Lyrics to The Contaminated Void
THE INTERLOPER
Music: A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
His face is dead
Rotten soul within
Monolithic
Inhuman
Your fear will be his fuel
With his iron fist
He'll crush the weak with wrath
Raised to demolish man
Misanthropic mastermind
He'll interlope and dominate
Attack the world with hate
The mission is to devastate
Annihilate the human race
He is a plague
Ridden with disease
Putrefactive
Infected
Slowly spreading sickness
He'll come for you
When hunger strikes
Interloper
Consumer
Lust for the devourment
Lurking in the shallow darkness
Waiting for the weaker ones
Ready to inject his venom
Evil is as evil does
He'll interlope and dominate
Attack the world with hate
The mission is to devastate
Annihilate the human race
D.E.A.D.
Music: A. Bertilsson, A. Jakobson, A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: A. Bertilsson
Disconnect from all that is true
Eradicate what used to be you
Annihilate in blind servitude
Demoralize until our demise
Salvation was never the key
Before a lie, we won't fall to our knees
Ravage and burn, it's all by the book
Sermons of old, fits us in the mold, while for answers we look
Predictions of doom
Shrouds the world in gloom
Walk in line, just a servant of the fools
Another burden to bear
Enslaved, restrained by limiting rules
It's a daymare...
Disconnect from all that is true
Eradicate what used to be you
Annihilate in blind servitude
Demoralize until our demise
Convert and conquer – a legacy of hate
Rule and control – the will to dominate
Rotten faith, our hands forever bound
To us there is no holy ground
(Solo: A. Alvinzi)
Walk in line, just a servant of the fools
Another burden to bear
Enslaved, restrained by limiting rules
It's a daymare...
AN UNFORGIVING SEASON
Music: A. Jakobson, O. Pålsson, A. Bertilsson, A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: J. Fornbrant
Sowing seeds of apathy
In this field of dreams
Cultivating misery
Poisoning the stream
Reaping bitter harvest
As frost permeates
An unforgiving season
Coming on today
Reservoirs are draining
Bleeding life away
Water flow is waning
And no longer irrigates
There’s nothing left to harvest
Famine rules the land
Curse of negativity
Turned fertile soil to sand
Alone, enslaved
Work and toil to no avail
Decay paves the way
Warmer season in its grave
And ripe with pain and hate
Vast and desolate
A field once free of woe
Now dark, dead and cold
THE CONTAMINATED VOID
Music: A. Jakobson, O. Pålsson
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
Sinister silence
Forced into nothing
Terror commenced
In the contaminated void
Dead freezing cold
Kept in a psychic box
Like a story untold
He was the perverted toy
Growing... The seeds of his death
The silent state is the way to decay
Rotting... With a mind dead and gone
He is likely to die
Soulless statue
Devoid of motion
There's no virtue
In the contaminated void
Mentally carbonized
A cancerous soul
Numb and desensitized
Dead and reborn: Paranoid
Growing... The seeds of his death
The silent state is the way to decay
Rotting... With a mind dead and gone
He is likely to die
Unveiled secrets will haunt them
Public anger rise
Disturbing, sick visions now become clearer
We all despise
Sinister silence
Forced into nothing
Terror commenced
In the contaminated void
Dead freezing cold
Kept in a psychic box
Like a story untold
He was the perverted toy
Growing... The seeds of his death
The silent state is the way to decay
Rotting... With a mind dead and gone
He is likely to die
DEATH SMILES AT ME
Music: A. Jakobson, O. Pålsson
Lyrics: O. Pålsson
Social decay in me
I strive for inner peace of mind
But yield to sicker needs
What’s sane is left behind
My hands are used as tools
I’m on a random psycho path
Birth-marked confiding fools
Let loose the wrath
I’m dreading to see your existence erased
Forever chased by insanity
Aggressive measures so unpleasant to face
But death is smiling at me
Infected with a dose of lunacy
I’m losing grip of reality
A forthcoming fear of what grows within me
Increasing absence of empathy
Inside the circle range
And life was put on hold
Her fate in hands of a mind deranged
Wait and watch as death unfolds
The fury drives me deeper
Exploiting my supremacy
I impersonate the reaper
And the dark sides of humanity
My heart is pounding
A taste of blood in my mouth
Death smiles at me
I feel alive
Demanding to see your existence erased
Forever chased by insanity
Aggressive measures so unpleasant to face
Yet death is smiling with me
A CUSTOM-MADE HELL
Music: A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: O. Pålsson
Blinded from the world outside
Restraining my moves
I have got nowhere to hide
I have nothing to prove
Barred reality, feeding hostility
Aligning with suffering, hatred reigns
Blind to the beating, dying in vain
Aligning with suffering, familiar with pain
Desirable meeting on the edge to what I sustain
They’re refusing to show
But I am dying to see
This is a custom-made hell
Constructed only for me
(Solo: A. Alvinzi)
Forced and compelled
Limitations exceeding
Incarnations of hell
Leaving me bleeding
(Solo: A. Alvinzi)
Shutting out all that’s real
Emotional rape
Ungodly abuse
Is now taking shape
Soiled by their disgusting hands
I’m scraping my skin
A plague that infects the land
The dark secret within
(Aligning with suffering) Hatred reigns
Blind to the beating, dying in vain
Aligning with suffering, familiar with pain
Desirable meeting on the edge to what I sustain
RETURN TO ASHES
Music: A. Jakobson, A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: J. Fornbrant
Descending
I’m lowered into the ground
Returning to ashes and dirt
In the casket’s confines
Oblivion bound
Consumed by the earth
Life-like
Flowers adorn mourner’s hands
A funeral procession in bloom
An ironic parade
Life eternal interred,
Immortality’s doom
Returning to ashes and dirt
Dreading the day since forever
Time has digested my flesh
Irrevocably drained it of youth
I anticipate death
The shadows in my path
Reflect mortal truths
Tainted
Death on my mind since day one
Tomorrow all shrouded in gloom
With fear I remain
Smothering darkness
Invading my room
The world is a tomb
And we are all dead
From cradle to grave like the blind we are led
Nearing our time with every breath
In this world our tomb
We all look like death
Ashen with grief
Shades of death an abhorrent motif
No hope to be found in religious beliefs
My face ashen with grief
FAR BEYOND DRIVEN (Japanese bonus track)
Music: A. Bertilsson, A. Jakobson
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
I wipe the blood from my hands
Clear my mind of crimson stains
As the sun ignites the horizon
I am haunted by the ones I have slain
And they will know me by the trail of dead
The truth is hidden among the bones
And they will know me by the trail of red
I'm judged by the dead from their massive thrones
Driven far beyond what is right
It's time for me to face my sins
My anxiety tears me apart
It's a battle that evil always wins
And they will know me by the trail of dead
The truth is hidden among the bones
And they will know me by the trail of red
I'm judged by the dead from their massive thrones
They'll haunt me, harass me and make me bleed
My fear of the dark side will shape my end
They'll catch me, crush me and make me bleed
I'm drawing my last breath as darkness descends
STRAIN AT THE LEASH
Music: A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: O. Pålsson
To reach divine perfection
They fill us with fear
Demanding sick restrictions
The end draws near
Strain at the leash
Salvation for us all to reach
Deceitful speech
Blindly obey, aching, trapped in dismay
Disciples of hate
Serving to make your lies justified
Pre-controlled faith
Evolution denied, chaos spreading worldwide
Deceive the weak, profit on defeat
Punish their disbelief
And make them hurt
No sympathizing grief
For the inert
Strain at the leash
Salvation for us all to reach
Deceitful speech
Blindly obey, aching, trapped in dismay
Disciples of hate
Serving to make your lies justified
Pre-controlled faith
Evolution denied, chaos spreading worldwide
Their manipulation has fed my disgust
Corrode their belief till it all turns to rust
Get rid of this plague all over the nation
The world will suffer religious starvation
Torn down from the top of the hierarchy
Wake up and smell the hypocrisy
Strain at the leash
Salvation for us all to reach
Deceitful speech
Blindly obey, aching, trapped in dismay
Disciples of hate
Serving to make your lies justified
Pre-controlled faith
Evolution denied, chaos spreading worldwide
FLAMMABLE
Music: A. Bertilsson, O.Pålsson
Lyrics: J. Fornbrant
Soul on fire, death desire, spirit in flames
Violent combustion going off inside my brain
Reacting to an inside fire
Raw emotion burns
Manic urge returns
Spreading to the outside world and raging uncontrolled
Moral insurrection, compassion overthrown
Reacting to an inside fire
Raw emotion burns
Manic urge returns
The state of my mind
Always in flux
Cold suppressed feelings ignite
Fuel for thought
A feast for my eyes
Homes are burning in the night
Safety set alight
Suffering the agony of paranoia’s reign
Searing like the wildfire that’s running through my veins
Reacting to an inside fire
Raw emotion burns
Manic urge returns
ANTIDOTE
Music: A. Bertilsson, A. Jakobson, O.Pålsson
Lyrics: A. Bertilsson
A painful, drawn-out death
You’ll get what’s coming your way
Merely a fraction of the suffering that you have caused
You’ve led a double life, of torture, rape and murder
Sadistic acts, carried out in bursts of rage
In this world, there’s no cure for your sickness
Our time, poisoned, plagued by your existence
Death is all you see... in these endless fields of misery!
...When you’re done...
Another life has ended
Are you proud? Do you feel satisfied?
A helpless victim builds a sense of power in you
But that power will soon be ripped to shreds!
In this world, there’s no cure for your sickness
Every human poisoned, plagued by your existence
Death is all you see... in these endless fields of misery!
(Solo: A. Bertilsson)
They died in vain, enduring sickening pain
Your victims, all slain, to you it is a game
Never felt shame, since media gives you fame
“Murderer” is your name, and you deserve all blame!
In this world, there’s no cure for your sickness
Everything... poisoned, plagued by your existence
Death is all you see... in these endless fields of misery!
THEY CRAWL INSIDE ME UNINVITED
Music: A. Alvinzi
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
Mass indoctrination, I am enslaved
Their sanctuary is my grave
Mind configuration, to fit the mold
Warm blood traded for cold
They crawl inside me uninvited
To feed on me
They crawl inside me uninvited
Like hungry worms
No consideration, their mind is set
Sweep the waters with their net
Effective suffocation, all life is drained
They believe in purity through pain
Altered state, altered mind
They burn my eyes 'til I'm blind
Altered state of my mind
I am raped by the divine
They crawl inside me uninvited
To feed on me
They crawl inside me uninvited
Like hungry worms
Mass indoctrination, I am enslaved
Their sanctuary is my grave
Mind configuration, to fit the mold
Warm blood traded for cold
Altered state, altered mind
They burn my eyes 'til I'm blind
Altered state of my mind
I am raped by the divine
WAITING FOR BUILDINGS TO COLLAPSE
Music: A. Jakobson
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
In my mind, there is a voice
It tells me to destroy the world
It’s all right, I love debris
I love to see things fall apart
Rampage, I'm in a rage
I can’t wait to tear it down
Watch out, evacuate
Before I kill you by mistake
Scanning the skies for a sign
Waiting for buildings to collapse
In my mind, there is a mess
All tangled up and black as death
It’s all right, ‘cause I love death
And the smell of burning things
Annihilate, I cannot wait
My mission is yet not complete
I'm insane, I see that now
I think the voice is really mine
Scanning the skies for a sign
Waiting for buildings to collapse
I want to see the world in ruins, going up in flames
Laughing maliciously
Waiting for buildings to collapse
I am insane, my mind is set to blow
Madness reigns, soon the world will know
Scanning the skies for a sign
Waiting for buildings to collapse
I want to see the world in ruins, going up in flames
Laughing maliciously
Waiting for buildings to collapse
HEART SHAPED VIOLENCE
Music: A. Alvinzi, O. Pålsson
Lyrics: A. Jakobson
She sees the darkness
Breeding inside his rotten soul
She fears the sickness
Bleeding black as fear unfolds
Blood splattered wedding dance
This heart shaped violence
Literal masquerade
A dark secret carved in the heart
Must maintain the charade
Until death will do them apart
Saw herself in white
Seduced by the power of love
Kissed the fist goodnight
The white now soiled with her blood
Can't stand the decadence
She prays for the silence
Literal masquerade
A dark secret carved in the heart
Must maintain the charade
Until death will do them apart
A victim of an evil rage
She wants to stay alive
Walking on the razor’s edge
Guarding a dead hive
Drowning in a wave of hate
Slowly erasing her life
Until nothing remains
Marching to her dreadful fate
Slowly twisting the knife
In the stinking remains
She sees the darkness
Breeding inside his rotten soul
She fears the sickness
Bleeding black as fear unfolds
Blood splattered wedding dance
This heart shaped violence
Literal masquerade
A dark secret carved in the heart
Must maintain the charade
Until death will do them apart
GENERATIONS DECAY
Music: A. Jakobson, O. Pålsson, A. Bertilsson
Lyrics: J. Fornbrant
Memories fade, all swept away
In floods of poisonous rain
In a futureless land, our time is at hand
The spoils of apocalypse ours
We are cold, we are forlorn
Usurping mankind's throne
Society set ablaze
The world all up in flames
Humanity wasting away, abandoning civilized ways
Generations decay
Brimming with hate, lamenting our fate
Living the curse of survival
Compassion erased, all laid to waste
Chaos the natural order
We are cold, we are forlorn
The bastard sons of war
Society set ablaze
The world all up in flames
Humanity wasting away, abandoning civilized ways
Generations decay
From silence and darkness they were born
To walk the earth broken and worn
Rid of empathy, not knowing peace
The misery will never cease
From radiated lands arise
Forever death walks by their side
Dreams of the future fade and die...
The Doomsayer's Call
TRACKS
1. A New Era
2. The Reprobate
3. The Glass Envelope
4. Flesh World
5. Murderous
6. Pessimist
7. Monochrome Existence
8. Vacuum Fields
9. Living is Suffering
10. The Walls Of Eryx
11. Violent Society
12. Becoming The Stench
13. The Phantom Carriage
INFORMATION
Full length album released by Listenable Records, February 13, 2012.
• Drums recorded December 2010 at Soundlab Studios, Örebro, Sweden by Anders Jakobson.
• Guitars and bass recorded January 2011 at Ülgnor Studios, Örebro, Sweden by Johan Berglund.
• Vocals recorded January 2011 at Coldworker Studios, Örebro, Sweden by Anders Jakobson.
• Jason Netherton’s guest vocals on "The Reprobate" recorded January 2011 at Cell Block Studios, Kent Island, Maryland, US by Darin Morris.
• Mixed and mastered February 2011 at Unisound, Örebro, Sweden by Dan Swanö.
• Outro by Oskar Pålsson.
• Band photo by Terése Andersson.
• Artwork by Pär Olofsson.
• Design by Anders Jakobson.
• Coldworker logo and symbol by Anders Jakobson.
STUFF TO READ
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• Track by track
• Reviews
• Studiodiary
A Tribute to Nasum
TRACKS
1. Coldworker - Den mörka tiden
2.-53. A lot of bands!
INFORMATION
A Tribute to Nasum released by Power-It-Up on LP/CD November 2009.
• Recorded in Coldworker Studios October 2008 by Anders Jakobson.
• Guitars re-recorded in Ülgnor Studios, April 2009 by Johan Berglund.
• Mixed by Johan Berglund.
• Featuring Rickard Alriksson on backing vocals
STUFF TO READ
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Split with Deathbound
TRACKS
Coldworker:
1. Identify with the Aggressor
2. Cold World Paranoia
Deathbound:
1. Contributing with Social Sickness
2. Routine Life
INFORMATION
7" split EP released by Power-It-Up August 2009.
• Tracks recorded during the "Rotting Paradise" session in December 2007. Drums recorded at Soundlab Studios by Anders Bertilsson and Anders Jakobson. Soundcheck engineering by Dan Swanö and Niklas Källgren. Drum tuning by Peter Damin. Guitars recorded at Studio Ülgnor by Johan Berglund, Anders Bertilsson and Daniel Schröder. Bass recorded at A Noble Home by Anders Jakobson. Vocals recorded at Coldworker Studios by Anders Jakobson.
• Mixed and mastered December 2007-January 2008 at Unisound by Dan Swanö
• Cover artwork, Coldworker and CW logos by Anders Jakobson.
• Band photo by Terése Andersson.
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• Track by track
Tribute to Repulsion
TRACKS
1. Afgrund - Splattered Cadavers
2. Belching Beet - House of Freaks
3. Blockheads - Horrified
4. Cephalic Carnage - Decomposed
5. Coldworker - Crematorium
6. Collision - Six Feet Under
7. Cretin - Eaten Alive
8. Fondlecorpse - Crypt of Terror
9. General Surgery - Maggots in your Coffin
10. Goregast - Lurking (the) Fear
11. Grind Crusher - Festering Boils
12. Impaled - Helga (Lost her head)
13. Inhume - Acid Bath
14. Haemophagus - Excruciation
15. Hamorrhage - The Stench of Burning Death
16. Looking For An Answer - Driven to Insanity
17. Machetazo - Pestilent Decay
18. Mindflair - Repulsion
19. Nashgul - Slaughter of the Innocent
20. Necromorph - Something Dead
21. World Downfall - Rebirth
INFORMATION
Tribute to Repulsion released by FDA Rekotz on LP July 2009, CD December 2009.
• Recorded in Coldworker Studios October 2008 by Anders Jakobson.
• Guitars re-recorded in Ülgnor Studios, April 2009 by Johan Berglund.
• Mixed by Johan Berglund.
• Featuring Rickard Alriksson on backing vocals
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Rotting Paradise
TRACKS
1. Reversing the Order
2. Citizens of the Cyclopean Maze
3. Symptoms of Sickness
4. The Black Dog Syndrome
5. Comatose State
6. Paradox Lost
7. The Last Bitter Twist
8. Seizures
9. The Machine
10. I am the Doorway
11. Scare Tactics
12. Deliverance of the Rejected
Japanese edition
1. Reversing the Order
2. Citizens of the Cyclopean Maze
3. Symptoms of Sickness
4. The Black Dog Syndrome
5. Comatose State
6. Paradox Lost
7. The Last Bitter Twist
8. Seizures
9. The Machine
10. I am the Doorway
11. Scare Tactics
12. Deliverance of the Rejected
13. Necromancer (Sepultura cover)
INFORMATION
• "Rotting Paradise" was recorded in December 2007. Drums recorded at Soundlab Studios by Anders Bertilsson and Anders Jakobson. Soundcheck engineering by Dan Swanö and Niklas Källgren. Drum tuning by Peter Damin. Guitars recorded at Studio Ülgnor by Johan Berglund, Anders Bertilsson and Daniel Schröder. Bass recorded at A Noble Home by Anders Jakobson. Vocals recorded at Coldworker Studios by Anders Jakobson.
• Mixed and mastered December 2007-January 2008 at Unisound by Dan Swanö
• Cover artwork and design by Orion Landau.
• Coldworker and CW logos by Anders Jakobson.
• Band photo by Terése Andersson.
Vinyl editions
• 300 copies in yellow vinyl
• 300 copies in red vinyl
• 300 copies in white with red splatter vinyl
• 100 copies in clear vinyl (not for sale)
From Relapse.com
Coldworker has evolved into a finely tuned Swedish death metal machine on its second full-length Rotting Paradise. Rotting Paradise balances modern metal brutality, and distinctly European flourishes of metallic grandeur to form the quintessential Swedish death metal album for a new century of extremity.
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Pig Destroyer/Coldworker/Antigama
TRACKS
1. Pig Destroyer - Abaraxas Annihilation
2. Pig Destroyer - Understand
3. Coldworker - Far Beyond Driven
4. Antigama - Zoom
INFORMATION
Limited (1000 copies) 3-way split 7" EP with Japanese bonus tracks from Pig Destroyer, Coldworker and Antigama. Only available from the Relapse store with any purchase from the featured bands.
• Recorded June 6 - June 24 2006 by Coldworker at Coldworker Studios, Örebro, Sweden. Additional guitars recorded in The House of Alvinzi, Arboga, Sweden by André Alvinzi.
• Mixed June 26 - July 5 2006 by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Örebro, Sweden.
• Mastered July 10 2006 by Peter In de Betou at Tailor Maid Production, Spånga, Sweden.
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The Contaminated Void
CD cover
LP cover
TRACKS
1. The Interloper
2. D.E.A.D.
3. An Unforgiving Season
4. The Contaminated Void
5. Death Smiles At Me
6. A Custom-made Hell
7. Return To Ashes
8. Strain At The Leash
9. Flammable
10. Antidote
11. They Crawl Inside Me Uninvited
12. Waiting For Buildings To Collapse
13. Heart Shaped Violence
14. Generations Decay
Japanese edition
1. The Interloper
2. D.E.A.D.
3. An Unforgiving Season
4. The Contaminated Void
5. Death Smiles At Me
6. A Custom-made Hell
7. Return To Ashes
8. Far Beyond Driven (bonus track)
9. Strain At The Leash
10. Flammable
11. Antidote
12. They Crawl Inside Me Uninvited
13. Waiting For Buildings To Collapse
14. Heart Shaped Violence
15. Generations Decay
INFORMATION
• Recorded June 6 - June 24 2006 by Coldworker at Coldworker Studios, Örebro, Sweden. Additional guitars recorded in The House of Alvinzi, Arboga, Sweden by André Alvinzi.
• Mixed June 26 - July 5 2006 by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Örebro, Sweden.
• Mastered July 10 2006 by Peter In de Betou at Tailor Maid Production, Spånga, Sweden.
• Band photo: Robert Johansson
• Album artwork: Orion Landau
Vinyl editions
• 600 copies in white vinyl
• 300 copies in grey vinyl
• 100 copies in clear vinyl (not for sale)
From Relapse.com
Sweden's Coldworker storms out of the gates with it's debut The Contaminated Void. Conceived and created by Anders Jakobson (of the legendary Nasum) and his hand-picked selection of burgeoning metal players, Coldworker's razor-sharp attack is destined to send shockwaves through the international extreme scene. The Contaminated Void's fourteen tracks swarm with equal parts crushing riffs, blazing speed, and menacing vocal onslaughts. Outrageously agile guitars balance melodic leads with relentless aggression. From start to finish, The Contaminated Void burns with a ferocity and intensity rarely seen in any genre of metal. Simply stated, Coldworker and The Contaminated Void is among the finest Scandinavian metal this side of the 21st century.
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