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Carbon Black (LP)

by Mandatory

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Instrumental
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Never release Don't ever speak straight Fear of destruction Determines their fate Never repent Don't give them a sign They'll tear you down You must draw the line Is it real? What I reveal Has burned their eyes Now they despise ME So take my hand Let me show you how to live I'll help you stand Don't you ever fall away from me! Fear, we're seeding Control, force feeding Rules are misleading Destroy a culture Erase their past Leave flesh to vultures The world forgets fast Run - their hounds will hunt you down Fear makes you drown Hide - their gaze it follows you Cower in fear as you... ...Watch another pillar fall Once it stood tall Cling to what you know is lost Defy the terrible cost Another dimension Another blood line In trepidation They look for a sign Rebuild a culture Forge their past New flesh for vultures It too will not last Is it real? What I reveal Has burned their eyes Now they despise ME So take my hand Let me show you how to live I'll help you stand Don't you dare to fall away from me!
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Autumnized 05:39
I'm silenced by the time The destroying of my mind The colors fade to grey Delusion's here to - stay I'm drowning no way out I surrender to blackout No time is left to pray To pray Paralyze me on sweet September Wake me up I want to see - sunrise Paralyze me so I can't remember The time Defiance in my eyes A concept I despise In silence I remain Remain Paralyze me on sweet September Wake me up I want to see - sunrise Paralyze me so I can't remember The time Paralyze me on sweet September Wake me up I want to see - sunrise Paralyze me so I can't remember The time
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Death Avenue 04:13
Avenging angels on their run Another bloodshed has begun Our fakes, our lies, our ignorance Our mortal blood and their revenge Will start here, on hates sphere Escape, they haunt you Our shouts are silence And scream for violence My friends stop fighting, Denying, defying one king Why are we broken Why did we fail To light a torch in dreadful nights To recreate innocent times To face the fact of ignorance To change the ways that never make a sense To end a fight in human ways Accept your faults and your disgrace Your evil mind your sick ideas You’ll bring them all to disappear Run to bring your sacrifice So you can be immortalized Extradite your inner soul Believe your god will call you home From dark side Your own pride is fatal for you So light a torch in dreadful nights So recreate innocent times So face the fact of ignorance To change the ways that never made a sense So end a fight in human ways Accept your faults and your disgrace Your evil mind your sick ideas You sacrifice they disappear We light a torch in dreadful nights We recreate innocent times We face the fact of ignorance We change the ways that never made a sense We end a fight in human ways Accept our faults and our disgrace Our life remains our dreams come true it ends on our death avenue
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Take me to your dream Tell me what to see Break my innocence Tear it apart What remains of today Will be the feast for tomorrow Through the faith we'll be saved Follow the mainstream messiah Endless mind control Watching death unfold Soil and endless greed Hyenas we feed Step into my Reich Come let me decide Sanctity no more Science explored What remains of today Will be the feast of/for tomorrow And through the faith we'll be saved Follow the mainstream messiah now Bow to your lords and confess, the sickness that covers your head Bow to your lords and confess, in silence we bury our dead Bow to you lords - standing in Line side by side - fear breaks you Down fall from grace - serving yourTime, serving your time! Follow the blind and see through their eyes Tempting lies What remains of today Will be the feast of/for tomorrow And through the faith we'll be saved Follow the mainstream messiah now
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Architect 04:25
Unjust! You always plead Can't you take the lead Tear down what's wrong You pray and bow to what They say comes from god Think for yourself Don't you see what you can create Know you are the architect of your own fate One step forward - two steps back Taking punches 'til you crack It wears you down Your creed is built on sand Couldn't ever stand The test of time Blame your flaws - on no one but yourself You are the cause Destiny - you hide behind empty words set yourself free You (you) are clay Form what you're given Take (take) the wheel And you will be driven You tell me that I’m wrong - WHAT? Look at you and then tell me you are strong - NO! (you) fool yourself There's a word for you - CLOWN You can't pull your own weight You let yourself - DROWN Blame your flaws - on no one but yourself You are the cause Destiny - you hide behind empty words Set yourself free You (you) are clay Form what you're given Take (take) the wheel And you will be driven You can never grow If you just follow Sing your own song If you don't risk and try With you your life will die No stories told Don't you see what you can create Know you are the architect of your own fate
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Seven 04:40
I am God I live In my own world Unaffected by the word Senseless ways Live your life Life in pain There's nothing to gain Mind condemned Soul restrained Body out Of your control Serve your time in silence selftranscend Burn the candle at both ends, right before you go to hell Twisting Turning Feel it, closing in Wretched Clinging to Torn and tattered Cords of withered lives I’m your slave undressed I confess We have come for you We break through I trust no one but myself I trust no one except my fate Liars Haters Deceivers Burn the fortress down Fakers Imposters Hypocrites Blinded by their ideals Death surrounds me nothing left to fear Sound of silence coming near In this hour of darkness I’ve come clean And fear my death remains unseen Isolate yourself and bid farewell Right before you go to hell, you go to hell
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1000 Words 03:52
Can you take the time, to let us reframe Our past, is a story that we can reclaim The future approaches, with frightening pace Get rid of old daemons, get back in the race Never see the hope in your eyes Never heard such desperate lies 1000 words to make you feel right So are you able to lose one fight Now when you feel your mind is wrong You've never heard, you've never seen, You won’t believe in the things that might have been Now when you feel you die alone You've never heard, you've never seen, You won’t believe in the things that might have been Never see the hope in your eyes Never heard such desperate lies 1000 words to make you feel right So are you able to lose one fight Up to 1000 words, up to 1000 times, up to 1000 places will be mine Never be alone, never turn to stone, never love the people who turn me wrong Up to 1000 words, up to 1000 times, up to 1000 places will be mine Never be alone, never turn to stone, never love the people who turn me wrong
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Torn - a nation Condemned - it's your creation Worn down - by famine Your death roll grows Your mind denies, reality Angel of death in luxury Your conscience's clear, a sheltered mind Your world's so bright it makes you blind Abused - relentless Kill - your sleeve still white Spread diseases Like a pack of rats Your mind denies, reality Angel of death in luxury Your conscience's clear, a sheltered mind The engines grind They They are never Given a chance They are born upon the cross Your arrogance is unbearable They are never Given a chance They are born upon the cross you made Your arrogance is unbearable Your mind denies reality Hypocritic morality Devote your life, to lethal lies You talk so much, but say nothing at all So Keep in mind You might find Yourself outnumbered So keep in your mind That in time you'll find Your lies come crashing down You will be swept away You will drown Your conscience's clear, a sheltered mind The engines grind They They are never Given a chance They are born upon the cross Your arrogance is unbearable They are never Given a chance They are born upon the cross you made Your arrogance is unbearable Without guilt In plain sight Taking lives The castle You live in Is paid in blood
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Misleading 05:14
You turn away from me You've challenged, you have lost Gather your sons at once I am taking and breaking this life Worship the golden calf Be servant and obey I lead you into sin Testifying to death In silence I deceive Destroying agony Infect humanity By the sorrow controlling the game Condemned to apathy Disciples of the lost Until my anger burns I am falling and falling again Again falling I am Again falling I am In silence Defiance No will to reconcile Misleading Deceiving A new design of life
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This web of lies, spinning the earth, controlling the world Finding a reason for another research Seeking the truth, recharging their lies Washing the stains and generate alibis Losing all faith, killing the pain Hypocrite answers and solutions remain Concealing the truth, investigate Millions of people evolution is fake Expanding - Skip distance No chance for coexistence Expanding - Resistance Life crashing the ground, in 74 Bodies are lying on the cold hangar floor Tearing apart, dissection alive Destroying the chain, eliminate to survive Dying to see the other side Preparing mankind for the last override Bringing the dust, uncover the fate Killing the first born enemy of the state Trapped in space - Illusions we follow Death we face - The seeding of sorrow again Expanding - Skip distance No chance for coexistence Expanding - Resistance No chance for coexistence Now Seven billion people awake The rain of fire Seven billion people awake This is the dawning of the end This is the dawning of the end Expanding - Skip distance No chance for coexistence Expanding - Resistance Fear, the trigger device, the weapon of choice Infecting the mindless and oppressing the voice The bringer of doom, of sudden dismay Changing the scale, accelerating decay Counting the days, no time to regret No need to remember now if we can forget Avenging for progress, we're hiding inside Still waiting for truth we see the planets collide This is the dawning of the end This is the dawning of the end

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"Carbon Black" is Mandatory's first full length album released in 2009
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What the press had to say:
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"The technically skilled quintet combines up-to-date vocal-lines, heavy, göteborg-style riffs with a pinch of nordic darkness, creating their own individual sound, performed on a very high level”
- Manuel Liebler, Metal Hammer Review - Carbon Black (2010) (Jan 03, 2011)

"Overall, this album has a lot of good without a lot of bad. For a debut record from a band that isn't really doing anything new, they play what they are extremely well, so points to them for writing such great songs."
- maskofgojira, Don't Count On It Reviews - Carbon Black (2009) (May 01, 2010)

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released November 28, 2009

All music and lyrics written by MANDATORY
(C) MANDATORY 2009

Produced, recorded, mixed and Mastered
by Chris Hörmann chrishoermann.at

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