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Year Zero Wasteland

by Perpetual War

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S-21 06:02
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Liberators greeted by emptiness Phantasmagorical effect of desolation Oppressors cleansed the city Handful living souls remained Drawn to the site from the smell of rot From the smell of death Dilapidated compound Khmer Rouge slogan on display “Fortify the spirit of the revolution. Be on your guard against the strategy and tactics of the enemy, so as to defend the country, the people and the Party.” Whitewashed concrete buildings Revealing corpses of murdered men Chained to iron beds Pools of blood on the floor Upper floor - heaps of shackles Handcuffs and whips - length of chain A scene displaying total hell Vicious torture facility Museum of the Cambodian Nightmare The place where people went in, but never came out Charged for political offenses Point your finger at your neighbour Try to save yourself In a spiral of accusations Forced to confess Counterrevolutionary crimes Oversee, punish and transform Secrecy maintained by killing them all All to be murdered in the silent city Only cries from the tortured at night Trapped in a School of Death Ghost town of Pnohm Penh A revolution An Auto Genocide
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Auto Genocide 06:12
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Auto Genocidal Political Brotherhood Wake of destruction Imploding the land Agrarian Socialism Forced relocation Brutal secterism Disease and starvation A crumbling nation Escalating desperation The revolution Paved the way to Hell A nation falling apart A Nation crying for help Auto Genocide Vision of establishment A communist society No mind of your own No self-sufficiency Hidden Death, Devour your body Do not venture out Into the unknown lands Behold the aftermath Scenes of suffering The man on the stairs Blinded and limbless Just a head and a torso Auto Genocide Another victim Crawls in the sand Trying to reach out With the scarred hand
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Brother Number One 03:31
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Saloth Sar, Pol Pot Brother Number One Collection of names Deranged communist leader Leading the land into total chaos Creation of a Year Zero Wasteland Killing the intellectuals To form the new utopia Forced out of the city A march of hell Slave labour farming Killing the weak Year Zero Year Zero Year Zero Year Zero Wasteland Depopulate the cities Classless society Famine in its wake Execute all who oppose Banning religion The Party is all you need Abolishment of money Burning of books Disregard for human life Massacres in massive scale Country turned into A graveyard Year Zero Year Zero Wasteland
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Killing for Utopia 04:12
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The ruler know what is best for you Better than yourself Eager to help you along the way With the right amount of force With the right amount of violence Eradicate the holy one Tear him from the cross The one positive thing These lunatic fucks bring Unfortunately replaced With a new ruler Slowly devouring Your mind and soul Destruction of the economy No more funding for your crime The bell of destruction will ring Killing for Utopia Announcement of your death will chime Killing for Utopia Kill History repeats itself The ignorant forgets Self-induced amnesia Another experiment begins The circle closes one more time Oppression, starvation, death Repeated over and over again Freedom sighs and take its last breath Killing for Utopia
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Wall of Skulls 02:54
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Ammo saving Killing Tree Old school brutality The ground bear witness Of insane atrocity Speakers drown the moaning The last words of the dying Excavated bones collected Mausoleum for the dead Wall of Skulls Wall of Skulls Wall of Skulls Pile of Skulls Enemies of the state Imprisoned and tortured No escaping execution In the Killing Fields Extreme cruelty preserved For future generations to see, to feel, to know Until next time evil rears it's head Wall of Skulls Wall of Skulls Pile of Skulls

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This is a conceptual release about the Khmer Rouge and the atrocities they unleashed upon their own Cambodian population.

Dedicated to victims of the Khmer Rouge.

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released November 16, 2017

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