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Slayer – Unguarded Instinct (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
Unguarded Instinct

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Unguarded Instinct

Release date: 9th June 1998

From Soundtrack to the Apocalypse

About This Track

"Unguarded Instinct" is a track by Slayer, from the album Soundtrack to the Apocalypse, released 9th June 1998. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slayer.

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Slayer

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Lyrics

Unguarded Instinct

[Verse 1]

Use the need, lose control

Hidden voice inviting

Imposing will, unconscious skill

Embraced immoral passion

Born in still, thirst for thrill

Indulgence of illusion

Neurotic, psychotic

Dead silent screams, come alive

[Chorus]

Killing seed, first degree

I shut the world outside

Denied and laid to waste

The body and soul divide

[Verse 2]

A final thrill, a timely kill

Unbound, unguarded

Fantasized, realized

Enforced upon the dying

Free reign of the asylum

Archaic energy thrives

Dead cold, I control

Eternal screams that slowly die

[Chorus]

Killing spree, first degree

I shut the world outside

Denied and laid to waste

The body and soul divide

[Post-Chorus]

Dementia born of sin

A symptom that begins

Vengeance so divine

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]

[Bridge]

Lost my grip of what's real

Unrestrained self-induced vertigo

Manic power chills my spine

I can't erase this instinct I embrace

Two-faced moral abandon

Races my blood, boils my skin

Unhinging the doorway to this asylum

Releasing unshackled poison dreams

Beginning the end of temptation

A vengeance so divine

The end of temptation

A vengeance so divine

[Chorus]

Killing spree, first degree

I shut the world outside

Denied and laid to waste

The body and soul divide

[Outro]

Killing spree, first degree

The body and soul divided

Killing spree

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Track details

From Soundtrack to the Apocalypse

1998

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Album

Soundtrack to the Apocalypse

Release year

1998

—Hell Awaits
—Human Disease
—At Dawn They Sleep
—Sex. Murder. Art.
—213
—Ddamm (Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers)
—Dittohead [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
—Memories of Tomorrow
—Scarstruck
—Sex. Murder. Art [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
—Raining Blood [Jeff Hanneman home recording]
—The Antichrist (Tom Araya's Garage - 12,83)
—Darkness In Christ
—Bloodline [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
—Mind Control [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
—The Antichrist [Rehearsal]
—South of Heaven [Jeff Hanneman home recording]
—Fight Till Death [Rehearsal]
—Mandatory Suicide [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
—Payback (Live in Sweden '02)
—Addict
—Death's Head
—Divine Intervention
—In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
—Disorder
—Unguarded Instinct
—No Remorse (I Wanna Die)
—Wicked

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King
Producer: Rick Rubin
Co-Producer: Slayer
Engineer: Greg Gordon
Bass: Tom Araya
Drums: Paul Bostaph
Guitar: Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King
Vocals: Tom Araya
Assistant Engineer: Allen Sanderson, Bryan Davis, John Tyree, Sebastian Haimerl, Wade Goeke
Mastering Engineer: Howie Weinberg