Soul Cleaver

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

(Soul Edge/Soul Calibur) Soul Cleaver is the fourteenth 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 NAMCO coin-op arcade fighters series Soul Edge / Soul Calibur.

Thank you for listening. I hope you enjoy!

LYRICS:

In the shadow of shattered steel...

Where legends bleed and blades remember...

The soul of war awakens!

Born of fire, cursed in flame

Soul Edge whispers the warrior’s name

A thousand battles etched in bone

Steel cries out from the astral zone

Nightmare rides with death in hand

A crimson tide across the land

Talim screams to cleanse the air

While Kilik burns in psychic flare

Bound by fate, the clash begins

No gods, no mercy, only sins

Soul Cleaver!

Cut through time with wrath unchained

Soul Cleaver!

Calibur’s light, forever stained

Arcade-born, eternal fight

Pixel blood in neon night

Siegfried’s soul torn in two

Justice drowned in spectral blue

Taki hunts with demon blades

Yoshimitsu warps through phase

Mitsurugi, the ronin’s pride

Fights the ghosts he cannot hide

Ivy’s chains, infernal grace

Twist the edge of time and space

Steel on steel, the gods retreat

Arcade echoes, hearts deplete

Insert coin, embrace the pain

One more life to die again

Soul Cleaver!

Arcade vengeance, pixel flame

Soul Cleaver!

No salvation, just the game

Soul Cleaver!

Calibur’s curse, edge of doom

Soul Cleaver!

Fight forever in the tomb

The soul still burns...

But who will wield the final blade?

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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