Angel Of Death – English Lyrics

• By: Slayer
• Album: Reign In Blood

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the intense world of thrash metal with Slayer. By listening to 'Angel of Death,' you can observe how English is used in heavy metal to convey dark, historical, and visceral narratives, making it a unique study in descriptive and impactful songwriting.

[English]

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain

The way that I want you to die

Slow death, immense decay

Showers that cleanse you of your life

Forced in like cattle, you run

Stripped of your life's worth

Human mice, for the Angel of Death

Four hundred thousand more to die

...

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Sadistic, surgeon of demise

Sadist of the noblest blood

Destroying without mercy

To benefit the Aryan race

Surgery with no anesthesia

Feel the knife pierce you intensely

Inferior, no use to mankind

Strapped down, screaming out to die

...

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Infamous butcher

Angel of Death

...

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain

Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes

Burning flesh, drips away

Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil

Frigid cold, cracks your limbs

How long can you last in this frozen water burial?

Sewn together, joining heads

Just a matter of time 'til you rip yourselves apart

Millions laid out in their crowded tombs

Sickening ways to achieve the holocaust

...

Seas of blood, bury life

Smell your death as it burns deep inside of you

Abacinate, eyes that bleed

Praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare

Wings of pain reach out for you

His face of death staring down, your blood's running cold

Injecting cells, dying eyes

Feeding on the screams of the mutant he's creating

Pathetic harmless victims left to die

Rancid Angel of Death flying free

...

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Infamous butcher

Angel of Death

...

Angel of Death

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
immense /ɪˈmɛns/ B2	adjective - extremely large or great
decay /dɪˈkeɪ/ B2	noun - the state or process of rotting or decomposition
cleanse /klɛnz/ C1	verb - to make thoroughly clean
monarch /ˈmɒn.ək/ C2	noun - a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor
sadistic /səˈdɪs.tɪk/ C2	adjective - deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others
demise /dɪˈmaɪz/ C2	noun - a person's death
anesthesia /ˌæn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/ C2	noun - insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs
pierce /pɪəs/ B2	verb - to go into or through something
inferior /ɪnˈfɪə.ri.ər/ B2	adjective - lower in rank, status, or quality
infamous /ˈɪn.fə.məs/ C1	adjective - well known for some bad quality or deed
butcher /ˈbʊtʃ.ər/ B1	noun - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
frigid /ˈfrɪdʒ.ɪd/ C1	adjective - very cold in temperature
holocaust /ˈhɒl.ə.kɔːst/ C2	noun - destruction or slaughter on a mass scale
abacinate /əˈbæs.ɪ.neɪt/ C2	verb - to blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before the eyes
mutant /ˈmjuː.tənt/ C1	noun - an organism resulting from mutation
pathetic /pəˈθet.ɪk/ B2	adjective - miserably inadequate; of very low standard
rancid /ˈræn.sɪd/ C1	adjective - smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale

Key Grammar Structures

• The way that I want you to die

  ➔ Defining relative clause with 'that'

  ➔ The clause "that I want you to die" modifies the noun "way".

• Stripped of your life's worth

  ➔ Past participle phrase as a reduced relative clause

  ➔ "Stripped" functions as "You are stripped...", describing the state of the victims.

• Surgery with no anesthesia

  ➔ Prepositional phrase with 'no' as a determiner

  ➔ "No" is used here as a determiner before the uncountable noun "anesthesia" to negate it.

• Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes

  ➔ Gerund as part of the verb phrase (begin + -ing)

  ➔ The verb "begins" is followed by the gerund "pushing", indicating the start of an ongoing action.

• How long can you last in this frozen water burial?

  ➔ Interrogative phrase for duration

  ➔ "How long" is a standard interrogative structure used to inquire about the extent of time.

• Just a matter of time 'til you rip yourselves apart

  ➔ Reflexive pronoun

  ➔ "Yourselves" is the reflexive form of "you", showing that the action affects the subject itself.

• Smell your death as it burns deep inside of you

  ➔ Conjunction of time / reason ('as')

  ➔ "As" acts as a conjunction connecting two simultaneous events or providing context.

• Pathetic harmless victims left to die

  ➔ Adjective phrase modifying a noun

  ➔ "Pathetic" and "harmless" are adjectives describing the noun "victims".