#312: Counter - A Better Tomorrow

Counter

A Better Tomorrow

Genre: Deathcore

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A Better Tomorrow on: Facebook Free Christian Deathcore Compilation

Love, and be like Christ,

it's the only way to save our soul. Love.

I know in this world it can be quite hard
to express Christ love and get very far,
but we can't give up, no we can't give up,
it's our duty to show his love.

In this place so full of hate,
it's so hard to communicate,
mention your a Christian and you get shut down,
ignorance is so profound.

The devil is full of hatred and our God overflowing with love.
Our God has mercy, power, and glory,
but the devil has nothing.
I will live his mercy, I will live his love.

We must show Christ love.

Hate will not rule this world.
Hate will not rule this world.
Hate is a tool that's used by the devil,
manipulates your soul and drags you to hell.
I will not be manipulated by your hatred.

This world is full of hate but I will not hate it back.
We must love one another to survive.
This world is full of hate but I will not hate it back.

#311: Falling Stars - This Divided World

Falling Stars

This Divided World

Genre: Deathcore

This Divided World on: Facebook BandCamp (Free Album Download)

The great deceiver leads the elect away

With false prophecy and false doctrine
And in the end he doesn't care who dies
Because in the end we all are crucified

Like dominoes their statues fall to your lies
Falling, crashing to the Earth
Welcome to your temporary inheritance

A giant hand sweeps the darkness across
And the sheep run but the Shepherd is strong
Much of this world caves, and is led away to a broad road
Filled with luke-warm waters, drink to your heart's content

Oh deceiver, oh liar, oh falling star
Your cunning lies are not enough for me

I will enter through the gates from where you fell
I will walk and live where you will never walk again

You are the father of lies, your heart's the birthplace of sin
You are the father of lies

He will regain all that you stole
Where Love is you cannot go

Where I am destined you are turned away
For the Gatekeeper will not know your face
As you have chosen to not know His
The gatekeeper will not know your face

You are not able to return
From where you fell
For you have chosen
The path of pride that leads to Hell

Lies are your eulogy

#310: Derived From Misery - Eyes Of The Defiled

Derived From Misery

Eyes Of The Defiled

Genre: Deathcore

Eyes of the Defiled on: Facebook BandProfile - Free EP Download

You have betrayed me once again...

but I fear that this is where it all ends (where it all ends)
I've let you slip away from my hands (from my hands)

Now you're all alone and stranded
Scream for help... karma has left you abandoned

Step back... you've done enough... I can handle it from here
Step back... you've done enough... I can handle it from here

This is goodbye... for the last time
Don't ask me why you can't change my mind
Call me when your will is done
Don't ask me why you can't change my mind
Call me when your will is done

I've told you time and time again...
Take your punishment
Look at the bloodshed

I sold my soul to my savior
He gave his soul to save us all

I have come a long way... constantly looking over my shoulder
Everyone is out to get me... but I swear that this isn't over
but I swear that this isn't over

You brought this madness upon yourself
You brought this madness upon yourself
I will seek... my revenge
I will seek... my revenge... here it comes... once again

You brought this madness upon yourself (upon yourself)

#309: Aequitas - Romero

Aequitas

Romero

Genre: Deathcore/Grindcore

Romer on: Facebook (Free EP Download on BandPage!)

Never, let the blood
Of the innocent, be shed
Yet let the wicked's flow
Like a river, to carry the corpses of their dead

We don't want your hungry
Or your weak
It is evil that we seek

And with every breath that we breathe
We swear, to hunt it down

Now we end this, heretic
Abomination unto God
You hide behind your cowardice
You have taken many lives
But tonight we take back what is ours

We are the army of God
Not to be compared to legion
So as you look into my eyes
Take your final breath
And try to tell me that my God isn't real

So bless those, that live for their brothers
And curse those, who take evil as lovers

Every last soul that has been stolen
Will be avenged and justice will be claimed

So prince of this world fear us
For I will hang your corpse
As a mockery of evil

#308: Incorruptible - The Flesh of Kings

Incorruptible

The Flesh of Kings

Genre: Deathcore

The Flesh of Kings on: Facebook BandCamp (free EP download)

He was unwavering

His dedication to the King
Never faltering.
and this would be
His final legacy
to be remembered
By how he embraced the end.
No fear in the face of eternity,
& he would not be forsaken.

And ever more shall he sing in the presence of glory.
Now this corruptible must put on incorruption.

This is the fate that awaits the faithful,
EVERLASTING LIFE through the Christ,
through the willing sacrifice. PROPHESY,
this is the fate that awaits the faithful,
FOR WE WILL NEVER DIE
but shed this flesh as a filthy garment.

This life will fade away,
but unto those who remain
a judgement awaits.

And ever more shall he sing in the presence of glory
Now this corruptible has become incorruptible.

#307: Christ Wept - Cosÿns

Christ Wept

Cosÿns

Genre: Progressive Instrumental Metal

Cosÿns on: Facebook Bandcamp Reverbnation

Note: lyrics are in Morse Code.

Christ Wept

#306: David's Frozen Sword - The Order of Elijah

David's Frozen Sword

The Order of Elijah

Genre: Deathcore

The Order of Elijah on: Facebook MySpace ReverbNation

I'll turn your respect into shame

I am the murder; bind your soul, I am
I am the maker, deep in your wound, I am

And now the mountain falls on all that you've denied
A simple glance burns the retinas from your eyes

Unto this gift to die,
Is there anything that we will not take for granted?
(You are called)
Wading through all of the scars of your own life
I tell you my friends,
Death will take us all

A man must ask himself, is this what I've become?
I beg you ask just once, is this what you've become?

You were called uncalled until the time that you stood before yourself
You were called uncalled until the time that you stood before yourself

Respect, despair, and your doubt
Is what divides you from me
Respect, despair, and your doubt
Is what divides you from me

Fear not
Fear not, I'm the first, the last
What is, what was
What is, what was, what always will be
Fear not, I'm the first, the last,
The answers in your heart,
I am what was, what is, what always will be

(Sample) You're all going to die down here

I tell you once more
Death will take us all...

#305: Crucifix - Demon Hunter

Crucifix

Demon Hunter

Genre: Metalcore

Demon Hunter on: Facebook

We will trample on our children till this world is flooded red
No boundary for depravity, no silence for the dead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
We will follow vacant voices into our shallow graves
Reiterate the verses of some self-consuming slave
Now pay for the Hell that you praise

Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless error of breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world
Embodied on a thankless crucifix
Embodied on a blood-soaked crucifix

The sacrament is broken, and all I see is red
The idols of humanity, they tower overhead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
The gates have severed open, setting death upon this place
Compelling us to hope in a revolting human race
Now pay for the Hell that you praise

Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless error of breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world
Embodied on a thankless crucifix
Embodied on a blood-soaked crucifix
Thine eyes have seen

Sometimes I close my eyes to escape this crooked place
It seems these fools… well, they never learn
I guess it's easy to see the world the way I do
The emptiness is a promise, the sin is just the proof

Embodied on a thankless crucifix
Thine eyes have seen

#304: Beheaded - Demon Hunter

Beheaded

Demon Hunter

Genre: Metalcore

Demon Hunter on: Facebook

In the never-ending circle where
The powerless meet
There grows a struggle from the burden
Of sustaining defeat
In the face of every coward lies the
Blindest of hate
And in the eyes a sharpened image of
The damage they made
You look at me to bear the burden of the suffering past
It wasn't me behind the veil
Of a heartless mask
And where were you the day that everybody
Cursed your name?
You were the distant voice of pride
That never stood the shame.

The weak of the mind will use fist
And the fist of the frail will bring gun
The loudest of guns provoke bombs
And in wrath he will chase until it's done.

Your history is dead.
Dead wrong.
Dead - dead wrong.
Philosophy is dead.
Dead wrong.
Dead - dead wrong.

Within the mind of modern culture
There's an idle cog
It is the section of humanity that never forgot
And in the midst of moving forward we have given the right
To let the wolves attack the sheep and bury guilt inside
I won't forget the twisted picture of the filth that we were
Or disregard the fading voices of the people we hurt
But I was never pulling triggers or degrading your face.
Don't look at me to give the reason for the pain that you trace.

The weak of the mind will use fist
And the fist of the frail will bring gun
The loudest of guns provoke bombs
And in wrath he will chase until it's done.

Your history is dead.
Dead wrong.
Dead - dead wrong.
Philosophy is dead.
Dead wrong.
Dead - dead wrong.

The scars outlive the pain.
Reflections will remain.
The scars outlive the pain.
Your sickness will remain.

Dead - dead wrong.

#303: Wasted Time - Gethsemane

Wasted Time

Gethsemane

Genre: Hardcore/Deathcore

Gethsemane on: Facebook iTunes Free Album Download Album Lyrics

The Kingdom stands with me, I see you standing there
The Kingdom stands with me, I see you standing there
You sound like Satan

The answer's staring you in the face
Denying His commands you deny this Faith
Power that's been given from above to change the world
You're so stubborn, you're so stubborn
You're such a little girl

You've wasted so much time, it's not about you
Lead the chosen, Narrow's the gate to go through

So I'm moving on with these red letters written
These man made religion ways; you sound like Satan
'Cause we have the power and authority
and I stand here, the Kingdom stands with me
We are not of this world, we live from eternity

You deny the Glory, you call yourself a believer
You deny Glory, you deny the Maker
You're so stubborn, you're such a little girl,
You've wasted so much time, so much time
You're so stubborn, you're so stubborn
You've wasted so much time

These man made religion ways; you sound like Satan
'Cause we have the power and authority
and I stand here, the Kingdom stands with me
We are not of this world, we live from eternity
You've been wasting so much time
With the power that's been given from above
To change the world

'Cause we have the power and authority
and I stand here, the Kingdom stands with me
We are not of this world, we live from eternity
You've wasted so much time, so much,
I say when stepping away from the mirror
Away from the mirror, Father make me change

#302: Whom I Am Chief - Unto the Beast

Whom I Am Chief

Unto the Beast

Genre: Deathcore

Unto the Beast on: Facebook YouTube

I don't even know your names
and I don't care you're all the same
and I feel so inclined to state
that I'm the type of person you all should
HATE
HATE
FEAR
You all should hate me
YOU ALL SHOULD HATE ME

I am the type of man you should try and keep your
children far away from but I'm here to stand
in front of you and proclaim the life that Christ
has changed in me.

Hear me now my cry for thee is to be free from tyranny
My wrath it haunts me through the darkest of the night.

Even though spirit and flesh rage inside. My tongue
will always struggle to abide I hide not myself from the
face of the sun and boast only in the God that I love.

You hide yourself from on looking eyes and paint
on a face with church pews and tithes.
Religion means nothing when rotted inside
and though you smile and shout out your prayers
the most evil I've seen is in your private affairs
And when that mocking bird don't sing
You'll cry cuz daddy didn't buy you a ring.

Deep in my heart darkness resides in me
Fear me
Deep in my heart these chains they set me free
Fear me

I am murder I am sin
I am hatred I am Strife
I'm the fingers that grasp to the knife
I'm the gnashing of teeth in the night
I am murder I am sin

I can only boast of my God
for I have illustrated death
now I'm obliged to do what's right
for Lions lay with Lambs tonight.
Judge me not for I know I've sinned
but Christ has brought me hope again

all streams run into the sea but the sea
remains unfilled
what has been does is what will be done
there's nothing new under the sun
Of sinners I know, I am chief
I boast not myself, I boast only grief.

#301: Surface - Immortal Guardian

Surface

Immortal Guardian

Genre: Death/Power Metal

Immortal Guardian on: Facebook MySpace

Reaching, helplessly reaching for nothing

Falling, I've gone beneath the surface

Breathing, another breath could be the last

Sinking, my body sinks deeper from...

The darkness is holding me under

No one but you to save me

The bright light is shining before me

Adversity shall not overcome

Freezing, ice cold descent into the sea

Screaming, no one can hear me scream

Hoping, but no one is here to see me

Giving in, sights of the sun fade away

The darkness is holding me under

No one but you to save me

The bright light is shining before me

Adversity shall not overcome

Weakened my body fails to overcome this destiny

My destiny confined to walls of endless sea

The ocean shows no mercy to my heartfelt plea

And nothing can save me now but then I see...

You

#300: Deceiver - Impending Doom

Deceiver

Impending Doom

Genre: Deathcore

Impending Doom on: Facebook

This is the last time you'll see my face
And the last time you hear my voice
Your words are weak and pathetic and
When you speak I can see you're desperate
For attention you won't get

The filth you speak
Comes straight from Hell
Your walls are weak and I can tell

So many say this is the last generation
Pray you die before you're part of the last ones
Follow me and the ending signs
Come and cone in the blink of an eye
The first evil has already fallen
The voice below soon will be calling
Stay cold, you will never die
Stay cold, you were never alive

The filth you speak
Comes straight from Hell
Your walls are weak and I can tell

The filth you speak
Comes straight from Hell
Your walls are weak and we can tell

When you're dead and gone
No one will be there but the snake
The devil, deceiver, unholy one

No more cliches or empty explanations
No need to waste my breath on the situation
You disguise yourself as someone you're not
A facade to boost your little ego
The first evil has already fallen
The voice below soon will be calling
Stay cold, you will never die
Stay cold, you were never alive

Dead bodies stacked ten feet tall
Now the devil's at your funeral

#299: Blood Money - My Heart to Fear

Blood Money

My Heart to Fear

Genre: Metalcore

My Heart to Fear on: Facebook MyHeart2Fear.com

Why do we paint the walls of our churches
With the tears of the starving children
Your genocide establishment

Day by day,
You grow more complacent
Night by night,
The money's wasted
Repent, repent
Where is your heart

Look me in the face
Tell me that you're doing all you can to show God's grace
You are the disease;
We are the vaccine

The lies hung above your head
Are the millstone to break your neck
In the end all your wealth
Will only be coals
That fuel the fire
To burn down your walls
All of your wealth
Will only be coals
That fuel the fire
To burn down your walls

Where is your heart
I disassociate all of your mistakes
From what I represent here on this stage
And when the day is done
Where are the ones you loved
All I see are dollar signs scribed on every page

You are the disease
Love is the vaccine
Where is your heart

#298: Justifiers - Ace Augustine

Justifiers

Ace Augustine

Genre: Metalcore

Ace Augustine on: Facebook MySpace

I've been to the bottom, where I fought my past.
Reaping the silence is how I finished last.
Go away, you've done your damage here.
Leave this place, you've cost us so much fear.

All these days I've been hiding from you, from the truth.
The weight that my heart holds is devastating.
You fooled me once, you've fooled me twice.
And to think I'd fall for your games again.
Abandon your cargo, this place is rigged.

To my Father, You've seen the worst in me.
Captive inside this place, the blueprints failed me, there's no escape.
Captive inside this place, the blueprints failed me, there's no escape.

Where will I go when I'm gone?
Where will I turn to in these hard times?
For Jesus Christ, my savior.
I've found my home and it lies in You... lies in You.

I'll stand my ground, I am who I am, and you won't change me.
I'll stand my ground, I am who I am, and you won't change me.
I'll stand my ground, I am who I am, and you won't change me.

He who will not reflect is a broken man.
Who are you to judge me, your lies are spilling through your eyes.
Who are you to judge me, your lies are spilling through your eyes.
The tables have turned (the tables have turned),
I'm not your pawn (your pawn), I won't play games any longer.

#297: Controller - Convalesce

Controller

Convalesce

Genre: Hardcore

Convalesce on: Facebook YouTube BandCamp

Download their EP: pay what you want on BandCamp ($5+, sadly no longer free)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1WcuG8aih4

Hold on, my God is on its way
I swear help is on its way
I've been there before
dead on the inside
I've been lost without a cause
I've been left alone
without a place to call my home

Pick yourself up
as it pulls you down again
it's not its victory to claim
Controller, Controller
It is all it is
Build to bring you down
to turn you inside out
Controller and nothing more

As you're drowning deeper and deeper
the water reaches your neck
just hold on to your breath
my God is on its way

I've been there before
dead on the inside
I've been lost without a cause
I've been left alone
Without a place to call my home

Pick yourself up
as it pulls you down again
it's not its victory to claim
Controller, Controller
and nothing more

Hold on my God is on its way
I swear help is on its way
Hold on, my God is on its way
I swear help is on its way

I've been there before
dead on the inside
I've been lost without a cause
I've been left alone
without a place to call my home
But I've found EVERLASTING LOVE
PASSION, SHELTER, DIRECTION
I've found a KING above it all

Wait it out
for this one last time
Just wait it out
my dear just wait it out
For one day
O glorious day
our Father's promise
will bring us home again

glory to our God Almighy
glory to our Lord and Savior

#296: Embrasive Betrayal (Judas' Kiss) - Unto The Beast

Embrasive Betrayal (Judas' Kiss)

Unto The Beast

Genre: Deathcore

Unto The Beast on: Facebook YouTube

Edit note: this is a Christian band. The band's explanation for their song (and a general QA) can be found on their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Q1Xx6NDnBxg#t=265s

You all can run your mouths, my ears are slowly burning
You all can bite your tongue, my wish is your mouth sired and rotting
I'll have the last words when your teeth have grinded from the lying
You'll wish you never said a word my life has not recited.
You powerless shells of men, your words are worthless
You've all become stains to my ears, if you know what's good for you
you'll lie in silence

And if you try and speak again, I'll break a bat off against your grin
And if you ever try and speak again, I'll break a bat off against your grin

I'll put a bit in your mouth, and watch you choke on your words
(You spoke again)
I'll feed you your lies, and watch you choke on words, I'll give you something to truly despise
(I despise you)

I'll rip you from limb to limb disemboweling your wretched skin
I'll cut off your head and let it roll reconstructing your last perspective
The ice in your veins won't match the venom in mine
You look much prettier when you are dead

I'll take your eyes and lead you through the milky halls of the blind
I'll take your teeth and starvation will laugh as you try to eat from mine.

Who's got the last Now?

I will become your worst nightmare
You will be found dead in the night
No one will even come looking
Cuz no one will notice the plight

SIT. DOWN.
I wanna make this last

This is far from over, we have only just begun
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a lying scum
Be he live or be he dead, I'll grind your bones to make my bread
Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a lying scum

I'll take your tongue and clean out your mouth with the blood from your lungs
I'll take your feet to a carpet of glass, this can't be solved with guns
You say you look back at the times we had fondly
I'll dice you to bits with the knives I have on me
You're life's about to end can't you see?

Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a lying scum
Be he live or be he Dead, I like you best without a head.

#295: One for All - In the Midst of Lions

One for All

In the Midst of Lions

Genre: Metalcore

In the Midst of Lions on: Facebook MySpace

Oppressed and afflicted, yet silent he remained.
A lamb led to the slaughter, He kept his mouth shut.
My sorrow he carried, for he had none.

His blood rained down on me, and now it dwells within.
Rain down on me!
A perfect creation, we tarnished that name.
(there's a line here, but I can't transcribe it and lyrics I found didn't include it)
I am undeserving.

Oppressed and afflicted, yet silent he remained.
A lamb led to the slaughter, he kept his mouth shut.
My sorrow he carried, for he had none.

I give you my life, because of all you gave.
My God, You gave me everything.
A perfect creation, we tarnished that name.
(there's a line here, but I can't transcribe it and lyrics I found didn't include it)
I am undeserving.

One for all.
We are the undeserving. One for all.
We deserve death, but you give us life.

Oppressed and afflicted, yet silent he remained.
A lamb led to the slaughter, he kept his mouth shut.

#294: Vengeance - The Devil Wears Prada

Vengeance

The Devil Wears Prada

Genre: Metalcore

The Devil Wears Prada on: Facebook MySpace

You are a sickness: My only sincere plague.
Is this what you've worked for? Running your false empire to the ground.
What is this substance that made your very own morals change?

It's gone a little too far to turn back now. (turn back now)
It's gone a little too far to turn back.
Always running I am the outcast. Keep running, keep running away.

On to the next one, how can you have no shame?
Gone (gone) is your reason, think of from where you came. (where you came)
God as my witness, there will be no love lost.

This is my vengeance: From here on out it's no regrets.
You are my sickness: I gave it all my very best.
This is my vengeance: From here on out it's no regrets.
You are my sickness: I gave it all my very best. (my very best)

It's gone a little too far to turn back now. (turn back now)
It's gone a little too far to turn back. Always running I am the outcast.
It's gone a little too far to turn back now. (it's gone a little too far) (turn back now)
It's gone a little too far to turn back. Always running I am the outcast.
Keep running, keep running away.

On to the next one, driven by what you gain. Broken honor, you came and you went.

We're just another crack in the wall, here with no love lost. (no love lost)