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Round 2: Fight!

by Illyrian

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1.
LONG AGO, a creature was born of the night Through a back alley murder at dusk Spawning vengeance with a righteous hand Solo (McNeil) It took his life away But gave him back purpose To wipe the undead away Destroy all the soulless Chorus Flurry of blades with no rest Black trenchcoat contains the best A plague on plagues that will bring the final cleanse AS TIME PASSED, the bodies started piled up And the enemies surmounted high Bringing forth a terror formerly unknown Solo (Onofrychuk) Staked Frost and Dracula Joined the Nightstalkers Became a new martyr He is the daywalker Solo (McNeil) Repeat Chorus Ultimate anti-hero With bared fangs and no cape On a mission of self Of violent redemption Just follow the carnage To find his new target If there isn’t a pulse Then there’s sure to be a swift end
2.
Sweat runs down my face I can’t see you My bones, they ache I might be beat too Get back in stance For a fighting chance Unleashing fire From outstretched hands Chorus Come back for another, round two Right now, the time, the place This time you’ll be subdued At the docks or an airforce base With claws, or webs, or fists Or from the tall, dark knight Start when they scream the words ROUND TWO, FIGHT! Solo (McNeil) When the dust clears out There will be an undisputed victor Streaks and spirits are broken In this battered, violent picture Egos into insolence Smug all across the board Heels promise to return With a raving, thirsty hoard Repeat Chorus Solo (Onofrychuk) Repeat Chorus
3.
Into the black I walk, torchlight cast out behind. Languish, languish Iconoclastic, a house built upon lies. My crypt and keep are one, a splintered piece of none. Descent, descent A proud beacon once, now mired in blight. My thoughts awake the shades, phantoms with spectral blades. Press on, press on Visceral and decayed, my legacy’s work unmade. Opulent magistrate, will you not join the fray? It screams, it screams A chorus of... past mistakes, Now chanting, now chanting… Bridge Defeated and disgraced, A slumbered beast awakes. Within the void it waits, A necromancer Solo (Onofrychuk) Repeat Bridge Solo (McNeil)
4.
Gather round, tell a tale It’s time for an epic quest For what, no one knows We’re here to slay everything On the way, a story a might form But we’re likely to implode As a godless group of savages With no motives known Chorus Chaotic Neutral MAD WITH BLOODLUST Chaotic Neutral WITH ZERO FEAR Swords drop, arrows fly On the roll of initiative Make a move, faces cringe We just can’t catch a break Constant healing spells Or else this party’s done We didn’t think this through Except the barbarian Repeat Chorus Solo (Onofrychuk) Repeat Chorus
5.
Piercing eyes, dark, round abyss Sexless and emotionless From a beam of a light they come To take us back to where they’re from Up from above They study abroad To examine our heads And what we’re made of Chorus: (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Have you heard of Zeta Recticulans? (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Abducted by the grey aliens (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Have you heard of Zeta Recticulans? (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Walking earth wrapped in our skin Solo (Onofrychuk) Documented overlords Never been seen, wiped from records Making deals with world powers To invade at the 11th hour In movies and shows They’re portrayed all the same When taking you’re children And probing your brain Repeat Chorus Solo (McNeil) Repeat Chorus (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Have you heard of Zeta Recticulans? (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) In short time they will be begin (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) Have you heard of Zeta Recticulans? (ZE-TA! ZE-TA!) To walk the earth wrapped in my skin
6.
Mindbender 04:25
Solo (Onofrychuk) Right! He’s right! He’s come to create life Conjuring human forms into super soldiers for the fight Fright! To spite! Brainwashing minds Cybernetic genetics are now becoming mankinds blight No! Respite! From the onslaught Epitome of evil knowledge without mercy, without light Not! Contrite! Sticking to the plan Unleashing Serpentor on the Joes with Cobras gathered might Chorus MINDBENDER He brings the clones, you bring your life MINDBENDER Brainwave scanner with a price MINDBENDER Volt stimulation for the mass MINDBENDER Demon since Doctor Venom passed So! Loyal! To his brilliant work Betraying the commander every chance he gets to go berserk B! A-T! Serve as his own horde Waiting for the word from the good doctor to cut the cord High! Treason! Squabble in the ranks Sabotaging when he can from his seat within the tank Met! His fate! With more traitors Succumbing to botulism while imprisoned on freighter Repeat chorus COBRA-LA-LA RUTHLESS TERRORIST COBRA-LA-LA RULES WITH IRON FIST
7.
Spilt blood hath marked the hour A second slayer summoned forth Enslaved by foul powers A life taken by slit throat Beckoned to the Hellmouth she Joined forces with her counterpart So different were their methods A slayer force of light and dark Chorus CARRION MONSTERS STALK FEAR GRIPS YOUR PLEASANT THOUGHTS Drive the stake INTO THE NIGHT THEY’LL RUN Set aflame THE DARK SLAYER COMES Deceived by father figure Succumbed to longing, selfish doubt Ascension’s agent chosen Old demon takes his serpent form Now in his finest hour Olvikan swallows Snyder whole The slayers clash together Betrayal wrought this deadly fold Repeat Chorus Solo (McNeil) Solo (Onofrychuk) SLAY! x6 After a trepid slumber They side with one another To tear the world asunder The sister slayers come
8.
Night! Brings the end of the light In comes a new dusk of catatonic fright Giant humanoid figures cast shadows Over the remnants of a society alone Gather the troops and sound the alarm The titans are coming and they’re not far From eating us whole, from taking their place At the top of the food chain, from the human race Chorus Fly in on the wings of freedom A flurry of blades, blood and mobile systems Elite group of soldiers, the chosen few To bring down the demons and give them their due Solo (Onofrychuk) Despite! The incomparable might Of unholy spite from the ravenous blight The rebels rise through the fire and the ashes With an unextinguishable vengeance To cut them all down, at the base of the neck Help the survivors they are sworn to protect From the towering scourge, of cannibal ghouls Stalking the roads of the cities ruins Solo (Onofrychuk) Repeat Chorus Their oversized bodies have fallen with force They won’t come back till we take out the source Fight hard and fast without any remorse With hesitation and be the main course
9.
Technodrone 03:50
I sit here in purgatory Waiting for the dead to run Their rotten fingers over The craving makes them numb No conversing, Only vacant stares Into the abyss That grasps every fibre Of their being and bliss Even as I write this My eyes turn white. The disease starts to take Irony exterminates Chorus This is life, inside the technodrones Reality is passing by Buried so deep, electric parasites Blind through flashing glass eyes Only the innocent With their pins of proof are saved For they are naive And know not of infected ignorance No conversing, Only vacant stares Into the abyss That grasps every fibre Of their being and bliss No exchange, we are lost Former versions of glorious selves We are no longer human Merely entitled gargoyles Repeat Chorus Solo (Onofrychuk)
10.
It will find them creeping through the black Silent shadow, looming overhead A flick of a wrist, their lives are taken They now live as a notch on a belt They call it the serpent, its hiss the end A sound unheard, until its too late Reserved for those, who stand in the way The way of the mission of choice Chorus Hear it comes crawling now Quiet as the grave Clad in fatigues of black It’s the Solid Snake Sound of the serpent siren Means it’s been seen But to the word, it’s not been heard Quite like the screams RISE, from the depths FALL, with a dead mans grace RISE, to the next big fight FALL, all targets will Limitless imitators Clones of the original Replicates of serpent blood All doomed to fall short Golden hair, and parlour tricks Won’t compete with the real thing Crown to the king of the snakes Liquid or solid or sand Repeat Chorus Solo (Onofrychuk)

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Illyrian's second release is vastly different from their debut under the Hellborn Death Engines moniker. Disembarking from the straightforward thrash approach of the previous release, this album is sure to keep your heart pounding and your ears interested.

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released October 7, 2016

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Illyrian Calgary, Alberta

Melodic death metal from Calgary, with a lyrical focus on video games.

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