Death Knell
Opus Eponymous
2010
Duration: 4:36
Track number: 7
Times played live: 233
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A song depicting the supernatural conception of the Antichrist, invoking the Number of the Beast as cosmic power. The track alternates between 'Six-six-six / Invoke the king of hell' and 'Sex, sex, sex / Receive the beast of evil,' merging apocalyptic numerology with sexual imagery to describe infernal birth. With a backing choir performing clerical celebration and prominent keyboard work, 'Death Knell' transforms funeral imagery into demonic nativity, marking the moment when darkness begins its ascension toward worldly dominion.
Lyrics
Say, can you see the cross?
Inverted solemnly
Symbol for the goat
Of a thousand young
Six six six
Evoke the king of hell
Strike the death knell
Death knell
Say, can you hear the chimes?
Tolls now for the end
Bells call out their doom
As victor reaches womb
Sex sex sex
Receive the beast of evil
Of evil...
Can you say his name?
Carrier of the light
Legions of this seed
A child you as a spouse will feed
S-A-T-A-N
Under spell
Of death knell
Death knell
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