Mirror
of Retribution
5th Album of ChthoniC
01 Autoscopy
02
Blooming Blades
Bloody mirror of retribution, evil spirits bound
Countless souls in the underworld there’s no way out
They trade their sins for the frigid wind and a carving sound
Blades call for native enmity
Burning liberty refined
Blades call for native enmity
Building ethnic soul with pride
Set your fear aside
Iron trees and a mountain of knives
Hatred blades, venom thorns
Tongue-ripped phantoms face the Ghost King rampage
Bloody mirror of retribution, evil spirits rage
Countless souls in the underworld cry out in flames
They scream in vain from Injustice Reign their fate is all the same
Blades call for native enmity
Burning liberty refined
Blades call for native enmity
Building ethnic soul with pride
Set your fear aside
Iron trees and a mountain of knives
Hatred blades, venom thorns
Tongue-ripped phantoms face the Ghost King rampage
Unchangeable evil machine, unthinkable evil they dream
Unchangeable evil machine, unthinkable evil they dream
Blades call for native enmity
Burning liberty refined
Blades call for native enmity
Building ethnic soul with pride
Set your fear aside
Iron trees and a mountain of knives
Hatred blades, venom thorns
Tongue-ripped phantoms facing Ghost King rampage
03 Hearts
Condemned
Supreme power leads the way
Ghost King holds the Book of Life and Death
Supreme power leads the way
With his pen in hand, he takes away their breath
Evil Tyrant smiles covered by the dust
Blazing cannons light the sky
Bloodthirsty legions unholy lust
By chilling wind their flags will fly
Supreme power leads the way
His heart was black with every sinner’s
pain
Supreme power leads the way
Those names were carved when injustice reigned
Evil Tyrant smiles covered by the dust
Blazing cannons lights the sky
Bloodthirsty legions unholy lust
By chilling wind their flags will fly
Upon the Mirror million corpses fall, souls of bitterness filled the halls
Guards and ghost troops dread in hell, deadly ambiance putrid smell
No day no night not even twilight, Ghost King laughs as hell resides
Tsing-guam, young medium behold, traverse the Underworld alone
In the Book of Life and Death
Their names are all condemned
Beyond the river of quicksand with ghost troops underground
The pounding drums of hatred, unholy evil sound
Venom starts to boil inside my veins
As tortured distant screams drive me insane
Venom starts to boil inside my veins
We will have revenge and rise again
Monsters tread with bloody hooves on rocky roads to nowhere
They penetrate the freezing cold with poison breath
Demon bulls, Ghost King possessed, when dark red eyes start to stare
Rotting flesh ripped from their bones, death virus spreads
Ghost troops scattered
Wicked beasts attacked
Tsing's power shattered
Wicked beasts were hacked
Monsters tread with bloody hooves on rocky roads to nowhere
They penetrate the freezing cold with poison breath
Demon bulls, Ghost King possessed, when dark red eyes start to stare
Rotting flesh ripped from their bones, death virus spreads
Venom starts to boil inside my veins
As tortured distant screams drive me insane
Venom starts to boil inside my veins
We will have revenge and rise again
Venom starts to boil inside my veins
05 The
Aroused
Rush across the erodent
Dodge between the Flaming Black Rope Fetters
Tolerate the offensive Screaming Tortures
Fall straight down into the Iron Web Layers
Faces scraping, eyes gouging, poison feeding, teeth prying
Brains crushing, maggots digging, bones ripping, heads smashing
The ghost troops have failed to tie Tsing-guan down
Powered by hate, he'll leave them spellbound
Bellies slashing, ribs poking, backs breaking, tendons splitting
Hands burning, knees slamming, feet cracking, bowels twisting
The ghost troops march
on, as
Down in the cellar, Tsing-guan's spirit fades
Through the gates, raging troops, across the river of life and death
Foggy haze, frozen sky, countless spirits come alive
Inch by inch they're moving fast, the icy rain will turn blood red
This primal fear of all mankind now shows itself to all divine
Countless spirits come alive
They show themselves to all divine
All the beasts are now released from the Underworld
Vicious birds fly over the moon
The Blackened sky lights the way for the other world
Hear the howling of the filthy typhoon
Through the gates, raging troops, across the river of life and death
Fiery haze, burning sky, countless spirits come alive
Inch by inch they're moving fast, boiling oil will raise the dead
This primal fear of all mankind now shows itself to all divine
Countless spirits come alive
They show themselves to all divine
06
Sing-Ling Temple
Lightening strikes upon sing-ling temple tonight
Brutal tyrant’s soldiers killing with delight
Oo-gu-lam is filled with blood and filth
Ghostly smoke outlines the bodies’ killed
殺 殺 殺 殺 殺 殺 殺 殺
Lightening strikes upon sing-ling temple tonight
Brutal tyrant’s soldiers killing with delight
For hundreds of years they were slaves to their fear
The tyrants have come to make life disappear
Tsing-guan has the power to bring them all back
But the spirits are planning a vicious attack
Tears fall from the guardian lion
Tears of freedom, tears of a nation
The spirits dance upon
Led by evil wizards under the moonlight
Oo-gu-lam’s engulfed in burning flames
The island’s sky will never be the same
The spirits chant upon
Led by evil wizards under the moonlight
The temple is covered by the potent seals of hell
Tsing-guan’s power is tied up by the spells
The tyrants have won but they’ve only just begun
Terror was born by the pale white sun
Terror was born by the pale white sun
07 Forty-nine
Theurgy Chains
He made it through the Festering Iceberg
Now he shakes for something else
Unrelieved burden, unrelieved anger, unrelieved hermetic theurgy chains
Unrelieved trauma, unrelieved terror, unrelieved hermetic theurgy chains
He broke right through the courts of hell to erase the names where Ghost Kings dwell
His soul was sucked back by the spells that night they came
Wizards lashing their flaming reins
Sanctioned forty-nine theurgy chains
“ Tie me in chaos, bind me in pain “
Sanctioned forty-nine theurgy chains
He made it through the Bleeding Volcano
Now he’s burned by something else
Unrelieved torture, unrelieved sorrow, unrelieved hermetic theurgy chains
Unrelieved hatred, unrelieved malice, unrelieved hermetic theurgy chains
He broke right through the courts of hell to erase the names where Ghost Kings dwell
His soul was sucked back by the spells that night they came
Wizards lashing their flaming reins
Sanctioned forty-nine theurgy chains
“ Tie me in chaos, bind me in pain “
Sanctioned forty-nine theurgy chains
The tyrants’ genocide
Drives me to suicide
The tyrants’ genocide
Drives me to suicide
08 Rise of the Shadows
Axes Swinging, tridents crashing
The demons are born from their furious smashing
Spirits Steaming, Corpses Braising
The monsters will feed when the fires are blazing
The Eternal Wheel of Reincarnation is cracked by a soul and spinning in vain
On the Mirror of Retribution, shadows of the intruder rise again
Axes Swinging, tridents crashing
The demons are born from their furious smashing
Spirits Steaming, Corpses Braising
The monsters will feed when the fires are blazing
On the Mirror of Retribution
Shadows of the intruder rise again
Across the Oblivion, through Hot Suffocation
The Final Punishment is his destination
His retaliation would bring satisfaction
A flagrant violation of hell domination
Across the Oblivion, through Hot Suffocation
The Final Punishment is his destination
Transform the Goddess into Charred Face Ghost King
Guan Yim, the most brutal of all
Tsing-guan is weak and broken down from all the suffering
Deeper into Hong-do he falls
The march of ghost troops, the drums of hate
The march of ghost troops, the drums of hate
Deep down in Hong-do, ten Ghost Kings await
09 Bloody Waves of Sorrow
Waxing, Waning
The moons transform with the greatest of ease
Now there is nothing left but misery
They sealed their destiny
Demon Bulls, Toxic Hornets,
Hell's creatures thronged to Hong-do, they join final combat
Break out, massive attacks
Knocked down, no going back
Waxing, Waning
The moons transform with the greatest of ease
Now there is nothing left but misery
They sealed their destiny
Through six eyes on his charred black face, Guan-yim, his wrath released
Ten Ghost Kings see everything, their fury won't be ceased
Break out, massive attacks
Knocked down, no going back
Defeated, he fell into the infernal
The shores fill up with corpses, abnormal morbid flood
Louder and louder, he hears the cries of his people that died
Over and over, he feels their pain as red waves collide
He hears their cries
Red waves collide
Still flaming, the infernal nine suns of the damned rise up to the sky
They burn with a nuclear hatred, destroying his hope and scorching his eyes
Louder and louder, he hears the cries of his people that died
Over and over, he feels their pain as red waves collide
He hears their cries
Red waves collide
He hears their cries
Red waves collide
10 1974
11
Spell of Setting Sun: Mirror of Retribution
Chained and shackled to the Mirror of Retribution
They tied up Tsing-guan’s lonely soul with void and mass confusion
The Book of Life and Death is closed; Wheel of Reincarnation recessed
The ten Courts of hell exposed, only dead silence is left
Trapped in this place
For Hundreds of millions of years, the ultimate fear
Without a trace, his motherland disappeared
The world disappeared
Timeless sentence
Timeless sentence
Chained and shackled to the Mirror of Retribution
They tied up Tsing-guan’s lonely soul with void and mass confusion
The Book of Life and Death is closed; Wheel of Reincarnation recessed
The ten Courts of hell exposed, only dead silence is left
The Book of Life and Death is closed; Wheel of Reincarnation recessed
The ten Courts of hell exposed, only dead silence is left
Trapped in this place
For Hundreds of millions of years, the ultimate fear
Without a trace, his motherland disappeared
The world disappeared
Timeless sentence
Timeless sentence
Trapped in this place
For Hundreds of millions of years, the ultimate fear
Without a trace, locked in this cosmic frontier
The world disappeared
Timeless sentence
Timeless sentence
海海 地地 天天
日日 月月 年年
千千 萬萬 億億
鬼鬼 神神 人人
人 ?
After hundreds of millions of years, when time and space to reach a final accounting and collapse into one, when the last soul in Hell serves its final sentence, all the ghosts, gods and asuras disappear as if they never existed, Tsing-guan will continue gazing into the mirror as the last soul in the universe… slowly fading into the nothingness from whence we all came, in front of the Mirror of Retribution, until the end of his sentence is served and his reflection fades into shadow, and the shadow fades into the last memory of all that ever was, and the memory fades into a distant echo… and then…. Nothing.