Celtic Frost

Rex Irae (Requiem: Overture – Fourth Version)

Celtic Frost

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Into The Pandemonium (1987)

Rex Irae (Requiem: Overture – Fourth Version) testo

[INTRODUCTION: Rex Irae …]
[DREAM ENCOUNTER:(King Wrath)(Dream Voice)]

You …… have joined your father’s feast
Those who saw: Essence or fall
Floods of dramatic silence
And words, from whom we don’t know

[OVERTURE/KING WRATH:]

Let me dream …
Flee from false …
I have tasted the weight of lust
My hands on the skein of height
… A pallid death
Mirage into dark
The horizons echo your glance
Following a detractive sleep
I am the wrath beneath the heavens
The downfall’s monologue
Fallen into the vision of effect
Quiet as gods can be
(Joining the king’s words)Orgies of fear
lnbreeding and death
I have walked Carthagia’s sands
l’ve touched those buried walls
I am the …
All mortal is love?
Remembrance has won
Breathing glorified innonce
Quiescence has died therefore
I am the …

[REMEMBRANCE I:]

We stood before the portals of Babylon
And saw it’s petrified fall
… Have seen your decline’s symbols
But carried another life
We tasted the wine of Persepolis,
As mute as our era’s breath
Death was never a fragment of
Exalting fantasy …

[REMEMBRANCE III (?):]

This last region – Last of fire
Orgasmic cries – Tears and words
Wrath and strenght – Oh, gods! For you!
Before the throne … – Death

[OVERTURE: FINALE:]

Fright and praise
A faded light
Intimate rests my book
Unwritten what seems true
I am the …
Art of might!
You remaining king
Take your predesessor’s hand
You son of my Jade gift …
I am the …