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Burn the Monastery

from Pillaging Villagers by Pillaging Villagers

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Illuminated by moonlight
The monastery looms
Cyclopean walls, once their refuge, shall be their tomb
Our eyes gleaming with hatred
We storm the abbey’s gates
Like rats, the minions scurry into holes to escape their fate
Down into the labyrinth
In darkened corridors they hide
We pursue, through dungeons deep
And, to our horror, realize
Here
Within
This fetid oubliette
Our comrades were imprisoned, broken, tormented to death
Inside this maze
We grasp
The scale
Of the
Atrocities
Light
The fires
We’ll drive them from their lair
Some flee the conflagration and vacate the tunnels where
We cut them down
The rest
Will die
In flames
Their screaming heard by none, their scalded skeletal remains
Beneath the ruins
For
All
Time
Altars and manuscripts ablaze
Symbols of persecution charred and twisted
You'll live to see your temples razed
And as you die you'll hear our call...
Burn the monastery!
High on the tower above
As the flames rise into the sky
The bishop recites incantations
Ecstatic, he shrieks as clouds shadow the stars
Slowly the heavens turn red
By his will, the moon is as blood
Above him a portal emerges
The gates of the infinite void torn apart
Weak from the heat of the blaze
The tower begins to collapse
Crumbling to the inferno
The spell interrupted, the door disappears
Drowned in the lake of fire
With a final sickening scream
The bishop erased from existence
At once we erupt in a glorious cheer...
As idols melt and flames consume
All trace of your accursed faith, you realize
Your zealotry invokes your doom
The holocaust you've sought has come...
Burn the monastery!

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from Pillaging Villagers, released March 11, 2022

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Pillaging Villagers Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Merging the punk-influenced aggressiveness of crossover thrash with the Celtic melodies of folk metal, the 'peasant metal' of Pillaging Villagers takes the listener on a journey to a medieval world of pitchfork-wielding rebellion where songs of victory and sorrow alike are belted out with tankards raised high.

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