black Holiday
DEATH METAL, BLACK METAL, MELODIC METAL
Mixing the pace and melody of the big Swedish bands with the urgency of California thrash as well as the darkness and musical chops of black metal, Black Holiday was one of the premier underground metal acts to emerge in LA/Orange County, California in the early 2000s. Opening for Slayer, System of a Down, In Flames and other big acts they honed their brand of American Blackend Death Metal with intricate, elaborate guitar lines and unforgettable melodies. The good folks at legendary metal magazine Keeper released Black Holiday’s full-length album in 2003 on Keeper Music and featured them on the cover of issue 14 along with Shadows Fall. Black Holiday followed their album with The Possession EP in 2005 before disbanding.
Lockout Music is excited to re-release their full length self-titled album along with their EP titled Possession. We know you’ll enjoy this Melodic Death Metal Classic and get ready to put up your devil horns!
Black Holiday Self-Titled
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Black Holiday Possession EP
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Lyrics
We have been held down, in burial grounds, kept in the suffering, kept in the dark, with no conscience, torched our homes, torched our families, torched our hearts
No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive
Now, we cry out loud, with faith to prevail, we’ve been here before, and in time, when lives are erased, these scars that don’t heal, that give us the strength, to carry on
We have been held down, in burial grounds, torn from freedom and innocents was lost, made into slaves, put into graves, torn from the lands, which we occupied, the hell that burns, in man, to destroy what we don’t understand
No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive
Now, we cry out loud, with faith to prevail, we’ve been here before, and in time, when lives are erased, these scars that don’t heal, that give us the strength to carry on
We have been held down, in burial grounds, such oppressions we’ve endured, some kept concealed, human life ignored, for power, greed and the Lord, this elitist mentality, creates never ending war and bloodshed
No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive, buried alive, our people buried alive
I dip my finger in the watery blood of your impotent man redeemer, and spit on his thorn cut brow
Live your words
Say the words
Thou shall feel
Feel my pain
Taste my tear
Burn
Say the words
There’s no gates
There’s no flames
Just the blood
Tears
Thou shall do
What thou will
Lust or love
Scream
Thou shall hate
Eye for eye
Decapatate
Hydra heads
Bleed
Say the words
Emancipate
All your guilt
Tell no lie
Fuck
Thou shall Kill
Annihilate
reserected
Sacred lies
Thou furfill
Nobility
Finding fate
redefined
Thou shall break
Servitude
Conviction lies
In thou eyes
Thou shall not
Live in fear
Know my pain
Taste my tear
Thou shall not
Live in fear
Know my pain
Taste my tear
Now is the time
We must give
When we fade, a new one lives
Indeed we forget
This precious chance
This ball of dirt
Life for indulgence, eternity for abstinence, search and dig deep for you will find the dragon of the abys
A place I find myself, surrounded by darkened bliss
Silence fills the air, majestic place I’m in
Feel the energy, surround my weightless shell
Elevate my body to euphoria, my eyes see nebula
Take my hands, say you will, come to me, let me lay beside, your gracious light, with dignity, let me hold you though, I know that I can never own, give me that before, my heart burst into flames
Filling up the void, below sacred grounds
A place the earth will breath out, on top of mountains peaks
To reach down so far, you touch the tips of flames
Searching through pieces, life within the Vortex
Take my hands, say you will, come to me, let me lay beside, your gracious light, with dignity, let me hold you though, I know that I can never own, give me that before, my heart burst into flames
Knowing the night, slipping the day
Some things you can’t see, only feel
Letting go what’s lost, only to find
Courage in the mind, the heart will follow
Existence is such, a search for what’s right, finding some truth, to live by, I try to face, it alone, I keep searching, to find my way home
No more complacency, fight to keep my sanity, blaring forth thy will to be, that defining moment where time stands still
You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility
Watching the time line, to catch a breath of the air, questioning what matters, that defining moment where life may pass me by
You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility
All there life, clouds in their eyes, clouds in their eyes
You reach a storm in your eyes, storm in your eyes, before you die
No one can touch my skin, alone with the storm in my eyes, nothing can equal this, that defining moment where sight goes blind
You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility
Only there Tranquility
Yeh, it’s such a struggle
Always such a struggle
Within my struggle
The frustrations
Now my solitude
We’ve come so far, and learned so little, endless diatribes, words from the wise, false prophets guiding light, my world dies, with me, in, the, dark
Now! It’s time once again Now! To share with my only friend, to look back at my world, with no regrets
I know this sad surrender, to overcome, the challenges, set forth, from all these hardships, to be Triumphant
We’ve come so far, and learned so little, people are so fucking inane, there guiding light, illuminates, the gates of hell.
Now! It’s time once again Now! To share with my only friend, to look back at my world, with no regrets
I know this sad surrender, to overcome, the challenges, set forth, from all these hardships, to be Triumphant
Now! It’s time once again Now! The future is unknown Now! To look back at our time, Now! With no regrets Now! Leave destiny to be laid, won’t wait for miracles, risk it all, let’s crush the grief, and face tomorrow, with no regrets
Mathematical equations
In-depth structure, for perfect creation
Sketches of past, drawings of memories, many mediums never addressed
Loss, and gain combined with a fuse that ignites, to keep self-destruction alive
Come share this masterpiece, mind and body homicides unite
Close your eyes, let silence hold your bliss, make the moment last, let the art begin, alone with my killer
You, you will be the one, never to far from me, never leave my side, something to save, from now until the day, I will always be there, alone with my killer
The ultimate sacrifice
One can obtain, eternal conviction
Beauty in mind, the ultimate impressionistic design, won’t fall short
Heavens Gate has shown how fashionable these artistic fanatics will go
With this great eulogy, your life can be frozen in time
Close your eyes, let silence hold your bliss, make the moment last, let the art begin, alone with my killer
You, you will be the one, never to far from me, never leave my side, something to save, from now until the day, I will always be there, alone with my killer
Silence has been broken, judgment, to laws of the earth
When the balance has shifted, we will, all bow down
Slayer of Angels, the paths we lead, fighting holy lies, burning holes in the sky
We celebrate, existence, our species feeds, our carnal needs, the true lovers of life
Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s treasure, this great indulgence
Running through the woods, at night, pale moonlight, let chants and drums unite
Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s desecrate these sacred books to ash
This unholy dream, interrogate the laws of god, let nothing go unseen
We annihilate, as we walk through the eye, of a needle, raping time
So we make up these stories, how we began, calling them truth, we’re deicide
Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s treasure, this great indulgence
Running through the woods, at night, pale moonlight, let chants and drums unite
Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s desecrate these sacred books to ash
This unholy dream, interrogate the laws of god, let nothing go unseen
Man must destroy, what man has created, let no fable go unturned, let all lessons be unlearned, man must destroy, what man has created
What have you done for us
Once we lived free with trust
Once we killed as we must
Bury this we turn to dust
While we destroy with lust
Vultures wait at the crest
Horror breathes in our chest
Digging a hole for the rest
More war for everyone
Whores growing one by one
Torn until birth becomes
Scorn from the shining one
Shot from a deadly gun
Harvest the shells for one
Growing like bastard son
Shearing the flock to none
Instincts, we conceal, don’t differ on 4 legs, this crippling dementia, in this world, we think we own
In the end, we’re just animals, living out carnal desires, to consume, destroy, and fuck, we’re just animals
There is no hope for us
What should be done with us
Blood was shed once for none
Assassinate the precious one
Bury them saints of scum
Carcasses have become
Rotting till we are done
Deleting solutions
Instincts, we conceal, stand true on 4 legs, this crippling dementia, in this world, we think we own
In the end, we’re just animals, living out carnal desires, to consume, destroy, and fuck, we’re just animals
Far from, a cry, our species, deny, we change, the face, and leave behind nothing but waste
Error will wipe us out
Feasting with open mouth
Increase in every house
Error will wipe us out
Eroding the deepest sea
Exploding as we will breed
A plague in the mist we breathe
Pestilence still reins king
Infinite, the lies we’ve heard since we woke, the cries we’ve made since we spoke, you know I try though I can’t escape these walls in which I lie, to let my feeling free, to watch my interiors bleed, the final regurgitation of god and man
Light that forever shines
Fire that keeps burning
Cries that never sleep
My heart lies, in the eye of the eternal scream
Infinity the eternal sky
Pain will sore, hearts deny
When love has come, to a final cry
Infinity will hear, at the end of time
Fantasy that’s instilled in us, from awakening taught of the dream, confirmation, of destination, always searching for the motivation, facades that are instilled in us, realization that never really exist, a knife inserts the stomach, a classic suicide
Death’s invincible
Oppressing those that fight for their needs, killing for birthright,
massacred for creed, such evil deeds, in the name of the lord, the battle starts with three
War on Trinity
Were at war, fighting wars core, War on Trinity
Killing angels one by one, War on Trinity
Break their celestial wings, War on Trinity
Contradiction, false conviction, War on Trinity
Death’s invincible
This perpetual anguish, devours all types of seeds, burning the mind growth, fire breathes so close to deity
War on Trinity
Were at war, fighting wars core, War on Trinity
Killing angels one by one, War on Trinity
Break their celestial wings, War on Trinity
Contradiction, false conviction, War on Trinity
We see Gehenna in the foreground, molesting in the flames, with the lifeblood we alter, the geometry of stigmata
Death’s invincible
Bound by thorns, cursed in the light, of their savior, so much blood, has been spilled, Christians deserve Christianity
Bringers of doom, prepare the tombs, the four horseman ride, the moon of there side, where fear turns to dread, bloods to be shed, the hunt is on, where thirst, turns to red, appetites are bread, to crucify the unruly, the witches hide
Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
Decimates the light, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
Celebrate, the dead proliferate, Holiday of the Macabre
Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
We celebrate, the new year, with a feast, for the deceased, the veil between worlds, is uncertain, lets drink, to those who’ve passed over, why the fear of the unknown, lets celebrate, for this day is ours, till the next evolution
Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
Decimates the light, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
Celebrate, the dead proliferate, Holiday of the Macabre
Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre
A mosaic of cultures, broken glass divides, the burnt, reminance, of shattered pasts(paths), worship, has infected, slaughtering minds, brutality in which some call saviors, expressions of sadness is the hatred we justify
Ideology, searching for what we’ve lost, ancient writing, on the wall, written in ancient times long ago
Take this choice, it’s your to keep, on the edge, far from reach
In your hands, the holes run deep, to define our purpose, to define, belief
Burn, at the stake, flesh to ash, my human sacrifice
I spoke, my testament, my burning heart, my human sacrifice
My Human Sacrifice
Tied to the stake of life, we burn the flesh alive, stained glass, by the blood of the excess, we run in circles of envy
Take this choice, it’s your to keep, on the edge, far from reach
In your hands, the holes run deep, to define our purpose, to define, belief
Burn, at the stake, flesh to ash, my human sacrifice
I spoke, my testament, my burning heart, my human sacrifice