High Score Holocaust

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

(Rampage) High Score Holocaust is the seventh 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 1986 Bally/Midway coin-op arcade classic "Rampage".

Thank you for listening. I hope you enjoy!

LYRICS:

Quarter in the slot—now the skyline dies!

Skyscrapers scream, the streets ignite

Three beasts unleashed in pixel blight

Lizzie’s hunger, George’s wrath

Ralph’s claws carve a crimson path

No escape, no reset key

This joystick fuels catastrophe

High score holocaust!

Cities crushed beneath the cost!

Rampage reigns, no rules apply

Thrash the world until it dies!

Military’s blind, they fire and fail

Helicopters shredded, trains derailed

I am just some dude living in town

Watching monsters take towers down

Smash the window, eat the man!

Can they smash tanks? Yes they can!

Mutation born from corporate sin

Now the monsters always win!

High score holocaust!

No continues, no exhaust!

Rampage rites, the end is nigh

Thrash the world until it dies!

"You thought it was just a game... but the game remembers."

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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