Death metal

El death metal es un subgénero del metal extremo. Típicamente emplea guitarras distorsionadas, trémolo, profundos gruñidos, blast beats, tonos bajos o atonalidad, y estructuras complejas con múltiples cambios de tempo.

Construyéndose de la estructura musical del thrash metal y del black metal primitivo, el death metal emergió a mediados de los 80s. Grupos de metal como Slayer, Kreator, Celtic Frost y Venom fueron influencias muy importantes para la creación del género. Junto al grupo Death y su líder Chuck Schuldiner, quien es a menudo llamado "el padre del death metal", grupos como Possessed, Obituary y Morbid Angel son considerados pioneros del género. A finales de los 80s y principios de los 90s, el death metal ganó más atención mediática ya que discográficas populares como Combat, Earache y Roadrunner comenzaron a firmar grupos death metal a un ritmo rápido. Desde entonces, el death metal ha diversificado, originando una variedad de subgéneros.


In the dark of night...
Abusing a portion of light
While others are sleeping
And some are escaping
A serpent spews out fantasy -
Unjustified blasphemy
That cannot be condoned

It must be strange to not have lived
So far into existence

This is not a test of power
This is not a game to be lost or won
Let justice be done

There will be zero tolerance
For the creator of hallowed intentions
There will be zero tolerance
Fate is your deciding God

Karma comes crashing down
Leaving a very deep scar
Exposing a door to the
Source of a verbal whore
Machines supply the altar
Where virtuous lives are sacrificed

It must be strange to not have lived
So far into existence

This is not a test of power
This is not a game to be lost or won
Let justice be done


Possessed by evil hell
Satan's wrath will kill
He will take your soul
Cast you to hell

Demons dog domain
Keeping me insane
Evil curse my soul
Burning away

Satan's hell will burn
Terrored cries are heard
Everlasting eternity
Warriors of hell

Unleashed men of sin
Hatred hell within
Sinners hate will die
The Exorcist

I can see the light
I don't want to burn
Help me save my soul
Let me live

Your curse is not my fear
Demons within me hear
I will escape your wrath
666

This is not my way
Doom, sorrow for eternity
Lights shine below in hell
Forever burning

Words of insanity
Scream out the final plea
Evil voices scream out
Help me!

Demons in my body gone
Sicken thoughts left beyond
Haunted by evil memories
Nightmares and sin

My mind is burnt and black
Shadowed, no way back
Fear of living in hell
Axed my mind

Memories held within
Satan's gone in sin
Grasping to relieve the pain
Scarred for life

Exorcism takes control
Beneath my body help my soul
Save my soul from evil hell
Your spell is lost


Life betrayal - a warping rage
Evil ripping caverns through your mind
Immolation - in blood you've signed your soul away
Sickening life ends but the horror has just begun

Vultures moaning a funeral dirge
Walls await to cradle you and rip your soul apart
Incessant screams echoes through the maze
Insanity approaches - imminent demise

Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of death

Stricken from the holy book deliverance to pain
Effigy of Jesus Christ burning in your mind
Voices cry out to bid you welcome
Locked within the dungeons of darkness - no escape!!

Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of death

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Passing through corridors embedded with scars
Of those who have gone before you and left their marks

Warning comes to late to save you now
Visions of suffering stab from the inside

You pray for death
Mourning does no good as you can only die once

Souls are being raped by the maze
Lost in these halls... endlessly

(Solo: Brunelle)

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of torment...
Maze of death


Impale the body, scars of his flesh
Hung up to die on the crucifixion
Bleeding to breathe, cursing at god… WHY!!!

The glory resurrection, live in wounds of recollection
Who take his will unreasoned, naiveté inside soul defeated?
Lascivious redemption, justify thy vile absence
Propagate his aggression as you use his words as weapons.

Lies now have you lost, the worthless cause of the crucifixion
The sanctity, to hang and bleed, and in the form of a human cross
Blind by prophecy, his bible fiend, a bloody sword of his fantasy
Tried for heresy, and sacrilege, to bare the scars of the crucifix

You walk alone with Jesus, in a world of non-believers
Humiliated savior, is thy son of heaven's failure
For ever left undone, on the cross for everyone
His words of god unheard, he is dead and not concerned

God fatality, the life recedes on the cross of his sign
Finality, in search of peace, to beg and plead for the end that will be
The light descends, when suffering, impaled again for you blasphemous lies
Resented death, his sins confessed, accept the scars of the crucifix.

Sad in your sorrow, withered within
Stand in the shadow of all of our sins,
You are the son, choke on his blood…DIE!!!!!!


Why can't I breathe
Still I see
Dead on the table
Try to move, I'm not able to

They said I have died
I still felt alive
I won't believe their lies
I can still see through these
Eyes

Help me I'm not dead
Wake me from this hell
Tell me I'm alive
Dead

Knives cutting into me
Scalpels rip me
Screaming into deaf ears
Now they stop and see my tears

Help me I'm not dead
Wake me from this hell
Tell me I'm alive
Dead

I can't stop the visions
Stop the premonitions

My soul can't escape
The boundary of my flesh
My heart does not beat
My spirit does not rest

[Solo - Jack]

[Solo - Rob]

[Solo - Jack]

[Solo - Rob]

They said I have died
I still felt alive
I won't believe their lies
I can still see through these
Eyes


Rot Alone. Destiny,
killing the souls of lives at your feet.
Dead to its fight.
Hell as they said.
Killing the darkened rotting fate.
Fate. Rot Alone. Bludgeoning hell.
Finding their souls and returning to dwell.
Killing and bleeding tightened as one.
Killing the darkest rotting fate.
Rot all lesions.
Glory. Rotting, plowed.
Dead he's killed your soul.
Glory. Rotting flower.
Kill.




When you wake up in the night
And you stare into the dark
Your eyes will scream for sight
Evil left its mark
You'll be looking all above
Looking all around
But if you want to see them
You'll have to look down

Tortured by thoughts
Stricken by fear
Blasted to Hell
The end is near

As you wait upon your fate
Your throat is full of pain
And when you try to scream
You know it's all in vain
Nothing you can change
Destiny is complete
Silence seems so strange
And you start to feel the heat

Forever to burn
Infinite pain
Demons of darkness
Warriors domain

[Solo: Larry]

You think you're so secure
Protected from above
Gaze into the hell fire
I know you'll fall in love
They'll hunt you down at night
Your flesh is what they want
Your eyes will scream for sight
When evil comes to haunt

Cursed by nightmares
When you sleep
They'll cut your throat
And blood will seep

Fighting through the mist
Forever trapped in Hell
Crushed with Satan's fist
You can't escape his spell
Sanity will pass
Reality is just a word
Evil does its task
With its mighty sword

Open your eyes and die
By the hand of mass
Escape and you'll defy
My long awaited grasp

They want to steal your soul
Death will steal away
Your wrongs will take their toll
Below the crust you'll lay
Spell has cast no hope
Forgotten thoughts of good
Your neck awaits a rope
And things go like they should

Enslaved in forever torment
Blood drips from your eyes
There is no way to repent
From your wicked lies

Blades of steel
Cut off your head
Served as a meal
Satan is fed
Masters of evil
Blasters of Hell
No one can stop them
We're under their spell

Red eyes are glowing
With you in sight
And if you're knowing
Scream out in fright


"Remove the sea wind. Recall the first flame. Awake the beast. The sign of evil existence."

Oh south spirit
Remove the sea wind
Recall the first flame
Awake the beast under the snow
In three shades
The sign of evil existence
Engraved in rain
Above the circle where tyrants dwell

Summon Glohithia
Appear in the snake shape
Bring down upon me
For last time all forest's (secrets)

The sign of evil existence
In the four points of horizon
The secrets buried under smoky land
It'll take ages and ages come back
The wind is here now
The see is divided
The flame reburn inside me
The beast return in the snowy land

Summon Glohithia
Appear in the snake shape
Bring down upon me
For last time all forest's (secrets)


Your plastic souls melt within cauldron's burning black
Chanting to the Ancient Ones, chants of broken lines
Kneel before the altar, sacrifice is made
It is pleasing to the ones most ancient of the days

They call the prince of disease, messenger of the Absu
Carry through the icy winds our curse upon their church

Hanging helpless above the pentagram
Sacrifice swings within leather noose
Sing the ancient hymn that makes the Abso roll
Raise the rusty knife, let loose the blood of Kingu

Sudden death throws off the balance that's within the sky
Priest calls forth infernal names to the ones beyond the gate

Angel of disease one who shuns the light
Shub Niggurath goat with one thousand young

Praise the beast, the chanting grew
Praise the beast with virgin blood
Praise the beast with soul and mind
Praise the beast and show the sign

Bind their kings in iron chains
Execute the judgement for them
Come and taste the fleshy pleasures
Orgies of endless time

Beneath the rolling for hate ignites their eyes
From their graves the dead rise to answer Nammtar's call
On a twisted cross the virgin corpse hangs
They blacken out the sun and burn the elder gods

Morbid priest calling forth
Abominations of the sky
Kutulu meets in the void
Ancient Ones rule once more


Psychological Warfare
Still bear the scars from a past war ceased
Neurological nightmare
Torture suffered holds the mind from peace

Can't face reality, unrestrained mentality
Hiding from the darkness of your insanity
Driven to soul despairs
Madness in your mind tears
No escape from this mental insanity

Captive life, held in past
Deranged memories still burning in your brain
Thoughts of pain, darkest dreams
Self inflicted torture, eating at your mind
Punishment, no pain release
Captive to the darkness of this psychotic insanity

Tearing in deep mind
Madness dwells with pain
Destruction of your life
Renders you insane




The casket is exhumed, turfs piled beside the grave
A stagnant mass awaits me, deep in the gloom
The boxes lids I open, distraught desecrating
The fumes are penetrating, I am eructating... I vomit...
I initiate eager exhuming despite bad scents...
I dig up cold earth, exhumed turfs I disperse...
I initiate eager exhuming despite bad scents...
the open casket reveals the rot
Into weak stomach I slide my hands
intensifying fumes I like to snort
colon and small intestine
sliced and ripped out of the foul body
Duodenum I minch - all should be treated equal
rotten stool and urine
spurt out of fermented organs
I discharged and raped - putrified giblets
disembowel
Decrepit spleen and pancreas I've torn and gutted
I eviscerate stomach and cysts
Liver is torn and twisted - turning inside out
A fermented offal discharge - Disembowel...
Evacuated offal hastily wrapped in bags
as basic for my culinary...
putrefied internal fragments
Fermented offal discharge...


I'm a carnal, organic anagram. Human flesh instead of written letters.
I rearrange my pathetic tissue. I incise. I replace. I'm reformed.
I eradicate the fake pre-present me. Elevate me to a higher human form.
The characters I am, made into a word complete, then I'll be the new norm.

Self inflicted fractures. I replace my bones with bars;
Aluminum bleeding oxide; the drug of gods into my pounding veins

My receiving eyes exchanged with fuses; blindness induced to prevent destruction.
Ceramic blades implanted past my ribs to save me from the dues of inhalation.
I tear my worldly useless skin. Staples to pin it over my ears.
Non-receptive of ungodly sounds - I disable the audio-generators of fear.

Hexagonal bolts to fill my mouth, sharpened to deplete the creator of all violence;
Without speech there will be no deceit

Baptized in vitriolic acid. A final touch. A smoothing of features.
Completion of the greatest art; to cast the godly creatures.
Humans, once astray; made divine. Stripped of congenital flaws.
We're incandescent revelations in a world of darkened forms.

Disciples, come join with me to save a failed humanity.
Follow the god of cyanide into the new eternity.
Behold; a sacrificial rase a cleansing worshipping of pain.
The new millennium christ here to redeem all from lies


How could I forget such a revelation
To love without fear and learn without question
How could I regret the meant occasions
I must begin this day again
Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe
How could I
Humility take charge of me
Drown me in truth's modest waters
Loosen your grip identity
Free me from an ego's falter
Love too often is only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
Must I try? How could I?
Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe
Love's too often only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
For in this spewing cavern of pride
How could I!


The shaft of daylight melts dirty panes
The stench of life pulls them out from their dreams
Those living wastes on the streets outside
Woken up again with no place to hide

Daily food like shit and beer
Daily bread as tough as steel
And this taste is stronger than heroine
I open cardboard door to see
An empty face flowing by... like a stream
As a river of shit pours over me
The secretions of city mass machine
Sewers running thru my veins
Acid corroding remains of my brain...


Tired of dull ages, I walk the same ground,
collecting the tragedies still
Hollow ambitions in a hollow mind
carried my cross to the hill

And how I lust for the dance and the fire
deep of the nectarine sunset to drink
Spill me the wind and its fire
to steal of the colors - I'm the moonshield

Shattered hope became my guide
and grief and pain my friends
a brother pact in a blood-ink penned
declare my silent end

Naked and dying under worlds of silent stone
reaching for the moonshield that once upon us shone


We are the outstretched fingers
That seize and hold the wind...

The strangeness of awakening
In an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
For the first proud beams of light
As the hours grow longer
And the shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows

Bring me the light
In the darkness that never ends
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven

We have arrived
At the outermost crossroads
The charge of cosmos
At our atmospheric skies
Will cause our fall

If I had wings, would I be forgiving?
If I had horns
Would there be flames to shy my smile?

Hymns of loss are heard
From the masses in the streets
Praising the last of days
I punish

Bring me the night
In the fires that never end
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven

The charge of cosmos
Charging at us from unearthly distance
I challenge the universe
It's the choice between heaven and hell

My soul bears all the weight of mountains
As mankind weaves its silent end
Can there be no forgiveness?
I curse the heaven above me
As the light sinks through
My outstretched fingers

Fading in my open arms

Make each tear in my bare hands
A lifetime in hell
On this last day of light
When our autumn leaves fell
And as heaven itself commands me
Out of its lair
My face lined with darkness I'll go!


Fly with me on a starlit sky
I'll set you free… Yes, it can be
A dream unchased is a life at waste
Never let them conquer your pride
Our love is warm here
Like the image of a distant sun
This star will always shine
And never, ever fade away

[Chorus:]
Fly on…Silverwing
Fly with me…Stay free…Silverwing

[Lead melody – Michael]

Seeking truths in spirit skies
Which one of you will guide me tonight?
The milky way tastes sour,
Has heaven lost its power?
So let us set sail on this sea of dreams
The moon gets lost in the morning sun
Just let the spinning wheel spin
And let your life begin

[1st Lead – Michael]
[2nd Lead – Christopher]


Never again
On your forcefed illusions to choke
You feed off my pain
Feed off my life

There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown

Always the same
My tired eyes have seen enough
Of all your lies
My hate is blind

There won't be another dawn
We will reap as we have sown

Slaughter of the soul
Suicidal final art
Children - born of sin
Tear your soul apart


High above your shadow smiles at me
Way down below I hear you serenely breathe

I'm running after you throughout
The valleys of tormented souls
Don't you be afraid of me only kissing your shadow...
You re so far away, I can feel your scent
When I caress your shadow
And if you truly want I'll cross the line I'll follow

I'm dreaming my way out from down below
To get wherever you haunting from, I'll go...

I'm kissing the shadows you surround me with
To feel my pain vanishing away from me
You're touching the shadows I'm surrounding you with
So together in peace we shall be

I'm running after you throughout
The valleys of tormented souls
Don't you be afraid of me only kissing your shadow...
You re so far away, I can feel your scent
When I caress your shadow
And if you truly want I'll cross the line I'll follow