The Opening Ritual / Cloven Hoof / Fighting Back / A Sultans Ransom / Eye of the Sun


THE DEFINITIVE PART ONE / ALBUM

Track listing
Inquisitor - 5:22
Nova Battlestar - 6:02
The Gates of Gehenna - 4:48
Astral Rider - 5:36
Kiss of Evil - 6:08
Mutilator - 5:01
Reach for the sky - 5:41
Road of Eagles - 6:21
Return of the Passover - 8:07
Laying Down the Law - 5:03

Mistress of the Forest - 6:51

 


Inquisitor

Repent,
blood will fall like rain.
Torment,
hooks into your brain.
Whiplash,
chained to the wrack.
Razor slash,
your spines about to crack.

Your body now,
belongs to me.
Soon you'll burn,
in purgatory.

Chorus
Inquisitor,
sworn confessor.
Inquisitor,
tourniquet will turn.
Inquisitor,
unholy oppressor.
Inquisitor,
smiles as the sinners burn.

Deviant,
lacerate your flesh.
Militant,
devils child confess.
Blasphemer,
learn your lesson well.
Redeemer,
gonna send you down to hell.

Sign your name
or piece by piece,
death will be
merciful release.

(Chorus)

You will kneel before me,
I kill rob you of your sight.
Blood god
bow down humbly,
decapitation by divine right.

Heresy by thought,
Heresy by deed.
Heresy!
Excommunication!


Heresy is sought,
Heresy in breed.
Heresy!
Death and mutilation!

If thine eyes offend,
be in no doubt.
I will descend and then...
I’ll rip them out!

(Chorus)

Words and Music: Lee Payne / 2003

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Nova Battlestar

Star war rage in the heavens,
At the heart of andromeda.
Flagship to the armada,
The Nova Battlestar.

Interstellar commander,
Enforcer of empire might.
Death star renegade forces,
Travelling at the speed of light.

Colonating... Obliterating,
destruction all across the void.
Exterminating... guns blazing,
till the federation are destroyed.

Chorus
Nova Battlestar!
Nova Battlestar!

War machines under fire,
retaliation has begun.
The vanguard is defeated,
victory is won.

Legions yield to conquest,
Challengers swept aside.
Draconian domination,
when rival worlds collide.

(Chorus)

Invasion will come in a later time,
they will raise the mountains,
and drain the sea.
Baron skies,
the bitter prize.
Lay waste to the cosmos,
For its energy.
Centurions of darkness,
coming today.
Beach head earth,
Is already under way.

(Chorus)

Words and Music: Lee Payne

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The Gates of Gehenna

(Part 1 - The Grand Deception)

Look on high son of man I stand before you,
Cesestial traveller of time and space.
Take my hand,
discover realms beyond the living.
Cast aside the mortal fears,
that ever plague your race.
Leave your world behind,
seek and you will find the Gates of Gehenna.

(Part 2 - Beyond The Veil)

Sinners scream,
from tormented fate,
redemption but a dream too late.
Damnated souls,
in the aftermath,
of Gods own wrath.
With paradise lost forever... And ever!

(Part 3 - Truth Unmasked)

Now you will know your reason here
Mine is Lucifer, destructor, abductor of your soul.
Seek not escape,
once lured to Hell's own kingdom.
None may elude my presence,
nor relinquish my dread control.
You are sold to brutality,
never to break free the Gates of Gehenna.

(Part 4 - Requiem)

My fate is sealed in shadow,
denied the gift of light.
Cast down,
damnated,
banished from salvations sight.
The prey,
of the betrayer.
spirits never finding peace,
An eternity,
of suffering,
possessed without release.

You'll never get away, no!

Words and Music - Lee Payne

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Astral Rider

Take a trip out of consciousness,
across the great divide.
Astral thought projection,
suspended in time.

Flying high through plasmic oceans,
supernatural skies.
Leave the Earthbound minions,
so very far behind.

As one with the universe,
beyond pleasure and pain.
Die hard retrogression,
being reborn again.

Chorus
Nightriders on the astral plain
Nightriders on the astral plain
Nightriders on the astral plain
Nightriders on the astral plain

Frontiers of meditation,
the search for inner light.
Take a look through
the minds eye,
on an endless flight.

Between the gates of forever,
void of and hate.
Life and death have no meaning,
in animated state.

(Chorus)

A spectrum of fantastic colours,
Incandescent bright.
Vibrating on a timeless wavelength,
a vision of paradise.

We're gonna take you to a place
where the king of terror reigns,
Carnage and mutilation
degredates your burning remains.


Words and Music: Lee Payne

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Kiss of Evil

We rise as the sun has fallen,
the midnight world I roam.
Life and death has no dominion,
but the grave shall be our home.

Naked alone you are defenceless,
like a body in a tomb.
Haunted in your silent slumber,
as I creep into your room.

You will hear me.
You will heed me.
You will fear me.
You will need me!

Chorus
Children of the darkness feed,
bring the kiss of evil.
Legions of the lost night breed,
taste the kiss of evil.

Love bites,
flying in the night.
We are flying in,
flying in the night.

The darkness of the night!

I am met without resistance,
my gift is bitter sweet.
Senses sharpened Nosferatu,
mortal prey are easy meat.

Joined immortal yet un-living,
once you taste my first attack.
fate is sealed in realms of shadow,
there can be no turning back.

You will hear me.
You will heed me.
You will fear me.
You will need me.

(Chorus)

I want it,
you got it.
I feel hot blood,
in the still of the night.
There ain’t no doubt
about it,
you heat me up
till I loose my mind.

Running wild,
in the city.
Your face so god damn pretty.
Your neck,
my eyes of fire.
Food for the love vampire!

(Chorus)

Words and Music: Lee Payne / 2003

This song is dedicated to the memory of Buffy

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Mutilator

Your all gonna Die!

Razor backed,
bringer of pain.
Laser bolts
lance your brain.
Piling on the agony,
mechanoid brutality.

Tearing limbs
and gouging eyes,
sadistic butcher
cleaves and scythes.
Liquidate humanity,
crime is life
let none go free.

Hell is now here
all will fall,
God will not intervene at all.

Chorus
Searching,
seeking,
destroying.
Mutilator!

Burning,
breaking,
killing.
Mutilator!

Waging pure
and bloody war,
Dreadnaught
settles old scores.
Slaying his
creator screams,
slaughtered as
the blood redeems.

Doomsday monarch
reigns in death,
separate you
from your breath.
Genocide across
the land,
mass extinction
close at hand.

He will spare no one,
steel wheels run.
The body count
goes on and on.

(Chorus)

The Earth is cleansed now,
he stands alone.
Cathedral built of cartilage,
shattered skull and bone.

Corpses piled high
to the sky.
New worlds to ravage
and brutalize.

Hell is now here
all will fall,
God will not intervene at all.

(Chorus)

Words and Music: Lee Payne

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Reach for the sky

The stars are our home,
Roaming the galaxy,
we’re free.
Raiders from space,
Star fighter zeros.

Out of the sun,
engage the enemy.
We see,
planets in chains,
hell is for heroes.

We glide in our silver birds,
Got to do or die.

Soar on solar winds,
Rage on high.
As fire on silent metal wings,
Out where the meteors fly... You and I.

Chorus
Reach for the sky
Reach for the sky
Reach for the sky
Reach for the sky

Trail to blaze,
Glory and victory will be.
In for the kill,
or wiped out forever.

Life is a dream,
and death a reality for me.
Star fleet in flames,
but never surrender.

Dog fight till the end,
dive for the last time.

(Chorus)

Words and Music: Lee Payne

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Road of Eagles

Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, a trained
fighting unit strikes at the nerve centre of the
dread overlords power matrix stronghold. To alter
the path of blind submission only the brave walk
the Road of Eagles!

Prepare!
Prepare for battle.
After this flight,
as free men
We fight or fall,
we fight or fall.

Nevermore!
Shall our people cower
In chains and fear,
this reign must end... Kill the oppressor!

Antagonistic warlord,
star systems die by his hand.
Unchallenged to pillage and plunder,
taken and slain by command.

Time for blind allegiance Passover,
though hell itself bars the way.
His life force must spill over,
or death be the price we pay.

Chorus
Lift the banner of freedom on high,
raise the empire to the ground.
Let arrow fly,
let warning sound,
as free men we choose to die.

Dogs of war are gathering,
they hunger for conquest.
Scheming Jackals of conflict,
await to pick the bones
who failed the test.

Ask not for mercy,
show no quarter,
till victory is won.
Our cause must not falter,
Dominator must come undone.

(Chorus)

Our kinsmen's bodies' litter,
foreign fields of death.
Only the prophets may know
what the future may bring.
Brother against brother
cursing with his last dying breath...
The king is dead!
Long live the King!

Must the hands of man
be stained forever?
How many son's be lost?
before we still the malice
inside us,
and escape a final holocaust.
How many?

Words and Music: Lee Payne

(This track is dedicated to the memory
of Martin Pomp)

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Return of the Passover

Return Of The Passover

(Part 1 - The Coming)

He comes forth spanning starways,
That sinners may live in fear.
Retribution marks this eve day,
the hour of vengance draws near.

Dark angel of our destruction,
Mounted on black winged steed.
Irresistably anhialating,
All bearing malice, lust or greed.

Chorus
Dawns now the death dealer,
Atomising soul stealer.
Inflicting damnation,
unto he that spurns salvation.

Earthly resistance proves futile,
No mortal force can halt this man.
Evil minions meet extinction
By making mockery of the heavenly plan.

His mission is that of deliverance,
Seeking repentance from all.
In a world plaqued by violence,
and deception where the weakest surely fall.

(Chorus)

(Part 2 - Executional Redemption)

Those exempt of compassion,
Devoid of trust.
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust.

Cleansing all sins,
Dispersing all pain.
Question not his judgement,
Defy not his reign... Oh No!

(Repeat First Verse)

(Chorus)

(Part 3 - Cold Reign)

The ancients have told,
of the first passover.
They felt ones power,
in centuries past.
Now we live,
in his dreaded shadow.
Never heeding when,
the die was cast.

Words - Lee Payne, Music - Lee Payne / Kevin Poutney.

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Laying Down the Law

I guard these sleazy streets,
from gambling joint to speakeasy.
No back alley hoodlum is gonna muscle in on my territory.
The gangster and machine gun, is public enemy number one,
in Chicago where the innocent pay protection to stay free.

Well nobody gets hurt,
If he walks the straight and narrow.
Bend the arrow out of line,
and you have to reckon with me.

Chorus
Cause I'm laying down,
Laying down the law.
I'm laying down,
Laying down the law.

Behind every street corner,
there's vermin crawling out of the woodwork.
Some low down punk with a shot gun,
itchin to fill ya full of lead.
Wine, Women and bootleg whiskey,
threatens the basis of society.
Side walks are paved with blood,
Who couldn't keep their head.

Sin city never sleeps,
You better learn to pull no punches.
Eyes to the rear,
cause down here... They play for keeps.

(Chorus)

You say I'm dreaming,
to believe in a better way,
for this rat trap we call home.
I'm the enforcer,
Making sure that crime don't pay... And I'm not alone!

Words - Lee Payne, Music - Lee Payne / Stephen Rounds.

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Mistress of the Forest

Moonlight bathes the woodland,
Breathless night on chilled scented air.
Neath mist enshrouded willow,
Stirs a lady ivory white and fair.

My gaze is drawn to that silver hair those
Eyes of ebony bright.
Never have I witnessed such beauty,
as in she who walks alone this night.

But all is deception,
A demon as goddess guised.
My mind is drained of resistance,
Senses hypnotised.

Beckoning me to follow her lead,
Into depths of mystery.
I am bewitched doing as she so bids,
Never to break free.

Mortals have not beheld such wonder,
elemental forces In visions made clear.
I can feel myself free of physical connections,
Ertheral spirit oppressed in fear.

Peer into the mirror darkly,
There's some trying to capture your reflection.
Lines on your palm begin to glow.

Remember that old fortune-teller?
Lady read your future not so long ago,
It all happened,
how did she know?

Ask what fate waits in the stars?
Disaster governs,
your house is in mars.
Ooh you never thought it could happen to you,
But still it will come true... yeah!

Chorus
She's a bad, bad luck woman.
She's a hell raising crystal ball gazing gypsy queen.
She's a bad luck,
bad luck.
Bad luck woman'll will snatch your soul
and steal your dreams.

Your mind is an open book,
step inside and take a look.
Call it second sight,
call it inner vision.

No one comes near, No!
Her glade is surrounded,
by fear and superstition.
Beware her premonitions.

Destiny is already planned,
signs are forming
to her command.
Take a card,
play your hand.
She'll deal you death,
better understand.

(Chorus)

On the eve of the dead at the forest edge,
corpses are found consumed by fire.
Shrill laughter came with the fall of the rain,
as the flames danced higher and higher.
Mistress of the forest,
Shimmering into view.
She abides eternally waiting
as the scene is set for you.

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah she is waiting
The scene is set for you.
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah she is waiting
The scene is set for you

Words and Music: Lee Payne


The Opening Ritual / Cloven Hoof / Fighting Back / A Sultans Ransom / Eye of the Sun