Twisted Prayers
by Gruesome
Emily Violet
Emily Violet
Twisted Prayers is an album that best represents the peak of contemporary death metal. This is pure filth and I love it.
Favorite track: Lethal Legacy.
Erik Leviathan
Erik Leviathan
This album is pure riffage from beginning to end, not to mention the lyrics are pure genius! Great Fucking album. I look forward to seeing these guys again.
Favorite track: A Waste of Life.
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Incarcerated, for a crime you cannot understand
Isolated, no contact with your fellow man
Lethal injection, the antidote to existence
Just killing in another form, murder by the system
Guilty or innocent? Or just someone to blame?
Another victim, whose life is now fair game
Sentenced to die
Let the punishment fit the crime
Where do you draw the line?
Life ends in pain
Inhumane
Violent punishment for violent actions
The cycle never stops, a chain reaction
We can only bring this to an end
When we learn the difference between justice and revenge
Solo - Dan
Electrocuted, then proven innocent
Executed, another life brought to an end
Lethal injection, the antidote to existence
Just killing in another form, murder by the system
Guilty or innocent? Or just someone to blame?
Another victim, whose life is now fair game
Condemned to die
Let the punishment fit the crime
Where do you draw the line?
Life ends in pain
Inhumane
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A Waste of Life
06:00
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You truly make me sick
With every word you speak
And with the way you live
To prey upon the weak
With every lie you tell
More fall under your spell
I see right through you
And wonder how others do not
They bow down to you
While you leave them to rot
A knife in the back
A promise, unfulfilled
The threat behind the smile
Waiting for blood to spill
Predict disaster
Because you are its cause
Exploit the system
And then you mock its flaws
A waste of life
And now I live - to watch you die
A waste of life
How I despise - all your lies
A waste of life
A waste of life
How I despise - all your lies
I'd like to watch you choke
Ram all those lies right back down your throat
The time has come for you to face the truth
You are a piece of shit - fuck you
Solo – Dan
Solo - Matt
Like a distorted mirror
Reflect the worst parts of society
Say what they want to hear
But you don't speak for me
With each deadly word
Reality and fantasy are blurred
I see right through you
Then wonder why others do not
They bow down to you
While you leave them to rot
A knife in the back
A promise, unfulfilled
The threat behind the smile
Waiting for blood to spill
Predict disaster
Because you are its cause
Exploit the system
And then you mock its flaws
A waste of life
How I despise - all your lies
A waste of life
And now I live - to watch you die
A waste of life
A waste of life
How I despise - all your lies
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Fate
05:05
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From years of darkness, a mind comes awake
Somehow altered to a heightened state
Things he could never know are now perceived
But can these visions truly be believed?
Death, life and fate
All within his gaze
Visions beyond this plane
Reveal a future warped by
Hate, fear and lies
So cleverly disguised
Seen clear before his eyes
This man must die
Is this a nightmare?
Or is it reality?
Is this the future?
Or is it destiny?
A life to take, a choice to make, before it's too late
One fatal shot is all that stands between mankind and fate
Fate
Lead – Matt
Lead – Dan
Able to see and alter destiny
Kill to avoid untold brutality
Seeing the dark, but searching for the light
Gifted and cursed with this second sight
Death, life and fate
All within his gaze
Visions beyond this plane
Reveal a future warped by
Hate, fear and lies
So cleverly disguised
Seen clear before his eyes
This man must die
Is this a nightmare?
Or is it reality
Is this the future?
Or is it destiny?
A life to take, a choice to make, before it's too late
One fatal shot is all that stands between mankind and fate
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Lethal Legacy
04:54
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One is alive, one is not
Lurking inside the flesh, it slowly rots
Before your birth, there was another life
Defective twin that you now hold inside
Malignant occupant
Unseen inhabitant
Like a cancer, it gnaws away
A pain unanswered, gets worse each day
Deep inside of you, your stomach churns
The one you never knew, has now returned
Deadly, legacy
Spreading, misery
Dying, in agony
Begging - please get it out of me
Solo – Matt
Solo – Dan
So many years, this secret dwelled inside
A second self, destined for fratricide
Unformed, invisible, your duplicate
Unborn assassin, seals your gruesome fate
Parasitic sycophant
Un-living opposite
Like a cancer, it gnaws away
A pain unanswered, gets worse each day
Deep inside of you, your stomach churns
The one you never knew, has now returned
Lethal, legacy
Spreading, misery
Dying, in agony
Begging - please get it out of me
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Fatal Illusions
05:23
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Living, in constant fear, about to snap
Believing all you see and hear, caught in their trap
Hatred, drips from your every word
Dictated and brainwashed to believe in the absurd
Confused - in heart and mind
Paranoia - makes you blind
Violence - the only answer that you want to find
So certain, in your convictions
You can't tell, fact from fiction
Existing, in confusion
Led astray by fatal illusions
Lives brought to their conclusions
Betrayed by fatal illusions
Fatal illusions
Fatal illusions
Blinded by ideology
Out of touch with reality
Off the edge of insanity
A pawn in their conspiracy
Solo – Dan
Fanatic, for years you fantasized
Ecstatic now you finally take a life
Bodies, lie bleeding, ignore the screams of pain
One bullet left, to put through your own brain
Confused – you see signs everywhere
Paranoia – fear things that aren't there
Violence – committed with an empty stare
So certain, in your convictions
You can't tell, fact from fiction
Existing, in confusion
Led astray by fatal illusion
Life brought to a conclusion
Betrayed by fatal illusions
Fatal illusions
Fatal illusions
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Crusade of Brutality
05:36
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Burning piles of bodies, consumed by flames of hate
Tormented, then put to the torch, death at the stake
Brutal ways of conversion, so many had to endure
Sadistic religious freaks, who thought themselves so pure
Imprisoned, without conviction
Tortured, into confession
Inflicting, blind oppression
Trial, by inquisition
Persecution, insanity
In the name of Christianity
Scream on the rack, burn at the stake
Confess to blasphemy
Bleed for the cross, a heretic's fate
For non-conformity
Thousands that died, never knew why
Condemned to infamy
Mutilated, skinned alive
Crusade of brutality
Solo – James
Solo – Matt
Brought before a secret court, your trial now begins
Tortured without mercy 'til you confess your sins
Convicted of unholy deeds, fed to hungry flames
Innocent or guilty, slaughtered just the same
Imprisoned without conviction
Tortured into confession
Inflicting blind oppression
Trial by inquisition
Persecution, insanity
In the name of Christianity
Scream on the rack, burn at the stake
Confess to blasphemy
Bleed for the cross, a heretic's fate
For non-conformity
Thousands that died, never knew why
Condemned to infamy
Mutilated, skinned alive
Crusade of brutality
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At Death's Door
04:54
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Catatonic
Brain-dead, un-living state
Though you're still breathing
It's clearly far too late
Unresponsive
No thoughts inside your head
A living corpse, you're trapped
Within a shell already dead
Legally alive
Slowly pay the price
Machines prolong your strife
Live on just to - die
No decency, they knowingly prolong, your morbid fate
No dignity, you're forced to live on, in a vegetative state
Brought to death's door
To suffer even more
How long have you been waiting for?
Forced to survive
What can barely be called life?
Who has the right to decide?
If you have the right to die?
Solo – James
Solo – Matt
Solo – James
Solo – Matt
Comatose
Drawing out this living death
The machine that makes you exist
Drags out the days 'til your last breath
Death is so close
Only one breath away
If we could just set you free
Instead of watching you decay
Legally alive
Slowly pay the price
Machines prolong your strife
Live on just to - die
No decency, they knowingly prolong, your morbid fate
No dignity, you're forced to live on, in a vegetative state
Brought to death's door
To suffer even more
How long have you been waiting for?
Forced to survive
What can barely be called life?
“Freedom” is a lie
If you don't have the right to die
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Twisted Prayers
05:46
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Fatal conception, born just to die
And in the process claim the mother's life
Life-saving treatment that will be denied
Hide behind your faith to justify
Praying, to end this pain
Withholding medicine, faith gone insane
Christians, standing idly by, as death closes in
The procedure that could save your life, they call a sin
Condemned by religion, your life will cease
Their conscience clear, that you'll rest in peace
Twisted, the words they use to kill are prayers
Wasted, pleas to a god that isn't there
Twisted Prayers
Twisted Prayers
Lead - Dan
You search for answers, but there's none to find
Only ignorance within your mind
A human life has been forever lost
How many others will soon pay the cost?
Praying, to end this pain
Withholding medicine, faith gone insane
Christians, standing idly by, as death closes in
The procedure that could save your life, they call a sin
Condemned by religion, your life will cease
Their conscience clear, that you'll rest in peace
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Less than four short years into their career, Death Metal Defenders of the Old GRUESOME (featuring current and former members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation, etc.) have quickly made a name for themselves as not just torchbearers of DEATH’s eternal legacy but as one of the most heralded bands in the scene today. After releasing a pair of acclaimed EPs, GRUESOME return with their second full-length sermon, Twisted Prayers. Twisted Prayers follows DEATH’s paradigm shift during the Spiritual Healing era, incorporating more cerebral, melodic instrumentation with elements of thrash and thought-provoking, socially conscious lyrics.
Recorded with producer Jarrett Pritchard (Exhumed, 1349, Goatwhore) at New Constellation Studios in Orlando, FL, Twisted Prayers features GRUESOME doing what they do best across eight songs and 40+ minutes of unholy hymns with lurid melodies and vulgar atmospheres. The band has once again teamed up with the legendary Ed Repka (Death, Atheist, Massacre) for the album’s blasphemous cover art in addition to legendary DEATH guitarist James Murphy (Death, Obituary, Testament) for a pair of special guest guitar solos. Bow your heads and worship at the altar of GRUESOME!
Recorded with producer Jarrett Pritchard (Exhumed, 1349, Goatwhore) at New Constellation Studios in Orlando, FL, Twisted Prayers features GRUESOME doing what they do best across eight songs and 40+ minutes of unholy hymns with lurid melodies and vulgar atmospheres. The band has once again teamed up with the legendary Ed Repka (Death, Atheist, Massacre) for the album’s blasphemous cover art in addition to legendary DEATH guitarist James Murphy (Death, Obituary, Testament) for a pair of special guest guitar solos. Bow your heads and worship at the altar of GRUESOME!
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GRUESOME's music is an intentional homage to the first wave death metal scene of Tampa, Florida, specifically Death's early period. This is an absolutely top notch filthy slab of old school death metal, played by the some of the scene's most legit players. ... more
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