As The Empire Falls

from Game Over by Final Stage

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Several of this song's riffs predate Final Stage. Jeff Kingbeil (Betrayer) laid down a blistering guitar solo and TJ's drums really brought this song to life.

This song is inexorably linked with Glenn Fricker;s YouTube channel. The guitar was used as the theme for The Week in Metal, and the chorus would become jokingly referred to as "actions banana the cloth" after it being sung about 10 times on the Heil PR 35 microphone demo.

lyrics

Donning the miter, what he represents
Doctrinal despot, Guilt concealment
Lifetimes of regret, hundreds of wars
Countless lives raped, to apologize for

Prechorus:
Accept his word as law
No matter what you abhor
Practice what you preach
Conscience can't take it no more

Enslave those in need, pollute minds of the young
We know your body, admit no wrong
Witch hunts, crusades, repudiate and suppress
Are you men of dishonor, or will you confess?

Prechorus:
Accept his word as law
No matter what you abhor
Practice what you preach
Conscience can't take it no more

Chorus:
Actions by men of the cloth, in time justice befalls
The deception well runs dry, as the empire falls
As the walls are closing in, and lady justice calls
Your reign is at its end, as the empire falls

credits

from Game Over, released August 21, 2010
Wright

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Final Stage Windsor, Ontario

Probably today best known as being the band from which Brandon Wright and TJ Downhaniuk were in before the Spectre Sound Studios Youtube channel. Final Stage began in 2005 in Windsor, Ontario Canada. To date we've done 2 albums, an EP, and a single with Glenn Fricker and have played live for close to 15 years with Anvil, Paul Dianno, and many others. ... more