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black Holiday

DEATH METAL, BLACK METAL, MELODIC METAL

In Flames, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, Slipknot, Cradle of Filth

Mixing the pace and melody of the big Swedish bands with the urgency of California thrash as well as the darkness and musical chops of black metal, Black Holiday was one of the premier underground metal acts to emerge in LA/Orange County, California in the early 2000s. Opening for Slayer, System of a Down, In Flames and other big acts they honed their brand of American Blackend Death Metal with intricate, elaborate guitar lines and unforgettable melodies. The good folks at legendary metal magazine Keeper released Black Holiday’s full-length album in 2003 on Keeper Music and featured them on the cover of issue 14 along with Shadows Fall. Black Holiday followed their album with The Possession EP in 2005 before disbanding.

Lockout Music is excited to re-release their full length self-titled album along with their EP titled Possession. We know you’ll enjoy this Melodic Death Metal Classic and get ready to put up your devil horns!

Black Holiday Self-Titled

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Black Holiday Possession EP

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Lyrics

We have been held down, in burial grounds, kept in the suffering, kept in the dark, with no conscience, torched our homes, torched our families, torched our hearts

No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive

Now, we cry out loud, with faith to prevail, we’ve been here before, and in time, when lives are erased, these scars that don’t heal, that give us the strength, to carry on 

We have been held down, in burial grounds, torn from freedom and innocents was lost, made into slaves, put into graves, torn from the lands, which we occupied, the hell that burns, in man, to destroy what we don’t understand

No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive

Now, we cry out loud, with faith to prevail, we’ve been here before, and in time, when lives are erased, these scars that don’t heal, that give us the strength to carry on 

We have been held down, in burial grounds, such oppressions we’ve endured, some kept concealed, human life ignored, for power, greed and the Lord, this elitist mentality, creates never ending war and bloodshed

No! Won’t forget the past, on our way to the future, No! Won’t forget the wraths, and our people, buried alive, buried alive, our people buried alive

I dip my finger in the watery blood of your impotent man redeemer, and spit on his thorn cut brow

Live your words

Say the words

Thou shall feel

Feel my pain

Taste my tear

Burn

Say the words

There’s no gates 

There’s no flames

Just the blood 

Tears

Thou shall do

What thou will

Lust or love

Scream

Thou shall hate

Eye for eye 

Decapatate

Hydra heads

Bleed

Say the words

Emancipate

All your guilt

Tell no lie

Fuck

Thou shall Kill

Annihilate

reserected

Sacred lies

Thou furfill

Nobility 

Finding fate

redefined

Thou shall break 

Servitude

Conviction lies

In thou eyes

Thou shall not 

Live in fear

Know my pain

Taste my tear

Thou shall not 

Live in fear

Know my pain

Taste my tear

Now is the time

We must give

When we fade, a new one lives

Indeed we forget

This precious chance 

This ball of dirt

Life for indulgence, eternity for abstinence, search and dig deep for you will find the dragon of the abys

A place I find myself, surrounded by darkened bliss

Silence fills the air, majestic place I’m in

Feel the energy, surround my weightless shell

Elevate my body to euphoria, my eyes see nebula 

Take my hands, say you will, come to me, let me lay beside, your gracious light, with dignity, let me hold you though, I know that I can never own, give me that before, my heart burst into flames 

Filling up the void, below sacred grounds

A place the earth will breath out, on top of mountains peaks

To reach down so far, you touch the tips of flames

Searching through pieces, life within the Vortex

Take my hands, say you will, come to me, let me lay beside, your gracious light, with dignity, let me hold you though, I know that I can never own, give me that before, my heart burst into flames 

Knowing the night, slipping the day

Some things you can’t see, only feel

Letting go what’s lost, only to find

Courage in the mind, the heart will follow 

Existence is such, a search for what’s right, finding some truth, to live by, I try to face, it alone, I keep searching, to find my way home

No more complacency, fight to keep my sanity, blaring forth thy will to be, that defining moment where time stands still

You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility

Watching the time line, to catch a breath of the air, questioning what matters, that defining moment where life may pass me by

You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility 

All there life, clouds in their eyes, clouds in their eyes

You reach a storm in your eyes, storm in your eyes, before you die

No one can touch my skin, alone with the storm in my eyes, nothing can equal this, that defining moment where sight goes blind

You will find me, alone, in the, darkest, place in the world, where, no one, else, can breath, my air, only there, I find, tranquility 

Only there Tranquility

Yeh, it’s such a struggle

Always such a struggle

Within my struggle

The frustrations

Now my solitude

We’ve come so far, and learned so little, endless diatribes, words from the wise, false prophets guiding light, my world dies, with me, in, the, dark

Now! It’s time once again Now! To share with my only friend, to look back at my world, with no regrets

I know this sad surrender, to overcome, the challenges, set forth, from all these hardships, to be Triumphant 

We’ve come so far, and learned so little, people are so fucking inane, there guiding light, illuminates, the gates of hell. 

Now! It’s time once again Now! To share with my only friend, to look back at my world, with no regrets

I know this sad surrender, to overcome, the challenges, set forth, from all these hardships, to be Triumphant

Now! It’s time once again Now! The future is unknown Now! To look back at our time, Now! With no regrets Now! Leave destiny to be laid, won’t wait for miracles, risk it all, let’s crush the grief, and face tomorrow, with no regrets

Mathematical equations

In-depth structure, for perfect creation

Sketches of past, drawings of memories, many mediums never addressed 

Loss, and gain combined with a fuse that ignites, to keep self-destruction alive

Come share this masterpiece, mind and body homicides unite

Close your eyes, let silence hold your bliss, make the moment last, let the art begin, alone with my killer

You, you will be the one, never to far from me, never leave my side, something to save, from now until the day, I will always be there, alone with my killer

The ultimate sacrifice 

One can obtain, eternal conviction

Beauty in mind, the ultimate impressionistic design, won’t fall short

Heavens Gate has shown how fashionable these artistic fanatics will go 

With this great eulogy, your life can be frozen in time

Close your eyes, let silence hold your bliss, make the moment last, let the art begin, alone with my killer

You, you will be the one, never to far from me, never leave my side, something to save, from now until the day, I will always be there, alone with my killer

Silence has been broken, judgment, to laws of the earth

When the balance has shifted, we will, all bow down

Slayer of Angels, the paths we lead, fighting holy lies, burning holes in the sky

We celebrate, existence, our species feeds, our carnal needs, the true lovers of life

Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s treasure, this great indulgence 

Running through the woods, at night, pale moonlight, let chants and drums unite

Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s desecrate these sacred books to ash

This unholy dream, interrogate the laws of god, let nothing go unseen

We annihilate, as we walk through the eye, of a needle, raping time

So we make up these stories, how we began, calling them truth, we’re deicide 

Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s treasure, this great indulgence 

Running through the woods, at night, pale moonlight, let chants and drums unite

Welcome to the black mass, invert the cross, let’s desecrate these sacred books to ash

This unholy dream, interrogate the laws of god, let nothing go unseen

Man must destroy, what man has created, let no fable go unturned, let all lessons be unlearned, man must destroy, what man has created

What have you done for us

Once we lived free with trust

Once we killed as we must

Bury this we turn to dust

While we destroy with lust

Vultures wait at the crest

Horror breathes in our chest

Digging a hole for the rest

More war for everyone

Whores growing one by one

Torn until birth becomes

Scorn from the shining one

Shot from a deadly gun

Harvest the shells for one

Growing like bastard son

Shearing the flock to none

Instincts, we conceal, don’t differ on 4 legs, this crippling dementia, in this world, we think we own 

In the end, we’re just animals, living out carnal desires, to consume, destroy, and fuck, we’re just animals

There is no hope for us

What should be done with us

Blood was shed once for none

Assassinate the precious one

Bury them saints of scum

Carcasses have become

Rotting till we are done

Deleting solutions 

Instincts, we conceal, stand true on 4 legs, this crippling dementia, in this world, we think we own 

In the end, we’re just animals, living out carnal desires, to consume, destroy, and fuck, we’re just animals

Far from, a cry, our species, deny, we change, the face, and leave behind nothing but waste

Error will wipe us out

Feasting with open mouth

Increase in every house

Error will wipe us out

Eroding the deepest sea

Exploding as we will breed

A plague in the mist we breathe

Pestilence still reins king

Infinite, the lies we’ve heard since we woke, the cries we’ve made since we spoke, you know I try though I can’t escape these walls in which I lie, to let my feeling free, to watch my interiors bleed, the final regurgitation of god and man

Light that forever shines 

Fire that keeps burning

Cries that never sleep

My heart lies, in the eye of the eternal scream

Infinity the eternal sky 

Pain will sore, hearts deny  

When love has come, to a final cry 

Infinity will hear, at the end of time 

Fantasy that’s instilled in us, from awakening taught of the dream, confirmation, of destination, always searching for the motivation, facades that are instilled in us, realization that never really exist, a knife inserts the stomach, a classic suicide 

Death’s invincible

Oppressing those that fight for their needs, killing for birthright, 

massacred for creed, such evil deeds, in the name of the lord, the battle starts with three

War on Trinity 

Were at war, fighting wars core, War on Trinity

Killing angels one by one, War on Trinity

Break their celestial wings, War on Trinity

Contradiction, false conviction, War on Trinity 

Death’s invincible

This perpetual anguish, devours all types of seeds, burning the mind growth, fire breathes so close to deity

War on Trinity 

Were at war, fighting wars core, War on Trinity

Killing angels one by one, War on Trinity

Break their celestial wings, War on Trinity

Contradiction, false conviction, War on Trinity 

We see Gehenna in the foreground, molesting in the flames, with the lifeblood we alter, the geometry of stigmata

Death’s invincible

Bound by thorns, cursed in the light, of their savior, so much blood, has been spilled, Christians deserve Christianity

Bringers of doom, prepare the tombs, the four horseman ride, the moon of there side, where fear turns to dread, bloods to be shed, the hunt is on, where thirst, turns to red, appetites are bread, to crucify the unruly, the witches hide 

Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

Decimates the light, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

Celebrate, the dead proliferate, Holiday of the Macabre

Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

We celebrate, the new year, with a feast, for the deceased, the veil between worlds, is uncertain, lets drink, to those who’ve passed over, why the fear of the unknown, lets celebrate, for this day is ours, till the next evolution

Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

Decimates the light, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

Celebrate, the dead proliferate, Holiday of the Macabre

Illuminates the night, The Blood moon, Holiday of the Macabre

A mosaic of cultures, broken glass divides, the burnt, reminance, of shattered pasts(paths), worship, has infected, slaughtering minds, brutality in which some call saviors, expressions of sadness is the hatred we justify 

Ideology, searching for what we’ve lost, ancient writing, on the wall, written in ancient times long ago

Take this choice, it’s your to keep, on the edge, far from reach

In your hands, the holes run deep, to define our purpose, to define, belief

Burn, at the stake, flesh to ash, my human sacrifice

I spoke, my testament, my burning heart, my human sacrifice

My Human Sacrifice

Tied to the stake of life, we burn the flesh alive, stained glass, by the blood of the excess, we run in circles of envy

Take this choice, it’s your to keep, on the edge, far from reach

In your hands, the holes run deep, to define our purpose, to define, belief

Burn, at the stake, flesh to ash, my human sacrifice

I spoke, my testament, my burning heart, my human sacrifice