HELLHAMMER -- APOCALYPTIC RAIDS (1984)

1. The Third of the Storms (Evoked Damnation) (2:55)
2. Massacra (2:49)
3. Triumph of Death (9:30)
4. Aggressor (4:27)

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1. The Third of the Storms (Evoked Damnation)

(Lyrics by Tom Gabriel Fischer)
(Music by Tom Gabriel Fischer)

Three days of absolute eclipse
Introduce the evoked tribunal
Hailstorms proof. They told us the truth

REFRAIN:
Total destruction
Mankind to Hell
Blind and insane
The misguided repent
But it's a bit late

In the heat of infernal lightnings
And in the shadows of poisoned clouds
The world will die under the sword of destiny

REFRAIN

Go out and see, the omens are here
A church is red, like blood of an angel
The rich and the poor, both will fall
Into the flames of malice

REFRAIN

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2. Massacra

(Lyrics by T. G. Fischer)
(Music by T. G. Fischer)

In moments of reflection
It all unfolds to me
I walk down through my mind
And feel a bittercold fear
What mankind did with pretence
Of religion and belief

REFRAIN:
Away is the sun
Endless the night
Mankind's massacra
Intelligence is dead

There have been satanic rites
In blood. Inverted crosses
Expulsion of all mortals
The "good" side isn't better
Holy inquisitors on arbitrary command
Through all blasphemic centuries

REFRAIN

REFRAIN

Destruction and hate
Sewage of faith
Ignorant souls
The decline goes on
Man will never learn
That religion's created by man

REFRAIN

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3. Triumph of Death

(Lyrics by T. G. Fischer)
(Music by T. G. Fischer)

When you have been down in your grave... alive
Your mind decays and you're the coffin's slave
And when, at midnight, an uncanny bell tolls
Terrible noises, the dark graveyard calls

Limbs break through the dirt
Decay stinks like hell
Dark creatures in the fog
Crusted blood on the dead

Triumph of death!
Triumph of death!

Eurynomos sends his souls
Buried by horrible mistakes (Let me out)
You feel you're eaten by worms
And the night's alive again

When you have been down in your grave... alive, alive, alive
Your mind decays and you're MY coffin's slave
And when, at midnight, an uncanny bell tolls
Terrible noises, the dark graveyard calls... you, you, you, you, you

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4. Aggressor

(Lyrics by T. G. Fischer)
(Music by T. G. Fischer)

Was it tomorrow
Or will it be yesterday
When abolished, rotten instincts
Will, for the last time, be awake
And malice, slander, and hate
Will rule the ignorant heart

REFRAIN:
Aggressor - Deceiver of Reality - Aggressor
Aggressor - Inverter of Protection - Aggressor

The final chapter is yet unwritten
But the trail leads toward greed
Who will be the traitor
How many, all of them?
Ruthless is the creation
Created through pale ages

REFRAIN

Duplicated in confusion
Horizons of black fire
Thorns in the chosen's eye
Stench of false hails
Decline of all thrones
When only perception can survive

REFRAIN

Was it still tomorrow
Or yet will it be yesterday
When abolished, rotten instincts
Were, for the last time, ruling minds
Then... eternal silence
And the future remains the past

REFRAIN

Aggressor