hand Wields The Might . The Tyrant Is The Precursor . You Carry The Will . As The Morning Is Near . I Sing The Ballads . Of Victory And Defeat . I Hear The Tales . Of Frozen Mystery . The New Kingdoms Rise . By The Circle Of The Tyrants . In The Land Of Darkness . The Warrior . That Was Me . Grotesque Glory . No One Will Ever See Them Fall . And Hunts And Wars . Are Like Everlasting Shadows . Where The Winds Cannot Reach . The Tyrant\'s Might Was Born . And Often I Look Back . With Tears In My Eyes

Music: Tom G. Warrior, February 1985 // Lyrics: Tom Warrior, March 1985 // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Ain, March 1985

>> (Beyond The) North Winds
On Days Of Northern Wind . Past Illusions Surround My Dreams . Drops Of Mute Ocean\'s Breath In The Palm Of My Hand . The Sound Of Silent Waves Still Caresses All My Thoughts . Where Warm . Mystic Floods Dominated The Upper Hemisphere . And Dark Ships Sailed Beyond Those Lost Realms . Through Gates To Eternity . Above The Sleeping Mind . Forever Unconquerable Seemed The Walls Of Time . To Those Who Always Feared And Always Fled The Dawn . But Then . The Guardian\'s Growl Invited The Thirst For Steel . Part God . Part Man . If I Walked By Their Side . The Old Man\'s Dream Now Has Ended Much Too Soon . Forgotten Rests The Wisdom That Brought Them Once So Far . Vanished Until Rebirth . We Sleep The Endless Sleep . For One Who Knows Never Tries To Reappear

Music: Tom G. Warrior, August 1985 // Lyrics: Tom G. Warrior, September 1985 // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Steiner, August 1985

>> Fainted Eyes
Try To See Through Fainted Views . As Reality Disappears In A Haze . A Journey Between Eternal Walls . The Senses Unfold Before My Eyes . As The Endless Dreams Begin To Reign . And My Hands Slip Off The Edge . The Waters Grow Dull . While They Descend Behind . Fainted Eyes . Drifting In The Streams Of Wisdom . While Recognizing All Those Banal Tales . Sin Beyond Truth . I See Glittery Splinters . Encountering My Past In Flickering Whispers . While They Drown Behind Their Own Frontiers . And The Rulers Fall In Agony . Fallacy And False Idols . Unbelievable Is The Human Direction . But The Screams Die Away In The Distance . Try To See Through Fainted Views . But The Dust Still Covers All My Dreams . I Wouldn\'t Tell You Anyway

Music: Tom G. Warrior, May/July 1985 // Lyrics: Tom G. Warrior, May/June/July 1985 // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Ain, May/July 1985

>> Tears In A Prophet\'s Dream
(Instrumental) Celtic Frost & Steve Warrior

>> Necromantical Screams
Necromantical Screams . Only You Are Deaf . Is There Life Beyond Death? . You\'ve Entreated Death . The Answer Will Come . Debris Of Faith . Even You Are False . Immortal Morals . Caught Up In Time . Vault Of Darkness . Filled With Hate . Deny Life . Addiction To Death . Procession Of Damnation . Expulsion Of Light . Hazardous Ways . Into The Rush . Soul Is Frozen And Flesh Is Weak . Necromantical Screams . Only You Are Deaf . Intelligence Is Mute . Respect And Thoughts . Buried Long Ago . Pleading For The End . Blind And Dumb . We Won\'t Feel . That There Could Be More . I Will Remain Alone In The Dark . Only You Are Deaf

Music: Tom G. Warrior, Autumn 1983/April, July 1985 // Lyrics: Tom G. Warrior, Autumn 1983/May 1985 (Feat. some contributions by Martin E. Ain) // Arranged By: Warrior/St. Mark/Ain, April/May 1985
Classical Arrangement By Dominic Steiner, September 1985 // Inspired by the song "Buried and Forgotten" by Tom G. Warrior, Autumn 1983

SLAYER - Thrash Metal | http://www.slayer.net

Bass & Vocals : Tom Araya | Drums : Dave Lombardo | Guitars : Jeff Hanneman | Guitars : Kerry King

SLAYER Reign In Blood (1986) | Record Company: DefJam Recordings
Recorded/Mixed At: New Fresh, NYC | Producer: Rick Rubin | Executive Producer: Slayer
Engineer: Andy Wallace | Released in Europe in early 1987

01. Angel Of Death / 02. Piece By Piece / 03. Necrophobic / 04. Altar Of Sacrifice / 05. Jesus Saves / 06. Criminally Insane / 07. Reborn / 08. Epidemic / 09. Postmortem / 10. Raining Blood / Running time: 24:50.

Slayer took the leap to the big leagues with this, in the same way Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax all did with their second albums. The only difference was this was Slayer\'s third album, the previous two, \'Show No Mercy\' and \'Hell Awaits\' both plagued by rough production which thwarted Slayer from sounding as brutal as they should have been. \'Reign In Blood\' put matters straight, as Rick Rubin\'s production put them over the top, with a precise and clean sound few have ever topped.

This is the way to make a Thrash album. Ten tracks clocking in at twenty eight minutes, all fast, an easy way to make an impact and a point. Overnight acts like Celtic Frost, Bathory, and Destruction were made to look as crude as they were, while Exodus, Metallica and Anthrax seemed tame by comparison. Hanneman and King established themselves as thrash\'s premier guitar duo, and rightfully so, the level of twisted genius running through \'Necrophobic\', \'Criminally Insane\' and \'Angel Of Death\' something they themselves had trouble topping. I once read one seasoned metal scribe remark how no one had heard drumming like Lombardo\'s up until \'RIB\', and the drum sound is crisp and clear, always fast and banishing memories of Lombardo\'s efforts on the first two albums. The main reason Slayer distinguished themselves from most was their ability to retain melody amongst such a vicious rampage. Every song has a discernable hook and melody line, something that was lacking from many, particularly Euro bores. Whether this is the greatest thrash album I don\'t know, it\'s in the top five certainly, Slayer equaling this in many ways with \'Divine Intervention\'. But it\'s still thrash\'s key point, a glorious reaffirmation of how superior 80\'s metal was.

1. Angel Of Death
(Lyrics & Music - Hanneman)

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The why that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in
Like cattle
You run
Stripped of
Your life\'s worth
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood

Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race

Surgery, with no anesthesia
Fell the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial ?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
\'Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust
Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
Your blood running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he\'s creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free

(LEADS: HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN, KING, HANNEMAN)

[ Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Angel of Death]

2. Piece by Piece
(Lyrics & Music - King)

Modulistic terror
A vast sadistic feast
The only way to exit
Is going piece by piece

You have no choice of life or death
My face you will not see
I\'ll rip your flesh \'till there\'s no breath
Dismembered destiny

As soon as life has left your corpse
I\'ll make you part of me
No emotion
Death is all I see

Modulistic terror
A vast sadistic feast
The only way to exit
Is going piece by piece

Bones and blood lie on the ground
Rotten limbs lie dead
Decapitated bodies found
On my wall, your head!

On your trail I close the gap
One more life that soon won\'t be
No emotion
Your flesh is all I need

I\'ll send you to your maker
Confront the God you seek
A flash of red upon his [sings "your"] chest
Safety out of reach

[You have no choice of life or death
My face you will not see
I\'ll rip your flesh \'till there\'s no breath
Dismembered destiny]

[Modulistic terror
A vast sadistic feast
There\'s only one way out of here
Piece by piece]

3. Necrophobic
(Lyrics & Music - Hanneman & King)

Strangulation, mutilation, cancer of the brain
Limb dissection, amputation, from a mind deranged

Asphyxiation, suffocation, gasping for air
Explain to me the feeling after sitting in the chair?

Ripping apart
Severing flesh
Gouging eyes
Tearing limb from limb

Experimentation, slow infection, internal decay
Execution, need transfusion, body rots away

Sliced incision, zero vision, loss of vital signs
Skin contortion, bone erosion, your life becomes your fine

Ripping apart
Severing flesh
Gouging eyes
Tearing limb from limb

(LEAD: HANNEMAN, KING)

Strangulation, mutilation, cancer of the brain
Limb dissection, amputation, from a mind deranged

Asphyxiation, suffocation, gasping for air
Explain to me the feeling after sitting in the chair

Sliced incision, zero vision, loss of vital signs
Skin contortion, bone erosion, your life becomes your fine

Necrophobic can\'t control the paranoia
Scared to die

4. Altar of Sacrifice
(Lyrics - King, Music - Hanneman)

Waiting the hour destined to die
Here on the table of hell
A figure in white unknown by man
Approaching the altar of death
High priest awaiting dagger in hand
Spilling the pure virgin blood
Satan\'s slaughter, ceremonial death
Answer his every command

Death will come easy just close your eyes -
Dream of the friends you\'ll see
Heavenly failure losing again
Move on to a new form of life

Altar of sacrifice, curse of the damned
Confronting the evil you dread
Coalesce into one your shadow and soul
Soon you will meet the undead

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

[Altar of sacrifice, curse of the damned
Confronting the evil you dread
Coalesce into one your shadow and soul
Soon you will meet the undead]

Enter to the realm of Satan!
(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

Blood turning black, the change has begun
Feeling the hatred of all damned in Hell
Flesh starts to burn, twist and deform
Eyes dripping blood realization of death
Transforming of five toes to two
Learn the sacred words of praise, hail Satan

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

A gift of powers disposed upon you
Use them when you feel the need
Master the forces and powers of Satan
Controlling the creature\'s instinct
Drawn to the castles that float in the sky
Learn to resist the temptation
Watching the angels sift through the heavens
Endlessly search[ing] for salvation

(LEAD: KING)

5. Jesus Saves
(Lyrics - King, Music - Hanneman, King)

You go to the church, you kiss the cross
You will be saved at any cost
You have your own reality
Christianity
You spend your life just kissing ass
A trait that\'s grown as time has passed
You think the world will end today
You praise the Lord, it\'s all you say

Jesus saves, listen to you pray
You think you\'ll see the pearly gates
When death takes you away

For all respect you cannot lust
In an invisible man you place your trust
Indirect dependency
Eternal attempt at amnesty
He will decide who lives and dies
Depopulate Satanas rise
You will be an accessory
Irreverence and blasphemy

(LEAD: KING)

Jesus saves, no need to pray
The gates of pearl have turned to gold
It seems you\'ve lost your way

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

Jesus saves, no words of praise
No promised land to take you to
There is no other way

(LEAD: KING)

6. Criminally Insane
(Lyrics & Music - Hanneman & King)

Night will come and I will follow
For my victims, no tomorrow
Make it fast, your time of sorrow
On his trail, I\'ll make you follow

Quarters for the criminally insane
The sentence read for life I must remain
The path I chose has led me to my grave
To try again I\'d have no other way

Quarters for the criminally insane
Escape for me has fast become a game
Soon to be, I\'ll leave without a trace
Endangered species end the human race

(LEAD: HANNEMAN, KING)

Branded in pain
Marked criminally insane
Locked away and kept restrained
Disapprobation, but what have I done
I have yet only just begun
To take your fuckin\' lives!

[Night will come and I will follow
For my victims, no tomorrow
Make it fast, your time of sorrow
On his trail, I\'ll make you follow]

7. Reborn
(Lyrics - King, Music - Hanneman)

Convicted witch my life will end
At midnight on the stake
My dedicated life was spent
To insubordinate
Secured by lock inside a cell
Imprisoned for no crime
The shackles will be useless
When your life is out of time

Incantation spell gone by
I will see life again
My deals will made eternally
I signed the book of red
My rage will be unleashed again
Burning the next morn
Death means nothing, there is no end
I will be reborn

No gift of exile in my fate
I\'ll get no amnesty
You can\'t control my destiny
There is no habitual need
Proclaim my death, to end my wrath
It takes more than one try
Indulge your ineffective curse
I will never die

You think by killing me tonight
My powers will not rise
There\'ll be nowhere for you to run
When my hatred comes to life
Condemned to fill the prophecy
Allowing no first born
Defy your morbid declaration
Leave you ripped and torn

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

Count your blessing would be priest
As I burn upon the stake
You\'d be forgiven endlessly
But your values are all fake
Forever servant of my Lord
By choice and not submission
Maybe now I\'ve made you wonder
Am I superstition

Incantation spell gone by
I will live again
My deals will made eternally
I signed the book in red
My rage will be unleashed again
Burning the next morn
Death means nothing there is no end
I will be reborn

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

8. Epidemic
(Lyrics - King, Music - Hanneman, King)

Breeding fast in poverty
Infectious driving dormant seed
Inside your carcass start to mate
Left in charge to dominate
Waiting to unfold
Raging uncontrolled
Adapt a potency
Death machine, infest my corpse to be

Unyielding kings of agony
Test your body chemistry
Pulmonary overthrow
Possession of your inner throne
Invasions quickly override, malicious domineering strike
Flood your veins commit slow death
Deteriorate your makers met

Perpetual demise
On a fast decline
Killing tendency
Epidemic, permanent disease

(LEAD: HANNEMAN)

Incapacitate, fall into your fate
Pain results in screams, bleed internally
Years will pass before it can be cured
(LEAD: KING)

9. Postmortem
(Lyrics & Music - Hanneman)

Funeral held for the depression of man
Holds the key to his own death
Entering a tomb of a corpse yet conceived
Tighten the tourniquet around your neck

Sifting away the debris of hated life
Cold touch of death begins to chill your spine
Seeking life beyond your perishment
Repeating words echoing through your mind

Chanting lines of blind witchery
To save yourself from extinction
Wanting to die is your reason to live
New life born from the oppressed

Taste your blood as it trickles through the air
Another casualty beyond the shadows you fall
Losing ground, the fate you feel it draws near
Fatality, reality, you await the final call

My sinful glare at nothing holds thoughts of death behind it
Skeletons in my mind commence tearing at my sanity
Vessels in my brain carry death until my birth
Come and die with me forever
Share insanity

Do you want to die!

The waves of blood are rushing near, pounding at the walls of lies
Turning off my sanity, reaching back into my mind
Non-rising body from the grave showing new reality
What I am, what I want, I\'m only after death

10. Raining Blood
(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!

Songs analysis :

Angel Of Death - The most well known thrash track in the genre, and one that I suspect Slayer probably wish they wouldn\'t have to play again. But they still will be when they\'re fifty. I can only imagine peoples faces when they first caught an earful of this. A generation of tight jean wearing, white trainer and long haired freaks headbanging in unison in front of their ghetto blasters.

Piece By Piece - Two minutes long, with five minutes of aggression packed in. A typically crazed King written piece that shreds riff wise. King said not long ago that the idea with \'RIB\' was to be fast and consistent as possible, nothing more would suffice.

Necrophobic - In a relentlessly fast album this might be the fastest track at a whopping one minute and forty seconds. It\'s reminiscent of \'Dittohead\', minus the slower section. Lombardo sounds like a machine, pummeling his kit into various states of submission. Too much bro!

Altar Of Sacrifice - The riff at the twenty second mark is almost without equal in thrash history. Distorted and crazed, it\'s sums up the album as a whole. \'Enter to the realm of Satan!\' screams Araya in a moment dozens of amateur thrashers took their key from to rip Slayer off.

Jesus Saves - King at the onset of his Christian bashing, which is still unwavering nearly twenty years later. Considering King was only 22 at the time you have to wonder what his purpose in such intense Christian hating was. As Norris asked, \'was he bum raped by a priest at a young age or something\'? Song itself is another blast of speed of course.

Criminally Insane - It amuses me how assorted geeks and losers consider Sodom and the like superior to Slayer. Kreator in a 20 year career have never once approached what Slayer do in two and a half minutes here. Fast with melody. Sleights of hand that come out of nowhere. Tangents most wouldn\'t take. That\'s why the \'big four\' were that. They reached a level of sophistication no one could match. Not Forbidden, Flotsam And Jetsam, Overkill, Dark Angel, etc. All of these had none of the above. You can be as fast as humanly possible, but without melody it\'s worthless.

Reborn - The first time I heard \'RIB\' I didn\'t think it to be overly fast as the first Slayer I had been exposed to was \'Divine Intervention\'. A few listens put paid to that thought, \'Reborn\' yet more head on material. The material is short enough that it can\'t wear out its welcome or become tiresome.

Epidemic - Incomprehensible lyrics from King, \'pulmonary overthrow, possession of your inner throne, invasions quickly override...\' I\'m certain he had no idea what they meant either. So fast that the lyrics are secondary anyway.

Postmortem - The slowest track on offer, which isn\'t a disparaging comment as the galloping riffs at the onset are as effective as any. It gathers pace near the end with some mighty double bass kicks from Lombardo and the classic line \'do you want to die!\'.

Raining Blood - Another Slayer standard with a final minute described in the liner notes as \'Noise: Hanneman/King\'. That\'s what it is, a tirade of feedback and distortion from King and Hanneman and drumming verging on blast beat from Lombardo. A suitable climax to a true classic of an album.

Courtnesy of http://www.kickedintheface.com

Other releases from the band :

ASSASSIN - Thrash Metal | http://www.assassin-online.de/

Robert Gonnella : Vocals | Dinko Vecic : Guitars | Scholli : Guitars | Lulle : Bass | Psycho : Drums

ASSASSIN The Upcoming Terror (1987) | Record produced by Kalle Trapp
At Karo Studios in Muenster

1. Forbidden Reality 5:32 - 2. Nemesis 3:48 - 3. Fight (To Stop The Tyranny) 2:26 - 4. The Last Man 6:495. Assassin 5:50 - 6. Holy Terror 4:527. Bullets 4:07 - 8. Speed Of Light 2:50 - Running time: 36:14

In the 80?s when thrash ruled the world bands popped up all around. Especially in Europe where German got a dominating role what comes to having the outstanding thrash metal scene. Sodom, Kreator and Destruction have already become and gained the legend status in eyes of every extreme metal fan. But besides the unholy triangle of the thrash names, the German thrash metal scene had a lot of great bands to offer which remained more on the ug and cult status level and released a couple of albums and vanished around the change of the decade. Assassin used to be one of those bands having released two albums and was forced to withdraw until a couple of years ago Assassin got back together and did a real metal thrashing mad set at Wacken.

After 2 demos"Holy Terror" in 1985 and "The Saga of Nemesis" in 1986 the band record their first album (a classic for ALL Thrash Metal fanatix and perhaps the origin for Brutal Metal Maniax like me !) "The Upcoming Terror". More than 15.000 sold copies around the world proove that the band have a real power to play Speed / Thrtash Metal.

>> After several shows and tour, they record a second stuff "Interstellar Experience". Excellent but less than the previous. With this album the band continue to play around the world.In 1989, when they\'ll work on their thirsd album, the 3 songs tape will be steal by unknown man and the band will split up just after this bad act because they have no money to re-record the songs !

1. Forbidden Reality
In the land of myth and tales the forbidden temple lies
Hard to reach, hard to find
Jungle surround that ancient place
Already the last priest is dead, no one alive
It is the secret of the old temple

Where no one stepped in for the hundred of years
Because of the fears
It is the unknown hidden place

Near by the door, broken by storm
An unknown symbol is
It\'s dark with dust and turned in black
But it shining without light
No reasons for these odd events, is it not true?
We are the living masters of life

Who have to behave and have to be brave
So what we are save
We have fences all over the place

We can\'t tell truth, no clear thinking
Does the temple influence us all?
No true exist in front us all
Isn\'t that all possible
Try to think and understand about place
Of the temple
If it gets destroyed and burned down
We will live again

Already the last priest is dead, no one alive
It is the secret of the old temple

2. Nemesis
Nemesis hordes of hades are blasting over the earth
Saveness diapering frightening of the human
Death for the guilty one, no hope is given to them
No mercy as a result, Nemesis will punish them

Deathly breeze of wind plunging into the city
Unimaginable creatures arrived and spread
Out into their streets

Pain for the guilty one
Destruction is what they earn
After ruling a period of time, Nemesis punish the:
Cruel which killed thousands of innocent lifes
Death to these old kings which slayed our children
Execution has begun, the goddess decided to kill
Massacre creates a new world, blood has to be spoile

The horrors which are over exist not any longer
The humane race is saved, Nemesis disappearing

How long would freedom stay?
Will Nemesis save us again or was it just a dream

Our goddess will:

Stay a myth forever remembered
We need her help to ever survive

3. Fight (To Stop The Tyranny)
Death, swords and inhuman minds control our world
Marxists, nazies and communists steel freedom
From our lifes

Go wild you banging crowd
Destroy there rules of tyranny
What we will stay about life, when we are living free

Fight for, fight for right
Fight for, fight for fight for freedom now

Fight for, fight for right
Fight to stop the tyranny

The masses of people are on the road
And starting riot and strikes
Spending all of their energy to kill
The kings of our world

4. The Last Man
In a day of 1999 it had to happen
The result of man\'s stupidity became real

Death smell is everywhere
In their nicely worked out war plan

Through the sky come rockets down there people are scored
Everybody does try to save his own everywhere in town
On the run the people turn to animals
Love and hate does not exist here more
No more hope

Which led to the world\'s last breath
Fire does control our world till the end
Go fight stand up if you are not scared
Tell them the people are dead

The merciless radioactivity spread real fast
Burning skin makes the pain a torture, everybody gets blind
Can`t feel hot and cold no more, it is so strange
Listen to the people helpless screams, it is too late

Moving forward slowly and together we are strong
We will tell them what we are thinking
About their bloody war
And we stop the war and there will be no hate
And we will together rule the world peacefully

5. Assassin
He comes through the night
And is going to be ready to fight
His sword will kill every time it is going for his will
The death has taken you can see his anger in his face
The hate and the fate mixed up because it is far too late

Go assassin, fight assassin
Kill assassin, the life assassin

The blood which flows brainless killing for that life will go
Metal in your vein is giving them the deadly pain
The bloody useless war will make sense
And thinking really shot
The kill is his will and that\'s what always has been his drill

Go fight kill assassin
Go fight kill assassin
Go fight kill assassin
Go fight kill assassin

Take a look in his face you\'ll see power
And glory and real hate
The eyes which cries make you feel so cold
Like freezing ice

The real makes you feel like iron, gold
And silver steel
Lists of priests can\'t come help
Because he is the beast

6. Holy Terror
Depressed by our nation
Destruction by their big army
The reality no one sees
Because of this we start a terror

For the one goal, we fight for Holy Terror
That\'s our aim to win the holy war
Come and join us against the government
The win is for sure if we fight for one goal

We stand for all till our death
Fight for one goal: HOLY TERROR

Surrounded by the nation
We try to get us free
And through the execution
We won the right to be

Death of the parliamentation
Make multivation come
And we will take position in the new government
Till end, till end, till end

Time has come for celebration
Brutal terror start
No hope for living
Why had it come through execution
Because on this we start a terror

Salvation coming widely
Only by force to get
People of all classes
Fight for Holy Terror

7. Bullets
Bullets do represent the war
Bullets are not game
Bullets are made just to kill
To overcoming enemies

Shooting, killing and smashing
That is the bullets idea
You won`t have another chance
To love your life secondly

Bullets are killing for no meaning
Bullets will bring the death
Bullets are killing for no meaning
Bullets will bring the death

Bullets are made by human hand
Bullets are not alive
Bullets are thrashing through the place
Destructing the rest of our world

Bullets are to kill, bullets do destruct
Bullets you will see, bullets, bullets
Bullets are will, bullets the countdown
Bullets you will see, bullets

8. Speed Of Light
[Instrumental]

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