Dave Silver – Vocals, Guitar
Sy Taplin – Guitar
Sasha Cron – Bass
Ernie Nogara – Drums
Produced and engineered by Chris Tsangarides
Mixed, mastered and additional engineering by Scott Atkins
Additional keyboards by Chris Tsangarides
Backing vocals by Savage Messiah
Recorded between January and March ’09 at the Ecology Rooms, Deal, England
Mixed between April and June ’09 at Grindstone Studios
Artwork by Marcelo HVC
Layout and design by Adrian Wear
All songs arranged by Savage Messiah
Published by Abstract Sounds LTS
1. Insurrection Rising
[Music: Silver, Cron, Lyrics: Silver]
Parasites have lauded victory
Scorching permeations blaze to seize the day
Felt like an eternity, penance has been paid
So here it is for all to see, your judgment now is scathed
Judgment now is scathed!
Nevermore the demo
n’s piety
Shadows grow inside my soul I pray to be free
The bleakness of your future now must haunt your every move
As victory for what it’s worth was never in the script
Never in the script!
Never mind the black horizon
Never mind the approaching storm
No regard for losing pace
No sympathy this time
Fight!
Unite!
Unmitigated fury
Rise!
Despise!
Vindication as the insurrection rise
[Solo: Dave]
Devastating now without mercy
Cast into the fire with your negativity
These shackles threatened everything, I couldn’t walk away
With rapture now my hatred sacrificed another day
Sacrificed again!
Never mind the black horizon
Never mind the approaching storm
No regard for losing pace
No sympathy this time
Fight!
Unite!
Unmitigated fury
Rise!
Despise!
Vindication as the insurrection rise
2. Corruption X
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Taplin]
You swear your life upon the cross
False idols, you would believe
Defiler of the truth
Come forth to me
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
So bow your hear upon me
I will grant your solitude
Doomed by greed and pestilence
Forsaken
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
Igniting your path
Bestowing the light
[Solo: Dave]
[Solo: Sy]
Your grief will pay by all
Victims in despair
Pay in blood
Son of sin
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
3. In Absence Of Liberty
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Forced allegiance sheltering weak minds
Breed complacency to subjugate life
Brainwashed puppets to spur the machine
A black tomorrow is the utopian dream
None more enslaved than those who trust that they are free
False preconceptions destroying identity
To take authority as unquestioned truth
Forsaking liberty for archaic sanctuary
Our leaders trapped us in despair
What’s inside no longer cares
As the forced religions rupture into war
What’s left now is humanity
But humane it ceased to be
As our liberty distorted by their lies
A world held hostage to its god
Ever searching for reprieve
Expendable to the machine
Trapped completely cannot leave
[Solo’s I & II: Dave]
Broken now, the system is flawed
Only those with power see the reward
Majority who slave away
Just wait in vain and pray for a better day
Our leaders trapped us in despair
What’s inside no longer cares
As the forced religions rupture into war
What’s left now is humanity
But humane it ceased to be
As our liberty distorted by their lies
4. The Serpent Tongue Of Divinity
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Obscured acuity
Distorting clarity
Malfeasance divine
Shattering the soul
Freedom is now abstract
Imposed by those who act
And so oblivious
The war machine is raised
Wrath and perdition directed by wisdom
Now forced to your knees to reap basic needs
What’s right or wrong? It’s just a vision
Mankind created just like your prison cell
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
Vicariously now
Remove the human blame
Dispose validity
Render all slaves blind
Death and submission
The serpent’s religion
Dementia divine
Reaping in time
Control delusion
To raise institution
Reform bereft
Slavery incepted now
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
(Divinity)
The serpent’s kiss!
[Solo: Dave]
To strike the demon down
Decapitate its crown
To liberate its throne
Immortal blood now flows
Wrath and perdition directed by wisdom
Now forced to your knees to reap basic needs
What’s right or wrong? It’s just a vision
Mankind created just like your prison cell
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
(Divinity)
The serpent’s kiss!
The serpent’s kiss!
5. Vigil Of The Navigator
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Silver]
Through observation I have built a mental wall
To shield the tyranny that festers in us all
To see the damned returning and face the disconcerting
Reveals within
The key to self-destruction born out of blind instruction
Distorting true
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
When disillusion beckons consumes the will to fight
An exodus of longing surrenders to your plight
Distort with deep deception create a false perception
You are undone
Too blind to be convinced and too weak to resist it
Temptation’s fool
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
[Solo I: Dave]
[Solo II: Sy]
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
Vigil!
Vigil!
Vigil!
Vigil!
6. Enemy Image (Dehumanization)
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Create the enemy to blind society
Trap with fear, suffocate
Then free thoughts eradicate
The veil of sanctity to blind certainty
Repetition mantra, hypnotize
To imprison and deride
Masters of elimination
Killers of control
They’re bred in violence
Death in their soul and with its instigation
Propaganda’s heart
Strength born from severance
Now fear dehumanize
[Solo I: Dave) ]
[Solo II: Sy]
Blind hatred magnetize for agenda energized
Divide and conquer, massacre
From ignorance genocide
Masters of elimination
Killers of control
They’re bred in violence
Death in their soul and with its instigation
Propaganda’s heart
Strength born from severance
Now fear dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
7. Silent Empire
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Silver]
To build a silent empire
Mired by disgrace
The vacant shadows raise your throne
To mitigate your soul
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
[Solo: Dave]
Cold horizons vanquished
In selfish lustful gaze
Destroyed perceptions scar the script
Capricious impulse drift
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
[Solo: Sy]
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
They scream my name over again
They are invisible!
8. The Nihilist Machine
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Rising through the land of the blind
To serve the one-eyed king
Subordination of your subconsciousness
Enslaved by culture and pursuit of success
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
Conform to the hypocrisy
Sell your soul for the coin
Obliterate without mercy for the minor gain
Institutions commence and the shackles remain
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
[Solo I: Dave]
[Solo II: Sy]
Rising through the land of the blind
To serve the one-eyed king
Subordination of your subconsciousness
Enslaved by culture and pursuit of success
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
9. Who Laughs Last
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Bound to turmoil, driven by the need
Antipathy and the strength to see
Rising through scores of the dead
Determined to reap what is said
Further now to what I’ve never known
No lies in silence the storm has grown
Fight!
Into eternity fall
Fight!
Obscured delusion contorts
Forsaking final agony
To remove total disparity
Into new seclusion
Born out of resurrection
To smote my only enemy
And so he who laughs last
Becomes the vindicated
Eradicates the fallacy
[Solo: Dave]
[Guitar theme: Sy & Dave together]
Sanctified desecrated dreams
Foiled temptations mask the damaged scene
Destiny rides through the smoke
To sharpen the axis of hope
Insipid homage to duplicity
Vacuous and mind destroying leach
Fight!
Into eternity fall
Fight!
Obscured delusion contorts
Forsaking final agony
To remove total disparity
Into new seclusion
Born out of resurrection
To smote my only enemy
And so he who laughs last
Becomes the vindicated
Eradicates the fallacy
Shadows grow inside my soul I pray to be free
The bleakness of your future now must haunt your every move
As victory for what it’s worth was never in the script
Never in the script!
Never mind the black horizon
Never mind the approaching storm
No regard for losing pace
No sympathy this time
Fight!
Unite!
Unmitigated fury
Rise!
Despise!
Vindication as the insurrection rise
[Solo: Dave]
Devastating now without mercy
Cast into the fire with your negativity
These shackles threatened everything, I couldn’t walk away
With rapture now my hatred sacrificed another day
Sacrificed again!
Never mind the black horizon
Never mind the approaching storm
No regard for losing pace
No sympathy this time
Fight!
Unite!
Unmitigated fury
Rise!
Despise!
Vindication as the insurrection rise
2. Corruption X
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Taplin]
You swear your life upon the cross
False idols, you would believe
Defiler of the truth
Come forth to me
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
So bow your hear upon me
I will grant your solitude
Doomed by greed and pestilence
Forsaken
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
Igniting your path
Bestowing the light
[Solo: Dave]
[Solo: Sy]
Your grief will pay by all
Victims in despair
Pay in blood
Son of sin
Corruption
Starting to erupt
Corruption
3. In Absence Of Liberty
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Forced allegiance sheltering weak minds
Breed complacency to subjugate life
Brainwashed puppets to spur the machine
A black tomorrow is the utopian dream
None more enslaved than those who trust that they are free
False preconceptions destroying identity
To take authority as unquestioned truth
Forsaking liberty for archaic sanctuary
Our leaders trapped us in despair
What’s inside no longer cares
As the forced religions rupture into war
What’s left now is humanity
But humane it ceased to be
As our liberty distorted by their lies
A world held hostage to its god
Ever searching for reprieve
Expendable to the machine
Trapped completely cannot leave
[Solo’s I & II: Dave]
Broken now, the system is flawed
Only those with power see the reward
Majority who slave away
Just wait in vain and pray for a better day
Our leaders trapped us in despair
What’s inside no longer cares
As the forced religions rupture into war
What’s left now is humanity
But humane it ceased to be
As our liberty distorted by their lies
4. The Serpent Tongue Of Divinity
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Obscured acuity
Distorting clarity
Malfeasance divine
Shattering the soul
Freedom is now abstract
Imposed by those who act
And so oblivious
The war machine is raised
Wrath and perdition directed by wisdom
Now forced to your knees to reap basic needs
What’s right or wrong? It’s just a vision
Mankind created just like your prison cell
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
Vicariously now
Remove the human blame
Dispose validity
Render all slaves blind
Death and submission
The serpent’s religion
Dementia divine
Reaping in time
Control delusion
To raise institution
Reform bereft
Slavery incepted now
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
(Divinity)
The serpent’s kiss!
[Solo: Dave]
To strike the demon down
Decapitate its crown
To liberate its throne
Immortal blood now flows
Wrath and perdition directed by wisdom
Now forced to your knees to reap basic needs
What’s right or wrong? It’s just a vision
Mankind created just like your prison cell
The serpent’s kiss
(The serpent’s kiss)
Anoints the sick
(Divinity)
The serpent’s kiss!
The serpent’s kiss!
5. Vigil Of The Navigator
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Silver]
Through observation I have built a mental wall
To shield the tyranny that festers in us all
To see the damned returning and face the disconcerting
Reveals within
The key to self-destruction born out of blind instruction
Distorting true
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
When disillusion beckons consumes the will to fight
An exodus of longing surrenders to your plight
Distort with deep deception create a false perception
You are undone
Too blind to be convinced and too weak to resist it
Temptation’s fool
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
[Solo I: Dave]
[Solo II: Sy]
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
Vigil!
Through time
Navigate
Martyr!
Your mind
Vigil!
Vigil!
Vigil!
Vigil!
6. Enemy Image (Dehumanization)
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Create the enemy to blind society
Trap with fear, suffocate
Then free thoughts eradicate
The veil of sanctity to blind certainty
Repetition mantra, hypnotize
To imprison and deride
Masters of elimination
Killers of control
They’re bred in violence
Death in their soul and with its instigation
Propaganda’s heart
Strength born from severance
Now fear dehumanize
[Solo I: Dave) ]
[Solo II: Sy]
Blind hatred magnetize for agenda energized
Divide and conquer, massacre
From ignorance genocide
Masters of elimination
Killers of control
They’re bred in violence
Death in their soul and with its instigation
Propaganda’s heart
Strength born from severance
Now fear dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
Masters of elimination
Dehumanize
7. Silent Empire
[Music: Taplin, Silver, Lyrics: Silver]
To build a silent empire
Mired by disgrace
The vacant shadows raise your throne
To mitigate your soul
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
[Solo: Dave]
Cold horizons vanquished
In selfish lustful gaze
Destroyed perceptions scar the script
Capricious impulse drift
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
[Solo: Sy]
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
They scream my name over again
They are invisible and ingrained
They scream my name over again
They are invisible!
8. The Nihilist Machine
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Rising through the land of the blind
To serve the one-eyed king
Subordination of your subconsciousness
Enslaved by culture and pursuit of success
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
Conform to the hypocrisy
Sell your soul for the coin
Obliterate without mercy for the minor gain
Institutions commence and the shackles remain
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
[Solo I: Dave]
[Solo II: Sy]
Rising through the land of the blind
To serve the one-eyed king
Subordination of your subconsciousness
Enslaved by culture and pursuit of success
Wreathed in sadness soulless prevail
Wisdom conceived in lies
The nihilist machine is here
The nihilist
Burn!
9. Who Laughs Last
[Music & lyrics: Silver]
Bound to turmoil, driven by the need
Antipathy and the strength to see
Rising through scores of the dead
Determined to reap what is said
Further now to what I’ve never known
No lies in silence the storm has grown
Fight!
Into eternity fall
Fight!
Obscured delusion contorts
Forsaking final agony
To remove total disparity
Into new seclusion
Born out of resurrection
To smote my only enemy
And so he who laughs last
Becomes the vindicated
Eradicates the fallacy
[Solo: Dave]
[Guitar theme: Sy & Dave together]
Sanctified desecrated dreams
Foiled temptations mask the damaged scene
Destiny rides through the smoke
To sharpen the axis of hope
Insipid homage to duplicity
Vacuous and mind destroying leach
Fight!
Into eternity fall
Fight!
Obscured delusion contorts
Forsaking final agony
To remove total disparity
Into new seclusion
Born out of resurrection
To smote my only enemy
And so he who laughs last
Becomes the vindicated
Eradicates the fallacy