Decaying - Encirclement (2012) [Full Album] 

20:16 - 5. - Battle Of The Somme Receiving orders Down from the high command With plans to move forward Once again in this mess they call war Final words were shed In this hell, this battlefield Machine guns will not fail As the bullet rain hits the flesh Endless casualties Over one million dead Obsolete tactics blended with Modern armament Entrenched In the battle of Somme The indecisive event Once a morbid mess Blood spilled everywhere Thousands of men now lay dead First battle to introduce tanks An unforgiving hell Fighting for the fatherland Desperately making a stand Trench warfare supreme All the divisions clash Indecisive result Nobody in benefit Five months of bloodbath The fierce fighting for the Somme The startup of the encounter First day of July, unbelieveable carnage toward the brits Exit the trench when the order is whistled Few seconds to live, machine gun torrents mow you to bits The failures on the tactical side Human wave assault, the death toll will mount Unprepared for the misery - just a mad waste of human lives What's the price for a mile? Is there any substance behind bravery and honour? To enter the no man's land Or to die in the distress of those trench lines Unable to reach the objectives Set by the old men around the stuffed tables Experiencing the hell, horrors of war Depending on luck, not on reason 26:22 - 6. - Conclusion Feel the rope tieing around your neck No more luck, this will be the end All the things accomplished Now withered and vaporized From ashes to ashes From dust to dust Now just losing control And watching as it falls apart Not once in a lifetime The opportunity nobody had Offered salvation Through a upsetting revolution Losing grip, the end - it draws near Turning insane, increasing fear Paranoia and hopelessness The nation razed to the ground Staring the papers Trapped inside Should I let go? Who can be trusted? The final blow Full society collapse The foundations shake Tyranny cripples down Useless appointments Before the overclass Elite, organized groups Now just meaningless, meaningless Once strenght in numbers Grimly deceased Rulers are gone Enemy at the gates Hopeless people In ongoing chaos What can be done The options are non-existant, they are gone The occupier The celebrated victory World renowned salvation In the general people's eyes One tyranny has fallen While the other grew stronger The worldwide balance Not greatly improved Feel the rope tieing around your neck No more luck, this will be the end All the things accomplished Now withered and vaporized From ashes to ashes From dust to dust Now just losing control And watching as it falls apart 35:19 - 7. - On The Path Of Subjugation Frozen bodies Lines of destroyed tanks Cold and relentless Weather unforgiving Fierce winter warfare against Operant guerilla movements Charging the Mannerheim line With a three to one force ratio During the phoney war, 1939 Others stay far away Waiting for the imminent to happen Stalin's orders Written in the secret pact, The spheres of influence Allowing the Soviet advance Alleged shellings The excuse of Mainila Given as a reason to conduct the campaign And to spread the thought, to annex the land Preparations for a parade Bad failure, embarrassment Forty degrees below zero One shot, instant freeze Alligned to head forward To heed the generals' inexperienced pleas Affected by the Great Purge Encircled to an massive extent Never ending areas of forests and snow Failing to subjugate, major surprise for Kreml Frozen bodies Lines of destroyed tanks Cold and relentless Weather unforgiving Fierce winter warfare against Operant guerilla movements Charging the Mannerheim line Experience the Winter War

40:24 - 8. - The Hell Of Verdun Cold calculations With plans to bleed the French army white Forcing to a defensive stance Launch the indelible insanity War of attrition Colossal borbarment strike will begin Erich von Falkenhayn The architecht of it all Solid preperations on the German side Vast amounts of weaponry and equipment Artillery in form Naval guns, thousands of cannons - big berthas in use Howitzers lined up, millions of shells in store Railways built before, everything geared up For the first nine hours of immensive fire Starting it like never witnessed before Expecting to move at a rapid rate Harsh, muddy soil Shelled to shambles Unexpected resistance The French are defending it at all costs Capturing Fort Douaumont "Without a shot" Closing the village In heavy snowfall "They shall not pass" Supplying through the sacred way Arriving to the meat grinder Into the hell of Verdun To the hell Of Verdun Initial plans of this operation Gericht Not so fulfilled, resulting in a mess Trying to reach all the forts, strongpoints of Verdun The resistance was strong, losses turn out to be high Poison gasses spread over, Flamethrowers annihilate Going over the top The rats are eating the rotting corpses The stench of death is overbearing Soldiers exhausted, grinded to the muddy soil The stench of death is overbearing French finally succeed at repelling Pushing those Prussian scums back They're now struggling for Le Mort-Homme Battling over hill 304 War of attrition Desperation, on village Fleaury Eventually charging for fort Souville Catastrophic bloodshed Resulting in useless battle Mincing machine of Verdun Determination to hold ground At any cost, misfortune for one Misfortune for one Started it like never seen before, then Slaughtered witlessly in this great abattoir Laying in their muddy graves 48:09 - 9. - Public Enlightenment Feed on the information Lines of data sent straight to your brain Reading it so blindly, a necessity to gather knowledge Follow the news, and all the papers you hold trustful Hear the politicians speak and adopt to their vision so true The public's opinion is fragile Always controlled by the machinery hidden so well Behind the curtains of the so-called free, unbiased media Which the interest groups aim to heavily dictate From a child to adult, environment guides the direction Shaping the starting point, later just to be enhanced They say that you live in a world without any worries Where everything is going to a right direction, no matter what Pictures, articles, video footage, the truth All they have to offer is that one, narrow-minded view Limiting information Propaganda, public enlightenment A constant stream of different agendas The people's opinion is fragile Always controlled by the machinery hidden Behind the curtains of the so-called free and unbiased media Which the interest groups aim heavily to dictate, deceit 55:41 - 10. - The Rising Sun Rising to arms An glorified existence The empire of the rising sun Above all, the choices were set To expansion "All the world under one roof" Expanding the territory To boost the industrial strenght Gaining more influence And seeking space from the near west The conqueror of the seas Their mighty fleet Full control of the Pacific Sea Seems at first unstoppable force Devastation in Pearl Harbour Astonishing the Allied corps "May the sacred one lead Respect the divine" Destined to rule the whole world By the sacred emperor The descedant of the sun goddess Entitled to dominate Seized the occasion First rapid area control Then plans to defend To wipe out the US force "Greater East Asia war" Conflict in multiple theaters Invading China A puppet state on the way Staking a claim to the sea A race for the superioty Two fleets engage Offering an flying assault Kamikaze squadrons Soldiers willing to sacrifice To the bitter end, for the greater cause Truculent crusaders Gruesome jungle affrays No surrender in sight The enemy is too weak To the bitter end, for the greater cause Old traditions will not ever expire Once designed for domination After all the sun will always ascend The rising sun