My life's minds plagued by lyssophobia
In a cage solitude locks me in
As the dark blackened walls close in on me
Dementia strikes, there's no turning back

Drowning in the stygian sea
As those voices repeat to me my malediction
Memento Mori
Remember you must die

Rats! Rats spreading
Rats! King spreads children to the flute ov death
Rats! Crawling diseases
Rats! Plague spreading, rats feeding
Rats! The stench, blood tearing
Rats! Crawling children, devils feeding
Rats! Rats spreading
Rats! The feast of kings spread the stench

While the silvermoon rises
you can hear they crawl from the depths of hell
Onwards to victory
The black banners rise in glory
Children dance
While the feast whipes out the whores of the earth
Shades and banners
Waving in devilish triumph

Roses blister on his skin
Fill him full of lies, withered posies crumbling in his hand
Destroy the lucky amulet, and damn us with the flies, read the last rites
"Blessed be the people" is a mockery, from clergy which approves the kiss of death
Ring-a-ring the children sing, the black plague bells are heralding
The funeral pyre, for beggar, priest and king

No, no, no - nobility's no sanctuary
Flee, flee, flee - the rat's bubonic flea
But the scourge is everywhere, England weeps in her despair
And in misty eyes a cure cannot be seen

Raging pox and pestilence are dripping with blood
The slavery black dog roams everywhere
Smite the one he bites, and drags the ones he misses down, the worst is yet to come
As 1665 turns into 1666, a dread lead to none before grips every man
As the prince of darkness sets aloose his wicked bag of tricks
Will the evil lord unleash His masterplan?

"This plague and the impending conflagrations are signs from God
And thus we, the flagellants, shall inflict punishment
Upon our bodily flesh and other earthly manifestations
To atone for the sins of the world"

Satan has sent out a plot as cruel as it was grand,
To raze away the English capital
As the final time began, he brought the flames to make his stand
And thirteen times the baker shook his hand
In the hellish heat of his retreat, the devil did a spy
The souls of London town were ripe for taking
From the depth of his disguise, through the black slits of his eyes
The fallen angel watched the city die

Fire, fire, fire - is burning London town
Try, try, try - to beat flames down
But the heat is too intense, and its thirst cannot be quenched
And London's burning to the ground

Ring-a-ring o'roses, a pocket full o'posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo! - we all fall down

Ramesses. I love how dark and heavy that album is. Lyrics are of course ominous and apocalyptic.

we stand before you and the gods and old ones
towering in shimmering light
echoes of mans predecessors
amongst deep unpennetrable forest and pillars of black stone
burning forever eyes of the night the ram with a thousand young draws near
into dwindling sight atop the low mountains the storm breaks and floods and blinds the eye
the seven standing stones cast their shadows of inevitability
and the plague beak wearer stalks the shadows of mankind
obsidian omnipotent immortal drawn in the shadows of our past



Killing Joke are borderline but this one is great so whatever.

Kampfar has a song called Swarm Norvegicus, which seems to be about the Black Death of 1349. I love the lyrics, because they are apocalyptic and hellish while also somehow triumphant and glorious at the same time.

Now
Let my people go, Land Of Goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down the Nile
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire

Experiment for the government, I hear they're paying well
I needed the money, all I have is my courage to sell
Innoculations for the benefit of all mankind
A human guinea pig, I've laid my life on the line
I didn't plan on this misery, this drastic change
Organ donor before my death, what a foolish risk
Had suspicions when they hooked the needle to my wrist
Felt the sickness as the fluid gushed beneath my flesh
My peeling skin turns green, at least I can pay the rent

Masochistic nausea I can't chase away
Transforming my life is fading away
Blood cells mutating in unnatural ways
Hair is receding, my skin turns to scales
Genetic imbalance of self-induced hell

Distort the tissue to create the strain
Biological warfare is their f*&$#*g game
I've paid the price the naive accessory
Cash mutated, I am no longer me

From the labs out to the streets the virus strays
Transforming my life is fading away
Blood cells mutating in unnatural ways
Hair is receding, my skin turns to scales
Genetic imbalance from self-induced hell
No immunization, no antidote to sell
Genetic imbalance from self-induced hell

That Killing Joke song is particularly badass. Love it. I barely know of this band... I mean, heard the name for sometime now but never investigated before

That Killing Joke song is particularly badass. Love it. I barely know of this band... I mean, heard the name for sometime now but never investigated before

Metallica's Creeping Death comes to mind first



More on topic is E.M.T.E.K. by Flotsam and Jetsam, a song about a human guinea pig selling his body for experiments

Breeding fast in poverty
Infectious driving dormant seed
Inside your carcass start to mate
Left in charge to dominate
Waiting to unfold
Raging uncontrolled
Adapt a potency
Death machine, infest my corpse to be

Unyielding kings of agony
Test your body chemistry
Pulmonary overthrow
Possession of your inner throne
Invasions quickly override, malicious domineering strike
Flood your veins commit slow death
Deteriorate your makers met

Perpetual demise
On a fast decline
Killing tendency
Epidemic, permanent disease

Incapacitate, fall into your fate
Pain results in screams, bleed internally
Years will pass before it can be cured

An easy one!

[b]Epidemic by Slayer

This is my «plague and pestilence» playlist

† Judas Priest – Pestilence and Plague (The best one, imo)
† Hell – Plague and Fyre
† Nuclear Assault – The Plague
† Hellhammer – Triumph of Death
† Slayer – Epidemic
† Grave Digger – Black Death
† Slow Death – Dark Days (actually, the whole album)
† Cattle Decapitation – Bring Black the Plague (everyone's 1st choice, so it seems
† 1349 – I am Abomination ("1349" being the year the Black Death arrived to Norway)
† Evoken - Atra Mors

(My bonus track would be Diamanda Gala's «The Law of the Plague»)

Turn a blind eye to jobless millions
Queues of wreckage to be broken down
Leaders feed us their solutions
Mistakes the death cart clears away

Beware of the...
The plague

Demon - The Plague

Could see it as more about the outcome going forward than about the disease itself though.

I'd recommend their second self titled album, the one with the clown. Some of the most intense stuff the band has done.



It's also a very fitting album for this thread even if it isn't related to plagues or diseases: the main topics are paranoia, globalization, apocalyptic scenarios and politics. Jaz Coleman sounds really pissed every single minute of it.

Does an album count? Darkthrone

Damn the Killing Joke stuff is excellent. (also long been a fan of Ramesses)