@BAND: MASSACRA @ALBUM: SIGNS OF THE DECLINE Total playing time : 39:49 İ1992 Shark Records / Vertigo 1. EVIDENCE OF ABOMINATIONS 3:59 2. DEFYING MANıS CREATION 3:39 3. BAPTIZED IN DECADENCE 4:27 4. MORTIFY THEIR FLESH 4:01 5. TRAUMATIC PARALYZED MIND 3:56 6. EXCRUCIATING COMMANDS 3:48 7. WORLDS DIES SCREAMING 3:22 8. SIGNS OF THE DECLINE 4:01 9. CIVILIZATION IN REGRESSION 4:04 10. FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT 4:27 Massacra is : Pascal Jorgensen - Vocals, Bass Jean-Marc Tristani - Guitars Matthias Limmer - Drums Freddeath - Guitars, Vocals on 5 & 9 Produced byt Tim Buktu for CLM Prod. Associated Producer Axel Thubeauville Recorded by Tim Buktu at T&T Recording STudio Germany / April 1992 Additional Engineering Wolfgang Stach Mixed by Colin Richardson, June 1992 at T&T Recording Studio, Germany All songs composed and arranged by Massacra Published by Sharkıs Rockinı / Warner Chappell Music GMBH Germany İPhonogram Gmbh, Köln 1992 Cover by Formosa Photo by Hucky Heppke Contact - Fan-Club Massacra BP 69 95 133 Francoville Cedex France Contacts - Business C L M P.O. Box 22 02 11 W-4300 Essen/Germany Fax : Germany (0) 201-70 26 94 Typin' job done by Pierre-Jean Fontaine. September 30 1995. I havenıt an Internet address, but you can write to me at : Pierre-Jean Fontaine Avenue Bel Horizon 48 B-1341 Ottignies Belgium @SONG: EVIDENCE OF ABOMINATIONS (Lyrics : Greg Conan / Chris Palengat) Reality is more cruel than fiction It is beyond all imagination Hate is a reality And violence a sin Donıt run in the face of the enemy Because it comes from within Donıt pass over it silence Cause itıs a matter of consciousness War is a reality And torture a friend Our lyrics are pleasant Compared to the end Evidence of abominations Open your eyes Itıs an actual fact Existence of abominations Donıt close your eyes Itıs time to react Indifference is your excuse And ignorance your refuge The face of the evidence Is as sad as your true @SONG: DEFYING MANıS CREATION (Lyrics : Greg Conan / Chris Palengat) Metabolic degenerations The consequences of manipulation Monsters were created in the thousands Born dead creatures that live again In order to protect all species Guarded I labs for if and when Embryos / degeneration Signs of life / insemination Preserved in a sanctuary Sheltered in incubators Brandnew biotechnology This embryonic society Splitting and changing molecules When itıs over who will be who Test tubes / D.N.A. Last survivors / will have to play Protected Geneotypes Biologic Memories The ecological degredations Are the cause of these genetic mutations Hybred and deformed species Are the results of this metamorphosis Keeping the pure foetuses alive Is the ultimate solution to survive Cryogenic Suspension Defying Manıs creation @SONG: BAPTIZED IN DECADENCE (Lyrics : Greg Conan) The meaning of words comes from within The gift of life is death in the end Infinite enemies and forgotten friends Experiences is wisdom A law you cannot bend From up and above and down below Religion is money Just part of the show Innocence at birth for all that itıs worth Baptized in corruption On the road to humanity Given to Adam this present from Eve Eternal damnation is the form of a seed In order to lie you must believe To be like the others you have to deceive To steal from another is a brother in need To give all youıve got, just to bleed Written on paper Etched in stone, histories of life And futures unknown Time is your mother Innocence at birth for all that itıs worth Baptized in decadence For total self destruction @SONG: MORTIFY THEIR FLESH (Lyrics : Greg Conan / Chris Palengat) Excorcize them from evil Theyıre possessed by the devil Mortify their flesh, save their souls They must atone for their faults, what is written must be told Deliver these hereticts, from a life of sin Court is in session, shall we begin Save them from eternal damnation Purify them for the resurrection Theyıve yielded to the tempation of the snake These evil doers must be burnt at the stake Theyıre under the influence of a fallen angel Cast him out for godıs sake Mortify their flesh, save their soulıs Brand them with an iron, until they beg their pardon Stigmatize their bodies, until they cry for mercy Torment them forever, in the name of god Mortify their flesh, pray for their souls Crush every bone, until all is told Mortify their flesh, god rest their soul Spill their blood to gain control The flesh is weak, and the spirit too I reign supreme, over millions like you In the name, and the glory of god Your serve unto me, drink from my cup @SONG: TRAUMATIC PARALYZED MIND (Lyrics : Chris Palengat) Gang rape victims your suffer from an emotional trauma Inwardly possessed with panic Terrorized now youıre neurotically seized with frigth On the brink of a coma Overcome with fear And dread you withdraw into silence Blank look, youıre soulness, violated innocence This mental scar is engraved on your memory The rest of your life will be an endless agony Living with your scare, itıs a perpetual nightmare You withdraw into yourself Traumatic fear Deep seated fright Traumatic fear Rooted phobia Haunted by fear it was left you a vegetable Paralysed, terrified, youıre got a mental block Youıre caught in a viscious circle Prisoner of this state of shock Living with scare, itıs a perpetual nightmare And you sink into madness Overcome with fear and dread you withdraw Into silence Blank look, youıre soulness, violeted innocence This mental scar is engraved on your memory The rest of your life will be and endless agony After effect, youıre a prey to hallucinations And a look of terror is frozen on your face Obsessed with macabre visions Youıre in a delirium of fear Traumatic fear Deep seated frigth Traumatic fear Rooted phobia @SONG: EXCRUCIATING COMMANDS (Lyrics : Chris Palengat) Feeling no remorse when bombs land on target You feel the satisfaction of a job well done Devoid of feeling Youıre a war machine Devotion to duty, no sense of regret Itıs the result of treatments youıve undergone Drafted to this air armada Because youıre at their beck and call Filled full of propaganda Theyıve got your mind under control Brainwashing program Fire and forget instruction Conditioned reflex No human factor Blind subordination Dropping a thousand bombs without hesitation No consideration for the people you kill devoid of feeling Youıre a war machine Theyıve erased your scruples about slaughtering You obey orders on your own free will Youıve followed a special training Molding your sensibility Theyıve broken you, no thinking for yourself Changing your personality Mental enslavement Fire and forget instruction Conditioned reflex No human factor Blind subordination Now you live the life of an automation And they obtain your entire submission Using this program of indoctrination Theyıve neutralized your conscience Youıre a mere shadow of your former self Unquestioning obedience Itıs their way of appeasing your conscience Psychological cleaning Youıve been brainwashed @SONG: WORLDS DIES SCREAMING (Lyrics : Greg Conan) I want to leave here, before itıs too late Open my arms and embrace my fate Rocked in the cradle, and then Drowned in hellıs lake When I go the earth will shake Into the darkness ! I thrust my sword I curse at you ! Almighty lord Iım the forgotten one, who has no name The bastard son, who feels no pain One of four, one of a kind One of those, lost in time Iıve taken too much of this, and drank Too much of that Iıll vomit it all up, and weıll all take a bath I crap on your systems and your faces The difference form right and the knowledge of wrong Are the lessons you know, when youıre dead and gone Feeling of pleasure and feelings of pain Are the sensations, just part of the game Into the darkness ! Thrust my sword I come to thee ! Almighty lord Like a switch a blade that knows where to go Iıll spill your blood, and demand some more @SONG: SIGNS OF THE DECLINE (Lyrics : Pascal Jorgensen / Chris Palengat) Unceasing deforestation Atmospheric desintegration Excessive proliferation Parastic civilization Chemical factories, industries of death Nuclear waste, noxious gas, pesticide Destruction of the seas, disintegration of the ground Ecological disaster Air pollution, slow contamination And acid rains, corrosive death The green house effect And the ozone depletion Threaten life with extinction Sign of the times See the hardbingers of doom The die is cast See the digns of the decline Politicians, governmental assholes Obsessed by money and by their power Greediness, reflection of their minds Stupidity of the human race Now you see the consequences Irradiation, malformations, food piosoning Breathing and skin disease Multiple cancers, psychological troubles Day by day Irreparable for centuries to come The die is cast See the signs of the decline You must pay Irreversible process Was it the price of progress @SONG: CIVILIZATION IN REGRESSION (Lyrics : Fred Death) No love, absolute hatred Civilization in regression The human race was born to make war To hate each other The nature only made one mistake to Give intelligence to human being Mutual assured destruction Civilization in regression Devasting reign in the cause of god Kingdome of corruption, madmen in command People die by torture and pain Rotting eyes, scorchung flesh, decapitation Iım under the impression to live an eternal nightmare The world seems to be in a hopeless situation Men like fighting and have no fear Men feel no shame, theyıre hunger for power Distorting truth, religion of the lie No one trust no one Mutual assured destruction Civilization in regression Absolute rage, racial extermination See them cry, watch them die Thereıs no heaven but just hell called Planet earth I hope the end is near We have to be exterminated I wish I could do it and them kill myself Thatıs the ultimate solution I just canıt wait for that day @SONG: FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT (Lyrics : Greg Conan / Chris Palengat) The gathering smell of rotteness Is cutting through my brain Slicing up my friends And then killing the pain Gathered here together for our final day Never ending strain Fighting tooth and nail Short on munitions The say ³War is hell² Slaughtered for the objective In the thick of the battle Going on an onslaught In a desperate struggle Blind suicide, pain and suffering On the other side There is no reason why In this viscious circle Surely one will die War cry fix bayonets In the face of death No time for regrets The brunt of the attack Full frontal assault Suicidal rampage Families ! Corpses strewn upon the battle fields Memories ! An old wound never heals The gathering smell of rotteness Is cutting through my brain Slicing up my friends And then killing the pain Gathered here together for our final day Political corrupts and hypocrites And fanatical religiousness Commit us to die for whoıs country ? So who is the real enemy Puppetıs and leaderıs And pawnıs in the game Victimıs of the high command Sacrificed in vain Full frontal assault Suicidal rampage Life is to serious to take seriously ³Greg Conan²