KATAKLYSM
THE PROPHECY (stigmata of the immaculate)

THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO ALL OUR FANS WORLDWIDE
PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
TOGETHER WE WILL CONQUER AGAIN...

1999:6661:2000
Manifestation
Stormland
Breeding the Everlasting
Laments of Fear & Despair
Astral Empire
Gateway to Extinction
Machiavellian
The Renaissance

Produced by Jean-Francois Dagenais
Lyrics by Maurizion Iacono
Music by Kataklysm
Engineered & Mixed by Jean-Francois Dagenais
Recorded at Victor Studio, Montreal, Canada
Assistant Engineer: Francis Beaulieu
Mastered at Fashion Sound Studio, Montreal, Canada by Sylvain Brisebois
Cover artwork and design by Sv Bell
Photography by Nancy Mailloux
Executive Producer: Markus Staiger

www.angelfire.com/band/kataklysm

KATAKLYSM:
Stephane Barbe - Bass
Jean-Francois Dagenais - Guitars
Max Duhamel - Drums
Maurizio Iacono - Vocals

Guest appearance on Manifestation by Rob "the witch" (Necronomicon) courtesy of Hypnotic International Records
Guest appearance on Laments of Fear & Despair by Mike DiSalvo (Cryptopsy) courtesy of Century Media Records

Album intro taken from the motion picture "Dark city"

All songs published by Prophecies Publishing

(C) & (P) 2000 NUCLEAR BLAST

Scrolls of acknowledgement

Maurizio
First off; my partners in grind! Jean-Francois, Max, Stephane, Tom & Hypnotic International, Markus Staiger, Yorck, Sander, Holger & ALL at Nuclear Blast Records, Paula Hogan, Chris "The French Connection" Pelletier and ALL at Nuclear Blast America, Tony & Prophecies Publishing, Marco & Century Media, Matt, Sean & Relapse Records, Joey Severance & Pavement Europe, Laurent & Listenable Records, Joker, Paul & Necropolis, Michel & Warfare Records, Montana, Wendi & Pit Magazine, Jeff Wagner & Metal Maniacs, S.Craig Zhaler, SOD Mag, Illiterature, Metal Tim & BWBK, Terroriser, ALL Metal Hammers, Rock Hard, Metal Heart, Deftone Mag (RIP), Heavy Oder Was and ALL the othe Magazines who supported & wrote about KATAKLYSM!
ALL the Bands I have toured the world with or booked here in Montreal: Fleshcrawl, Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral, Impaled Nazarene, Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Moonspell, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Vader, Rotting Christ, Monstrosity, Infernal Majesty, Witchery, SOD, Brutal Truth, Madball, Cryptopsy, Sinister, Enslaved, Que Vadis, Pierre Remillard & Obliveon, Iced Earth, Anvil, Necronomicon, Cathedral and many others (too numerous to mention). Victor Studio, Sv Bell, DJ Bazooka, Mike Bucci, Nancy Mailloux, Stephane Mellil & BCI, Foufounes Electriques, Johan & Metallysie Agency, Digger Internation, Tim & Rave Booking, Jochen and Suzanne (Connected), my brothers in Hamilton: Arnout, Olav, Gibber, Duke and the rest of the drunks! Jack Koshik, Don Deckers, And the list goes on the people who supported this band in the last decade, WE APPRECIATE IT !!!! I promised you that Kataklysm would comeback stronger & heavier than ever! For those giabronies who turned their backs on us and didn't beliece, Well IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK! We're here to stay... Like it or not! Special thanks to Mike DiSalvo & Rob "the witch" for their special appearance on this album.
maurizio_iacono@angelfire.com

Jean-Francois
Maurizio, Stephane, Max, Catherine Langevin, Patrice & Mathieu (The Courault Brothers), Genevieve, Sebastien "The blair witch project sucks!" Sirois, Alex Bigras, Gilles Dupuis, Michel "Birdy" Berthiaume, Daniel McKay, Pascal Clinkemalie, Francis "The King" Beaulieu, Nancy Mailloux, Sv Bell Illustration, Eric Ferron (Karisma Audio), Bernard Belly (Magra Multimedia), Paolo & Ti-Guy (Omnison). Stephane Mellul (BCI), Martin Rouillard (Classe "A" Audio), Louis & Gaetan Pilon (Victor Studio), Mike Parkside (The Donald K. Donald Group), Sylvain Brisebois (Fashion Sound Studio), Tom Treumuth (Hypnotic International), Patrick Laurin (Integral Prod.), Jean-Francois (Waydown Prod.), ALL at Nuclear Blast Records, Jeff Wagner & S.Craig Zhaler (Metal Maniacs), Louis (Sang Frais), Sylvain Houde, Nick Miller, Fleshcrawl, Chris & Night In Gales, Vader, Hate, Apostasy, Traumatism, Dark Funeral, IRE, Brutal Truth, Quo Vadis, Cannibal Corpse, Aphasia, Pierre Remillard & Obliveon, Redcore + Mart, Alex & Cindy, Cryptopsy, Infernal Majesty, Serial Joe, Monstrosity, Necrotic Mutation, Di Lance Corporal (RIP), Death Symphony Orchestra, Neuraxis, Sinister, I.Ronee, Necronomicon, Nothing yet, In Dying Days, Oliver & Sick of Society, Mika & Impaled Nazarene, Vangoriass, Lock Up, Putrid, Deicide, Raid, I would also like to thank all the bands I have produced, it has been a busy year, THANK YOU...See you on tour...
j-fdagenais@angelfire.com

Stephane
Mom, Dad & all my family, Vickie Filiatrault, Max, Jean-Francois, Maurizio, John Levasseur + Annie Grenier & Cryptopsy, Gilles Dupuis, Gino Trottier, Sebastien Piche & Apostasy, Pascal Clinkemalie, Michel Monette (Warfare), Carl Jean-Francois, Amik & Sophie, Yanick Beaulieu, Stephane Mellul (BCI), Ianik Lalancette & Genevieve Larrivee, Christian Patry, Francis Beaulieu, Fleshcrawl, Oliver & Sick of Society, Ede, Alex & Cannibal Corpse, Pierre Remillard & Obliveon, Barcode, Necronomicon, Quo Vadis. Extra thanks to the fans who support us.
s_barbe@hotmail.com

Max
First of all, my hero: my DAD, my mom, my oncle Pierre and Sandra, my close friend Nathalie, Nancy, Stephane's uncle Maurice and his grandmother for the great time in brussels last year, all my brothers in the band, you're the greatest!!! To all our friends in FLESHCRAWL: you guys are the fucking best and never I'll forget you!!! A lot of gratitude goes to my drumming heros: Neil Peart, Eric Singer, Tommy Aldridge, Bill Ward, Pete Sandoval, Scott Rockenfield, Jonathan Mover, Vinny Appice, Eric Carr, Alex Van Halen, Scott Travis, Nicko McBain and of course Nick Miller, you rule!!! I would also like to thank all the bands who marked my life forever: Kiss, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Dio, Rush, Qeensryche, Motley Crue,Morbid Angel, Orgy and the almighty Rammstein. And last but not least, A big THANK YOU to all our fans around the world!!! See you on tour. I dedicate my contribution on this album to my grandmother who recently past away. i love you and you'll always be in my heart.
maxduhamel@hotmail.com

1999:6661:2000

Through the gates of hell
And into the legions of darkness
They come to breed
They come to kill

1999:6661
Towards the millennium
The end is coming

They land They land
Freedom denied!

1999:6661
Towards the millennium
The end is coming

The sky is falling
Cities burning

No one will breath again
There's nothing left to see
But the falling rain

The resistance is failing
Eyes are bleeding
No one can kill this pain

I can see the fear in your eyes
Parasites of a dying world

There's no coming back
No one will take the blame

1999:6661
Towards the millennium
The end is coming

They land They land
Freedom denied!

MANIFESTATION

The human race revolts
Fighting a losing war
Invaded by spectral beings
Annihilation
In a sea of blood

Desert like vision
Chaotic ruins embalmed
Behold the manifest
Cataclysmic devastation

No room to manoeuvre
Symbolic ways to extinction
Inhabit the coalition of darkness
No choice but to surrender

Feel the wrath of supreme power
Where is the godlike image
That we portrayed for centuries
Put under pressure to be dissolved

Sacrificed everything
We ever built
For everything we ever destroyed

Desert like vision
Chaotic ruins embalmed
Behold the manifest
Cataclysmic devastation

STORMLAND

WINDS RIP THROUGH GLASS
FRAGMENTS IN MY EYES
THE WORLD TORN APART
SWALLOWS ME IN
THE SEA RAGES ON
MANKIND DROWNING
I SEE THE BURNING SOULS
LOST INTO THE SKY

SENTENCED, THERE'S NO ESCAPE
I BLEED FOR YOUR SINS
THE CRIES OF THE CHILDREN DENIED
ENGULFS THE ECHOES OF HOPE
ENTER THY DOMAIN AND LISTEN
TO THE SIRENS OF HATE

PAIN SUCKS ME IN
THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN
PLAGUED BY INNOCENCE
GUILTY AS SIN
BURIED UNDERGROUND
DARKNESS ENTHRONED
VISION DEVASTATION
WITNESS THE STORMLAND!

BREEDING THE EVERLASTING

Hold on to your dear life
And everything you ever were
And pray to god
For him to save your soul
While I praise for pain
Enough to drive you insane

You find it hard to understand
Why perfection is not existent
Who died and made you god
To believe your of some worth to
This world

Only pain is everlasting
Only sin is everlasting

Collide with everything your supposed to be
Your a slave to everything you want to be
Eternal path to never be free
Endless time from heaven to hell

BREEDING THE EVERLASTING!

LAMENTS OF FEAR & DESPAIR

QUESTION EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT LIFE
QUESTION NATURE'S INTENT FOR REPRISAL
QUESTION IT'S PLEA FOR SURVIVAL
HERE THE SCREAMS COMING FROM THE CORE OF THE EARTH

LAMENTS OF FEAR & DESPAIR
DEADWORLD FOR A BURNING SUN

NO CHANCE TO RESTORE EQUILIBRIUM
ELIMINATE THE MASSES OF FLESH

SICKNESS IS MANKIND
THE INFECTION WE DENY
CORROSION TO THE VITAL
RESULT IS SUICIDAL

QUESTION EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT LIFE
QUESTION NATURE'S INTENT FOR REPRISAL
QUESTION IT'S PLEA FOR SURVIVAL
HERE THE SCREAMS COMING FROM THE CORE OF THE EARTH

LAMENTS OF FEAR & DESPAIR
DEADWORLD FOR A BURNING SUN

ASTRAL EMPIRE

Raging through oblivion
Were darkness is forever
Leading towards earth
Apocalypse inside
Infernal imagery
To seek beyond reason
Eternal fire ready to arrive

No god shall save this earth
To believe the non-existent

Third from the sun

Sleep amongst the ruins of this sphere
Were no man is safe
In your eyes
Masters of sin
Delivers of pain
Hear the screams from the holy lands

No god shall save this earth
To believe the non-existent

I save my soul
From the lies of this world
Never again!
I rather die!

GATEWAY TO EXTINCTION

You've never seen
A war like this before
Entering a phase
You've never explored
They can taste the blood
Flowing through your veins
Embracing the insane

Vanishing among the dead
The Gateway to extinction

You'll never see what they see
Paradise is only a dream for the weak
Maybe you'll see what they see
When you die for your dreams
Lost in a trance
In the neverworld
You've created for your own
And no one else will forgive
This neverending plague

Fade away

MACHIAVELLIAN

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO VICTORY
BUT ONLY ONE TO CONQUER
TO BE KING OR TO BE SLAVE
FOR REVENGE OR FOR SUBMISSION

SHOW HIM YOUR STRONG WHEN YOU'RE REALLY WEAK
SHOW HIM YOUR WEAK WHEN YOU'RE REALLY STRONG
ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOUR ENEMY IS THINKING
FOR EVERY ATTEMPT HE WILL BE VANQUISHED

THE ONLY WAY TO RULE IS TO BE MACHIAVELLIAN!

TO BE LOVED OR TO BE FEARED
TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST
LOVE DISAPPEARS BUT FEAR REMAINS
TRUST IS FUEL FOR THE ENEMY

THE RENAISSANCE

We live & die
Reborn through the renaissance