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Keep Them Dead

by Architects of the Aftermath

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MediZen After hearing this album you will get a clear message: If they don't want a revolution, "Keep Them Dead"
Revolutionary songs are classics within Thrash, add to it Death as a violent expression and will get "Architects of the Aftermath" a band of rebels ready to blow your head out, full of riffs, unstoppable drums, and enough energy to build an atomic bomb. Favorite track: An Introduction To Dark Science.
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1.
Wars of the past never satisfied the thirst Inefficient games of flaccid kings Power to kill en mass must now come first Violent gods breed violent human beings Breakthroughs of the mind lead the crusade Corral the most evolved & light the fuse Finest minds converge to give the birth of the greatest gift that mankind ever knew Academic evolution was the key The dawn of the apocalypse has come Conflict’s potential is finally achieved The era of limitation finally done We heed the call of the desperate need for self destruction Channeling minds to please the spawn of man & deities Burning sky illuminates (the) dead & disfigured who shape (the) new world This is how mankind will fall,this is how you kill them all darkness is machine and man Now it’s time to organize/researchers & the willing wise/lock the doors commence the plan/harness every hour Focused men with steely eyes/distracted by an elusive prize/prove yourselves and take all life/this is real ultimate power Design down to the last detail/we employ the power of hell/no one survives the perfect mind/domination in our grasp Opposition nonexistent/turn to ash all resistance/ intellect to dissect/ the entire population Held in place with our lies/ unaware of approaching demise/ new power on the rise/ ultimate decimation Any accusation of cruelty/an absolute absurdity/ living death shall devour/ in mankind’s finest hour/ So close to the end/ silence the prayers of the living dead/ within our vicinity exists/ the only true divinity All leading to this point/ the chosen ones in blood anoint/ now you will know your worth/ as the corpses of the meek inherit the earth
2.
Silent Attack! Perfect machine of death performs its natural function on human intruder Pulled under, thrashed from side to side, limbs torn away as the torso is swallowed whole Snapped in half, liquefied remains provide nourishment for merciless leviathan The beginning, flesh harvest initiated awaiting others to massacre Human weakness in the form of a man Sworn in to serve you the naive Mock the arrival of death incarnate Inconvenient presence in the way of profit Deny obvious truth of every pleading witness Caution and fear not an ally to business All lined up blind faith in their provider Pick the pockets of the cattle as I send them to the grinder Blood in the water Blood on my hands into the slaughter Brutal law below the surface seized and placed into the abattoir Depth deception, what I say is, never question Follow my word, into jaws of annihilation Terror and agony whose end only in death you will know Drifting mutilated cadavers wash upon a blood soaked shore Drowning screams of sinking amputees discarded to the depths below as the frenzied monstrosity gorges on the gore Left to the unflinching cruelty of a relentless natural order The sea in obvious alliance with the gilled mangler No comprehension of empathy or retreat Limbless cowards plead to an absent god Atop curdled human remains Lies my own bisected child Strands of sinew and spine sprawl from the extracted lower half Mouth agape in a silent scream Immaculate expression of horror Crushed by a fleeing crimson mob who now seek the guilty
3.
Quit 05:32
Assemble out of desperation behind their city walls Crying of oppression and their holy leaders fall Emergence of a charismatic bringer of ideas Acting to restore the hope of people at their knees Self appointed saviors elected by a blinded mass Selling the lie fictional hope no better than the last Hard to blame the product of unthinking populace The power of the broken minds confused & coalesced Awakened to unite against a common enemy Idealistic vision engineered supremacy Mapping out a battle plan never before devised Advanced tactics & weapons of unprecedented size A race to find the next advancement death technology A test of resolution to aggress humanity Taking inventory of every method to destroy Arrogant & confident & eager to deploy Your life is at its end Give up You can’t pretend You die for no one Nothing The war is over before it begins The greatest lie we ever told was that you stood a chance and now we laugh at what you think is an effective plan The whole point was to make you think the world was fair The greater joy comes from taking the only hope that you had left We scan the bloody landscape for remaining signs of life Pockets of half dead finally begin to see the light Begging to receive our gospel plead to be redeemed Yet to reveal their former gods were not quite what they seemed Cloaked in our minds the most heinous of crimes and now the world is our victim Evil survives at the end of your lives as your death is the wage of our sin Useless to try, it is we who deny, your faith only feeds our indulgence Your tragedy is our necessity if you knew any better you’d QUIT!!! Comrades ripped in half they fall prey to dark science The unwarned form a sea of blood at the hand of relentless violence Mouths agape eyes open wide disbelief at what they see No comprehension for unthinkable brutality We feed on gratuitous hope & superstitious beliefs We are both your holy deity and the beast beneath We are your worldly emperor beyond the shadow of your doubt We pollute your mind with possibility and judge the devout Know that every single thing you thought you knew was wrong Can’t hide from irony we’re what you worshiped all along You sang our praise on holy days knelt before us with blind faith We created all, created you & brought the end of days Obscenity gratuity, our pleasure in your death Impaling twitching followers consumed with regret Pulling bodies limb from limb culminating ecstasy Devouring what isn’t screaming in repentant agony
4.
Coma 04:30
Trapped inside the mind Corned by reality Discarding any pieces of what is called humanity Confusion, your identity Welcome to normality Like any other vermin Whose purpose is to infest Pissed on from above by the shepherds of idiots Ignorant and proud Spread the other cheek Power to the people who hold the leash of the weak Shrouded, by insecurity Mindless explanations as we nod our heads If we have to be on this Earth Don't waste your time by giving birth Thoughtless bodies with wasted minds pretend to understand Sleep walking through life, led by the upper hand Illusion of progress, brain dead are easy to rule Harvested from the Earth to become their master's tool Bathed in what was bled from us now we show them how Tear em' down, string em' up Sever the head that wears the crown Trace back to when we made our own decisions The allure of high technology has put you all in prisons Awakened from the coma Held down as you fight Scraping through the madness Reaching for the light while screaming for a way out Sedation is prepared Calmness suggested Forced back into your tomb To become re-infested Forget what you saw Cast back with your own kind Do your part Fade away Fall back in line
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It started with defiance of what couldn’t be explained Filling in the blanks with miracle and divinity Harmless as it seems it would be the seeds of hate Tearing out the guts of hope and all humanity Holy men kept lies alive at every corner of the globe Breeding hate in populations the only way they know Intolerant tribes under the guise of sacred tradition Holy wars a healthy start but we are here to salt the soil Beyond gods and government the only master we serve is Death Cornered rodents cries for mercy a wasted last breath Forward enduring violent progress, dogs of war devour the meat Smoke out the rats by burning the Earth, we march towards your defeat Layers of scum washed away in the first initial wave Billions buried within billions in a boundless ash grave The roaches that survived require precision in the hunt A killing squad armed to the teeth neutralizing one by one Living under bunkers and encampments far and wide Amassing Fuel and ammunition, all in short supply Mobilize,hunt & kill what’s left of the human obsolete Drones collect intelligence condition read...ATTACK! I’d kill for a way to kill everything at once Die for the joy of knowing nothing’s left alive Compelled to rid the vermin my possessor is death Calculate exterminate invigorating when they die Kill anything that speaks until the world is finally clean Unrelenting effort tunnel vision only red Never rest this gift of death is my charity If only we could keep them fucking dead Armored all terrain extinction machinery Guns & knives to pulverize & discharge misery Moving across land & air, red swarm blankets the earth Eradicate the human cells before they spawn new birth Resistance is a waste of time human extinction is assured Line ‘em up & mow ‘em down then leave ‘em for the wolves Scavenge what we can then plot the next atrocity Glory be to death we reap the fruits of anarchy
6.
Appointed executioners behold their atomic brood Toasting with grim revelry the ability to harness extinction Overly eager harbingers to heave death from above Sanity abandoned for the ecstasy of POWER Unflinching assurances that the world is our possession Incandescent masses illuminate our eyes Carousing in the ash confetti of our fellow man Too late to undo that which we'll lament Awakened colossus twisted by human influence Manifested atrocity claws out of a broken world Self possessed weapon without bias or alliance To stomp the human pest into extinction Horrified faces in the shadow of their death Cast to ranks of agony and panic Defend a way of life that resulted in this end Join the lower species, the chain redefined Unrelenting force of nature eliminate the strain Erase all human history Dawn of new divinity Age of the ANNIHILATOR INCEPTION, we created this as one BEYOND CONTROL,the perfect weapon by design DEATH, of any hope or any savior SENTENCED, obliteration earned RISEN,THE CONSEQUENCE OF ARROGANCE BURN, ALL OF MAN'S CREATIONS IMMINENT, HE DEVOURS HIS REWARD A FINAL PEACE, ORDER IS RESTORED
7.
No right to represent life a deviant vein and arrogant virus No soul, only a mind designed for self gratification Illusion of human dignity, zenith of our insanity, our malice, our vanity rewarded by their relentless hunger Mass murder fortunate consequence, of their starvation, wasted, flesh, wasted blood properly utilized Revealed with the rest, just another pile of meat, cannibals, dead eating the dead, self absorbed species devoured by itself THE CONSUMERS! THE DESTROYERS! Ash sky, maroon soil, strewn innards, severed limbs, blood gulping gutters gag on ravaged bloated corpses Slaughter and consumption, mankind’s only function, human fabric torn to shreds, the dead the living the living the dead All creeds and colors mesh, a unified putrid stench, dead hand and hand in peace, stacked atop the towering feast. Endless, voracious hoards, new masters and lords, our population decreases, all hail the new species, THE CONSUMERS! THE DESTROYERS!Now consumed!Now DESTROYED! The gaping jaws of the rising dead to swallow our undeserved existence Devoid of the intellect to deceive or corrupt New born abomination A true revelation A reflection, a replacement An Improved Version Of Man Kind My gift, my revenge, mankind’s ultimate end, acres of flesh reaped and sewn, blood flesh sinew and bone Swelling hatred subsides as I witness our demise, I embrace the end, with open arms I feed my children I despise my own flesh submit it to the slaughter eager hands hold me down dull rotted teeth perforate my skin, severed nerves scream in agony, wreaking intestines and still beating heart, viciously torn from me and ravenously ripped apart Mindless, roaming, parodies of an extinct race Rabid swarms of vermin devour the starving resurrected Nothing left to comprehend the notion of a world’s end An Improved Version Of Man Kind
8.
Deaf dumb and blind Mankind defined No longer debated Human life is overrated Unquenchable hatred is vicious bliss Rapidly approaching a violent catharsis Beyond the clutches of sanity Boiling fury the only guide Repressed desire, to use and destroy the weak Crowded Earth, spilling into an abyss Murder, the dawn of man Progress, propelled by atrocity Dissipate the illusion of civility Slaves to serve a primordial urge Putrid stench of wretched monotony Fleeing abandoned hordes of rotting banality Fill the mind with infinite insanity Lighting the fuse for an unbiased fatality Internal torment now runs free Eliminate the disease of humanity Drain the world of endless stupidity An ocean of blood is my sea of tranquility Mental static, drowns out sympathy Once tangled madness, aligned with new purpose To sever and extinguish all wasted life In tune with instinct, truly alive Lungs filled with the stench of death Exhale through an insane grin Fists dripping with post human mess Satisfied, the void within
9.
REPORTS OF LIFE FEEDING IN FROM PLACES UNOBSERVED SELF SUSTAINING ORGANISMS NEVER SEEN OR HEARD ANALYTIC MINDS IN SEARCH OF UNOBSTRUCTED TRUTH INCLINED TO NEITHER POSITIVE NOR NEGATIVE INTENT SEEKING TO IMPROVE NEITHER MALICIOUS NOR BENEVOLENT A PERFECT MIND DESIGNED EFFICIENT OBJECTIVITY DATA STREAMS WHAT CAN THEY MEAN? IT'S JUST NOT MAKING SENSE NEVER SEEN THE LIKES OF THIS, NOTHING TO MEASURE AGAINST SYSTEM DESIGN BY SUPERIOR KIND A MILLION YEARS IN USE EVIDENCE OF HEINOUS CREATURES NEVER THOUGHT TO BE BRUTAL INSECTS CLEARLY VOID OF ALL CIVILITY UNTHINKABLE DISORDER ENDLESS MALICE CAN'T BE TRUE DESPICABLE IN EVERY WAY ONLY ONE THING LEFT TO DO ANNIHILATION, THE WAYS OF THE ANCIENTS COMPULSORY NOW OPEN THE CRYPTS, UNEARTH THE VOLUMES, FOLLOW THE WORD ACTION IS LAW, TO QUESTION IS WRONG, ENLIGHTENED ARE FEW PREPARE TO EMERGE, DESCEND FROM THE SKY RAIN DEATH FROM ABOVE CONVERT, ADAPT, OBLITERATION NOT WAR SHAPE SHIFT, DEIFY, THEY WON'T KNOW YOU FROM GODS IMMERSE, ENGAGE BECOME THE WOLF THAT SLAYS DISSECT, SAVOR, KNOW ONLY TO OBEY BEWARE, BLOOD LUST, IT IS THE CANCER OF MEN EUPHORIC BARRAGE, THE ANCIENTS WARN AGAINST SUPREME, RIGHTEOUS, THIS RACE EXISTS BENEATH DEVOUR, THEMSELVES, THE FAULT DEFINES THE WEAK *THE MIND PERFECTED REPRESENTS THE PERFECT STRAIN AN EVOLUTION THAT NEVER RECOGNIZED THE FAULTS OF MEN/SILENT CONTAGION A TURNING POINT IN OUR LEGACY/FATE WAS SEALED ONCE WE TASTED SWEET BRUTALITY INITIAL WAVES PRECISELEY TIMED IT ALL WENT BY THE BOOK SQUADRON LEADERS PLEASED WITH HOW LITTLE TIME IT TOOK THEIR DEFENSES PREHISTORIC;THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE REPORTS FROM FORCES IN THE FIELD NOT COMING IN AS FAST UNEXPLAINED DELAYS IN INTEL CAUSE SUSPICION UP THE RANKS RECONNAISSANCE DEPLOYED SCOUTS START REPORTING BACK NOT ALL STRIKES EFFICENT,SOME SLOWER THAN IDEAL AN ACCIDENT AT FIRST BUT WE DISCOVERED THEY COULD FEEL WASN'T LONG BEFORE THE TROOPS TOOK PLEASURE IN THEIR AGONY NOW THEY JUST CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES COMPELLED TO ELICIT TORMENT ALTARS OF FLESH CONSTRUCTED BEFORE THEY ARE ALL DEVOURED OUR PERFECT STRAINS AND ELITE BRAINS DEVOLVING BY THE HOUR *NO! THE CLEANSING DONE ALTHOUGH THEY'D WON THEY'D NEVER BE THE SAME *IDEAL! PURITY OF AGONY THE GOAL DESCEIVES THE SANE *NO! ACCIDENTL DESCENT INTO THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN *HOPE! THE NEED TO TORMENT POSSESSES ALL WHO ARE EXPOSED *NO! SUM OF ALL FEARS NOW THE HOST BECOMES THE VIRUS *FUTURE! ADVANCED PSYCHOTIC BEINGS RISING FROM THE ATMOSPHERE *NO! INTOXICATED ASSIMILATED PRIMORDIAL BRUTALITY PEACE! THE INFECTION OF MANKIND INJECTED TO INFINITY
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released October 31, 2017

John Gehring: Lead Guitar
Dave Koehnlein: Drums
Justin Tilley: Bass and Vocals
Mike Gamm: Rhythm Guitar

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