We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP

     

about

"Obliteration" is a very old song. The introduction was always the way I wanted Ypres to begin after its intro, but the chaos of the opening section made it too hard to mix nicely back in the old days. I'm still not overly keen on how the mix turned out on Ypres Incarnate.

It was never a fully-formed song before; the final version on Ypres Incarnate is essentially a compilation of three sections I wrote up in Guitar Pro tabs back in 2009. Back then, I had visions of it being some 10-to-15-minute epic, but it was always intended to begin and end the same way as the Incarnate version.

lyrics

The death of a generation
Destined to starve in frost and blood
The unprecedented slaughter
Millions of bodies upon the mud
Blindly led into a war
Unlike anything mankind has seen before
Entire populations laid to waste
Death on a scale never seen again

Gatling rounds whistle through the air
The angels of death cutting down men
Screams of agony numb to all hear
A thousand more to die by the minute
And nobody prays for us

The stench of blood and death
Carries heavy through the blackened air
As corpses start to turn
The flesh of the living meets the same fate
Barely a day or night
No sun is seen beyond the smog
A horizon of hell
Death is the only salvation

The entire lives of mere children
Snuffed out, so silently cold
As gunshots whistle between them
Ending everything met by the barrel
An incomprehensible landscape
As bodies collapse and flesh rains
So valiant, they came in their millions
Unmarked now they rot where they fell

There is no god here

credits

from Ypres Incarnate, released March 31, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Returning We Hear the Larks Bristol, UK

Returning We Hear the Larks is the progressive metal solo project of Jack Noble, from Bristol, England.

'A bloody fantastic slice of British metal.'
- Heavy Blog is Heavy

'Miss out on this one at your own peril. 666 out of 6.'
- The Number of the Blog
... more

contact / help

Contact Returning We Hear the Larks

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Returning We Hear the Larks, you may also like: