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Black Fire Upon Us Lyrics

Tonight we ride
on clouds of fire

We sit with gods
Our death's desire

We fear no mortals
In these worlds

The gift we give you
Is your soul

Fly with us tonight
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Lyrics from the album booklet:

Tonight we ride on clouds of fire We're damned by gods, our DETHS conspired We fear no mortals in these worlds The gift we give you is your soul

Fly with us tonight

The sky Will break Black fire Will wake

Fly on through the night We built an alliance Our numbers are strong

We gather But we don't pray to gods What fools, what lunatics They must think of us

On this night we will journey Far beyond this world And you must know that we will never come back home again

But now we must fly Beasts in the night Tragic in the sky Battlefield in sight

Storm gathers strong Cold blackened flame Tell us our future Stories of the slain

Fire grows strong Freezing our skin Vision is clouded The rain will begin

Dangerous creatures Those who oppose us Raped all their power Battled with warlocks Cheated the demons For ancient spells The blackened fire Waits to consume us

So now we'll say goodbye Because tonight we die So we say goodbye So we'll say goodbye We die

Tonight we ride on clouds of fire We're damned by gods our DETHS conspired We fear no mortals in these worlds The gift we give you is your soul

Don't correct me on the spelling, both Dethklok album booklets spell it DETH, in case you're uninformed.

Cover art for Black Fire Upon Us lyrics by Dethklok

Brutal

Yeah, mang, I completely agree. This is so completely br00tal that after I'm done chewing on some animal guts whilst listening to this song, I'm gonna go down to my basement and slice off my own dick as a sacrifice to Dethklok and Satan. I'm so fuckin hardcore. Yeah. And stuff.

Even though it's not exactly death metal, I love this song. It's catchy as hell. Especially the pinch harmonics. Brendon Small is a genius!

Cover art for Black Fire Upon Us lyrics by Dethklok

It many not sound very death metal, but i think firing your stage and fans up into the stratosphere and playing up in the sky is fairly... brutal no?

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Cover art for Black Fire Upon Us lyrics by Dethklok

This is death metal, it's just in the subgenre of "melodic death metal".

There's been some suggestion that the lyric "the gift we give you is your soul" is a hint as to why some of the Tribunal wants to stop/hinder/kill Dethklok.

I wouldn't be suprised if this song in its entirety is foreshadowing what will unfold in future plots.. like "we're damned by god's, our deth's conspired," it's obvious that Selectia or however u spell it is a god of sorts, and that Dethklok (my opinion) is being set up by the tribunal because of some ancient scheme. can't wait for the next season, or the next Dethalbum!

 
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