Morbid Angel - "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh" -1998 Steve Tucker : Vocals/Bass Trey Azagthoth : Guitars/Keyboards Pete Sandoval : Drums "Heaving Earth" Before that which is, all was not Less the Sweet Waters of Habsu Chthhulhu Amah-Ushumgal-Anna Triumvirate of Most High Spirits of the Deep Waters, remember Humbaba, Lord of the Forest, remember From the Sweet Bitter, all that is came Creation of man and their gods But man, fashioning overwhelm Could not see the Light which he holds Spirits of Purifying Flames, remember Anunna, Gods of the Skies, remember Anunnaki, Judges of Ur, remember Anunnaki, Weighers of the Truth, be praised The gift of flesh Was in fact life's curse Although born one in the same In Spirit, but the flesh all too coarse Discord, among the gods of men Although they were brothers Diversities grew Overshadowing their connection On the clearest of days they are One in the same Pettiest of purpose Degenerates things to their crudest form Being loathsome to Habsu Zi-Zi Badur-Ku-Ku, Kanpa (Rise up and be Active O Most Sweetest Waters and remember!) Warring, in the Belly of Tiamat Brothers do battle Principalities of folly Disturbs the Mummu The One Who Bore All was Appalled by their ways Her Dream Time was of no peace Their fleshly behavior Overbearing and proud She despised them Zi Zi Anunnaki, Kanpa (Rise up and be Active O Judges of the Most High Righteousness and Remember!) The Ways of the Underworld are Perfect Not to be questioned by that of the brute Clearly beyond the understanding Of that which is ruled by the drives of the flesh For whom shall then oppose The Lights of Asag, Purifying Flames Come child, the Anunnaki wait Truth is the Weapon no pity it holds The ways of the flesh Barbaric behavior patterns Flesh over Spirit, the motivator of the worthless The ways of the flesh The evolution is minimal I watch as your kingdoms rise and fall Causing no effective change Your military Command structure of impotence A gross misuse of force By leaders who lack in vision Your gods Evidence of your weakness Your focus is one with delusion You worship that which means your end Rise up, O Mahummuhu The Judgement is passed The treachery is clear They shalt become empty like the wind The emptiest of shells so shall they be O Great Mother The Armies shall rise with Weapons No pity they hold From Your Great Mummu The Serpents shall come Venom for blood And the Glory of Gods Spirits of the Flames, remember Anunna, Gods of the Skies, remember Anunnaki, Judges of Ur, remember Anunnaki, Weighers of Truth, be praised English translate: Mahummuhu Gal-Gal Me-Gal-Gal-Zu Ga Hul Amah-Ushumgal-Anna Me-Gal-Gal-Zu Ga Hul O Most Precious Mother It Is Thine, Most Precious Divine Order In Which I Celebrate! Amah-Ushumgal-Anna It Is Thine, Most Precious Divine Order In Which I Celebrate! "Prayer Of Hatred" Blessed Be The Ones The Most Ancient Ones Blessed be the Ones Who were here before and after remain Blessed be the meekness of the flesh I watch as it withers and dies Come with Storm and Blow the flesh from this earth Come with Flood and Wash away the flesh from this earth The mighty of this world are only Mighty of the flesh But that of flesh Is crushed by that of the Mountain For it is written that The future of flesh is dust You are but a shell Your wine something unseen Come with Fire and Burn the flesh from this earth Make the Earth upheaval May it swallow up the flesh of this earth Your dreams Mundane delusions of Malkuth My dreams The Continuum Force that devours all things Dreams That eat the flesh and drink the blood Uruku, My brothers It is your time to feed Your will Empty promises you can't fulfill My will Brings avalanches of abundance Power Of the Gods circulate within my veins I lie in wait Being that erodes all things "Bil Ur-Sag" You quake the earth Scorcher of skies Your Towers of Flames You've come to Cleanse the treacherous act You've come to Tame the rebelliousness Bil Ur-Sag Lul-Lu Nig-Hul Tur Ha-Elm Zalag Za-A-Kam Me-Lam-Ma-Bi-Du Ki-Bal-A Su-Sa Unmatched Your Principle is unopposed The Light You hold unmatched is unopposed You glide across and beneath the lands Your Affects engulf the rebelliousness Ur-Sag Zi-Ga-Ni Naphar Ajjabi Sharush Sa-Par-Mah-Zu Diri La-Magiru Sin Su-La Terror Your Battle Roar seeds Terror No shield can withstand The Seven Weapons of Flame The Principal Force that You wield Captive The hostile ones are held Captive The insubmissive are Brought to their knees For they cannot counter Your massive assault upon them. The ill-natured You've Burned from our land Hostile gatherings You've Tamed You were unmatched No counter could be found With Fury and Flames You Scorched their aggressiveness Bil Ur-Sag Lul-Lu Nig-Hul Tur Ha-Elm Zalag Za-A-Kam Me-Lam-Ma-Bi-Du Ki-Bal-A Su-Sa English translate: Bil Ur-Sag Lul-Lu Nig-Hul Tur Ha-Elm Zalag: O Lion-head, Your awesome Blaze of Fire consumed the gathering of the treacherous and the ill-natured. Purifying them. Za-A-Kam Me-Lam-Ma-Bi-Du Ki-Bal-A Su-Sa: It is Thine Aura, awful lights, overwhelming the enemy lands Ur-Sag Zi-Ga-Ni Naphar Ajjabi Sharush: O Lion-heads, with Your most awesome Rising Power. Destroyer of the gathering of the enemy gods. Sa-Par-Mah-Zu Diri La-Magiru Sin Su-La Your Great Net, being so enormous swallowed the disobedient ones, binding their hands. "Nothing Is Not" How can you defeat that which finds Nourishment in your attack? How can you kill that which Finds sanctuary in your blade? How can you hinder that which Embraces the strategies against it? You can take nothing from not In My Being, Nothing Is Nothing Becomes Nothing is not In your world, all things return to Me I'm the Collector of Souls For they're never past my control I take of what is and nothing of that I give I'm the Alpha Omega My Way in Itself, complete I Am The Continuum Human, meagerness of purpose Come feed Me what I please My spirit shan't be hindered For It Knows no weakness I dine on your pain Your strength is only that of men Human, why do you clutch your flesh so? In My Being I AM I Will I Create In your world all things return to Me "Chambers Of Dis" You give praise to the statues of gods Dispirited, they hear you not You give offering to metal and stone Dispirited, how can they respond? The faith disheveled Temples distained You praise the mere shadows of gods The word, discolored and vain And the Gods, they know you not They come when the Spirit speaks But your words disdainful Words spawned by the cultureless beings Disclaimed by the once attentive Gods Disarmed, the power words are empty Your way being left to the winds Bitter is the wailing of the sheep Even now the memories are dis Barren, the temple's reason was loss In vulgarian was it swallowed The mundane, so disbanded they are Not of purpose can they find The Great Mother, as if a criminal Disaffiliated from One's people Unwelcome like the rival of a culture Removed, unwelcome She stands Disarrayment of the Values' Core seeds discord For now fulfillment cannot be formed And the sheepfold mourn In the forge of our will we manifest ourselves Empowering our world Yet the fables of a failed faith Show the effects of this spiritual dis Empty, the Gods disavow you Understanding you have lost For what fulfillment can you possibly hold In the end of such means Caught in the chains of enslavement But these chains you do not know You hold the Key to the Truth But these chains they dull your mind Shackled by the falsifiers They share with you only the shadows of things You commit to serve the mundane Society's slave but you can not see The Spirit so laden in the net of thorns Entrapped by the other's spells I speak, but you're ignorant to Me Can you not see what you hold They respond to the potent will Of the Most High Standing And being unchained by decision Assemblage of the Ancient Way With Incantations, manifesting our will Expanding our Being "U-Mu La Mah-Ri" Why should we serve that which betrays Leeches, they steal of our lives Why should we lower ourselves to the beasts Submissive they are to be made We need not to be held in their chains Illusions but they can still hold We rise within the strength The One Who lays them to waste Praising the Weapon that Cleanses our land So perfect It's Way unopposed Punisher of the treacherous ones U-Mu La Mah-Ri This Force no bolt withstands For It's now the Merciless One Un-quenchable rage it holds Only sated when the last falls Their deed of treason Unseen by the ones enchained Ignorance which shielded the crimes All seen by the All Knowing One You'll perish within the Hands Of the Storm that means your end These things you call your gods These things, they save you not Oh now you live the torment Bound in the chains that enslaved us Now you feel the suffering That you bestowed upon our being Live the pain of the Gnashing Teeth that's Grinding your bones enslaver By what right did you bind us Now you'll reap the suffering Oh there's no mercy for you've Broken the Sacred Laws you've Taken the dreams of many Lives you have bound and punished For your crimes no repentance Can turn back the Wrath Which you've called on yourselves By your deeds No new life can arise From a land once denounced By my Lord For unrivaled He stands For no man may rise up To enslave any other Made free by Design of our God That of Might shall Define what is right For unmatched is the Power of Chthhulhu Most High Praising the Weapon that Cleanses our land So perfect It's Way unopposed These things you praise as gods These things, dispirited things "Hellspawn: The Rebirth" You are the One, the Oldest One You come before the legends of men You come before the legends of gods You are the Sea, Creator of All You're all I need, For You I bleed Plant Your Seed, Earth shall feed Enlighten my soul, Spirit grows Born of Fire, I shall return I am the Hellspawn Curse from my eyes, your gods I defy Fulfillment is mine, of the Most High Born of the Fire, I shall return Answer the Call of the Oldest One I am the Hellspawn Forever I am, in Spirit I am Forever I Dream, Continual Dream We Sleep undisturbed again Chthhulhu We Dream in the Peace again "Covenant Of Death" We Assemble as Those Who were before Of the Principal Force and Form The Lightning Flash They are They Breathe the Word and it becomes We make the Covenant To the Primal Source of which we've come We lift ourselves On the Path that brings us to our Dream The Continuum Force we praise You Slumber Being our highest goal We make Your Way our laws For Your Me we do decide Amah-Ushumgal-Anna Deep within You Hold the Key Habsu Being the Way To claim the Throne that's ours by Right Zamanu Muh Lal-Li Zi-Pa-Gurud-Zuneme-E Igi-Nu-Du-A-Hul Igi-Se-Zid-Gin Their treacherous decisions have committed them to Eternal Dis and Torment For now their only shield Is the ignorance in which they hide In the Shadows of their fears They feel the Gnashing Teeth and Weeping English translate: Zamanu Muh Lal-Li Zi-Pa-Gurud-Zuneme-E Hostile Ones, you soon shall reap the reward you have earned Igi-Nu Du-A-Hul Igi-Se-Zid-Gin Enjoy now this ignorant bliss in which you live For the awakening soon shall come "Invocation Of The Continual One" Sacred night on the Eve of May We gather before the stars Taste the Hunger of the Fire Vastness of the Continuum Heretics of a way unseen Celebrate, the Greatest of Means Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies By your Hand the Zamanu dies Drink, drink, the Blood of the Ancients Me-Zu Me Pa-Ku-Ku-De-Hul (Your Divine Ordering Principle is a Divine Order which manifests Itself with Most Sweetness) Star encircled with the Power-Names We speak in the Broken Lines Leviathan will open the Gate To the Great Abyssous Planes Feel the icing winds of the Ab-Zu Sea below all seas Leviathan, Serpent of Truth Share with us Most Perfect Way Call to the Earth, fortify our will Come Air Spirits, be our eyes this night Primal Flames are warmth to our souls Waters of Life, Great Blessings You pour Calling on Leviathan Open the gate Link us with the Wonder of the Abyss Planes so great Lord of the rolling thunder Celebrate with us this night Rip away the veil Hear our praise Your Slumber is our Paradise You smite our enemies down For we, the few enlightened Through Your Will we break our bonds Lord Who shatters paradigms From the rubble the New shall rise Your Way presents death for them The Me-Gal-Gal we do praise Come Centaur Those Who Prance to the Hymns of Truth Come join us Come Leviathan Make passage of the Entrance we've Prepared for You this night Bil-At Kir-Zal Za-A-Kam Ki-Aga-Du Kas-Du Da-Ra-Es Mu Ga Im-Mi-In Nin-Ana-Si-Anna Ga Sa-Ga-Ar Za-A-Kam Ne-Su-Ub-Du Ne-En-Mu Ga Sa-Ga-Ar English translate: Lady of Splendour, It is Thine Loving Embrace, Sweet Nectar for which I forever thirst Heavenly Lady, I hunger. It is Thine Kiss of Divinity for which I hunger.
