MORBID ANGEL - Altars Of Madness

Recorded and Mixed at MORRISOUND RECORDING, Tampa, Florida.
Engineered By TOM MORRIS
Produced by DIG and MORBID ANGEL

Executive Producer DIGBY PEARSON

All songs - MORBID ANGEL
Published by EARACHE SONGS U.K.
(P) 1990 EARACHE RECORDS
(P) 1990 GLOBUS INTERNATIONAL

Thanx
Ramone Mann, Fred McFarlin, Kim August, Mick Harris, Bill Steer, Chuck, Rick and Death, Max and Sepultura, Immolation, Henry ”Veg”, Jon Metalion Kristiansen, Chris Sargent, Laurent Ramadier, Domino Minchelle, Laurent Merle, Raymond Cibrowski, Morgan Jones, National Mail Services, Tony at Looking Glass, Jon DePlachett, Jesse Pintado, Mike Browning, Fred Hutchinson, Nate Straathof, Blaspheme FM 96.1, Coco Celtz, Chris, Jody, Linda and Mario, Joel ”Killer On the Loose” 99.1 FM, Alan Moses, Frank Stover, ”Horror Infernal”, Giulo Masetti ”Metal Shock”, ”Shock Power” Herko Schmidt, Slatko Dolic, Satsuki Takashima, Henk and Blackthorn, Tony Buske, Rob ”Knoxious”, Borivoj Wes Weaver, CFUV, Andrew ”Sak”.

Extra Special Thanx
Dig Pearson, Martin and Sue, Tom Morris, John R. Rainey Jr. for the killer Tats and T’s, Joe ”King”, Buffalo Bob Collet, and Mark Anderson for years of dedication and inspiration.

This album is dedicated to the Underground and all Speed, Death, Black Metal fans everywhere.

Photos: Bob Collet
Cover illustration: DAN at ‘orrible Artwork
Layout: ‘Secret’

Immortal Rites
Music - Azagthoth
Lyrics - Vincent

Gathered for a sacred rite
Subconscious minds allied
Call upon immortals
Call upon the oldest ones to intercede
Rid us of our human waste
Cleanse our earthly lives
Make us one with darkness
Enlighten us to your ways

From churning worlds of mindlessness
Come screams unheard before
Haunting voices fill the room
Their source remaining undefined
Shadows cast from faceless beings
Lost for centuries

Lords of death, I summon you
Reside within our brains
Cast your spells upon our lives
So that we may receive
The gift of immortality
Bestowed on those who seek you

(Solo: Brunelle)

Repeat 1st verse

Repeat 3rd verse

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Suffocation
Music - Vincent, Azagthoth
Lyrics - Vincent

Laugh at the tragedies
Mock of disrespect
Goats under rule of father time
Leaches pass judgement on their fellow kind
And die when their inner self goes astral
Alas, I pay homage to the ancient ones
Speak my name!!
Raise the staff on their morbid priest
Descend into the fires of the true law

Suffocating evil smoke arise
Cleansing the masses in iniquity
Cauldrons blaze in sanctifying ritual
Vile crematory burns my eyes

Mortals filled with despair
They quest to foresee their fate
Caverns below await the wine to flow
Rape the harvest of souls
I watch in awe as the crucifiers march
Killing time, killing all I see
Another moon rise, human waste
Screaming "Why hath thou forsaken me"?

Chorus

(Solo: Azagthoth)

It's the dawn of the crucifiers
Suffocation

Chorus

(Solo: Brunelle)

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Visions From The Darkside
Music - Azagthoth, Vincent
Lyrics - Vincent

Dark eyes, shadows grim
They come for me
Midnight chimes, blackened earth
The evils rise
Pits of hate open wide
Chasm of my dreams
Last of chimes - monks arrive
And take my mind again

Waste polluted memories
Acid rivers flow
Vigil for this land's decay
Sounding from below
Dogs of war, satan's own
Plotting all their sins
Weapons aimed at liberty
My vision - no one wins

Take my mind
All the way
Tha darkside calls
I shan't resist

(Solo: Brunelle)

Men forever rot in pain
Mind machines control
Toxic rains scouring brains
Victimizing souls
Winds of war suffocate
Woodoo in the sky
Breathe the gases, breathe no more
My vision - all will die

Chorus

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Cut myself and release the blood
Pains of a thousand years
Pathic sights - journey's end
Descent into another world
My time has come to meet the
Masters ... all the corporate lourds
I'm not afraid to face all their
Trials - slavery - in the end they'll
Still have no power over me

(Solo: Brunelle)

Daylight shines blind my eyes
Waken to another day
Tribulation now has passed
But the dreams remain
Walls of sleep fade away
Abandonment of wonders
Monks of knowledge bid farewell
And leave me with these visions
From the darkside

Maze Of Torment
Music - Azagthoth
Lyrics - Vincent

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 up and rip your soul
apart
Incessant screaming echoes through the
maze
Insanity approaches - imminent demise

Maze of torment ...

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 ...

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Passing through corridors embedded with
Scars of those who have gone before you
And left their marks

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

Warning comes too 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 ...

Lord Of All Fevers And Plague
Music & Lyrics - Azagthoth

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Ninnghizhidda - open my eyes
Ninnghizhidda - hear my cries
Plumed serpent of the deep
Plumed serpent of the gate
I command - come before me
I command - bring the key
Rise from the depths
See the fire in my wand

Ia iak sakkakh iak sakkakth
Ia shaxul

(Solo: Azagthoth)

I call forth the god pazuzu
I call forth the lord of plague
I am of the lost
Creatures of spawn of hate
Rejoice in the heaving earth
Praise the ripping sky
Rise spread disease
Consume their punny souls

Ia iak sakkakh iak sakkakth
Ia shaxul
Ia kingu ia cthulu ia azbul
Ia azabua

(Solo: Brunelle)

Ride the wings of death ...

(Solo Azagthoth)

(Solo: Brunelle)

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Repeat 1st verse

Chorus

Chapel Of Ghouls
Music - Azagthoth
Lyrics - Azagthoth, Browning

Ghouls attack the church
Crush the holy priest
Turning the cross towards hell
Writhe is satan's flames

Crush the priest
The feeble church

(Solo: Brunelle)

Dead - your god is dead
Fools - your god is dead
Useless prayers of lies
Behold satan's rise

Crush the priest
The feeble church
The family of dog
Lust upon my altar

(Solo: Azagthoth)

(Solo: Brunelle)

Demons attack with hate
Satan in the fires of hell awaits
Death against you all
God hear my death call

Chorus

(Solo: Brunelle)

Bleed For The Devil
Music & Lyrics - Azagthoth

Come to me, lord of filth
Hear my cries princes of nightmares
Touch us with you morbid lips
Let us taste your foulness

Bleed for the devil
Impious mortal lives
Feel the enticing power
Fill the chasm of your soul

Fill the air with the smell of death
Grace us with your magick
Fill the night with the stench of evil
I summon forth the beast

(Solo: Brunelle)

Chorus

(Solo: Azagthoth, Solo: Brunelle)

Cold look in his eyes
He holds the gleaming knife
Girl cries as he cuts way the
Strips of flesh

(Solo: Brunelle)

Chorus

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Damnation
Music - Azagthoth, Vincent
Lyrics - Vincent

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Evil minds grievous sins
Pagan lives have no place for law
Twisted worship exhume the dead
Minds unite for evil cause
Death corrodesthe book once strong
Evil lourd destroys his foes
Plague has spread throughout the land
Revelations have begun

Call of evil's mastermind
Christians flock to the beast
Burning crosses burn souls
Exterminate the altar of laws
Atrocities of a new reich
Holy war and holocaust
God weeps and turns his back
The time is right to destroy the world

Damnation
Fill the world with plague
Force the devastation
Tyranny from above

(Solo: Brunelle)

Chorus

(Solo: Brunelle)

Churning of cities lust so profane
Driving the will to destroy
Crippling powers I'm forced to partake
unholy rituals
Crimes of a world barely alive
Milting debauchery
Ashes to ashes, so must I be
Lost in this misery

There's nothing left here for me
I know no other way
Even death cannot change my ways
I'm first in the line
To hell we shall go

(Solo: Brunelle)

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Call of evil's mastermind
Christians flock to the beast
Burning crosses burn souls
Time is right to destroy the world

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Chorus

Blasphemy
Music & Lyrics - Azagthoth

I am the god of gods
Master of the arts
I desecrate the chaste
Writhe in the flesh

Blasphemy

Chant the blasphemy
Mockery of the messiah
We curse the holy ghost
Enslaver of the weak
God of lies and greed
God of hypocrisy
We laugh at your bastard child
No god shall come before me

Blaspheme the ghost
Blaspheme the ghost
Blaspheme the ghost
Blaspheme the holy ghost

(Solo: Brunelle)

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole
of the law
Rebel against the church
Drink from the chalice of blasphemy
Rise up against the enslaver

Repeat 2nd verse

Repeat chorus

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Repeat 2nd chorus

Evil Spells
Music & Lyrics - Azagthoth

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Caught within my evil spell
Now it's time to burn in hell
You were fooled no return
You're just a doll for him to burn
See the reaper in his eyes
Messenger - prince of lies
Brain washed with sin and death
time to burn - my evil wrath

Evil spells...

(Solo: Azagthoth)

Bring the children down to burn
Onced you fall - no return
Sin takes you by surprise
On this backwards hellbound ride
Gates of hell drawing near
Satan loves the taste of fear
Quenching all with black desire
Burn you souls in furnace fire

Evil spells...

(Solo: Brunelle)

Evil spells of the dead
Messengers of your death
Falling endless in your tomb
Locked within infernal doom
See the reaper in his eyes
Messenger - prince of lies
Warlock's voice surrounds your dreams
Baking soul within your screams

Evil spells...

(Solo: Brunelle)

(Solo: Azagthoth)