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Judas Curse of the Iron Sabbath

by Traffic Death

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1.
The Fury 02:34
THE FURY Motor begins to rev death will now be at hand Is this all a part of some pre determined plan? Engine starts to idle things won’t turn out so bad Not quite sure of the past or what the future brings Seems to want the kill more than anything else If you think something different you’re kidding yourself Because this has rising to take some kind of hold On the mind and heart of a being that’s how the story is told She rolled off the lot maybe it was just for you What other reason was it that you let your account accrue? Been breathing here in this yard, murder on the mind Awaiting someone who will give this lady some time But she is made of bits of rubber, steel and speed Forged in all the Fury not just to anyone will she appeal? Whatever you want for her it’s not enough I’m going to have this one thing, even if it costs my life Say you tried to talk him out of it but he wouldn’t listen You should’ve tried harder; I don’t take any shit either Bastard killed himself in it, and probably still would If you start that Mechanical asshole in here again I’ll throw you out on you’re fucking ass The boy has good hands, but bad taste in cars You can’t polish a turd no matter how hard you scrub We will see what he can do with this giant piece of junk It’s not what he can do but what she can do for him Bury the shitters and anything that gets in their way This girl thinks she has him but couldn’t be more wrong The heart of the fury has already taken him As we belong together, as we belong together Get rid of that car, I’m not going in that bitch again My door was locked, and you didn’t do a god damn thing thing Old songs, just stops now the pressure starts to drop She will destroy all the shitters for what has occurred Buddy and all his goons who think they even stood a chance Mow them down and light them up, burn em’ to the ground No one left to stand in our way, we will be happy forever Dennis can try to stop the rubber from burning up the night You heard she was totaled but you know that’s not true Looks like the shitters will still get whipped off the street Obsession rules the mind but will there be a next time
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TOO LATE, FUCK YOU Look who’s so tough, what a big man you are Don’t take any shit drive a brand new stupid car Flex all your shit to anyone who will listen Still can’t seem to signal for a left fucking turn Why do you drive like you’re going somewhere? When nobody wants you to be anywhere The kids hate you the wife is a cheat Hates you so much its not even discrete Maybe if you just got off that phone You could see that you are all alone Except the car that didn’t know you’d turn It’s too late for you to ever fucking learn Broadsided by a Buick, no more you Now at least your wife can go get screwed Fuck You
3.
CRUSHED BY CORPSES Clawing to return to the surface The place from where and which you can breath Surrounded by warm flesh and cold dreams Not quite sure if they have begun to rot Reaching out to feel if there is anything to grasp Something to help you pull away from this hell Maybe if you could see an ounce of light You might feel a chance that you could break free Will you be able to get you’re footing Find a place to step that will not crush or spurt The pressure begins to turn this flesh to liquid Crushing your foot enters the chest cavity Now entangled in this abyss of death Hands and feet slowly become useless No sense in trying anymore and you won’t Scream but sound is smothered by the dead This perdicament can be perplexing And everything you thought here is now gone Even if this escape is to succeed. it won’t Are you even sure you would want to go on The certainty is no longer certain And what you believe is no longer true Tormented by thoughts that now churn Above this calamity only death remains
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THE WOLF DOTH HOWL The moon is shining bright A howling in the night
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SUBCONSCIOUS GRIEF Complete and utter terror, white knuckles at the wheel Racing with disaster, but still it does approach Is there anyone behind the wheel or have you lost your mind? Believe it to be possible, believe it to be true That which you thought was gone has now returned for you Still the creature gains no matter how fast you drive Reality is that there is no way that you will survive Still the questioned lingers how do you kill what’s not alive? Given a small chance to Bust out Cut down a dark alley maybe to safety Looks like a dead end with no way out Comes up behind you blocking you in Cannot go left and no way to go right The end of the road is now in sight Die now or die later what is the matter On the concrete your insides splatter Thinking back on when all this started, was there something that you missed Or a way that you could have made it out alive You now ponder every second and reflect on each one hoping that you might Be able to remember that you are still asleep But what is realized is that all those stories about when the head is severed from The body it actually does stay alive For just long enough for it to see the torso falling to the cold ground where it Will be left by the unrecognizable head Here now the body rests while the head lies awake Bleeding so profusely that it’s almost comical Had no idea that you would end this way Always thought that you would die from old age But here you are dead on the very streets That you thought were safe and made life complete But now you twitch and spurt out the neck A violent outcome is what you should expect
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BUILT FOR DEATH Deep in the factory the madman toils For all those years of blood sweat and tears what the boss doesn’t know can in fact hurt him Not to mention all the people that will die When the bodies start to pile up The finger will be pointed at him
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OTHER SIDE OF THE VAN I can’t reach it’s to far away Can’t even stand, not today It’s where all the action is The other side of the van
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In The Dark 01:26
IN THE DARK Walking around in endless circles Lost and possible never to be found Thought they knew where to go But the ground just slipped away Is this something that’s been imagined? Or a thing that is ones own invention It seems there are questions here Ones that seem to be left unanswered Some may choose to remain in the dark A subtle feeling that you head might explode Stuck between two places not here or there No way to see through all this confusion
11.
Still Life 00:32
STILL BORN News keeps coming in that the kids are dying Some bodies found and others vanish forever Is it what you expected or is it much worse? They say that we all learn from our mistakes Still some mistakes can never quite be forgotten To the morgue the bodies keep moving There is still room since the bodies are so small Piled high like trash, because the plague feasts
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CLOSE THE GATES Night, Bath in Silvery light Moon, across rolling hills Curse, Breaks the still of night Fear, Grips the countryside Goat formed obscenity Born from immortal seed Interdimensional Cosmic Blasphemy Invisible, beast upon the earth The book, cause of weird dramatics The creature, walks between two worlds Doom, it prowls across the landscape Must stop him, before it’s to late Seal off the portal, for sanity sake Doom, humanity’s final fate Must stop him, close the fucking gates
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2525 HARDCORE WARRIORS I still don’t want to talk politics But this is more important When people start getting beaten up Only because, you are ignorant as shit Doesn’t mean that we have to stand for it Replace the truth and fill it with lies Make up shit that you believe to be true No matter what will be the consequence? Even if all it does is spread more ignorance Knowing I could say anything at all And you wouldn’t even give in a chance Because you have made up your mind Even if there’s nothing inside Still you claim I use the wrong source Even if where you get all your info Is from angry shitty white guy radio It seems the conversation started But there is nothing to be said All you do is mask the facts Try and make people feel small The nonsense is always past down To the mutants that you call kin Just setting up the next wave to fail Keeping them in the same place you’re in Don’t tell me I’m wrong When I speak the truth
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PLEASURES OF THE FRESH Desire grows so now I taste the flesh Die
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ANCIENT DEEDS The fog rolls in on an otherwise normal night A feeling so peculiar like you have been here before Disturbing sense of dread just as night takes hold But fear is just the lead in before the true horror descends An ancient deed has ensured that you will meet your end A family lays in wait for the suffering to begin For centuries revenge has been the only thing in mind Besides the worms that inside the skull they grind They rise from the deep and muddy earth Filled with rotten bugs and not much else The bones are broken and skin fully decayed In these shallow graves so long they have laid A maze of death mixed in with all this waste Vengeance is something that they will soon taste Chills in the air and even yet colder screams This soil has been filled with all the lost dreams
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CHILLY MEMORIES Falling through the ice, Not trapped but cold as fuck Frozen to the core, still able to stumble home Thawing out but the melting just won’t stop Frozen to the floor
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UNYIELDING MESSAGES FROM BEYOND Enter the room, completely consumed Circled around a table you sit The lights turned down tension high Seeking truth which you’ve been denied Unyeilding messages from beyond Screams come forth from the dark From the unknown and beyond Still we call out to the dead Request of silence, hands held tight To summon the dead this very night The chants begin, the questions posed To these questions only the dead know Nothing you have ever heard before Out from the void of stillness it comes The screams of tortured spirits Not saying a thing but yet they speak Almost certain of an untimely demise Everyone starts to try to rise Held down by a force that’s greater than you No way to escape the ever tightening grip Forced to watch as the mystic erupts Now there wil be nothing to keep you safe No bond that can keep the spirits at bay Unable to move, just watching it all end Candles all burn out and the madness fades
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REPEAT OFFENDER You say I’m a repeat offender? Well that might just be true But we have to thin out the heard Of people like you Happy with the simple things in life Like dying slow You would consider doing something But have nowhere to go So we will help you out the front door With a spine crushing foot that will end your life
21.
CONCERNED MOTORIST Looks like someone could use some help From the terror the highway has dealt Turns out to be some kind of ruse, there is easily 5 or 6 dudes Ready to steal your car and life, not to mention what they’ll do to your wife
22.
No Recovery 03:38
NO RECOVERY Go into the madness of what they call the world Try to keep a straight face and not let on too much Don’t want to be noticed or to get in a confrontation Just want to get through what they call a day Next one might be better but that I kind of doubt Unless I do something but that just seems hard I’d much rather sleep and not get out of bed Have to make money or I’ll be out on the street Chronic illness, slowly breakdown of strength Devastation still incomplete, rotting every second Made out of disposable flesh, beginning to decimate No recovery, just irreparable harm Then my true insanity is what people will meet But everything around makes be want to puke Can’t believe its all come down to this People killing each other as well as themselves Everything begins to collapse Transformation into nothing Comprehension is now blurred Life is now denied Can’t identify the body, there isn’t much to see Melting to the ground, now there is no more This wide-awake nightmare has only just begun People kill each other and they say its fun Head keeps pounding harder, stress too much to bare Confinement has set in, not to leave my lair Think I will just stay inside and slowly Rot Away No need to worry no need to fight another day Still feeling tired from yesterdays work Finally up and at em’ going to take care of shit But what’s the reward for all this hard work A bullet in the head from some lowlife jerk Never know you’re going to get it, Just that you will Whether it’s from cancer or from a loaded gun Either way you better fucking run Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide Still time continues forward, no matter how slow Nothing but time and nowhere to go Is this the end I’d really like too know? Waiting for an answer but don’t know the question Thought I had concerns or are these just thoughts Mind begins to wander, as I just stay right here The lesson has no end and that seems so clear Can there be a conclusion, if there is no end Are there still ways to cope that I have not tried Running on steam soon to be bleed dry Give me one more chance before I fucking die Spending to much time inside my head Trying to decide whether I’m already dead Never had help and there is none in sight But until the end I will keep up the fight Time has slowed down but maybe it’s too much Need some space with these walls closing in Cannot breath, cant get ahold of it No way to reach anything or anyone Put my hands around the neck of this life Have to get it in shape, Have to make it right So many years spent just wasting away Here’s to a few more that’s all I can say Keep on moving forward because that’s all you can do Can’t take the easy way because that’s just not you Won’t do that to the people that you love Together we will give this world a fucking shove
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Recorded and Mixed at Third Scoop Studios
By. Jeff Stone
Mastered by. Carl Saff
Cover art by. Ink Rituals
Inside gatefold by. Pancreas Supervisor
Back Cover Border/Insert by. Nightmare Imagery
Back Cover Lettering by. Steven Ekanger
Back Cover Photo by. Angelo Rossi

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released December 15, 2021

Andrew Smeltzer: Bass and Backing Vocals
Brian Greenfield: Drums and Samples
Nate Phillips: Vocals
Gordon Shumway: Guitar

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Andrew Smeltzer - Bass/Vox
Brian Greenfield - Drums
Nate Phillips - Vocals
Gordon Shumway-Guitar

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