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Via Appia

by Heretics

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1.
I will do anything for self-preservation The pain, the hunger I will do anything and everything for self-preservation I will make you suffer for self-preservation Anything and Everything I will kill for self-preservation
2.
Heartbeat - so fast Feel the intricate connection Between the boot that kicks And the pain that follows The anticipation Of repetition Anxiety of anguish Leads to the conclusion The end justifies the means Survival does not feed on thought The future needs the presence Self-preservation Consequences do not matter What is the use of good will If morality means dying Again Hunger Anguish through a contracting stomach Plenty of food But hoarded and untouchable So much can be taken Implying devastation When only this is viable Ethics are irrelevant The end justifies the means Survival does not feed on thought The future needs the presence Self-preservation Consequences do not matter What is the use of good will If morality means dying
3.
I look at this world Full of egoism and vanity And shake my head At the stupidity of humanity The whole world is ablaze Can't escape this gruesome place Of ongoing war through thousands of years This is complete obliteration Unstoppable eradication Of all life wandering this earth Everything is going down the drain Fuck the world that just fucks itself In the name of stupidity We sacrifice our own dignity Me, myself, I am the one The only one I have to save When the fire consumes our race It's judgment day I have to run For my life they have to waive Their days they're worthless anyway We're proud of so much culture Pretend to be humanitarian It's hard to delude ourselves even more It tears me up inside Do I support their lives Or try to save the world And kill them all in fire I'm so consumed by rage My hatred is eternal I will destroy you all Set everything on fire It tears me up inside Do I support all life Or let the cancer grow The human disease We are but shit and nothing more Pursuing death our only lore It's always been like this and always will be We put ourselves above all else Our luxury paid with their health We forfeited our right to remain alive Everything is going down the drain Fuck the world that just fucks itself In the name of stupidity We sacrifice our own dignity I'm so consumed by rage My hatred is eternal I will destroy you all Set everything on fire
4.
Via Appia 05:16
Ten thousand sold each day A human life no more than a unit Tattoos on their foreheads, protecting investment „Stop me, I'm a runaway!“ The sole purpose is to serve Pleasure, amusement, decadence Woe to him who fails For he is forever condemned to the mines Rise! Flee! Escape this bond! Fight! Kill! With spit and knife Walk with me, walk free One last time, gladly Before you die About seventy escape Starting legend, their life they shape Roaming throughout the land Unshackled hands but hunted all the same Underestimated, victorious in battle Triumph, thus growing stronger still Every roman corpse leaves a sword behind They strengthen the ranks of the uprising As do servants that Increase the numbers to seventy thousand strong The siege is futile An obstacle overcome The will and spirit Not broken so easily The spoils of war Shared just among all there are So more yet join The uprising at its peak Loosing thirty thousand men Yet winning with four times that number Sacrificing captives, honouring the dead Revenge for the fallen ones Craven foes turn around and flee Their fate just worsens on familiar grounds Decimation will Strengthen their spirit for the coming fight Walk with me, walk free One last time, gladly March with me, be bold And peace you may behold before you die In the last battle everything is lost Whoever survives the sword still dies Two hundred kilometers, the Via Appia Six thousand crucified a warning to the world
5.
The Scourge 05:04
I am the scourge Tearing rotten flesh from the earth Forged in the blaze Carved by gods in darkness, dust and haze My armies rage on Ignominy has this brought upon Let violence prevail Since your god has failed Blurred sight Clouded mind Let the violence unwind Bloodshed No regret Your fate has been set Their bones pave my way As I slowly drain this world from life I am unchained Families fall to their knees They urge me: Please spare our souls, You shall be our king But they know I’ll lay waste to thee Pathetic lives end in misery Unbreakable Incorruptible Unyielding warrior Limitless Potential Bestowed from the divine No one can be freed from my wrath Nothing can escape from my grasp This is my eternal warpath You will be united in death I am the scourge Tearing rotten flesh from the earth Forged in the blaze Carved by gods in darkness, dust and haze My armies rage on Ignominy has this brought upon Let violence prevail since your god has failed Is this me? Am I free? How have I become so beastly? I’ve done all these things? They’re pulling my strings! The instrument of deception Noone can be freed from my wrath Nothing can escape from my grasp This is my eternal warpath You will be united in death I am the scourge Tearing rotten flesh from the earth Forged in the blaze Carved by gods in darkness, dust and haze My armies rage on Ignominy has this brought upon Let violence prevail since your god has failed My wife, my child, I see them As I see the blood on my hands Laying there before me My own hands have killed them both The gods that guide my blade Have used me exploited my life They will suffer retribution And vengeance will be mine
6.
Of terror he's a man So I've got to fight him With pain if I must So terror is his plan The threat posed to us Needs to be eliminated I start with waterboarding It remains effectless Now he's deprived of sleep As I become more reckless I use my talent for violence I do it for the good of our people I use my talent for violence I do it to save lives His hands will suffer next I take a handful of his fingers The body mutilated In this room only his will lingers Our force against his violence His corpse for his virulence Endless suffering Yet the worst is still to come Painful smothering There's more where that came from We found his wife We found his children They will be of great use To save so many We'll sacrifice His loved ones – We won't lose I use my talent for violence I do it for the good of our people I use my talent for violence I do it to save lives His wife got a red smile His children are the next target Finally we broke his mind Humanity defeated the incarnated evil
7.
A small group injected with fear All minds exposed to decay They give into rotten ideas Of what is right and what is wrong The things different from them Place anxiety in their heads Afraid of the unknown They start a futile war They spread hatred towards everything They don't understand Infecting everyone With rage towards the innocent Discrimination against all strangers A brutal path that repeats itself Fighting the harmless peoples Because of violations of a few Taking religion as justification For all attempts to genocide Bringing to life the worst of mankind And commit unthinkable crimes With thoughts as their weapons They destroy the peace there is A kill and yet a clear conscience Their thinking just is amiss
8.
I've lived a peaceful life Loving my kids and wife Caring for friends and family Until the day that The world turned upside down And fire turned home into hell When instead of the sun Now rise smoke and ashes I find and embrace the children Who shall grow cold When the fire is As dead as they are And my heart Is torn apart I rage And never again shall I smile about my life I awake in the night Not from nightmare but memory Hugging my daughter's body But the legs remain on the ground Severed from the torso The small body far too light I bury the remains Of my little one Piece by piece A horrid human puzzle In my youth I dreamed Of traveling the world Seeing all the wonders in the flesh The remains of that wish A massacre for revenge And destruction of all When instead of the sun Now rise smoke and ashes I find and embrace the children Who shall grow cold When the fire is As dead as they are And my heart Is torn apart I rage And never again shall I smile about my life I bury the remains Of my humanity Bit by bit Cannot comprehend fate I turned from grief to hatred I was recreated Step by step We approach judgment day
9.
It is high time You came into your inheritance To finally get something back From all the work You put in, you bombed in, you killed in It is high time You came into your inheritance Your life is over! Your world ends here! You broke my life I fell down by the graves I shall break your homes Let your bodies drop where They stand now, they live now, they breathe now I'll break your lives Put you in your graves What exactly did you think The result was going to be When you sent off the drones To eliminate the two pixels on your screen Set the world on fire From hatred to death Our path has led us From Hatred to death Your people's finished Your world ends here! I built the bombs For chaos soon to be A tribute to your acts A parting gift from My mother, my daughter, my woman I built the bombs Now let the chaos be From Grief to Hatred From Hatred to Death I say farewell Before I leave this life And take you all with me Into the after world Where you shall rue Your misdeeds, your malice, your murder I say farewell Before I leave this life Set the world on fire From hatred to death Our path has led us From hatred to death And now I paid you back in kind Kept the mutual contempt alive Trade between the both of us Is measured in how many did not survive

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Via Appia is the debut album of Paderborn based Death Metal band Heretics. The artwork was done by Lorenzo Van Mourik, the album was mixed and mastered by Tim Lobner.
There are guest appearances of the bands Heretic Legion and Wayward Dawn on the song Via Appia, and of vocalist Erik Sollmann (In Sanity) on The Scourge.

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released September 27, 2019

Artwork by Lorenzo Van Mourik
Mixed and mastered by Tim Lobner

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Heretics Paderborn, Germany

After founding the band in 2009, the first gig was played in 2010. It took ten years, until the first album Via Appia was released - but the band has grown from a bunch of pupils buying instruments to a Death Metal steamroller.

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