Woe to the Vanquished

To the victor goes the spoils Sound the drums of war Raising high our banners The legion marches forth On a trail of conquest We are the sons of Mars! We desecrate their shrines Annihilate their Gods They burn The tomb of civilizations On the endless march We set afire the town All who oppose The Gladius cuts them down (Down!) They call out for mercy For refuge they seek But the deafening roar of battle Silences the weak They fall The fall of once-mighty nations The sick, the dying, the conquered, the slain Forget their faces, forget their names Vae Victis Woe to the Vanquished Cities fall to the barbaric horde Watch your family put to the sword After the conquest men are enslaved Children are butchered, the women are raped Waters that once gave life run red Your language, culture, way of life DEAD Each of your sons I shall murder at birth 'Til all of your people are wiped from the Earth The tomb of civilizations The fall of mighty nations Woe to the Vanquished (Solo- Becker) (Solo- Carroll) The battle you have lost The blood that falls like rain Now your temples lie in ruins Your people are in chains Woe to the Vanquished Woe to the Vanquished Woe to the Vanquished Your line dies with you

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I can't remember why the war started here But the bombs started falling, year after year The soldiers, they charge bravely into to the fight But the incoming bombardment buries them alive A lost generation dies by gunshot to the head A forward advance over mountains of the dead An outstretched hand reaching up through the wire Can't hear the scream through the endless shellfire Fire Fire Fire We obey our leaders when they order the attack With our honor and our glory, we live among the rats The warriors, so valiant, drowning in mud And forever these fields will be stained with blood Every single day, the barrage raining down Nothing I can hear, but the horrible sound Incoming A lost generation dies by gunshot to the head A forward advance over mountains of the dead An unseen hand, the voice of the liar Will bury the world under endless shellfire Fire Fire Fire Shellfire I'm cast aside now that I've played my part I lie in the street, I beg not to starve I'm crippled, disfigured, you just look away The war you forgot, the price I have paid

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Lie in wait for the target Stalking down the prey I've come to collect the price on your head A mission to assassinate Watching in the night With a telescopic sight Leook to the left Look to the right A am always right behind Scanning through the infrared Oprerate in secrecy The orders are given by encrypted transmission Now we know the target's name... Descending Blade (Solo- Crroll) On your back like a shadow In position for the kill Waiting for the moment to strike And it might be tonight Everywhere you go I see you through my scope All your dreams, all your hope Dissapear in the gunsmoke Now closing in with sharpened knives Death comes before the pain Another laceration, with surgical precision And their blood is washed away by the rain... Descending Blade (Solo- Carrol) (Solo- Becker) Just try to run Cause we will find you all the same By poison of the viper Or bullet of a sniper They are never seen again... No more... Descending Blade Descend! Just remember, the blade has a second edge I see my own face in the crosshairs A red dot between my eyes There's only one second 'til the instant when I die I never saw the bullet Never felt the impact Just a sound of the rifle's crack And everything went black

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

Waking into nightmares All I see is black I am trapped inside A chamber for the mind The voices will appear Once I shut my eyes Fall into the shadow Enter the beyond Spectral asylum The wall are closing in I am locked inside A dungeon for the night There's nowhere I can run When the killer lives inside Fall into the shadow Far, far beyond Spectral Asylum Spectral Asylum Voices fill my mind, they are gnawing through the cracks I see my oen reflection and another face looks back Searching for release from the darkness in my mind I close my eyes to sleep, and all I see are knives I can't get out... (Solo- Becker) (Solo- Carroll) Spectral Asylum Spectral Asylum

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Through the dawn of time and space The legacy that we create The children of technology The masters of our world From Clay To Steel And Stone Trascend the flesh and bone We watch And wait For a new age On shoulders of giants we look to the stars For we see beyond this small Earth of ours My life may be short And soon I'll be gone But knowledge lives on... And that is the power of flesh They cremate us Annihilate us We fall But our monuments stand tall Until the end of time The mind is divine (Solo- Becker) On shoulders of giants we look to the stars For we see beyond this small Earth of ours My life may be short And soon I'll be gone But knowledge lives on... And that is the power of flesh We're cremated Annihilated Another scar But our mind's eye sees so far I can see our destiny To leave this world of ours I see our future history Written in the stars (Solo- Carroll) From high in the Cosmos, we look down on Earth For we have transcended our small universe My soul will not perish Long after I'm gone My words will live on! Divinity! Divinity of Flesh

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

I-Prelude: The Troops "O, my brave companions When your souls flock silently away And the eyeless dead shame that the wild beast of battle on the ridge Death will stand grieving in that field of war Since your unvanquished hardihood is spent And through some mooned Valhalla there shall pass Batallions and batallions, scarred from hell The unreturning army that was youth The legions who have suffered And are dust" -Siegfried Sassoon Prelude:The Toops (spoken by John Kevill) II- Attrition March through the mud and the rain The soldiers disappearing into the gray Hopeless, they look to the sky For years they have bled on the line I saw them advancing Into the smoke and the fire They were cut down I saw, as the brave men... Died, by their thousands, forgotten Their names carved upon a white cross The rows stretch into the horizon And no words can speak of the loss I saw warriors broken Upon the anvil of Verdum Unreturning, the legions Who suffered and are dust III- Voie Sacree (The Sacred Way) Our tattered banners fly in the wind Over the top, we charge again The war will be won, and God's on our side But my brave companions, why must you all die Oh why? IV- The Voice of the Guns (Lyrics inspired by Gilbert Frankau's epic poem The Voice of the Guns) WE ARE THE GUNS! Saw you our work, the flashes of light WE ARE THE ONES! Filling the graves, the ghosts on the firing line NOW IT IS DONE! Our voice will be heard in the ages to come Husbands or lovers, fathers or sons We break them- Yes, We Are the Guns! (Solo- Becker) (Solo- Carroll) V- All Quiet And When the Guns Fell Silent, at last There's nothing that remains of the past The world that I knew is dead and gone My soul is left in ruins And I cannot see the dawn

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025