Forging An Empire [Live At Amerikana]

by Elio Rigonat

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1.	Madman's Overture (live) 00:58	info	buy track
2.	Death Parade (live) 04:46	lyrics	buy track
Power, charging the street Nine thousand horses of pain Kobold's demonic creed Relentlessly paving the way Demons, straight from hell Slaughtering weak and the mild Killing the trend, no way to defend Bodies of victims are piled Let's ride, ride with me, spread the hate Let's ride, ride with me, ride the wave Let's ride, ride with me, go insane Let's ride, ride with me, endlessly, through this Death Parade Maggots, crawling through streets Fuck-boys and junkies and gimps A wave of death, to clean up shit No escape, your skull shall be split Supercharged, death machine A symbol of annihilation A deadly panzer, to wipe out cancer Crushing the spineless creations
3.	Fake (live) 04:05	lyrics	buy track
I see the way you scorn at me Your fake smile smells like shit Cum and piss drip from your mouth Zits and herpes crown your snout Fake! You're a fucking fake! No one believes the shit, you say! Fake! No one believes the shit, you say! Like a snake, you crawl to me You bring me lies and misery Your crooked tongue is what I fear Why won't you just disappear Talk tough, cause pain, rotten cunt, mind profane Spineless, cowardice, whipped dog, quite insane Disease, disgrace, beady eyes, rotting face Shameful, cum bag, mindless, shit sack Everybody knows you're a snake A dirty liar even you forsake Alone and cold in darkness you shall wake Just drop and die for your own sake Spread lies, spread legs, steal money, steal friends Faceless, hopeless, shameless, thoughtless Cheat love, cheat yourself, never honest, that's your game Spread rumours, spread lies, a dirty creature you despise
4.	Hatred Speedfuck (live) 01:24	info	buy track
5.	Into Purgatory (live) 04:44	lyrics	buy track
Speeding down the killing road, chasing death again Not hungry for the payload, but hungry for the pain Music’s not our ecstasy; it’s the sickness of our souls Affliction worse than any drug that deprived us of our goals Into purgatory, with nothing to lose Into purgatory, with nothing to gain Into purgatory, we must be insane Into purgatory, we come back again Stacking different substances, unbroken and unfazed As the end of night advances and the sky turns to blaze Snuff fest filled with gore, dead bodies hit the floor Scarce survivors scream for more, as we play the final score Dawn break brings back the ache The feeling that we cannot shake Anxiety grips our chests and our brains We yearn to feel dead inside again Another night, another fruitless fight Dive into reality away from the light Life is an abomination unclean and unjust Ultimate perfection awaits us in the dust
6.	Empire - It Is Us (live) 05:53	lyrics	buy track
Wake up, merge back with reality Umbilical noose tightens, from self-animosity Life or death, the fuck I care, I’ve long made my peace Nothing can fulfil me, until the day I cease Feed the Empire with my blood I drag myself through the mud I choke myself on shit and pus Empire – It Is Us Stitched together, flesh and bone My eyes are set onto the throne Abdominal existence, of orderly chaos A temple of illness, sickness and pathos As much as I infatuate and elevate myself I can’t help but fall before man-praised wealth Selling away piece by piece, with fear of rotting on the shelf Reinventing myself day by day, redefined in my own hell Suffocating grief, loss in disbelief – probably Become a better me, unlike the better you – arguably Just a lifeless mass, all of me – definitely A sleepless kind of fear, nightmares’ all I hear – eternally “Bow down, I am your reflection Now drown, In your own weaved convictions Your vanity, inanity, lack of humanity Your mundanity, insanity, this is your reality”
7.	Soul Cacophony (feat. Gibu of BG Bagra) (live) 04:03	lyrics	buy track
A mass of shit, bones and blood, on a rock, born from mud Damn to eternal agony, from its soul cacophony „I am more than what I am, I won’t amount to nothingness!“ These words are the bane of man, a testament to his pettiness I am love, I am hate, I’m the fears that I create I am joy, I am pain, I’m my one and only bane I am void, I am time, I’m my struggle to survive All I know, All I feel, I’m my souls' cacophony Fame, wealth and power, man lusts for them all To be the king of everything, man will fight and crawl To be the star of the world, bigger than life itself To become a titan and forever rule this realm
8.	Technofascism (live) 04:54	lyrics	buy track
All you hear, all you see Are chemicals and circuitry All you see and believe Are chemicals and circuitry Circuitry instead of veins, SSD instead of brains CPU instead of a heart, motherboard to hold us apart Chemicals seep into your mind, Microchips and data, self, redesigned Technofascism Tin soldiers, expendable, run of the mill Inside the shell, flesh decays, robbed of free will You can choose to refuse, disbelieve, You’ve become a part of the Machine Cast the metal back to stone, strip cancer from the bones Reactivate the human gene, break away from the machine Return to the primitive, return to the Mother Earth I climb the mountain of razorblades Just to slip and fall into the broken shards As I claw my way through Hades Illusion’s falling like a house of cards
9.	Virus (live) 04:57	lyrics	buy track
Virus plagues the human race A pandemic we have yet to face Inferior, feckless brains Subhuman principle reins Virus, the feeling of your brain cells frying Virus, there is no point in denying Virus, you were born to spread the blight Virus, you’re nothing more than a parasite Virus of stupidity has spread Now it’s coming for your head Eugenics, so clean and pure Death, the one and the only cure Techno-phobia, the fear of all that’s new Ignorance is not bliss, but a virus that spares few Degeneracy, the new social norm Minds raped in their prime, subhuman race is born Virus, there is only one vaccine Euthanize the cancer, eradicate the gene Virus, legalize murder, the only way To clean the planet, to see another day
10.	Ministry of Propaganda (live) 03:00	lyrics	buy track
Ministry of Propaganda, societies decay Wicked agenda, it's time for them to pay Gather arms and break the spell, sledgehammer to the screen It's time to put a final end, to Wizard's evil scheme Death, to thee Calculating every move, playing with our lives You're the profit, from which they profit, they milk you till you die Sickly, weak and fragile, one thing they fear is strength Hiding in their castles, they know what's coming next Like the worms, they crawl under your skin Eat you from inside, death from within
11.	Random Act of Violence (live) 02:39	lyrics	buy track
I pray to no messiah For all I do, I do myself I don't need no alibi For I stand behind my act Random act of violence You will call me inhumane I will call it - to be brave You will call me too insane It won't change me all the same
12.	Thrash Overlords (live) 03:46	lyrics	buy track
The third wave of madness is sweeping the nether Old guard and youth bonded together Speed freaks and Core kids circle the pit Established sound, yet this is the new shit Just when you thought it couldn't go faster Kobold's arrived and brought a disaster Fall in line and follow the pastor No one’s exempt, bow down to the masters Banging our heads, until we're dead Thrash Overlords! Breaking our necks, instilling respect Thrash Overlords! Drinking our fill, bringing the thrill Thrash Overlords! If you stand still, we’re in for the kill Thrash Overlords! Tomorrow is just another day! Their world is shit, now and forever We dwell at the moment, restraints we sever Jointly we jaunt on a breakneck endeavour “When will it stop?” The answer is - “Never!” Just when you thought it couldn't go under Kobold's arrived and brought the thunder Dazed and confused, you're left in wonder We'll split the globe, we'll blow it asunder
13.	Masterpace (live) 06:52	lyrics	buy track
Five hundred thousand years flushed down in a flash As humanity and vices came down to a clash Gula, Luxuria, Avaritia, Superbia Tristita, Ira, Vanagloria, Acedia All aboard for one last race Evolving, devolving… Dust to dust, face to face Seeding, conceding… Atrocities are all erased Speeding, proceeding… Falling up at Masterpace Masterpace! Industrial revolution inflicted devolution In concentration institutions, we succumb ourselves to pollution Poisoning the tree of life, poisoning the child Growing up in their dawn’s light, abominations with style Panicked people frantic on a mission To send the cancer to remission Crushing the new-borns, spelling their own end Out of all loans, borrowed time has been spent There’s no hope for absolution, there’s no time for solutions Stuck together on this ship, this will be our final trip There will be no afterlife, no matter the cost nor the strife This final challenge you shall face is when we reach the Masterpace
14.	Die Hard (live) 04:32	lyrics	buy track
Incapable of giving any affection Passing your judgments without hesitation Pain in your heart consumes you by the day Knowing that your life is slipping away Your mind is melting infected by affliction Worse by the second, you're losing aspiration You've thrown it all away, without a second thought All alone you truly are lost Blinded by sickness you cannot see Your affliction won't set you free Your mind is locked in an endless strife Your instincts tell you to throw your life If you entered my mind's domain You'd understand all my pain Watching you slowly wasting away I will be torn, to my dying day Wasting your days rotting in your cave Basking in pleasure of going insane Drunk from affliction, feeding your addiction You're trapped in fiction, and it's killing me Die, Die Hard, Die You've lost your pride You've lost your hope You've lost your mind You've lost your life
15.	Forging An Empire 02:00		buy track

about

To celebrate the release of their third studio album "Technofascism", KOBOLD has organized its first rendition of EMPIRE Metal Festival in the largest club venue, Sala Amerikana in Belgrade Youth Center, establishing themselves as one of the dominant forces on the Serbian metal scene.
This live album features a multitrack recording of all of the best and most beloved songs that the band has produced over the course of the past seven years of playing and recording music, further professionally engineered, mixed and mastered by the band members Elio Rigonat & Stefan Stanojević, aka "Edwin Pickett".
This live album also serves as the soundtrack to the DVD release of the entire event, available on the band's official YouTube Channel.

credits

released April 23, 2022

Music & lyrics by Elio Rigonat, except where noted
Album art pictures by Julia Lazić
Album art by Elio Rigonat
Logo by Elio Rigonat & Peđa Ginevski
Music recorded in Amerikana in Belgrade Youth Center on 12th March 2022.
F.O.H. Sound Engineering by Igor Lončar & Ninoslav Filipović
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Elio Rigonat & Stefan Stanojević, aka "Edwin Pickett"

KOBOLD are:

Elio Rigonat - Vocals, Guitar, Synths and Violin
Pavle Simić, aka "Yopa" - Drums
Stefan Stanojević, aka "Edwin Pickett" – Bass

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Elio Rigonat Belgrade, Serbia

Hailing from Serbia, Elio Rigonat is a multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer. Aside from his work in the bands Kobold, WDS & BG Bagra, in 2016 he released his first critically-acclaimed solo album "Egregor I" and has been publishing solo work since then. ... more