I Am the Trigger of the Damned

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

(Beastbusters) I am the Trigger of the Damned is the twelfth 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 1989 SNK coin-op arcade shooter "Beastbusters".

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LYRICS:

Cabinet hums like a war machine

Steel and sweat in a haunted scene

From Salt Lake to Osaka’s core

They speak my name in blood and lore

Rotting jaws and burning eyes

I face the spawn that never dies

Three guns blaze, but I stand alone

My aim is truth, my will is stone

I am the trigger of the damned!

The last defender of this cursed land

Undead legions fall in line

I carve redemption one corpse at a time

No mercy, no second breath

I walk the edge of life and death

Arcade warrior, battle-scarred and grand

I am the trigger of the damned!

Mutants shriek in the smoke and flame

Bosses crumble, I stake my claim

Grenades roar, my shotgun sings

I crush the darkness beneath my wings

They said it’s just a game

But I saw demons I can not name

Each level a gate to hell

And I alone rang the final bell

“Insert coin to continue?

I never needed one.”

I am the trigger of the damned!

The light gun prophet, battle-scarred and grand

Through haunted halls I blaze my trail

My score eternal, I will not fail

No respawn, no mercy cry

I’ll fight until the circuits die

Arcade warrior, born to command

I am the trigger of the damned!

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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