Dagon - Demons In The Dark

All our blood reaches boiling
As the war songs are sung
As the sailors are toiling
Hatred drips from our tongues
The enemy’s vessel
Comes into our sight
We know we shall drink to their bloodshed
In our galley tonight


This is our prayer to the spirits of war
Grant us the strength that you’ve granted before
This is our prayer to the spirits of war
If bravery strengthens our enemy’s hearts, may the power of
our bloodlust strengthen us more


There shall be no quarter
To the man who will stand as our foe
His life will be forfeit
To our merciless blows
There shall be no quarter
And there’s nothing that you can do
But fall to your knees as we
Cut to the heart of you


In the smoke and the mayhem
We are rulers of all that we see
Monarchs of warfare
Commanding our subjects to bleed
They fall down before us
Their humility spilled on the deck
And they smile at their masters
Through the grins we have carved in their necks Открыть страницу с текстом

Painfully the lust for blood
Grows in the hearts of northern men
To understand it's siren call
Is far beyond their mortal ken
Plunder and a womans touch
Meat and gold and wine
Enemies all torn to shreds
These visions occupy their minds

Between the nightfall, and the shining morn
The silence shattered, a sounding horn
Dragon boats, faster than a shark
Deliver warriors, deliver demons in the dark

Sinful demons in the
Dark...

Bloodthirsty demons
In the dark...

Cautiously, the refugees
Seek shelter from their fate
With northern warriors searching still
Hunting in a frenzied state
Darkness gives their leaders hope
Shelters them from view
But frightened cries betray their lives
The slaughter starts anew

Burn the village down
Cast the dead away
Burn the village down
Leave the priest to pray
Burn the village down
Drink the blood of the dead
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Feeding Frenzy
The smell of blood in the water is as
Thick as fortress walls and twice as strong
The predator moves with unimaginable
Grace and speed.
Death rides on crimson waves with not
A scythe but jaws of steel. Each action chosen
With precision to feast upon its prey.

Face of terror the end is near
Bodies writhing with pain and fear
A watery grave welcomes you in
Each razor sharp tooth is a nail in the coffin.

Fatality comes on seas of blood
In the silent ocean depths
Circling its victims with eyes of no
Color or penitence
Claiming another victim man learns
Once again, saltwater is a poor anesthetic
For an impromptu amputation

Feeding frenzy the carnage begins
Basic instinct to feed on human skin
Total carnage the scene is set
In the end you'll beg for death

The whitecaps break as the beast rises from the deep
His gaping maw inviting eternal sleep
His glistening skin stained scarlet with blood
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Battle Speed, the Captain calls...
The enemy's In sight...
On your Oars, every man...
The drum Is beating faster, faster...

Through The waves, this vessel glides...
Propelled By blood and tears...
Bones Will shatter, muscles tear...
We must Obey our master, master...

Row! Row! The war machine fueled...
By the Blood of it's slaves...
Onward Through the endless...
Crashing Waves...

Row! Row! The war machine fueled...
By the Blood of it's slaves...
Onward 'Til the Captain sends us...
To our Graves...

Full, Speed, Ahead...

Through countless miles of Ocean we
Have bled...

Full, Speed, Ahead...

We'll push this mighty ship until
The day we are dead...

Attack Speed, the Captain calls...
The enemy Draws near...
Whip Meets flesh as spirits break...
The drum Is beating faster, faster...

Pull the Oars, with all your might...
Thirsty Swords await us...
Slaves And plunder, all the same...
Possessed By others ever, after...

Stripes On our backs...
The sign Of the lash...
A cruelty That can't be forgot...
Memories Remain...

Of the Ones that were slain...
Long After our corpses all rot...
Ramming Speed, the Captain calls...
The enemy Must die...

Every single enemy will die before the day is done...
The drum Is beating faster, faster...
Kill them All! Kill them all!...
The Captain screams in rage...

The hull Gives in, the sea bursts forth...
This ship Is headed for disaster Открыть страницу с текстом

The sea is gone
Throw my shadow toward the surface
The icy wind draws upon us to the moon

Theres not one man
Without force onto the surface
So to the north this old legend goes on.

The captain pushes onward
Deep into this frozen hell.
We must keep fighting for our lives
And shouting on and we shall sail.

Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of the world
To conquer the unknown.
Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of our days.

This passing night takes another from our numbers
Row viciously night is upon now each of our own
And still we sail
The force of terror ship asunder
The captains mad but still along he makes us row.

The captain pushes onward
Deep into this frozen hell.
We must keep fighting for our lives
And searching if we shall fail.

Into the north we will sail, where we'll sail to the end of the world
And conquer the unknown
Into the north we will sail, where we'll sail to the end of our days.

The captains stuggle
Where victory lies upon us
How will this do?
He brings message for this frozen ship
Theres nothing special in this frozen hell.

And then his body sinking
Deep into this frozen hell
To late to for us to forfeit
To reach our final hell.

Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of the world
To conquer the unknown
Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of our days
Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of the world
To conquer the unknown
Into the north we will sail, we will sail to the end of our days
Into the north Открыть страницу с текстом

Pandemonium....
The masses flood the shore....
From the sea is heard....
A massive metal roar....

People wait and see....
The galleon come in sight....
Her mast reaches to the clouds....
Her sails as black as night....

Anticipation grows as the vessel....
Pulls into the port....
From the hold of the ship a cacophony grows ....
Of the heavy metal sort....

We've come to reclaim what is rightfully ours....
Said the Captain to his crew....
This metal shall return to the hands of the ....
Chosen few....

This is the final hour....
For all the infidels who seek to abuse ....
This metallic power....
This is their retribution....
These warriors of the sea will rid the world....
Of this pollution....

Ocean Metal ....
The warriors are coming ....
Ocean Metal....
We'll take your breath away....
Ocean Metal ....
You're drowning in the ....
Ocean Metal....
You'd better beware....
Ocean Metal ....
The warriors are coming ....
Ocean Metal....
We'll take your breath away....
Ocean Metal ....
You're drowning in the ....
Ocean Metal....

One by one....
The warriors gather for attack....
Sabers raised up high....
There is no turning back....

Heretics will pay....
Upon the Captain's mark....
We'll tear into their flesh....
And feed them to the sharks....

Death to this lie is the battle cry....
Of these ghostly tortured souls....
Slitting the throats of the heretics....
False metal's deadly toll....

The Captain surveys all the carnage he's caused....
With an awful kind of glee....
We'll take this Metal back to our ship....
And return it to the sea....

Rise!
Rise! ....
Warriors of Metal take up your arms....
Fight!
Fight!....
The infidels Открыть страницу с текстом

I shan't forget the moment
That changed my life forever more
The day I found her lying
Aqueous upon the shore

Hair of bright vermilion
Skin of pallid white
Ensanguined holes within her face
No eyes to grant her sight

[Chorus]

A child
Ocean born
A daughter
of the sea
Now of
her home forlorn
Abhors the Earth beneath her feet

A decade's past And still I
See her in my dreams so haunting
Her tortured cries of pain fill my ears
As if in taunting
The Terraphobic
Abhorrent accident of creation
Cast from the Sea
In agony without cessation

I thought her dead until
Her body shook with mortal fear
A ragged breath was drawn
Her face was stained with blood and tears

As I stood gazing
At this huddled mass upon the sand
I cried in terror for
She'd been struck visionless by her own hand

[Chorus]

A child
Ocean born
A daughter
of the sea
Now of
her home forlorn
Abhors the Earth beneath her feet

A decade's past And still I
See her in my dreams so haunting
Her tortured cries of pain fill my ears
As if in taunting.
The Terraphobic
Abhorrent accident of creation
Cast from the Sea
In agony without cessation

Locked in this tenebrous cell
Her home in lieu of the ocean
A face so blank and cold
A hollow voice with no emotion

We called
her mad for she
Despised the world that we so cherish
Yet for no more than spite
The denizens of land shall assign themselves to perish

A decade's past And still I
See her in my dreams so haunting
Her tortured cries of pain fill my ears
As if in taunting
The Terraphobic
Abhorrent accident of creation
Cast from the Sea
In agony without cessation

A decade's past And still I
See her in my dreams so haunting
Her tortured cries of pain fill my ears
As if in taunting
The Terraphobic
Abhorrent accident of creation
Cast from the Sea
In agony without cessation Открыть страницу с текстом

From the wharf that night I saw it crawl onto the stony shore....
And from a crevice in the rocks it pulled a hat and coat....
And in the guise of man it shambled down the boardwalk in the dark....
Primeval rumblings in its throat....

The Last 4X....

Its luminescent eyes peer in the tavern by the docks....
Where sailors spend their leave and dance with village girls....
And when the dancers kiss it pounds its fists in angst against the glass....
The lonely last of a long forgotten world....

The Last- Not quite man, it lives within the sea....
The Last- Final son of some aquatic breed....
The Last- We’ll never understand its wretched pain....
The Last- The life we share the ecstasy it craves....

Its scales- Abhorrent worst of all creation....
Its cries- A tortured mind’s emancipation....
Its form- Inverse of common decency....
Truest terror of it all- Anthropomorphic similarities....

Its people died out long ago, a holocaust we’ll never know....
Target of extinction, nature’s own malediction....
Lusting for our human pleasures, twisted longings beyond measure....
Memories exhuming, painful past consuming Открыть страницу с текстом

The frothing sea, a mistress cold, her
wrath runs deep
Eternally, brooding old, and restless in
her sleep
Awakens now, as solid land, shudders
at its core
Some tell how, by nature's hand, mankind
could be no more

A wall as high as any rampart
Fear as thick as fortress stones
Cowering in pathetic hiding

O morbid fascination, as I face a watery
death
Edifice of living ocean, defies the words
of mortal breath
I see the breadth of terror
I see the depths of awe
I see our human wages
All in the ocean's maw
Ohhh
Vindicated prophets
Behold your doom and laugh

Once realm of sharks, and creeping
things, anemones and eels
Expands the dark, the rippling rings,
undoing glass and steel
Uncharted force, a crushing blow, the
deadliest caress
Our time was short, but now we know,
how surf and tide can undo flesh

A wall as high as any rampart
Fear as thick as fortress stones
Cowering in pathetic hiding
Tens of thousands die alone
Terrible, primeval power
Might of man at once decried
In its wake, the flowing tower
Leaves our corpses in the tide

Indifferent
Uncaring
The vast impartial sea
Amassing
Descending
Cold waves encompass me

The sea Encompassing
You! Открыть страницу с текстом

I remember the blasphemy
As they took us to slavery
Where is your God to save you now
Now fall on your knees and bow

I remember the towering flames
As they burned my fathers remains
I remember the stench of death
As I drew my last free breath

We're slaves forevermore
No one will hear our cries
Chained to the ships of war
To the beat of the drum we rise

Three years have come and gone
Since last I saw my home
Now my back is broken and bent
And my life is nearly spent

We approve of mankinds disgrace
Hold of the warrior race
Never shall we be free
Caught in a vast machine

We're slaves forevermore
No one will hear our cries
Chained to the ships of war
Our cannons with burning eyes

We're slaves forevermore
Our humanity suffers enough
Chained to the ships of war
To the beat of the drums we rise

And they cry! Row! (Row!)
Carry us to the attack
Row! (Row!)
Take us acrossed and back
Row! (Row!)
Carry us onto the kill
Row! (Row!)

Carry us to the blood we shall spill
To the beat of the drums
To the beat of the drums
To the beat of the drums
To the beat of the drums we rise Открыть страницу с текстом

May I tell you of my passion for the dead?
Erotic only in its subtext
Experimental fantasy, realized just recently
Gourmets, but only of a subset

Beware ye paupers
Likewise ye men of power
We hunters roam the sea
Seeking whom we may devour

We drifted on
Till starvation struck and decency was gone
And now we have changed
We gleefully embrace a life deranged

The finest wines, like vinegar, fall bitter from my lips
Like soot and ash, the choicest roasted game
The taste I crave, a scarlet flow in transit to the crypts
Each meal I savor had a name

We butcher the flesh of the living
To consume the flesh of the dead

Our legend grows as empty vessels drift into the ports
No sign of crew save the blood stains on the deck
All men shall quake at the mention of our names
A plague in every tongue and dialect

When winds do blow
Cold enough to chill your very soul
And when the tempest wails
Keep one eye on the sea for scarlet sails Открыть страницу с текстом