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Depredation

by Prezir

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Brad This is some top tier thrashy USBM - amazing musicianship and songwriting. Support this band! Milwaukee needs more of this!
Sterthanas
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Sterthanas Unrelenting aggression, scathing vocals and tons of frantic solos. The dual guitar harmonies evoke a feeling of "North from Here" era Sentenced. I bought it immediately. Favorite track: Emissary Artifice.
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deff Vraiment un très bon album. Je retrouve avec plaisir différentes touches d'autres groupes divers comme vital remains, skeletonwitch, Black Dahlia Murder, et autres... Favorite track: Terrors of the Steppe.
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1.
Rat... Singidunum dogged prize Blemished regal Hapsburg pride Čast... Twice repelled by Serbian forces, reinforced by Saxon hordes Krv... Surrounding The White City Germans lead their third assault Out manned and outgunned the battered kingdom made its stand Final hour now at hand Combat worn, steadfast resolve Mackensen crossed the Danube Pitched battle as cannons rained, Kalemegdan their last hope As all looked lost, ruin drew nigh For their king willing to die Serbia land of Slavs gasping for its final breath Dragutin Gavrilović The major boldly ordered That his men lay down their lives Charging forth, honor in death “for the king and fatherland” Rat... Čast... Krv... Smrt... Duh ... Trust in his command, sacrifice grand For the homeland, honor demands last stand With their grenades unleashed, bayonets thrust into breach Enemy fire shatters their corps as battle cries roar The streets ran red, bloodshed Otadžbinu, Kralja Za Beograd
2.
Roman vassal kingdom, the lands of Judea ruled by Herod The Great Achaemenid infiltration Birth of a new King, foretold prophecy, destabilization was their ploy First Persian Empire sent forth their Magi, deification they'd employ The star of Bethlehem forecasts usurpation Ahura Mazda's spies, seeking out a naive peasant Come bearing gifts of riches and pleasures, monarchical treasures, for the boy Preemptive measures, lessons and lectures, traveling westward, their convoy In Bethleham The priests found their boy, birthed to a known harlot of lowly stock And prideless father descending from the bloodline of King David Forged messiah Abrahamic tale, the birth of a new King would fit their mold A master of the frail, he was their pawn bought with gold The Magi's shill Nazarene, the lord of the meek, undermining the Herodian keep Born of lies, rebellion prone, the malcontent began subverting the throne Roman rule also at risk, his disciples were attached at the hip Chaos, vandalism, treasonous rule, by Zoroastrian tool Psalms of misery, vilifying dignity The bastard Son of God, the fraud from Galilee Sworn so long ago, to lay waste and to fallow the lands of David for his lords, The Wise Magi His seed takes hold Pharisees take note, they must stamp out this vile sorcerer Justice must be served by Roman law, for Judea, Crucified was Christ But too little too late, his ministry took hold, the messiah martyr The Wise Men's curse outlasting death Sabotage, treason, warping of reason, forfeit of seizin plagued the land Provocateur's Achaemenid stain infected his flock from there hence forth
3.
Starve Ukraine, 1932 through 1933 Would pay the price for Soviet pride as peasant Kulak farmers died Local patriots maligned Vilified, undermined Soviets reassigned, as to seize crop yields Intelegencia shot Famine, genocide with forethought Collective school of thought, laying waste to fields Die His will, The Georgian Man of Steel Pledged he would break this fertile land Their grain appropriated for proletariat demand Larders and livestock taken by the state Their children were left to rot, starvation their fate Agony, atrophy Loss of faculties took hold Strategy, tragedies, horrors untold Taking flight, shot on sight Sequestration through might Stalinist oversight, as winter arrived Plight Famine taking millions The young and old died first Those caught scrounging scraps of food Killed by the Red Army as thieves Fallow, once proud land, terminus of toil To their cries the world was deaf, crops buried to spoil Eat the dead Hunger drives a man insane, flesh, ravenous his pain Insatiable this aching want to eat his kin and confidant The Holodomor
4.
A terror sweeping across the vast Eurasian Steppe, dread, the death gallop Scythians, the warriors of lore, riders of war, descending on tribes, lives forfeit to their arrows Nomad kings Askuzai, lords of the horse, battle cry signals their force Tattooed corps., eagle and boar, lightning fast and in battle cast Scyth, shock and awe, their calling card for centuries Beheading their enemies, ascending into history, masters of war known for their barbarity Scoloti Fierce royals Leaders of their savage war clans, Noblemen Soldier women joining their ranks, death sirens, mercenaries Continent ravaged by fear, Nineveh sacked by the horsemen Commandeered gold and riches, profiteers menace the silk road Raids... from The Black Sea to the far eastern reaches Empires plagued, Achaemenids, Sarmatia battled the nomads, bloodshed rode by way of daunting war steeds Scoloti Fierce royals Leaders of their savage war clans, Noblemen Soldier women joining their ranks, death sirens, mercenaries Hired by their rivals Their long held horror campaign, dealt a blow by Macedonians The Horse Kings loosing their reigns, further scarred by the Assyrians Hellenized, weakened through trade, empire dealt a death knell The Bosporans Mithridates The Great King From the vastest plains, the endless horizon, flowing through their veins, the blood of a million slain Mostly myth remains of tyrants from the Steppe, villages in flames, the echoes of ancestral pain Cries... heard in the wind Skies... above their lost, empire of yore
5.
From Kurdish lines the falcon rose The scimitar of empire's throes Syria and Egypt crowned The enigmatic Sultan was renowned Christendom bound Crusaders drowned Capturing ground The Lionheart by Britannia throned With papal dictum and will of his own Waged holy war, the Western accords To vanquish the Ayyubid caliphate, decimate, eastern hordes Will of The Lord By flesh and sword Blood in the sand Sacrificed to The Holy Land Oath sworn to God Clashing marauders Righteous facades Followed commands of their tyrants The Lionheart by Britannia throned With papal dictum and will of his own Waged holy war, the Western accords To vanquish the Ayyubid caliphate, decimate, eastern hordes Will of The Lord By flesh and sword Blood in the sand Sacrificed to The Holy Land Oath sworn to God Clashing marauders Righteous facades Followed commands of their tyrants Richard Lionheart, English monarch The Crusader King, faced down his foe Saladin the shrewd, Sunni Sultan Battled Western might, for Jerusalem
6.
Maj, selo Glina u čeljusti sile Zlotvor, komšije Ustaše Četrdeset prve, invazija Nemačka, opravdanje mržnje od vekova Hrvatski rod je izdao svoje zemljake Yugoslavije Prevara, komšija kolje komšiju nožem “Blagoslovljen greh, istrebiti Srbina” Mirko Puk, ministar vere, proglas, varvarstva Fašista, podrškom Katoličkog Vatikana Otac i sin su odvedeni, ubijeni U Srpskoj crkvi zaključani, zapaljeni Krvoproliće, svi muškarci su zaklani Ustaška narav, krvožedna, istrebljenje naređen cilj Nemilosrdan divljački klan Ogorčen fanatičan član “Hrvatska! Za Dom Spremni! očisčenje” Ustaša, Srbosekom izdaje smrt “Za Dom” Otac i sin su odvedeni, ubijeni U Srpskoj crkvi zaključani, zapaljeni Krvoproliće, svi muškarci su zaklani Ustaška narav, krvožedna, istrebljenje naređen cilj Nemilosrdan divljački klan Ogorčen fanatičan član “Hrvatska! Za Dom Spremni! očisčenje” Ustaša, Srbosekom izdaje smrt Odvedeni ubijeni Zaključani zapaljeni, svi muškarci su zaklani “Za Dom” Krv prolivena, i genocid je iz zapisa izbrisan Izbeglice su pobegli u Srbiju, žene, mališani, beskućnici Brat, otac, muž, ožiljci bivšeg života koji podseća na bol iz Banije
7.
Kosovo, their last stand, Ottoman, gateway to Europe's plunder Serbia's, outnumbered knights, gathered to, defend the holy ground Prince Lazar led, with Vuk at flank, protectors, of Christendom from the Turk Scourge, Sultan Murat, conqueror of the Balkans Gutted like a ram, at the hands of Obilić Kosovo, their last stand, Ottoman, gateway to Europe's plunder Prince Lazar led, with Vuk at flank, protectors, of Christendom from the Turk Lambs, stolen children, forced to subjugate their kin Janissary proselytes, drenched in blood to their shoulders Surrounding their corps On a Holy War Jihad on their breath Lazarević death Serbia enthralled by the crescent moon Endured chains of Turkish caliphate Orthodox conversions Turning brothers into enemies Centuries languishing Under the the thumb of a foreign state Daughters despoiled sons eunuched Leading to the cries for the first rebellion
8.
Sâr Marx Ideology shaped a Stalinist warped ego French colonial rule, justifying credo Millions perished as fuel, ablaze in the pyre's revolt-the Marxist assault Cambodia scorned, Bolshevist leader adorned The Khamer Rouge, terrors striking from the jungle Depredation as the city defense crumbled Schooled in the west by Leninist creed Making his countrymen bleed He would not rest, Ho Chi Minh's behest To transplant the revolution's seed Power obsessed, dissension suppressed Viciously lashing at rivals Pol-Pot the cruel, a communist tool Industry the new pariah Peasantry his lone messiah Capital thrown to the fire of reform Saloth reborn Pol-Pot took form Phnom Penh taken by storm, by defilers in the night Akin to viral blight, succumbing to the swarm Forced out citizens, beaten till they all conform Cast out denizens, education uniform Toil in fields their lot, through battery they're taught, an existence fraught Stolen property, subject to mockery, abject poverty, slavery Quotas meeting yields In the killing fields Murdered by the guards Bankrupt house of cards Growing paranoia, executions commonplace Loyalty requisite, peasants shot in the face Rampant ceaseless death Nation struggling for breath, the hopeless and doomed Border power vacuum Vietnam land-grab resumed, allies war consumed Pol-pot ousted by foes he headed up north The Khamer Rouge, terrors striking from the jungle For twenty years as their forces slowly crumbled Guerrilla war, their diminished army stumbled Socialism run-amok failing in all but murder

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“Depredation” is in every regard a more mature and focused record in comparison to their previous releases. Attaining breakneck speeds and levels of ferocity, while still embodying the plethora of stylistic markers one expects from the group, Prezir dishes-out a scornful barrage on their follow-up full-length. Compositionally, melodically, percussively, vocally, and lyrically, the album is a reflection of a more seasoned, and voraciously fixated band. Enshrouded in a black metal framework, the influences of thrash and death metal are undeniable on “Depredation”. Prezir delivers one of the most malicious, bombarding and triumphant usbm albums in ages.

Tape released by Dread Recods, limited to 100 copies
CD/Digital self released

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released November 19, 2020

Rory Heikkila-Guitars/Bass/Arrangements
Brian Serzynski-Drums/Arrangements
Luka Đorđević-Vocals/Lyrics/Art

Richard Olsen additional solos on Deprivation Doctrine and Krvoproliće i Propast
Depredation was recorded mixed and mastered by Dan Klein at Iron Hand Audio in Chicago, IL

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