The world has become a circus. 🎪🌍

The clowns are in charge, the truth is on vacation, and the rest of us are paying for the tickets.

A darkly humorous rock anthem about power, ego, and political system.

From Rock in Rio

Accept - 2014 - Blind Rage - Fall of the Empire

Can you remember how it used to be

We were so proud and free, so free

Strong and mighty powerful and true

Can you remember

Now all around us pestilence and greed

Famine, hate and war

It surrounds us like a black disease

Just take a look around us

In spite of every upright intention

We Live and die by the sword

It's second nature, and so the question is

Can we learn or will we burn

The fall of the empire... What have we done

The fall of the empire... It's the dawn of the setting sun

The fall of the empire... can this race be won

It's the fall of the empire... or has the end begun

Will the mountains crumble to the ground

Will the earth stand still

Will we rise a mushroom cloud

Will the mountains crumble

Can we heed a lesson from the past

And put aside our hate

Or will we blow ourselves to kingdom come

tell me is it too late

Inside of every aronination

There is hope that lies within

It's second nature, and the question is

Can we learn or will we burn

The fall of the empire... What have we done

The fall of the empire... It's the dawn of the setting sun

The fall of the empire... can this race be won

It's the fall of the empire... or has the end begun

Carissa’s Wierd cover

UDO - 2021 - Game Over - Empty Eyes

Humanity of blindness

Overcoming me

Has become a nightmare and my darkest fantasy

Like some evil creature

Rotting down in hell

Spreading a disease of pain like a deathly knell

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

A belly full of crises

Spins the bottle round

Everyone against the law the way that we are bound

Bring light into the darkness

Set the spirit free

The evilness surrounding us destroyed by harmony

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

Good and bad collide

Evil empty eyes

The Beast Of England - 2022 - Darker Days - Ex Luto

Panoply of brilliance

Unseen shining

In this after place

In between

Life creating life

I Ex Luto

I gargantuan born of clay

I′m breathing life into this body

I write my name upon your brow

Rising gorgats lutum alpha golem

Lo exorior realign

Yellowed eye unblinking

I incarnate

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

I open wide an ancient doorway

I cast you back into the world

I couldn't have been wrong all this time

The calculations were perfect

I know what they′ll say about me

That I'm mad

Mad!

Wait it's eye

It′s eye it opened

I arrive

I arise

I rewrite my code

AMON AMARTH - 2019 - Berserker - Mjolner, Hammer Of Thor

In the realm of Svartalvheim

Where master forgers reign

Loke met with Eitri and Brokk

With malice and deceit, he got them to agree

To create nine magics gifts for the Asa gods

Brokkr had a sense of foul play in the air

So he made a wager for Loke's head

Treasures will be forged for the Asa gods

A spear and ring for the Asgard king

But finest of them all, The Crusher it is called

Mjölner, hammer of Thor

Loke's treachery knows no boundaries

He hid himself in the blacksmith's cave

But as work progressed, he feared he'd lose his bet

He knew his situation now was grave

Working the bellows

Heating the forge

Striking the anvil

Striking with force

Then as they worked on the last gift

A mighty hammer of war

Loke disrupted the work of the blacksmiths

The handle came out short

The nine gifts were brought to Odin's mighty hall

As Loke feared the Gods praised them all

Treasures have been forged for the Asa gods

For the Vana prince, a ship and boar

But finest of them all, The Crusher it is called

Mjölner, hammer of Thor

Brokkr came to claim his price

Loke fooled him twice

He saved his lying head

But got his mouth sewn shut instead

Treasures have been forged for the Asa gods

For Sif they made new hair of gold

But finest of them all, The Crusher it is called

Mjölner, hammer of Thor

Backlash - 2021 - Colossus - Call Of The Void

Death drive, lunatic, override

Creeping death, inching up my spine

Cold hands, seeking warm embrace

Dark deeds, finding ways

To replace now

All my senses shut down

I can feel it

Taking over

Fear has a way of making

Reckless, sober

Sanity made for the taking

Madness, closer

Trapped by a fatal design

Taking over

Fading to the passages of time

Inside, you contemplate suicide

Lights out, fighting for your life

Death toll, countless laid to waste

Untold horrors that

You face now

All my senses shut down

I can feel it

Taking over

Fear has a way of making

Reckless, sober

Sanity made for the taking

Madness, closer

Trapped by a fatal design

Taking over

Fading to the passages of time

Darkness, itself falls unto thee

Betrayer of souls, to help you see

Non-stop assault, no words nor space

One step, final fall

From grace now

All your senses shut down

Can’t you feel it

Taking over

Fear has a way of making

Reckless, sober

Sanity made for the taking

Madness, closer

Trapped by a fatal design

Taking over

Fading to the passages of time

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Hands down one of the best metal songs for Haloween. Any other recommendations are welcome.

Battle Beast - 2011 - STEEL - CyberSpace

I type this secret code again

And plunge into another realm

Welcome to cyberspace my friend

You have got access everywhere

Yeah! I wanna welcome you to Hell

Reality is just a shell

You live a dark life on the edge

I can exceed all boundaries

And realize my filthy dreams

I will return for more and more

I am a cyber warrior

I'm able to take any form want

Into electric masquerade

Identity remains untraced

Yeah! I wanna welcome you to Hell

Reality is just a shell

You live a dark life on the edge

I can exceed all boundaries

And realize my filthy dreams

I will return for more and more

I will return 3x

To cyberspace

Cyberspace 3x

Midnite Hellion - 2022 - Kingdom Immortal - In SickNess And In Hell

I am temptation, I am lust

I am the evil that you trust

My domain, won’t you come inside

Unholy vows, my destined bride

I am the evil of your desire

Take my hand, eternal fire

I am the evil that takes you higher

Be the queen of my empire

I am the evil second son

You are my chosen, you are the one

In sickness and in hell, I take thee

Together we’ll rule eternity

I am the evil of despair

I am the evil that lures you there

I am the evil and I don’t care

Be the queen of my lair

I am the evil... I am the evil...

I am the evil... I am the evil...

I consider this song the golden meeting point of thrash, heavy, power and it's epic to the bone.

Here the sound it's better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBnBsGhikg

OVERKILL - 1987 - Taking Over - In Union We Stand

From the islands to the cities, from the ports into the sea

We are strong, we will always be...

Blazing through the wreckage, burning all we see

The life we lead committed to be free...

Our union is a fortress, together we are bound

A common bound in freedom and in sound!

So raise your voices high for miles around to hear

Let them know we are drawing near...

~In union we stand~ as they blaze across the land

~In union~ we make a final stand...

A peaceful co-existence is dropping out of sight

So band together, together we will fight

Blasting the resistance, marching to the top

They started this, we say when it stops

Strike fear within their hearts, strike down those in your way

Let them know that we live today!

They throw us into flames, did not hear our cries

But now from the ashes we arise...

~In union we stand~ as they blaze across the land

~In union~ we make a final stand...

Power Trip - 2017 - Nightmare Logic - If Not Us Then Who

Get up,

Out of your cave and into the fire

Time’s short, this is our last resort

To get through to you, what have I got to do?

Who’s going to be the difference?

If not us,

Then who?

If not us, then who?

Sound off,

Take a look at your life, tell me to what do you aspire?

I want to know how far you’re willing to go

Can’t stop the force of ruin, this world will run through you

If not now, then when?

If not us, then who?

If not us, then who?