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Forever Advancing​.​.​.​.​.​. Legions

by Mithras

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YomaBarr
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YomaBarr After all these years this is still the Mithras album I love best I think (except On Strange Loops perhaps), visceral and primordial. Nothing will beat the feeling I had when it fell on me 20 years back. Thanks for this, Mithras.
Dante Ruivo
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Dante Ruivo mandatory album for any DM fan Favorite track: Tomb Of Kings.
klBlk
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klBlk Quintessential for every serious collection. With this release Mithras established themselves as a force with which to be reckoned. In the world of extreme music, particularly death metal, not many bands have the stones to break from conformity, experiment with major keys and give in to their creative habits with absolutely no compromise to their intensity or integrity. A great blueprint for a discography brimming with originality while also maintaining strong ties to it's predecessors.
Metallurgical Fire
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Metallurgical Fire This has become one of my favorite death metal albums. An amazing band. Face melting is absolutely an accurate description. Those...drums...damn. Favorite track: Tomb Of Kings.
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LeastSuccessfulHumanCannonball While all Mithras albums are intense, I think this is the most face melting. Another incredibly rewarding experience for Mithras fans as well, hearing the craft pushed to its speed-limits. Favorite track: Dreaming In Splendour.
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Trample their works Level their church Bury it deep beneath the ground Destroy their ways In time they'll be forgot String them up Along the roadways of their land Make as slaves Any that survive Burn their cities Topple their towers and their spires Crushing underfoot Centuries of their works Scour their lands Burn the crops and destroy the dwellings Kill their beasts Salting the ground as you pass Pile their corpses Into vast funeral pyres The mountains of bone A monument to their death Solo: Macey Solo: White Bring their leaders Drag them before the councils In chains - Begging for their lives On display Pulled along the bustling roadways Their despair and example As the last of their kind
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Hear the chant Across the breeze Cloth of white Sons to believe All of them make their way To the place of mass Surround the haven await the time Chanting the words of power Read from the book of black Believers kill to predict Sacrifice the one Dark ritual begun Circle forms within the henge Stones loom with eerie silence High priest enters, a king to these Bring the one forth Release a call from under robes I hear the words foreign to me Here comes the one to be The teller of a prophecy Solo: Macey Solo: White Solo: Macey See the dagger straight and true Only silence never a scream Under robes so thick they hide Never to know who did this deed Blood runs into the altar To tell of things to come Sacrifice predicts a tale A tale of a future king Solo: Macey
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Arena Sands 04:20
And so the silence shall fall Enter ‘O warrior of the past Greet thee with jubilation Rise hero to this mass Slayer of mighty beasts Please this crowd - with butchery Come forth ‘O demons killer of man Go forward beasts of blood lust Take these offerings blessed to you Prey upon the weakened one Wretched demons burst from the gate Feast upon the human man Solo: Macey Solo: Macey Roman god of the arena Surrounded by your hunters See eyes glaze with the dreams of death Their hunger commands they feed Attack this human for the flesh Appease thy ravenous beasts Silence falls on the sea of man Blood spills from the butchered beasts Saturate the arena sands Wounded warrior stands Rises arm in victory And the ovation falls
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Wrath Of God 05:03
Riding forth - For the greater glory of their god Riding forth - To rage against their infidel Taking by force - Claiming holy lands as their own Allachibar - Can no one withstand the power of their god? Sent by their pope They rewarded tolerance With no mercy To reclaim their Holy lands They had to have slaughter Diplomacy a concept Lost on these uncivilised barbarians Solo: Macey I come forth An unstoppable wind of the east Taking under my vast wing New lands for my governance Horsemen of the open steppe No one can withstand "If you had not been so evil, I would not have come" For I am the wrath of god Solo: White Solo: Macey
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Your will shattered Like an egg beneath my feet Your nature to obey Marked as a follower You accomplish nothing Too blind to see the way You are as sand As the wind blows You cling to it Your faith as your shield Against the perils Of this world But blind you cannot see Hidden by this guise of faith An ultimately superior Reality! Solo: Macey My will - crushes your will Our will - sends Tidal waves of fear Throughout your mundane empire Unseen we reign supreme We stand ignored with sight In your kingdom of the blind A breed of men apart We are the ones who shape our lives We tread our way Along these paths seldom trodden. Dual Solo: Macey/White (l-r) Outro Solo: Macey
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Vae Solis 04:00
The fire in the sky He who gives us light The sun - our lord Giver of all life His coming has been the herald The dawn of a new cycle For as long as it has been remembered It has been this way He is life eternal The focus of our worship We dared not look upon him Until this fateful day Solo: Macey His flames diminish! Shadows begin to fall At the apex of his journey This cannot be so! In terror I look into his heavens I need not shield my eyes Dust rising from afar Is swallowing our lord Solo: Macey Solo: Macey The ground trembles In the distance thunders roar His powers blast the lands Fierce winds whip up the sands How have we displeased him? Not in lack of dedication We cower as the skies darken Our lord is nowhere to be seen Solo: White He did not return Deserting us in twilight Without his solar powers Our crops withered and died Terrible winter froze the sand Killing the sick old and young Our faith is all that binds us to These lands our lord has left us to
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I see a world Structured from my soul Palaces from my dreams My spirit can embrace You attack my body Making me ever strong I shall stand tall I am everlasting Souls rise to the eternal sea The weak crumble away Strong becoming ever stronger A force beyond the mortal Hear the souls call Lifting me from within Embraced I rise A god in my death Reaching the invisible mass It engulfs me with sanctity I am caught with the others The ones who dream in splendour My beacon burns so bright Becoming brighter still My call cries over all I have risen beyond the physical Solo: Macey I rise I soar I am everlasting Solo: Macey Call out to me As I soar above Beyond the power of sight I exist in a world of dreams Physical state gone from my memory I rise forever more Immortality beckons I exist eternally Solo: White
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I travelled far and wide Searching..... On paths trodden Only by so few I uncover the doorway My journey nears its end I complete the ritual Which grants me passage unto - This ancient tomb Of kings - I open I break the seal Of three thousand years What foul enchantment Will befall me? What will I Behold? Leaving the sun behind Down passages so dark The torch my only weapon Against this vault of darkness Soon I lose my way Attempt to trace my footsteps My torch fading fast As I see a chink of light My pace quickens Running towards the distant glow I stumble on the entrance The awesome spectacle brings me to my knees I behold the tomb of kings On huge pedestals they stand Mounted, weapons in hand Once kings of this land Their statues stand Monarchs long forgotten Rising towards the light Once proud lords Will rise again...... Terror in the air Ancient tombs opening Grotesque figures emerging Still dressed in regal splendour Followed by their servants Entombed when their lord died Empty eyes look towards the surface As foretold: They rise again Solo: Macey
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The debut album from the UK's Mithras, bludgeoning and powerful yet atmospheric extreme metal

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released March 5, 2002

Recording Line-Up:
Oratory / Bass - Rayner Coss
Guitars / Drums / Synths - Leon Macey
Additional lead guitars / Synths - Ben White

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Mithras England, UK

Open your eyes... Awaken your senses... Gaze carefully upon a bleak dimension of blastbeats, savage frequencies and shattering vocal expulsions. Enter the domain of Mithras, one of the UK's most uncompromising and extreme bands to date.

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