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[Disclaimer:  The majority of these lyrics were copied from the lyric sheets 
              of the INITIUM and SAMHAIN III NOVEMBER-COMING-FIRE LPs.  In 
              many cases the lyrics have been modified to include lyrics not 
              listed, and in other cases, the lyrics have been corrected.  
              The lyrics for the UNHOLY PASSION EP and the FINAL DESCENT LP 
              were figured out (possibly incorrectly) by Samhain fans.]
 
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==========                     INITIUM (1984)                      ==========
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INITIUM
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I live
Infinitus sleep has ended
And I live again

Beyond race
Beyond religion
Beyond man's fears

I am the end

Now is release
Now comes revenge
Now is the pain

You think you've known pain
You've known nothing

Feel my touch
Feel its pulsing surge
Know the meaning of

My gift
Welcome it

I live


SAMHAIN
-------
Go

Salt the dead, you close the veil
The changer of shapes alone on hooves
Autumn's cold brings the pagan dead
Who seek the warmth of the Samhain fire

Do you want a paradise
Do you want a sacrifice
This is the night to feast and dine
This is the night to laugh at death

Go go 

This is the night to feast and dine
This is the night to laugh at death
Do you want a paradise
Do you want a sacrifice

Salt the dead, you close the veil
The changer of shapes is alone on hooves
And the autumn's cold brings the pagan dead
Who seek the warmth of the Samhain fire

Do you want a paradise
Do you want a sacrifice
This is the night to laugh at death
This is the night to feast and dine


BLACK DREAM
-----------
Who are you that taunts my nights
With darkness and reproach
Are you she
Embracing devils never to awake

Pretty pretty black dream
Give me infinity's kiss
Pretty pretty pretty black one
Your lips I hunger for
'Cause I want it
And I need it
Your tongue I hunger for
Want it
And I need it
Black dream can kiss me loose
Oh

Your existence is only that which
Causes inner pain
Cradle lifeless bodies
In the bosom of your hell

Pretty pretty black dream
Give me infinity's kiss
Pretty pretty pretty black one
Your lips I hunger for
'Cause I want it
And I need it
Your tongue I hunger for
Want it
And I need it
Black dream can kiss me loose

Whoa go go oh

Black dream, black dream, black dream
Black dream, black dream, black dream
Black dream

When you come I'll be waiting here


ALL MURDER, ALL GUTS, ALL FUN
-----------------------------
Murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun

A kick in the head, a gouged out eye
Your intestines explode and your eyeballs pop
And the taste of your blood will drive me on
You see I get what I want, and I want when you bleed
'Cause the things I can cause have the seal of the dead
In humanity's fading glow

All murder, all guts, all fun

Whose little arms encircle me to make me think of love
Whose supple body aims to be a limbless bloody stump
Do you, do you, do you realize
That I like this thing I am

All murder, all guts, all fun
Because I like when chests are torn apart
The way that heads come off
And the way that art starts to imitate life
At the end of a gun
At the edge of a knife

And all murder, all guts, all fun
Go

Whose little arms encircle me to make me think of love
Whose supple body aims to be a limbless bloody stump
Do you, do you, do you realize
That I like this thing I am, come on I'll kill you

All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun

All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun
All murder, all guts, all fun


MACABRE
-------
(Spiritus) Birth is pain
(Succubus) Life is pain
(Spiritus) Death is pain
(Succubus)

Mortals of leveled grace
The world's end fierce
We who live are ever dead

(Spiritus) Spine of cat
(Succubus) Spine of heaven split to form hell

Mortals of leveled grace
Feel thine end dark
We who live are ever dead
(Spiritus, spiritus)

(Spiritus) The path is withered
(Spiritus) Rotted and deceased
The feet are cloven
The child is burned

Birth is pain
Life is pain
(Spiritus) Death is pain
(Succubus) Birth is pain

Mortals of leveled grace
Your days number now
We who live are ever dead

(Spiritus) Spine of cat
(Succubus) Spine of heaven split to form hell

Mortals of leveled grace
The world's end fierce
We who live are ever dead
(Spiritus)


HE-WHO-CAN-NOT-BE-NAMED
-----------------------
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
Intricate entity
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named

Say it
Say it and beware
Say it, say it
And take care

Pray you'll be spared
Down on your knees
Intricate entity

Born in the pit of another hell
Of the worm
Not of man
Formless
Faithless
And free
Intricate entity

This power can not be
Formless
Faithless
And free

This power can not be
Formless
Faithless
And free

He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
Intricate entity
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named

Say it
Say it and beware
Say it, say it
And take care

Pray you'll be spared
Down on your knees
Intricate entity

Formless
Faithless
And free
Intricate entity

He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
Intricate entity (He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named)
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named

Intricate entity
Intricate entity
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named
He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named


HORROR BIZ
----------
Too much horror business
Drivin' late at night
Psycho '88
My bathroom is new
You, you don't go in the back

Psycho '88
12 o'clock, don't be late
All this horror business
My mirrors are black
You, you don't go in the bathroom with me

I'm warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you

Too much horror business
Drivin' late at night
Psycho '88
My bathroom is not for you
You, you don't go in the bathroom

Psycho '88
12 o'clock, don't be late
All this horror business
My mirrors are black for you
You, you don't go in the bathroom with me

Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
I'll put a knife right in you
Warning you
Nobody can do
What I can do for you


THE SHIFT
---------
The shift starts, your spine stiffens
You break out in a cold, cold sweat
Then the muscular convulsions tear at your brain
Leaving you snarling and snapping at air

Your thoughts are of tearing asunder
All that exists in a man's world
Control does not exist
You're in the shift and Hell has begun

Held in the shift (held in the shift)
Held in the shift (held in the shift)
(Kick, snare)

The shift starts, the growl comes from the stomach up
Back from the base of the vertebrae
Razorback, hair straight up
Fluid shoots from your mouth and lungs

Razorneck, or a carnal-dog-thing
Carnal in fury, carnal in lust
You burn from the power, it tremors the senses
Keen and cool and ready for blood

Back up, from the stomach up
Back from the base of a vertebrae
Razorback, hair straight up
Carnal in fury, carnal in lust

Held in the shift (held in the shift)
Held in the shift (held in the shift)
Whoa (whoa)
Held in the shift (held in the shift)
Held in the shift (held in the shift)


THE HOWL
--------
There is a human slaughterhouse
Up on the hill, the road is red
And those who ignore
And those who pretend
It does not exist
End up in its hall

My blood goes to work
I hear the howl

There is a grove of bleached bones
Where lupins vomit children's limbs
Taking all their liberties
With parts of human anatomy

And in the hollow of a restless soul
Lies no remorse and no disgust
Every kill is clean and pure
Every thought is cleansed in growls, yeah

There is a grove of tortured forms
Where all is dark and deeds are foul
And those who ignore
And those who pretend
That the howl is a joke
Their children lie dead

My blood goes to work
I hear the howl

And then my blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
(There is a human slaughterhouse
 Up on the hill
 The road is red)

And then my blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
(And those who ignore
 And those who pretend
 It does not exist
 End up in its hall)

And then my blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
Blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
Blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
Blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl
And then my blood just goes to work
And then I hear the howl


ARCHANGEL
---------
Go

Heaven sends me here to you
And if a-you fear you've reason to
Open up all seven seals
The beast is come to claim the youth

Archangel
Archangel
Defiant brood
Defiant brood
I call on you

Casted down my bretheren
Rebels from authority
Power, pride, contempt and lust
All these things I give to you

Archangel
Archangel
Defiant brood
Defiant brood
I call on you

I am not your son of God
The prince of light will show no fear
Mine is that which rules this world
The beast is come, I am the end

Archangel
Archangel

And when they cast out the brood
For the sin of pride misused
And when they cast down to Hell
Fucking brood

Archangel
Archangel

Heaven sends me here to you
And if a-you fear you've reason to
Open up all seven seals
The beast is come to claim the youth

Archangel
Archangel
Archangel
Archangel
Go

Archangel

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UNHOLY PASSION
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Unholy passion, I feel for you
Unholy passion, I feel for you
This thing that hangs down my leg
I feel for you

I know
It's unholy
It's a garden and a death of soul
It's unholy
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'

When a body is set ablaze
We supplely snake on by
Pray before my years we gonna do it (here come the fury?)
'Cause the burning is a hip of yours

I know
It's unholy
It's a garden and a death of soul
It's unholy

Unholy passion, I feel for you
Dreadful emotion, that comes from here
This thing that hangs down my leg
I feel for you

I know
It's unholy
Sinful garden and a sinful tongue
It's unholy
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'
Unholy burnin'


ALL HELL
--------
Walls start closing in around you
My twins of evil
They shake you by the collarbone
Then snap your ribcage

And broken bodies in a death rock dance hall
Please be my partner
And eyeballs pop, accelerated blood beat
Veins 'a' shaking

And all Hell breaks loose
Yea, evil is as evil does and who
Yeah, who but me could write this book of cruel

I send my murdergram to all the monster kids
It comes right back to me
And it's signed in their daddys' blood

And all Hell breaks loose
And my heart is breakin' loose
Yea, my whole world's breakin' loose
Yea, evil is as evil does and who
Yea, my whole world's breakin'

I send my murdergram to all the monster kids
It comes right back to me
And it's signed in their daddys' blood
And broken bodies in a death rock dance hall
Please be my partner
And eyeballs pop, accelerated blood beat
Veins 'a' shaking

And all Hell breaks loose
And my heart is breakin' loose
Yea, my whole world's breakin' loose
Yea, evil is as evil does and who
Yea, my whole world's breakin' loose

Breakin' loose, breakin' loose, breakin' loose
Whole world's breakin' loose, breakin' loose
Whole world's breakin' loose, breakin' loose
Breakin' loose, breakin' loose, breakin' loose
Breakin' loose, breakin' loose, breakin' loose

All my hell's breakin' loose


MORIBUND
--------
Moribund, moribund, moribund
Yeah, you're waiting, yeah you're waiting

Inside this bloody world you wait
Goddamn in it
This breath that gives no life to you
God damn you [got to go in]

Moribund, moribund, moribund, moribund

What's set in play
What is done cannot be undone
You don't wonder what you done
Outside of life it can't be undone
   [What's set in play can't be undone]
What's set in play
What is done cannot be undone
You don't wonder what you done
Outside of life it can't be undone

You're waiting, you're waiting

Into the blessed throws you give (to me)
(You) goddamn mean it
Outside this bloody world you ran to hell
   (The breath that gives no life you gave to me)

Moribund, moribund, moribund, moribund
Moribund, moribund, moribund, moribund


THE HUNGRY END
--------------
There's a baby
In a meat slicer
On the kitchen table, half done up
Quite low
Broken Madonna
Decaying, cracked
On my toilet cover

Go, go, go, go

There's a horrid duration
With an appetite that will never cease
Quite low
Bliss you drink it
Desecrated evermore

Said oh oh oh oh

The hungry end
Is waiting for your momma
In a flash, she loses it
That which soothes the hungry end
Your place in oblivion is secure
And you're gone you kiss the damned
And you feel the hungry end
Is waiting for your life
And you're losing it
That which soothes

Feel it
Wish I could love you more
Feel it all
Never feel like I did before

And oh oh oh oh

The hungry end
Is waiting for your momma
In a flash, she loses it
That which soothes the hungry end
Your place in oblivion is secure
And you're gone you kiss the damned
And you soothe the hungry end
Go

With an appetite that will never cease
Quite low
Bliss you drink it
Desecrated evermore


I AM MISERY
-----------
Your life caves in, and I am there
Pulling you back from the shoulders down
And though you suffer you will be mine
I always win I am misery

Ohhh

I make your pain and suffering infernal
Turn your body inside out
Put you past your breath and tears
When all your loss is misery

Ohhh

I give you a glimpse of hope in the darkness
Let you think that this will end
And then securely nestle on your neck
And drag you back to misery

(Ohhh) I love this place
(Ohhh) I love this fuckin' job
(Ohhh) I love this place
(Ohhh) I love to give you pain

I give you a glimpse of hope in the darkness
I'll let you think that this will end
And then securely nestle on your neck
I drag you back to misery

(Ohhh) I love this place
(Ohhh) I love this fuckin' job
(Ohhh) I love this place
(Ohhh) I love to give you pain

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DIABOLOS '88
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(instrumental)


IN MY GRIP
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Hot night
Break-neck
Oozing into that thing
It seethes 
It foams
It splits the death of love whole

All the things you hold most dear
Gone
And the world it dies
In my grip
All the world and everything
In my grip

Hold tight
It comes
Entry level, smooth and quick
To claim its wants
It need only put out its hand

All the things you hold most dear
Gone
And the world it dies
In my grip
All the world and everything
In my grip
And the world it dies
In my grip
All the world and everything
In my grip

Your mate
Your life
Everything you are and could be
It owns
It covets
It splits the death of hope whole

All the things you hold most dear
Gone
And the world it dies
In my grip
All the world and everything
In my grip
And the world it dies
In my grip
All the world and everything
In my grip


MOTHER OF MERCY
---------------
Mother of mercy
Let me crawl on your bathroom floor
Mother of mercy
Let my will ebb into your house
Mother of mercy
I haven't done this for such a long time

We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell

Mother of mercy
I've been told not to stand erect
Mother of mercy
Will you take me into your womb
Mother of mercy
Can you soothe me for just a day

We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell

Slide with me to your netherworld
Emotion exquisite in sweet demise

We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all need our time in Hell
(I won't be the next widow
 Call out my name, I am ready)
We all want our time in Hell
We all need our time in Hell
We all want our time in Hell
We all need our time in Hell


BIRTHRIGHT
----------
This is your legacy
You are born to it
It will ever be

It will be on your heels
It will share your bed
Let it comfort thee

Inching in and out till prime
You are born to it
It will take you whole

Just let it guide you fierce
You are mad to birth
'Till the end of time


TO WALK THE NIGHT
-----------------
To walk the night
To feel no love
To know the touch of another kiss
Never more

To walk the night
To forever roam
To escape inside cool darkness
Alone

I have wandered my whole life long
The night becomes my bride and everything else must die
World without end
For me

Unearthly night
World you fear
Love lies lurking, a wounded dingo-dog 
Soon to decease

I have wandered my whole life long
The night becomes my bride and everything else must die
World without end
For me

To walk the night 
Solitary friend
Night ethereal
World without end
Forever more
Forever


LET THE DAY BEGIN
-----------------
Let the day begin
Let the horror start
Let the fury swell
Let the skies all cry
Let the day begin

Let the fun begin
Let the worlds collide
Let the day begin
Let humanity spin
Let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz into light
So then let the day begin

Let the world stand bare
Let it stand on trial
Let it open up
Let the tides explode
Let the day begin

Let the Jews all scream
Let the Catholics burn
Let the Protestants hide
Let the false ones wallow in their own demise

Let the fun begin
Let the worlds collide
Let the day begin
Let humanity spin
Let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz on into light
So then let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz on into light
So then let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand 
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz into light 
So then let the day begin

And the earth stands stripped 
And its imminent rape
Let them get their due
Let them feel the pain 
That they gave to you

Let the day begin
Let the horror start
Let the fury swell
Let the skies all cry 
Let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz into light
So then let the day begin

Inherent time is at hand
So then let the day begin
Nomadic waltz into light 
So then let the day begin


HALLOWEEN II
------------
1, 2, 3, 4

Formulae ueteres exorsismorum et excommunicationum
Strigas et fictos lupinam credere
Metamorphoses lycanthropie
Possunt inquam
Daemon pellem lupinam
Quodam cauae
Arboris occultandum

Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween
Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween
Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween

Metamorphoses lycanthropie
Possunt inquam
Metamorphoses lycanthropie
Possunt inquam

Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween
Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween


NOVEMBERS FIRE
--------------
Night calls on summer's end
Dark aspect, breed divine
Knee-deep, the blood of swine
Come season, come reborn

November-Coming-Fire
Samhain-grim (Samhain-grim)
And then it all comes down
Samhain-grim

Arms to flail in flame
Waving, trembling
These things breed to flame
All things must come to ash

November-Coming-Fire
Samhain-grim (Samhain-grim)
And then it all comes down
Samhain-grim

Embrace the night air
Summer's end, Heaven sent
Breathe the fire's musk
Insatiating full

November-Coming-Fire
Samhain-grim
And then it all comes down
Samhain-grim

November-Coming-Fire
Samhain-grim
And then it all comes down
Samhain-grim


KISS OF STEEL
-------------
Car crash, the pressing of two lips
Hard steel and an accidental death
One action does you up
Kiss of steel

Press your face to the metal crash
Feel your nose and cheek bones crack
What action does you up
Kiss of steel

We sleep in a Rolls of love
The waiting ecstacy
We wait upon your speed
Kiss of steel

We're having a love affair with a Chevy in midair
Kiss of steel

We're having a love affair with a Chevy in midair
Kiss of steel

Let the mouth taste the silver spread
Let it ride and the rubber screech
One shot will do them up
Kiss of steel


UNBRIDLED
---------
Unbridled
My horses run wild over your mind
Unbridled
My horses, panting, run wild over time
A thing of beauty
Hooves to trample fools

Unbridled
Relentless screaming from my ribs
Unbridled
Relentless, my will to kick it up
Unbridled
Never satisfied, my will to kick it up
Unbridled

Unbridled
Relentless screaming from my ribs
Unbridled
Never satisfied, my will to kick it up
Unbridled
My horses run wild over your mind
Unbridled
My horses, panting, run wild over time
Unbridled
Relentless screaming from my ribs
Unbridled
Never satisfied, kick it up


HUMAN PONY GIRL
---------------
How do you like it so far
Giddyap

I am your power and your pain
I'll make you gallop at my pace
Human pony girl

I am the monkey on your back 
And we're going for a ride home
Human pony girl

Your nights are a season at my command
Human pony girl, heeyah

This is my highway, no limit enforced
There is no law, just

Feel my spur sink in your flank
Feel it, feel it, pony

Stomach sweat in your spine
Belly up, shoulders down, pony

Gonna take you someplace you ain't never been
That's right
Only you ain't never comin' back

I am the monkey on your back
I'm gonna ride you home
Little pony girl

I am the monkey on your back 
I'm gonna break you home
Little pony girl

I am your power and your pain
I'm gonna make you race
Human pony girl

Giddyap

Gonna take you someplace you ain't never been
That's right
Only you ain't never comin' back

Gonna take you someplace you ain't never been
That's right
Only you ain't never comin' back

Giddyap

I am your power and your pain
I'll make you gallop at my pace
Human pony girl

This is my highway, girl 
There is no limit

Your nights are a season at my command
My little pony girl
Feel it

Stomach sweat in your spine
Belly up, shoulders down
Pony, human, human pony girl, human, you girl

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NIGHT CHILL
-----------
(instrumental)


DESCENT
-------
Casted out and beaten down, they fell
The war of evil
There you passed on heaven's place

Hell of pain sinner we became
You're damned upon this earth
Not hell

Don't go free
Hell of snake's creation
The fires of the will now do

Descend into Heaven's bowels bent
And broken
Sent across the chaos void
Your end begins
Endless
And into the blackness of your new soul
You must descend

[End]Helpless
Your end begins and into
The blackness of your soul
You must descend

Casted out and beaten down in vain
You're now the prince of Earth
Not Hell

Don't go free
Hell is snake's creation
The fires of the will now die

Hell of pain together we became
You're damned upon this earth
Not Hell

Descend into Heaven's bowels bent
And broken
Sent across the chaos void

Casted out and beaten down in vain
The war of evil
There you passed on heaven's place

Your end begins
Endless
And into the blackness of your new soul
You must descend


DEATH...IN IT'S ARMS
--------------------
Searching around
Searching and flee (search to flee?)
To the light nothing can hide
No one is safe from their fate

Death

For you kiss
Sin a lie
Embracing unkind
Nothing is safe from their fate

Death

Before you walk
Sensuously light to the light
Open your eyes
And no one is safe from their fate

Death in its arms
Death in its arms
Death in its arms
Death in its arms

Death in your arms
Death

Before your kiss
A sin a lie
Embracing unkind
Nothing is safe from their fate

Death in its arms
Death in its arms
Death in its arms
Death in your arms
Death in your arms
Death in its arms


LORDS OF THE LEFT HAND
----------------------
Left hand power of the pure
The world will tremble at our command
Left hand power of the lords
Builds upon our destiny
Destiny, take this land
Take this land by the death of man
Left hand triumph of the will
The world will whimper in our wake

At war with the planets
At war with all mankind
We will change the face of this earth
As our lord commands
In our holy quest for supremacy
Be our holy crime (grail?)

Left hand power to take
What was ours from the day of birth
Left hand is grasping strong
It does not fear its destiny

At war with the planets
At war with all mankind
We will change the face of this earth
As our lord commands
In our holy quest for supremacy
Be our holy crime (grail?)

Left hand, destiny
Left hand

At war with the planets
At war with all mankind
We will change the face of this earth
As our lord commands
In our holy quest for supremacy
Be our holy crime (grail?)


THE BIRTHING
------------
Your pain is nothing dreamed
All pain is one
Your birth among the mind
It leaves such a lesion

Do you really want love
Do you really care
You feel this hungry suffering
In this birthing

Birthing, your end is birthing like a child
Birthing, your end is birthing, open wide

In life as it is in death
All pain is one
In death as it is in birth
Pain cures hesitation

Do you really want love
Do you really care
You feel this hungry suffering
In this birthing

Birthing, your end is birthing like a child
Birthing, the end is birthing, open wide

Birthing, the end is birthing like a child
Birthing, the end is birthing, open wide

This pain is nothing dreamed
All pain is one
This birth among the dead
It brings nothing evil

Do you really want love
Do you really care
You feel this hungry suffering
In this birthing

Birthing, the end is birthing like a child
Birthing, the end is birthing, open wide
Birthing, the end is birthing like a child
Birthing, the end is birthing, open wide

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All songs written by Glenn Danzig.
All INITIUM songs copyright 1984 Hell-Bent Music.
All UNHOLY PASSION songs copyright 1985 Hell-Bent Music.
All SAMHAIN III NOVEMBER-COMING-FIRE songs copyright 1985 Hell-Bent Music.
All FINAL DESCENT songs copyright 1990 Evilive Music.

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