* Current members:
* Erik Rundqvist - bass, vocals
* Tobias Gustafsson - drums
* Peter Östlund - guitar
* Urban Gustafsson - guitar
* Former members:
* Ronnie Olson - vocals, bass
* Bengt Sund - bass
* Ulf Dalegren - guitars
* Thomas Bergqvist - bass
* Jussi Linna - vocals
Cremation Ceremony
Vomitory Lyrics
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Your life's now in my hands
Morbid visions lead my way
A grotesque crusade through guts
Collection of bodies soon complete
One final victim, you're that chosen one
As I drag your tortured body
Instinctively my pickaxe
Nails your hand to the floor
Screams for mercy, joyfully ignored
Tremendous pain, ecstatic rush
Carving the sentenced flesh
My morgue, my palace, my kingdom of fire
Destined to burn in my funeral pyre
Devoured in the cremation ceremony
Devoured in the cremation ceremony
Summon the beast within
Carnage without end
A salute to malevolence
Victim of sadistic lust
Cut in half by the waist
Human torso overkill
Consumed in ravishing flames
The lyrics of Vomitory's song "Cremation Ceremony" are highly disturbing and portray a homicidal psychopath who enjoys torturing his victims before burning them alive. The song's intro describes a person who is helpless and drugged, lying limp and drooling, while the singer revels in their morbid visions. He sees his gruesome acts as a grotesque crusade through guts, where he's on a mission to collect bodies. In the end, he chooses the victim he plans to burn alive with others in his funeral pyre.
As the song progresses, the lyricist highlights the sheer brutality of the killer. He treats his victims with complete disregard for their screams for mercy and nails them to the floor with his pickaxe. The pain inflicted on them is a source of immense pleasure for him as he carves into his victims' flesh. Eventually, his victims' bodies are all amassed in his morgue, which he sees as his palace and kingdom of fire. In the end, the chorus emphasizes the ceremony of cremation and how the singer devours his victims in the flames.
Line by Line Meaning
Body all limp, drooling from drugs
The victim is unconscious and powerless, caused by the drugs taken
Your life's now in my hands
The perpetrator is in control and has become the master of the victim's life and fate
Morbid visions lead my way
The perpetrator is led by twisted, disturbing thoughts in carrying out the heinous act
A grotesque crusade through guts
The perpetrator is carrying out a journey that's appalling and horrendous, with the usage of the victim's insides
Collection of bodies soon complete
The perpetrator is about to finish their collection of dead bodies
One final victim, you're that chosen one
The victim is the chosen one to become the final dead body before the collection is complete
As I drag your tortured body
The perpetrator is inhumane as they move the victim by dragging their beaten body
You try to crawl for the door
The victim shows an effort to escape but is too weak to carry out that action effectively
Instinctively my pickaxe
The perpetrator acts on impulse and wields a tool of destruction
Nails your hand to the floor
The perpetrator uses the pickaxe to pin the victim's hand to the ground
Screams for mercy, joyfully ignored
The perpetrator doesn't care for the victim's pleas for mercy and instead enjoys their suffering
Tremendous pain, ecstatic rush
The perpetrator gets a thrill from witnessing the victim's agony
Carving the sentenced flesh
The perpetrator continues to inflict deep, cruel cuts on the victim
My morgue, my palace, my kingdom of fire
The perpetrator views their killing spot as their abode, making judgments on who comes to live and die there
Destined to burn in my funeral pyre
The perpetrator believes the victims are fated to be burned by them in their funeral bed
Devoured in the cremation ceremony
The victims are consumed and destroyed completely in the process of cremation
Summon the beast within
The perpetrator is calling out their inner monster to take over their actions
Carnage without end
The violence and destruction will continue indefinitely without stopping
A salute to malevolence
The perpetrator offers respect and honor to the force of evil that controls them
Victim of sadistic lust
The victim is a subject of the perpetrator's disturbing, perverted desires
Cut in half by the waist
The victim's body is cleaved in half, leaving them mutilated
Human torso overkill
The perpetrator has overdone the violence on the victim's torso, increasing the brutality
Consumed in ravishing flames
The victim's body is burned and demolished completely by the intense, consuming flames
Contributed by Eva T. Suggest a correction in the comments below.