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Rating: Great party, really. Everything. There was everything. Really everything. 5:12 AM. Now, however, we have to face the return. We have an hour of road ahead, Gazz and I. I feel like a squirrel, I want to climb the cypress trees in the garden, agile, with an alien in my head pounding on my skullcap, yet agile. Gazz is feeling bad. He's mostly been drinking, but his expression reveals a desire for death, amplified by his whitish complexion, the rivulets of sweat on his scarred forehead, and his beer-mixed-acid breath. I'm driving. I'm feeling fine, my reflexes are decent even though my only clear memory of the party is my friend's dog's tongue in my mouth. We get in the car. Gazz has perched two super-soft tissue papers on his forehead, perfectly outlining the sweat halo. He sighs. That sigh of someone who can't take it anymore, who just wants to get rid of the rubbish ingested earlier. He pants repeatedly, deeply, I sense he'll soon throw up. We start off. The road is clear, a cold night but no ice, no one around. "They knew we were out", Gazz repeats "no one will stop us... no one, take me home now baby". That phrase makes me think, I look at him dozing with half-closed eyes, and I see him totally different, he called me baby, I almost want to take him and kiss his forehead, covered with the carcasses of the tissue papers. I quickly return my thoughts to the road. A police patrol now would be a blow to the head, but let's not think about it. After 5 minutes I realize we have no music.
I grab a random CD, I can't see the titles, I want some music to keep me company. The CD starts. Electric Wizard is fine, I leave it, I watch Gazz, he hears the music and relives it in his state. VINUM SABBATHI - "Slave to the Black Drug" sings Gazz. As he twists on the seat in his discomfort. He's still relatively okay, but we still have a long way to go. FUNERALOPOLIS - "maggots, maggots", despite the catatonic state, he remembers some words, he relives them... WEIRD TALES - This is long, he can't keep up, he loses it and starts crying, can't control himself... BARBARIAN - Despite the tears, he returns to the almost real world, I hear a gurgle followed by "Master"... I, THE WITCHFINDER - He repeats infinitely "Albaino, Albaino, Albaino"... We're almost there, not much left. Strangely I start feeling more lucid, I'm getting bored of the road, light a cigarette to cover the smell of his deadly breath and the acid rising up my stomach. It reaches my mouth just as I inhale, I open the window and spit. Gazz continues to pant. "Shall we stop?" I ask. "Take me home baby!" he repeats. WE HATE YOU - Gazz stops talking, lets this hit flow without warbling, lets himself go... DOPETHRONE - A few kilometers left and he feels he'll soon be home, happiness is visible on his round face. The sweat on his face is almost gone.
We arrive at the gate of the house. "So here we are. Get well, see you tomorrow." "Ciuertho thi fhiamo ighoo"... I turn sharply. What is that cryptic alphabet that flows from his tongue? I think of what I'm listening to, some dark rite and Black Sabbath but the answer hides inside the mouth, full of rotten alcohol mixed with appetizers returned from where they entered. I get pissed off, I kick him out with his mouth overflowing with vomit and leave him there, in front of the house gate, ring the bell and leave. Tomorrow is another day.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Vinum Sabbathi (03:06)
Extracted essence of the stones
Narcotic of the faceless ones
I awake on planet black
Freezing moon, no turnin back
Forbidden sorcery
Vinum sabbathi
Now i'm a slave to the black drug
Forced to serve this black god
I thought myself a master of the arts
This dimension of misery is my penance
Forbidden sorcery
Vinum sabbathi
(repeat to the end)
04 Barbarian (06:29)
[sample: "The wizard..."]
He left the northern hills to seek his fortune
A lone barbarian with only death lust to guide
He carved a kingdom of stone
King Conan, sitting on his bloody throne
His black mane sweeps across his face
Grim and silent with a steely blue gaze
Like a panther ready to strike
His blade crashes down to end your life
Conan rules with an iron fist
Many people, they look up to him
??
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
Master swordsman of Hyborian Age
His name is legend to this very day
Even gods cower when his sword is unleashed
Nothing dare face him, neither man or beast
Cut a bloody swathe across this battlefield
Red mist rising, break your human shield
Slashed to pieces is to be your fate
Unleash berserker rage none shall escape
Conan rules with an iron fist
Many people, they look up to him
??
You think you're civilized, but you'll never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You'll never understand
05 I, the Witchfinder (11:03)
I am Albino, evil witchfinder
I'll cleanse her sins,
For witchcraft I condomn her
My implements of torture are bloody red
Your confession to sorcery will leave you dead
I am Albino, evil witchfinder
I know she's guilty before I find her
I'll pierce her flesh to find this mark
Torture, my pleasure, true servant of the dark
I... The Witchfinder (repeat very often)
07 We Hate You (05:08)
A seed of hate from the day I was born
My right to vengeance from me has been torn
Hopeless and drugged - my black emotions seethe
Loveless and cold - my hate begins to breed.
Black nebula, seething in my brain
Then your fucking world brings me down again
So i'll take my fathers gun and i walk down to the street
I'll have my vengeance now with everyone I meet, yeah!
A seed of hate from the day I was born
My right to vengeance from me has been torn
Hopeless and drugged - my black emotions seethe
Loveless and cold - my hate begins to breed.
We... hate you! (repeat to the end)
08 Dopethrone (20:48)
Dope priest prophecy
Doomantra from beneath the sea
Green throne, raised to the black sun
Doom child, wake to planet song
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Feedback will free your mind and set you free
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Riff hewn altar wreathed in smoke and weed
Dopethrone, in this land of sorcery
Dopethrone, vision through T.H.C.
Dopethrone, feedback will free
Dopethrone, three wizards crowned with weed, yeah
Black monolith charged with unlight
Sacrifice to forever midnight
Towers, titan sonic wave
Sorcery, necromantic slaves
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Feedback will free your mind and set you free
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Riff hewn altar wreathed in smoke and weed, yeah
Dopethrone, in this land of sorcery
Dopethrone, vision through T.H.C., yeah
Dopethrone, feedback will free, yeah
Dopethrone, three wizards crowned with weed, yeah
In this land of sorcery
Vision through T.H.C.
Holy feedback, it will free
Three wizards crowned with weed
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Smoke
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