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Each episode of Bus Invaders takes you inside the touring vehicle of one of today's top touring acts. In this episode, Dez Fafara, the vocalist for the metal...
Check out Loudwire's interview with DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara. He talks about his early music influences, the industry and which younger bands he's dig...
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Dez Fafara from DevilDriver and Coal Chamber for ATTITUDE TV at the HMV FORUM, London Heading over from sunny Calafornia, metal lege...
We talk to Devildriver frontman Dez Fafara and his lovely wife Anhastasia (the gorgeous redhead from Coal Chamber's Chamber Music album cover) about their So...
DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara watched his previous band Coal Chamber fall apart on hard drugs. Now the metal singer lives more consciously. "Drugs fuck up ...
DevilDriver @Motocultor fest 2013 ; Dez Fafara stopped a song, because he thought people inside the circle pit were dangerous and they didn't help themselves
New Interview with Dez Fafara of DevilDriver before their set in New York City on September 27th, 2013 for SkullsNBones.com. Dez speaks on "Winter Kills", th...
IMPACT Metal Channel https://www.facebook.com/IMPACTmetalchannel Interview with Dez Fafara from Devildriver and Coal Chamber before the Dublin show on the 8t...
Back on September 25th, Shed My Skin got deep with Dez Fafara from Devildriver while they were on tour with Trivium and After The Burial. One of the modern U...
Funny Shit, the look on the security guards face was priceless.
korn performing Coming Undone with out JD this is the best rip available.
Each episode of Dream Tour features a touring act discussing who they would put on their ideal tour if there was no limits. In this episode, Dez Fafara, the vocalist for the metal band, DevilDriver, talks about his dream tour lineup, while on a North American tour with Whitechapel. SUBSCRIBE to our channel at http://bit.ly/DTBsubscribe Join to our EMAIL LIST at http://bit.ly/DTBemaillist Buy our MERCHANDISE at http://bit.ly/DTBmerch SUPPORT our channel to keep it going at http://bit.ly/DTBpatreon Information about the video: Band - DevilDriver Film Date - June 4, 2014 Location - Joliet, IL Watch more episodes of DREAM TOUR: Episode 1 - present at http://bit.ly/DREAMTOURplaylist Keep up with DevilDriver on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DevilDriverOfficial1 Make sure you check out our website for tons of exclusive features and news at http://bit.ly/DTBwebsite Get social with us on: Twitter - http://bit.ly/DTBtwitter Facebook - http://on.fb.me/DTBfacebook Youtube - http://bit.ly/DTBtube Instagram - http://bit.ly/DTBInstagram Google+ - http://bit.ly/DTBgoogleplus Tumblr - http://bit.ly/DTBtumblr Foursquare - http://4sq.com/DTBfoursquare Pinterest - http://bit.ly/DTBpinterest VK - http://bit.ly/DTBvkcom Flickr - http://bit.ly/DTBflickr Royalty Free Music by http://audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music
Dez Fafara sounds the call.
This is an exclusive interview with Dez Fafara from The Five Count radio show in Mankato, Minn. To hear the entire show visit http://thefivecount.com/intervi...
Ever since 1994, Bradley James Fafara (A.K.A. Dez Fafara) has been pushing his artistic abilities to the furthest limit possible. Founding member of the Heav...
I DO NOT OWN THIS!! Dez Fafara (vocals) Blasko (bass) Doug Aldrich (guitar) John Tempesta (drums) Bonus track on "We Wish You A Metal X-Mas and a Headbanging...
Remaining members of Snot paying tribute to fallen lead singer Lynn Strait featuring B.Dez Fafara of Coal Chamber and Devildriver. R.I.P. Lynn.
From DevilDriver's awesome headlining show in Vancouver on January 13th, 2010 - Dez Fafara gets pissed off at a security guy. I didn't see exactly what happe...
A side-project by Mark Morton and Dez Fafara, Born Of The Storm preview the new track 'Dust'. Vocals- Dez Fafara Bass- Mark Morton Drums- Kevin Talley.
DevilDriver / Coal Chamber vocalist Dez Fafara being interviewed about the band´s new deal with Napalm Records, new album as well as about the future plans o...
Ever since 1994, Bradley James Fafara (A.K.A. Dez Fafara) has been pushing his artistic abilities to the furthest limit possible. Founding member of the Heav...
Newest single from Dez Fafara of Coal Chamber and DevilDriver Donate to Kerri's Corner here http://www.dezfafara.com/ "Enjoy DARK MEADOWLARK, a song done for...
Camera & montage: André Broens ( www.abroens.nl ) Het gelijknamige debuut van Coal Chamber uit 1997 was meteen een schot in de roos en vormde het startschot ...
Dez Fafara about Previous albums, art, playing live, The Last Kind Words Watch more video's at http://www.faceculture.com and follow us on http://www.twitter...
Dez Fafara about The Last Kind Words, being human, his son Simon Watch more video's at http://www.faceculture.com and follow us on http://www.twitter.com/_fa...
Dez Fafara about Musical taste, good and evil, a new album Watch more video's at http://www.faceculture.com and follow us on http://www.twitter.com/_facecult...
Dez Fafara about His tattoo's, his musical taste, Elvis Presley Watch more video's at http://www.faceculture.com and follow us on http://www.twitter.com/_fac...
Oldschool, new, rare, live video concert footages and other content (interviews, documentaries etc.) from the best band ever, KoRn! Check out the playlists s...
Oldschool, new, rare, live video concert footages and other content (interviews, documentaries etc.) from the best band ever, KoRn! Check out the playlists s...
DevilDriver (Dez Fafara) Interview at Rock am Ring 2012 Uncle Dez talks about his actual favourite music, how he writes music, how DevilDriver rehearses, his...
Source: http://www.spreaker.com/user/rabidnoise/dez-fafara-from-devildriver Guest : Dez Fafara from Devildriver RABID NOISE on Rabbit Radio : Metal, Rock and Everything noisy from Australia and around the world! Listen to Rabid Noise at www.rabbitradio.com.au live every wednesday night 9-11:30PM Hosted by Nev Pearce Proudly supported by RW PROMOTION : www.rwpromotion.com.au CONTACT: rabidnoiseradio@hotmail.com RABBIT RADIO : GOLD COAST'S FIRST INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE RADIO STATION - Connecting the thriving cultural community of the Gold Coast via a cross platform media outlet!! listen live at rabbitradio.com.au Download the Rabbit Radio app free or tune in with shoutcast
Ned has a chat with Dez Fafara from DevilDriver! If you would like to catch the full interview, check out our Mayhem podcast coming this May over at WWW.UNDE...
Lithium Magazine's Trystan MacDonald interviews Dez Fafara of DevilDriver. The Interview took place on DevilDriver's tour bus outside the Opera House, just b...
This interview was conducted by Caleb Smith of The Sick Room radio New Zealand Dez Fafara vocalist of American heavy metal band from Santa Barbara, Californi...
Dez fafara from DEVILDRIVER /COAL CHAMBER conducted an interview with loudtv.net on their european tour with MACHINE HEAD in 2011.
I got the opportunity to interview Dez Fafara in October 2012, just as DevilDriver was getting ready to hit the road with Gwar in the Fate or Chaos tour. I got to pick Dez' brain about music, Mayan prophecies, getting back together with Coal Chamber and much more.
Psikotyk's interview with the front man of the hard-hitting metal band DevilDriver, shot on location at the Mesa Theater in Grand Junction, Colorado. Copyrig...
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YellMagazine Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YellMagazine Yell! Magazine sat down with DevilDriver foun...
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Michael and Jeff spends a few minutes with Dez Fafara of DevilDriver for an Interview on Maximum Threshold Radio and TV.
I go Into The Pit 1-on-1 with the DevilDriver singer before they headline San Antonio, Texas, USA: http://www.examiner.com/metal-music-in-san-antonio/video-q...
Dez Fafara of DevilDriver talks to Cat about the upcoming tour downunder, the impending break, Coal Chamber and much more. One of the most inspirational and ...
Groovey.tv interviews Dez Fafara of DevilDriver and Coal Chamber. Video by Matthew Zinke.
DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara sits down on the day the band's sixth release "Winter Kills" reached number 32 on the Billboards- the best charting spot for ...
1. Dead to Rights 0:00 2. Bring the Fight (To the Floor) 4:52 3. Hardened 8:25 4. Shitlist 14:11 5. Talons Out (Teeth Sharpened) 18:15 6. You Make Me Sick 22:35 7. Coldblooded 27:54 8. Blur 31:59 9. The Blame Game 36:57 10. Black Soul Choir (16 Horsepower cover) 40:57 11. Crowns of Creation 46:04 12. Lend Myself to the Night 51:00 13. Lost 55:01 14. Fortune Favors the Brave 58:38 15. Grinfucked (Live) 1:04:11 Beast is the fifth studio album by groove metal band DevilDriver. It was released on February 22, 2011 in the United States. Beast was recorded at Sonic Ranch studios in Tornillo, Texas; and was produced by Mark Lewis (All That Remains, Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder). “The record is extreme,” vocalist Dez Fafara told Revolver magazine. “And it attacks from start to finish. If you liked ‘The Last Kind Words’, this is like that on steroids and crank, driving a Buick Skylark 200 miles an hour straight to Vegas.” “I felt like I was waking up and experiencing a moment of clarity that brought out all these pissed off, negative emotions,” Fafara said of making the album. “It’s an all-out release of pain. “It’s been a beast of a year and a half, and it’s still going,” he added. Regarding the new album’s musical direction, drummer John Boecklin stated, “It’s interesting to me — it’s not the fastest shit we have done, nor the slowest, [but it] just [has] lots of groove. But to me, when people say ‘it’s got groove,’ I think it’s a nice way of saying simple and boring these days. We wanted to avoid this. “Our record has a great contrast of dark riffs, stomp bouncing drums with the right amount of blasts and double bass, and outstanding vocal delivery from Dez that takes it past your average approach of the metal attempt. I’m not talking about reinventing the wheel or nothing. I just think our new album sits in its own corner from any of our other albums.” The band recorded 14 songs during the "Beast" sessions, with 12 tracks making the standard version of the CD and all 14 songs appearing on the special edition.
Coal Chamber es una banda de nu metal de Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos formada en 1994. creando demos que llamaron la atención del guitarrista de F...
I do not own the tracks or the copyright. Artist: DevilDriver | Album: The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | Year: 2005 | Genre: Groove Metal Track list: 00:00 - End of the Line 05:03 - Driving Down the Darkness 08:56 - Grinfucked 12:29 - Hold Back the Day 16:44 - Sin & Sacrifice 21:48 - Ripped Apart 26:00 - Pale Horse Apocalypse 30:13 - Just Run 34:29 - Impending Disaster 38:39 - Bear Witness Unto 42:43 - Before the Hangman's Noose 46:34 - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand DevilDriver is a groove metal band from California, United States that formed in 2002. The group was started by Dez Fafara, formerly of the band Coal Chamber, as a result of frustrations stemming from the more mainstream direction his former band mates were attempting to take their music. After the demise of Coal Chamber, DevilDriver became his main focus. Their 2nd album,"The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand", was released in 2005 and was generally well-received by fans and critics alike, even garnering a 4K review from renowned rock magazine Kerrang. The band went on numerous tours in support of the album, including stops in the USA, Europe, and Australia in support of Fear Factory, as well as the Burning Daylight Tour, their first headlining Hope you enjoy great music.
http://www.jedbangers.com.ar/web/esto-no-es-un-programa-de-radio Tracklist: Blah Blah: Hugo García Nota Dez Fafara Devildriver "Seal" ("Winter Kills") Nota John García Vista Chino "Sweet Remain" ("Peace") Iron Maiden "Moonchild" ("Seventh Son of a Seventh Son")
#352 MTRS -- Lothar Keller (Divinity Compromised),Jeff Oly Olson (The Skull/ex Trouble), Dez Fafara (Devil Driver), Max Cavalera (Soulfly) -maximumthreshold.net Really fun and entertaining show. Great call in from the guys of Divinity Compromised. If you are a fan of Jeff "Oly" Olson you will love this one. We have a fun "hang out" session with him.Also have an exclusive interview with both Dez Fafara (DevilDriver) and Max Cavalera (Soulfly). We also talk about the Maximum Threshold 7th Anniversary Show.
Songs from Strait up album (a tribute to Snot lead singer, Lynn Strait) 1 -Starlit Eyes, feat. Serj Tankian of System of a Down 0:00 2 -Take It Back, feat.Jo...
1. Loco 0:00 2. Bradley 4:13 3. Oddity 7:16 4. Unspoiled 10:24 5. Big Truck 13:32 6. Sway 17:02 7. First 20:35 8. Maricon Puto 24:46 9. I 25:32 10. Clock 29:21 11. My Frustration 32:19 12. Amir Of The Desert 36:17 13. Dreamtime 37:01 14. Pig 40:43 15. Hidden Track 44:00 Vocals - Bradley "Dez" Fafara Guitar - Miguel "Meegs" Rascón Bass - Rayna Foss Drums - Mike "Bug" Cox
We sat down with Dez in Gothenburg before thier show. Talking About their new album and more! FIND MORE HERE: - Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RspTVOff...
VOD--Live footage plus an interview with vocalist, Tim Williams; When they appeared at Simon's 677 in Providence, RI/Sunday, 4-27-2014.
(FULL SHOW) Devildriver - 23 Feb 2014 - Soundwave, Olympic Park, Sydney HD Check out my other full live shows http://www.youtube.com/user/ss9ball?feature=mhe...
Jason "Human Kebab" Parsons is the DJ, emcee, turntablist and hype-man of Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (USS). Along with lead singer and guitarist Ash Boo-Schul...
IMPACT Metal Channel https://www.facebook.com/IMPACTmetalchannel Introducing Watch my Dying from Hungary. Interview with (Gábor) singer and Márk (drummer) from WMD. English subtitles available. Watch my Dying interjú Gáborral és Márkkal. Enjoy and support! https://www.facebook.com/WatchMyDying https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchMyDyingOfficial impactmetalchannel@gmail.com
Programa Escuela De La Magia de Omar Hejeile Jueves 14 de Junio de 2012 ¿El cero es un número par o impar? SUFY parte 2/2.
An interview conducted with Joel Violette of Thrawsunblat in November of 2012 discussing the recording and release of Thrawsunblat II: Wanderer on the Contin...
I DO NOT OWN ANY MUSIC PLAYED~ Stalk Me: Vine: kissabuni Vlog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/KissasLife Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kissabunnyo...
Video 2 of 2 giving a verse-by-verse Bible study on Mark 1 and John 1.
Part 1-9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq7RNvY-g1g&list;=PL2B084C399991C52F So after i made this account on a whim to post a rant, after getting such a good...
DEVILDRIVER • Live at Ace Of Spades • Sacramento, California • May 23, 2014.
Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones. Released: April 13th 2010. Distort. Tracklist: 01 - Sleep This Away. 02 - Trust No One. 03 - Dead Wrong. 04 - Do...
Taken from the "Dead Set On Living" DVD. "Dead Set On Living" is in stores NOW.
God of War: Ascension, endlich rausgekommen und bei mir angekommen ! Der warscheinlich würdige Nachfolger des 3.ten Teils, den ich auch mit Liebe durchgezock...
Coal chamber is Dez Fafara on vocals, Meegs Rascon on guitar, Mike Coxon drums and Nadja Peulen on Bass.
The Examiner 2015-03-22Dez Fafara and the reunited Coal Chamber stormed into Denver last night, destroying the crowd of ...
The Examiner 2015-03-17INTERVIEWS -- Circle II Circle singer Zak Stevens; solo guitarist Xander Demos; Saxon singer Biff ...
The Examiner 2013-12-22Ted Nugent. Lita Ford. Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale ... Gwar's Oderus Urungus ... DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara.
Yahoo Daily News 2013-10-22Armed with Dez Fafara at the helm, this release provides everything you have grown to love about DevilDriver.
The Examiner 2013-08-27At the head of it all is vocalist Dez Fafara, who found the time last year to reunite with his ...
The Examiner 2013-08-24After a side jaunt with his old band Coal Chamber in 2012, DevilDriver frontman, Dez Fafara is ...
The Examiner 2013-08-23Dez Fafara sings to the chaos of it all, and promises that in another set of Dog Days the hero is ...
Houston Press 2013-07-08Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died this morning ... R. I ... Thanks For All The Years Of Shredding! DevilDriver singer Dez Fafara:
The Examiner 2013-05-03Dez Fafara (vocals), Miguel Rascon (guitar), Chela Rhea Harper (bass) and Mike Cox (drums). Fafara ...
The Examiner 2013-04-25Lead singer Dez FaFara told the audience they are working on a new album.
The Examiner 2013-04-22Both are from 1999's The Gathering, an album that DevilDriver singer Dez Fafara told me in 2010 was ...
The Examiner 2013-02-07Dez Fafara, DevilDriver ... After some skilled guidance from DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara, the crowd ...
The Examiner 2012-11-27Bradley James 'Dez' Fafara (born May 12, 1966) is the current vocalist for DevilDriver and the recently reformed Coal Chamber.
Dez is of Portuguese and Italian, specifically Sicilian descent. His father, Tiger Fafara, was a child actor on the Leave It to Beaver sitcom, playing the character "Tooey Brown."
Dez's wife is named Anahstasia, and she appears on the cover of the second Coal Chamber album Chamber Music. Dez has three sons: Tyler, Simon and Kaleb. "Tyler's Song", from the album Chamber Music, was written for Tyler. Simon, age twelve, added backing growls on DevilDriver's third album, The Last Kind Words (2007), on the song "Tirades Of Truth", during the last two lines of the chorus.
Dez released a total of 3 albums with Coal Chamber. Three of the albums, Coal Chamber (1997), which went gold, Chamber Music (1999), and Dark Days (2002), consisted of new material. An album of remixes, rarities, and b-sides, titled Giving the Devil His Due (2003) and a "Best Of" (2004) were also released. Coal Chamber disbanded in 2003, shortly after Dez formed his current band DevilDriver.
Run, run, daring not to turn back, just tell me why
My every step sounds like one more nail in your coffin
Of this grind, I expected all but your demise
the innocent lamb dying for the wicked one's sins
Breaking the silence of this harrowing night
Till the end of times my desperate cry shall echo
I swear that I will grant myself respite
But when my lost beloved is avenged a hundredfold
As I see your face looking back at me
I can hear the obscene laugh of fatality
Under the moonlight, my inner demons are freed
No time to rest yet, we have to stop...this evil dream
To walk in this part of the realm aroused grievous memories in the warrior's
mind and he knew it was no coincidence.
To the north lied the vestiges of an ancient province of Syrakia called Kol,
that had been reduced to the size of a vulgar town after its numerous assaults
against the motherland.
This town, that was split by an abyss of discord, appeared through the centuries being
the home of corruption and deceit.
It was under the domination of two notorious crooks that ruled over the two halves of the
village. If the antique province had been a plague for his ancestors, the village was a
torture for Arbo and the prospect of returning there seemed an agony.
Something terrible had occured in this very town, something that had killed a part of him.
Yes, the warrior had a bone to pick with someone there and his fists clenched as he
divined the nature of his final task.
In the distance, the sinister village was appearing in all its hideousness.
Nothing had really changed since the last time in this place where ignominy had its own
odor. Just breathing this air seemed the most reprehensible sin.
Instructions were futile, thought the elder, but all the same he gave a last word of
warning to which the warrior seemed deaf before vanishing into the night.
Arbo watched the old man slowly fade away,
wearing a worried face as darkness stole the day.
His heart pounding, he entered the decadent place,
making himself ready to be put to the test.
As he trod these streets of ill fame, the stare full of suspicion,
then came back into his head the old man's admonition.
Dark hand, hand of greed.
Hand that gives, hand that steals.
Bright hand, hand of truth.
Hand that bleeds, hand that cures.
Don't ever trust in the hand of greed.
Whatever she gives, twice she steals.
Always trust in the hand of truth.
The pain she gives, she always cures.
Walking for a while, Arbo landed up in a deserted street.
This place was evil, all his senses were on the qui vive.
Then arised from nowhere, a short man chubby and balding.
He slowly came up to Arbo and then said unto him:
"Descendant of Syrakia, thou art said to be brave and strong.
Slay my foe, the mage Zorka, and I shall give thee all thou want."
"I am surely as brave as you are greedy and liar
and what I want is surely beyond your skills by far."
"I will give thee gold, more gold than thou shalt ever need.
Show me what thou art made of coward, kill my ennemy."
"Gold's not despicable, but I think your gold surely is.
Now get out of my way, you wimp, before you make me ill."
Leaving Urmeech, Arbo hurried to the northern part of the village.
There he would have to eschew the lure of the old mage.
Suddenly, in a flash of fire, Zorka appeared.
Lust glinted into his eyes as he said unto him:
"Descendant of Syrakia, I can give thee power and glory.
Bring me the head of Urmeech, and then by all thou shalt be feared."
"A king must not be feared by his people, but by his ennemies.
When I reign over my kingdom, I'll show you what a true king is."
"I heard that recently thy beloved Nadya met her fate.
Shouldest thou kill Urmeech, I shall rise her from the dead."
"There is but one justice in life and this is the justice of death.
It is not given to man to question the quirks of fate."
Then Zorka leaveth him, and, behold,
As the mage released his hold, causing my trance to end
I found myself prisoner of this pentagram
And I implored the gods to cancel my life
Forever lost in the mists of malison
I see souls in distress begging deliverance
Hearing their plea, yet unable to alter fate
This insidious nightmare shall be my grave
Darkness...
From nowhere, I hear voices calling out my name
Is there anybody out there, or could it be just
insanity that is visiting me?
I discovered the visitor's ends
as he showed me the dagger of death
Grievously, I greeted him before
Sealing my foreordained fate
A prey, that's the way Arbo was feeling at this very moment:
the harmless lamb awaiting to please the wolf's appetite.
As his heart beat wildly, a sinister symphony orchestrated in his storming mind,
contrasting with the calm of the cavern.
In fact, it was this intangible,
unbearable silence that was driving the brave warrior nuts.
The stillness that beguiles the naive victim before the unnameable
Death strikes in the most underhand manner.
The lord dragon finally revealed its imposing self,
rising from darkness, unfolding a terrifying sight.
Drawing nearer the king reptile wore a defying glare.
Challenging the intruder, staring at him with delight.
Arbo charged the beast, longing for a brief fight,
but the old aged dragon did not seem really impressed.
Unleashing a tremendous exhalation of fire,
it compelled the brave warrior to retrace his steps.
A cold chill ran through the young prince's spine as the deadly flames
licked his face before repelling down the rocks.
Having as allied his only courage,
the warrior rushed in renewed assaults,
parrying the lethal fire with his saving sword and stiring up the blaze of wrath
that was consuming the beast.
A ferocious battle was raging, a battle that was taking place into the lungs of hell.
Harder to repel became the attacks of the warrior
and this one's fierceness soon harrassed the dragonlord.
Its sadistic pleasure then turned to a blind, mad fury,
plunging itself in a state near insanity.
The king of the cavern was losing its head,
making itself a more vulnerable target.
Arbo charged again, until this fateful moment,
when he plunged his sword into the reptile's heart.
Unable to regain his breath,
Arbo contemplated the defeated creature for a long time,
as if he feared it could rise suddenly from its lifeless state.
He dared, at last, to take a scale from its massive corpse as a proof of his victory and,
as he left the dragon's grave,
he wondered if the hords of evil had invaded Syrakia unto this day.
For the first time since the start of his journey,
the lone prince could feel the twinge of solitude.
feel the twinge of solitude.
Some states are worse than death
And from these there is but one escape
Benumbed I awake, outside a battered building
Why am I here? Where are all these people rushing?
A stifling odor of smoke brings me out of my torpor
And my unbelieving eyes meet the torch I have in hand
Panic, I feel like my consciousness skipped an episode
What have I done? And why have I played this insane role?
And tonight an old town shall burn
in a fire lit up by my own hand
Hurling the torch, I hope that no one has spied on me
And I hasten to desert this place of calamity
As my eye runs over the houses claimed by the vicious flames
Oh consternation, I realize that I once lived in this village
And tonight my old town shall burn
in a fire lit up by my own hand
They all looked so kind
They locked me up, for a fleeting moment I fear
Soon shall be left here nothing but a memory
I can't help sneering at their unwary behaviour
Didn't they know that no one can immure a rogue?
Deep down inside I knew it from the start
In the end would await a sordid trap
Now the facts just confirm my suspicions
This brazen sham was only deception
They all looked so kind, yet I should have known
That these low-lifes were rotten to the bones
They all looked so kind, but I should have paid heed
To these ill willed people's notoriety
Yearning to sneak away, I slipped through a trap door
Before trying my luck in the age old catacombs
Heading for nowhere, I wandered hither and tiither
Until fortune led me to a scene quite peculiar
With a stealthy tread, remaining out of sight
I drew nearer, surprising an arcane rite
Choked, I stood unmoved, my senses bedazed
No doubt, evil was unfolding before my gaze
They all looked so kind, yet I should have known
That these low-lifes were rotten to the bones
They all looked so kind, but I should have paid heed
To these ill willed people's notoriety
Concentrate allies, as echoes the battle
Hold up your swords, as we prepare for the fight
Our valorous deeds shall mark this day
We shall crush our foes in a virile fray
Assail, destroy, I want to see them bleed
I want them to cringe and beg mercy
Let us butcher those two-faced people
I want here nothing but a pile of rubble
And I tasted this pleasing dream
Oblivious that I could be my worst enemy
Yet soon these tales would be my loss
He who romances the lie shall deny it not
My domination knows no bounds
And on my pedestal I stand proud
My deeds repulse the limits of sanity
And back home, I drink the cup of victory
repeat chorus
My craving knows no bounds
And on my pedestal I stand proud
My valiant deeds pass through my memory
As abed, I let myself sink into sleep
A prey, that's the way Arbo was feeling at this very moment:
the harmless lamb awaiting to please the wolf's appetite.
As his heart beat wildly, a sinister symphony orchestrated in his storming mind,
contrasting with the calm of the cavern.
In fact, it was this intangible,
unbearable silence that was driving the brave warrior nuts.
The stillness that beguiles the naive victim before the unnameable
Death strikes in the most underhand manner.
The lord dragon finally revealed its imposing self,
rising from darkness, unfolding a terrifying sight.
Drawing nearer the king reptile wore a defying glare.
Challenging the intruder, staring at him with delight.
Arbo charged the beast, longing for a brief fight,
but the old aged dragon did not seem really impressed.
Unleashing a tremendous exhalation of fire,
it compelled the brave warrior to retrace his steps.
A cold chill ran through the young prince's spine as the deadly flames
licked his face before repelling down the rocks.
Having as allied his only courage,
the warrior rushed in renewed assaults,
parrying the lethal fire with his saving sword and stiring up the blaze of wrath
that was consuming the beast.
A ferocious battle was raging, a battle that was taking place into the lungs of hell.
Harder to repel became the attacks of the warrior
and this one's fierceness soon harrassed the dragonlord.
Its sadistic pleasure then turned to a blind, mad fury,
plunging itself in a state near insanity.
The king of the cavern was losing its head,
making itself a more vulnerable target.
Arbo charged again, until this fateful moment,
when he plunged his sword into the reptile's heart.
Unable to regain his breath,
Arbo contemplated the defeated creature for a long time,
as if he feared it could rise suddenly from its lifeless state.
He dared, at last, to take a scale from its massive corpse as a proof of his victory and,
as he left the dragon's grave,
he wondered if the hords of evil had invaded Syrakia unto this day.
For the first time since the start of his journey,
the lone prince could feel the twinge of solitude.
"Ouch!", said Arbo through gritted teeth as the floor of his roomgreeted himback to his
original dimension.
Noticing the bed close by, he couldn't help questioning the spellcaster's precision
and he articulated some hardly elegant words.
As he got back to his feet, his bed caught his gaze once again.
The spell had considerably drained out his energy,
making himself an easy prey for sleep.
Night was falling and it was a blessing.
At least, he tought, the perfect control the elder exercised over time
compensated for his questionable precision regarding space.
Sinking into his bed, the prince let the sleep overcome him and this night,
strange visions haunted him as he walked the land of dreams.
I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent,
which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
He cast him into the bottomless pit,
shut him up, set a seal upon him.
He should deceive the nations no more
till the thousand years fulfilled.
In this world is there any sword
that can extirpate evil once and forever?
In this world is there any weapon
that can restore peace in my imperilled kingdom?
When the thousand years expired,
a new evil arose from the pit and went out to deceive the nations.
And then came the prophesied one that faced
Satan in the name of the world and bound him for a thousand years.
He cast him into the bottomless pit,
shut him up, set a seal upon him.
He should deceive the nations no more
till the thousand years fulfilled.
In this world is there any sword
that can extirpate evil once and forever?
In this world is there any weapon
that can restore peace in my imperilled kingdom?
Now a new evil has arisen
to deceive the nations of the world and gather them to battle.
They will scatter on the breadth of the earth
and wage the war, fighting each other till that Satan is chained again.
I'll cast him into the bottomless pit,
shut him up, set a seal upon him.
He should deceive the nations no more
till brought back to life once more.
In this world is there any sword
that can extirpate evil once and forever?
In this world is there any weapon
Venturing in the wilderness as he did a thousand times before,
seeking rare plants that could not be found in the woods of the kingdom.
The old mage, unwary and reckless, went a little bit too far.
Luck was not with him this time, he chanced upon the Lord of the Dark.
Soon surrounded by a bunch of demons, the old man was captured.
Then he was led to the clan's lair under mischievous laughter.
Facing the evil one himself, the weak mage did not resist.
The vile creature invaded his thoughts, then possessed his spirit.
Sneaking into the dead of night, under the charm of an evil force,
the old mage went back to Syrakia to achieve his sinister job.
Like a thief, he moved amongst the shadows until the crypt he reached.
He robbed the crystal of light and brought it to the lair of the Beast.
Looking at the gleamless crystal, the lord wore a wicked smile.
And as he waved the gem over his head, arose ardent cries.
Powerless, the old man contemplated this ominous scene.
Of what was to follow, nothing good he could foresee.
Gathering clouds over Syrakia, sinister shadows over the castle.
Deprived of the protection of the gods, Syrakia, now prepare for battle.
Abandoned in the darkness of a festering dungeon,
the old mage undertook to find a way toescape from his dreadful fate.
Using his psychic power,
he compelled a nearbycreature to come and unlock the gate that blocked his way.
He fixed the weakly-minded being with an hypnotic glance and drew
its attention on his fingers,
that were all surrounded by a ring.
Dazzling sparks of light flew from the enchanted rings and flashed in the darkness,
Arbo grumbled and snarled, as the first rays of light
disrupted a too brief sleep, wrestling his still weak eyes.
The old man stood on the hill, fixing a distant point,
beckoning the yawning prince to get up and come to him.
Down the hill lied a particular city called Thebes,
concealing some odd menace behind its gates hardly welcoming.
A deplorable monster, who was known as the Sphinx,
was blockading the Thebans inside the cursed city.
It had been sent by the will of the wicked Hera,
who wanted the Thebans to pay tribute to the gods.
Descendant of a sinister line of five generations of monsters,
the evil creature devoured alive everyone who failed to answer her riddle.
Arbo was on the way leading to the city's gates
when he saw an old man who seemed in great distress.
The elder was walking in the most laborious way,
leaning on a staff and staggering at his every step.
Arbo came up his way and addressed him kindly.
The old man then unfolded the lines of a strange prophecy:
"Ancient legends have long foretold
That a blessed one would come someday
From a far, distant kingdom
To deliver Thebes from its cruel bane."
Incidentally, Arbo found the insidious Sphinx on his way.
She was standing proud on a rock outside the city's gates.
It was a fiendish creature, like he had never ever seen:
having the face of a woman and a lion's body.
The Sphinx disdained as she considered the new visitor.
With a voice filled with insolence,she posed her deadly riddle:
"Shalt thou tell me what creature
walks on four feet in the morning,
stands on two feet at noon and
on three feet in the evening?"
"O, muse of the dead, listen to the words you want not to hear,
for my voice shall now herald the end of your sanguinary reign.
This creature is man, who crawls on all four in infancy,
stands on two in manhood and leans on a staff in old age."
Upon receiving this unexpected answer,
the Sphinx hurled herself to death from her rocky throne.
Thus Thebes was freed from the throes of the vile monster.
The forthcoming storm
So it was the dawn of another peaceful day,
when the old mage finally reached the castle's gate.
Entering the throne room, he shivered, filled with guilt.
He bowed humbly to his king and then said unto him:
"Sire, I am compelled I fear, to bring you disastrous news.
The bright crystal, woe on me, is now in hands vile and cruel."
At these words, the king glared at his unconscious mage.
He rose his eyes and stood for a while, fixing emptiness.
"Oh what a tragedy," he said. "This will surely seal our fate.
Without the crystal's light, the realm is defenseless."
Distressed by such bad news, the king was lost in his despair,
when came up to him an old man wearing a long white beard.
It was the last of the elders, the wise man of the realm.
He locked his stare upon his king and said unto him:
"Sire, all hope is not lost, there is a way to slay the evil lord.
He who holds the sword of truth can defeat this one if he's stout and pure."
Then the king ran his eye over the people
and beckoned an impressive young man to come to him.
"Arbo my son," he said. "You are our only hope.
Sword against fire part I
Courage is often the warrior's most admirable virtue and Arbo's braveness was
mistrusted by no one in the realm,
but courage was the little less of what would be needed this time to achieve
what the elder described as "A task that remained unfinished for much too long."
About 300 years ago, the realm had suffered a painful scourge caused
by the visitation of the terrible dragon.
The furious beast ravaged the land and found no master until a lonely child came and
soothed the monster before commanding it to get out to the eastern limits of Syrakia,
beyond the Forest of the Lost Messengers, where the light never shines...
Far from Syrakia, past the veil of ever dark,
beyond the infinite mists of imagination,
there was a place of great evil cursed by all,
realm of a mythical creature, the almighty dragon.
Invading the dragon's domain, Arbo reminded ancient tales.
So many brave, courageous warriors had been slayed into this place.
Venturing where most mortals dared not tread.
Be cautious Arbo, this cavern might be your grave.
Arbo now so far from home aren't you scared?
Shall you make your way through this perilous quest?
Lost in this unknown and forbidden place,
will there be an end to this hellish nightmare?
Making his way through the underground labyrinth,
the courageous warrior could feel his pulse quicken.
His torchlight was drawing lugubrious shadows,
dancing on the walls to the cadence of his moves.
The passageway was leading to a truly immense cavern.
Arbo managed to find some courage and forced himself to enter.
Something alien was present, something was watching him.
Lurking somewhere in the dark, silently waiting.
Arbo now so far from home aren't you scared?
Shall you make your way through this perilous quest?
Lost in this unknown and forbidden place,
In heaven,
the gods stood pondering, overwhelmed by the mess caused by the mad god.
"In this world, is there any soul that can extirpate all this evil?" they wondered.
"May this one, if he exists, reveal to us before the cancerous decay reaches
the eternal skies."
As the sole hero prepared to stand before the gods,
the evil seed was spreading out across the land,
plunging the world of the mortals into turmoil.
Chaos, powers of the dark side overgrowing beyond control,
soiling all the kingdoms across the breadth of the earth.
Demons, brigands and Judas, killing and stealing without remorse.
Fading more, day after day, the precarious flame of hope.
And the gods looked down from heaven to a world falling into decay.
The balance from the forces of law and chaos was crumbling away.
And they thought the time had come to draw out the pernicious poison.
To close the circle once more and annihilate their creation.
But came up the demigod, who was the great Syrakia.
"Please change your minds." he said, "Bellow still live righteous mortals.
Amongst them stands a sole hero, who is my trustworthy descendant.
The Sphinx he defeated, the dragon he slayed, the lures of Kol he withstanded."
And the gods looked down from heaven to the deeds of the sole hero.
They believed that his will was worth the confidence of the gods.
And they thought the time had come to pass on their divine power.
To grant the sword of truth once more and restore harmony in this world.
And the hero looked up to the edge of the sky,
perceived the divine sign in the depths of his heart.
Sole hero in the quest for freedom, preserving hope across the land.
With the fate of the kingdoms lying in his nimble hands.
A celestal stairway appeared, a stairway that seemed to touch the sky.
The elder looked exhausted after casting his last spell,
but he managed to climb one by one the crystal stairs before coming back
with a crystal sword pendant.
The young prince stood amazed.
"The most powerful sword shall ever be nothing more than a vulgar piece of steel."
he said. "Put on this pendant.
The only sword of truth, in its time shall be revealed."