Forge of the Damned

By ARCAIDE Arrangements · Thrash Metal · From the album Arcade Onslaught

(Demon Front) Forge of the Damned is the nineth song off Arcade Onslaught, a double album filled with songs with lyrics inspired by old school coin-op arcade games. The song was inspired by the 2002 IGS coin-op arcade game Demon Front (if you've never played, it's WELL worth looking for, even on MAME).

Thank you for listening. I hope you enjoy!

LYRICS:

In the silicon tomb of the arcade shrine

Where pixel beasts and war gods intertwine

A demon-born soldier, stitched from code

Marches through realms where no soul’s owed

Bio-forged in a lab of forgotten sin

Cybernetic plague beneath blistered skin

Hellspawn mascots with vacant eyes

Spitting plasma as the world digitized

Crucified in the forge of the damned

Demon Front! Where the avatars stand

Side-scrolling through infernal decay

Insert coin, and your soul will pay

Mutant priests chant binary blasphemy

Their prayers corrupt the circuitry

Bosses rise like techno-leviathans

Feeding on the screams of fallen humans

Flame grenades rain from pixel skies

Your pet’s a beast with a thousand eyes

Respawned in agony, looped in pain

Arcade martyr, baptized in flame

Crucified in the forge of the damned

Demon Front! Where the avatars stand

Side-scrolling through infernal decay

Insert coin, and your soul will pay

Game over... but the torment remains

Trapped in the cabinet, bound by chains

High score etched in blood and rust

Demon Front... consume or be crushed

About Thrash Metal

Fast, aggressive metal emphasizing rapid-fire riffing, intense drumming, and punk-influenced energy, pioneered in the 1980s as extreme metal's velocity standard. Bands include: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth

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