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Hammer of the Witch (Digital Deluxe Version)

by Ringworm

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1.
Mutation; you bring this scar onto me • Sedation; The death of what I could be • Disintegration; I'm so uncontrolled • We are the devils; our hearts are bought and sold • Wait for the light; Shine ever bright; Fall in-between; Never-ending screams • Stream; it flows like hate eternal • Corrosion; Nothing to brace the fall • Illumination; I'm tearing at the seams • We are the devils; and things aren't what they seem • Wait for so long • Everything's so wrong • Am I led astray? Dawning of decay • I'll see when the truth corrodes; I'll bleed till the sky explodes
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Bleed 02:36
Caustic annihilation as far as the eye can see • Devils are all around me laughing writhing in victory • One is the same, one is the other • One is the pain, one is the brother • We see, like brothers we bleed • The burning eyes, they love to see you • Another choking breath • And all of the things you have inside you • The beauty, the hatred, the death • One is the same, one is the other • One is the pain, one is the brother • One is the vile and filth that we breed • One is the edge of the knife and the color we bleed • Like brothers we bleed • Now bleed • Rise again, insidious • Death to son Lazarus • Like the night kills the day • Sacrifice and burn away • Caustic annihilation as far as the eye can see • Devils are all around me laughing writhing in victory • One is the same, one is the other • One is the pain, one is the brother • One is the vile and filth that we breed • One is the edge of the knife and the color we bleed Like brothers we bleed
3.
I want to feel the something that is deep inside of you • I want to feel the emptiness that I know you feel too • Never wanted fixation, never wanted to break • I never wanted salvation or the scars left in your wake • Next time, we leave our skin at the door • Left here dead inside, harvesting your trust • Skinless and cast aside, a way to vent my lust • Next time, we leave our skin at the door Next time, we leave our skin at the door • Writhing, Unholy flame • Shameless and I'm the same • Sinking, cold device • Loveless, Paradise • I love and adore, you're begging for more, you're my little whore • Leave your skin at the door • Writhing, Unholy flame • Shameless, and I'm the same • Sinking, cold device • Loveless, Paradise • I love and adore, you're begging for more, you're my little whore • Leave your skin at the door Next time, we leave our skin at the door • Writhing, Unholy flame • Shameless and I'm the same • Sinking, cold device • Loveless, Paradise • I love and adore, you're begging for more, you're my little whore • Leave your skin at the door • Writhing, Unholy flame • Shameless, and I'm the same • Sinking, cold device • Loveless, Paradise • I love and adore, you're begging for more, you're my little whore • Leave your skin at the door
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Exit Life 01:43
Throw away your life for this, dead and gone and cowardice • My revenge, now it's over • One more time to kill the pain • Everyday I defy you • Everyday it's all the same • What do you do with the hate inside you? • And you feel the pain and strife? • What do you do with the walls around you? • Or when they show the knife? • No blame as I exit life, no shame as I exit life • Not real, as I exit life • Cold steel, as I exit life • Falling down, now it's over • You want to take the blame? • I want to break down the walls around me • You want to feel the same • You tear out the heart that breaks you? • I won't even try • Crucified, endless martyr • I don't have time to die • I don't have time to die • I won't live my life for this, deep inside the cold abyss
5.
Give in as they mentally rape you, so what? • They lie and deny, imitate you • Who cares? • Awaken their love, feeding frenzy • Blood lust • Give in and comply and I hate you, in disgust • Psychic vampires suck the life from you • Do as they say • Do as they do • The leeches they writhe as they drain you to the bone • They dig with their teeth and their razors, in your flesh • Inside of the body collecting • Pure greed • You live and you die and upon you, they feed • Psychic vampires suck the life from you • Do as they say • Do as they do • Psychic vampires constantly in pain, all in your head • Crawl in your brain • It's in your head and you've bled Your life goes by in a mindless bliss • Sucking you dry and you can't resist Never your own are the thoughts in your head. Killing you slow, sleep with the dead
6.
Open the vein and bleed • Promise to take his seed • Welcome the suffering • Killing a lifeless thing • So set us free of this mortal prison • You only see what we want to see instead • It's red • Sympathy, the time has past • Save us now from the foggy eyes of the dead • The dead • Nothing left to hate or spurn • Time’s up • We all had our turn • I know you will never learn • So light the match and watch this fucker burn • So set us free of this moral prison • Save us now from the holy life we lead, we bled • Sympathy, the time has past • Save us now with the holy book we read • We're dead • Nothing left to hate or spurn • Time’s up • We all had our turn • I know you will never learn • So light the match and watch this fucker burn • An offering • The empty heart that I will give to you • Only vice • Sacrifice unto the king of blood Nothing left to hate or spurn • Time’s up • We all had our turn • I know you will never learn • So light the match and watch this fucker burn • An offering • The empty heart that I will give to you • Only vice • Sacrifice unto the king of blood Nothing left to hate or spurn • Time’s up • We all had our turn • I know you will never learn • So light the match and watch this fucker burn • An offering • The empty heart that I will give to you • Only vice • Sacrifice unto the king of blood
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Pacify all inhibition: denying decay • The sickening stench of your freedom that's rotting away • Paralyzing; shut down; minimize • Amputation • Vivisection; cut off; cauterize • Amputation • Terrifying; blood red; a violent amputation • It's never-ending, no hope • I recommend amputation • Nothing can stop all the hatred, corruption, disease • Gods of a new generation, we do as we please • Paralyzing; shut down; minimize • Amputation • Vivisection; cut off; cauterize • Amputation • Terrifying; blood red; a violent amputation • It's never-ending, no hope • I recommend amputation • This world was made for us • The sons of pure chaos • We're born to deceive; you're born to believe • In the fate that lies to you and the hate that follows you • And the words you're forced to say • Now kneel and pray • Or cut away and amputate Paralyzing; shut down; minimize • Amputation • Vivisection; cut off; cauterize • Amputation • Terrifying; blood red; a violent amputation • It's never-ending, no hope • I recommend amputation
8.
You suffocate, I bind your limbs • You suck the life from me, like leeches on your skin • Soulless fraud, turn the screw, no act of god, as I judge you • Forked tongue; disguise of vanity • Poison; evil alchemy • Die young; there for all to see • You will feel the Hammer of the Witch • Now burn alive with me • Hanging from the highest tree • Give you all insanity • You will feel the Hammer of the Witch • The master of the sacred lies • To break you on the wheel with daggers in your eyes • Unholy death, confession signed • Forked tongue; disguise of vanity • Poison; evil alchemy • Die young; there for all to see • You will feel the Hammer of the Witch • Now burn alive with me • Hanging from the highest tree • Give you all insanity • You will feel the Hammer of the Witch • We strip the flesh and we disown • I'd die a million deaths to see you die alone • Alone • Rite of violence; Satan's bitch • Feel the icy water • Damn the witch Slowly the point will break the skin • To hear the tries of guilt, confession of your sins • Impaled by truth; condemned by life • To see you inside your soul and open with a knife • Into the flame you descend, denying the truth ‘til the end • Your body will soon be of ash; feeding the Devil your flesh • Into the grave in the ditch; burning alive Devil bitch • All of the pain that you feel • The Hammer of the Witch
9.
So much for a god in the sky • He never will answer you why • The reaper is coming again, but thank god, we'll always have the end • To late for forgiveness, I try to let things go • No room for a weakness • I'll never let it show • No • Treacherous breaking the womb • Wrapped so tight, the end becomes a tomb • No hell that comes with the flood • Just these words inked in tears and blood • To late for forgiveness, I try to let things mend • Becoming a sickness, that steals my soul again • Looking for a way out • Or just to comprehend • To hate you for so long, that you become my friend • We'll always have, always have the end We pretend just to see it fall in the end • The life exhumed, the exit wound • There's no resent • We always have the end
10.
Razor line, you feel the cold divide • Battle cry, open the Devil's eye • Long goodbye, as blood will fill the sky • One of us is going to have to die • All this time, words that lie • The difference comes clear • Paralyzed, crawling skin • Every time you're near • Fallacy, ignorance • A punishment severe • Razor line, you feel the cold divide • Battle cry, open the Devil's eye • Long goodbye, as blood will fill the sky • One of us is going to have to die • Setting sun, end begun • Falling shadows so dear • Wasted life, wasted breath • Another wasted year • Looking back, feelings gone • I won't shed a tear • This is now, what was meant • Just to disappear Razor line, you feel the cold divide • Battle cry, open the Devil's eye • Long goodbye, as blood will fill the sky • One of us is going to have to die • Violent devastation, final battle cry • An end to all confrontation • One of us will have to die • What I'd love to see • Sinking in a sea • Washing over me • Blood of enemy • War of atrophy • Final mystery • Morbid history • Final anarchy • Wasted years of pain • Now we break the chain • Nothing else remains • Loss is now my gain • It was never true • Done and now it’s through • End of what you knew • End of me and you
11.
Torn apart and ripped to shreds • Broken down and held by threads • Hit the bottom, nothing left to lose • Haunted by a faded glory • My heart could tell a million stories • Scars become a road map of my pain • And this is the way it has to be my son • Drag the bottom, sufferings not done • Hear the siren, hear the marching drum • The closer you get, the further it becomes • Light the sky; burn the dead • In the graveyard in my head • So take it all, there's nothing left to kill • All the cycles have begun • Time erases everyone • Wash away your memory • With your flood • And this is the way it has to be my son • Drag the bottom, sufferings not done • Hear the siren, hear the marching drum • The closer you get, the further it becomes • Cutting you down: you wrap your arms around my heart • Into the ground and watch it slowly tear apart • It's just the vicious circle of life • There's too much pain to let it show • It's just the vicious circle of life • And it is time to let it go • Let go All the hate you want to feel; Justice is gone nothing is real • It's gone • Who am I supposed to be? • What do you want from me? • Feeling is absentee • Emotional amputee • Who am I supposed to be? • What do you want from me? • Nothing is ever free • Is this what you paid to see? • The vicious circle of life • The vicious circle of life • The vicious circle of life
12.
Glorious the end to be, crucified in lust • Curse of all that’s left to see, fears that bend your trust • Failing by your loyalty, all your heroes hung • Your world means nothing to me, I don't belong • Haunted by the things we did • I'll never die like a pig • Buried in the graves we dig • I'll never die like a pig • Prophecy • Dystopia • Lifeless we exist • Razor of euphoria running down your wrist • By design you build your shrines, jealousy, distrust • Like a swine we fail in line, corroding into dust • Haunted by the things we did • I'll never die like a pig • Buried in the graves we dig • I'll never die like a pig • Every morning I relive • I'll never die like a pig • Only worth what you can give • I'll never die like a pig • You survive believing you're alive: feeding the rest of the hive • Now betrayed, believing you are saved, living your life from the grave • You, drone • It's not your own • Cutting yourself to the bone • Swine • Pig • You're all alone • Now dig, dying like a pig We're all dying like pigs
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Carry on my demons • Carry on, on broken wings • And burn alive in heaven burn alive with all your kings • Was it fate that brought you to me? • Feeling is gone • Blinded by the hope that would be • I carry on • Once again I serve two masters, living in hell • Cutting out a vicious cancer • No way to escape • Height of revelation; open wide • I feel your pain; your pain • So let it fall upon me; let it fall like crimson rain Now choking tight • Sacred rite • Feel the anger burning bright • All alone • I disown • And the master takes his throne • Lord of Flies • God of Lies • As the lifeless one Baptize • Prey for this, Devil's kiss • Just to hear the serpents hiss • Feeling is gone: I carry on • Living in hell, No way to escape
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Cleveland’s legendary kings of metallic hardcore return with their Relapse debut ‘Hammer Of The Witch’. 13 songs of fire-y rage propelled by lead vocalist Human Furnace’s raging fury, this is a record sure to satisfy metalheads and hardcore kids alike. Riffs and grooves collide on songs like ‘Psychic Vampires’ and ‘Bleed’ creating some of the most vicious hooks to get stuck in your brain in a long, long time. ‘Hammer Of The Witch’ might just be the finest moment in Ringworm’s 20+ year career.

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released March 18, 2014

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Ever since emerging from the Cleveland underground, RINGWORM has garnered the immediate attention of hardcore and metal fans. RINGWORM displays an awesome ferocity in the power of its instruments, and vocalist The Human Furnace uses his voice as a tool to extract the diabolical nature of anyone who hears it. The band has released 8 albums and toured with dozens of prominent acts over the years. ... more

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