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Wicked

Release date: 9th June 1998

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'Wicked' by Slayer is a 1998 track from the album 'Soundtrack to the Apocalypse'. Its lyrics lean into apocalyptic imagery and a violent, totalising vision of decay. The verse speaks of blinding catastrophe and a “dawn of decay”, while the chorus frames the wicked as feeding chaos, pushing control, and presiding over disorder, with disintegration set to multiply. The overall tone is grimly prosecutorial, turning catastrophe into a programme and every ruin into a form of reckoning.

"Wicked" 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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Lyrics

Wicked

[Verse 1]

Cataract blinding your eyes

To the violent design

Regenerating impending genocide

It's the dawn of decay

Mark the end of your days

Just another lost casualty of the times

[Chorus]

The wicked will feed the chaos

Control and rule disorder

Disintegration's multiplying

Till there is no more bloodline

A future of never-ending

Insane civil disorder

Free yourself from the red dawn

The time has come

[Verse 2]

Death's head shattering

Blow to the throat

At the end of the rope

Degeneration that follows into the fire

In a world gone insane

No one else left to blame

You're just another part of the collective vile

[Chorus]

The wicked will feed the chaos

Control and rule disorder

Disintegration's multiplying

Till there is no more bloodline

A future of never-ending

Insane civil disorder

Free yourself from the red dawn

The time is now

[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Guitar Solo: Kerry King]

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

[Verse 3]

Era of total destruction has slowly begun

Yielding death none will survive

Order out of chaos, the true will of the Beast

A life of desolation

[Refrain]

Ten bleeding hearts

One wicked mind

In spiritual sin

Their time is now

[Verse 4]

Era of total destruction will never desist

Only death is your savior

Order out of chaos, the true will of the Beast

A life of persecution

[Refrain]

Ten bleeding hearts

One wicked mind

In spiritual sin

Their time is now

[Verse 5]

Famine, plagues, war, and death

Scourges preceding the end

Death is your only savior

[Refrain]

Ten bleeding hearts

One wicked mind

In spiritual sin

Their time is now

[Outro]

Bringing total annihilation

Total annihilation

Total annihilation

Annihilation

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1998
  1. —Hell Awaits
  2. —Human Disease
  3. —At Dawn They Sleep
  4. —Sex. Murder. Art.
  5. —213
  6. —Ddamm (Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers)
  7. —Dittohead [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
  8. —Memories of Tomorrow
  9. —Scarstruck
  10. —Sex. Murder. Art [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
  11. —Raining Blood [Jeff Hanneman home recording]
  12. —The Antichrist (Tom Araya's Garage - 12,83)
  13. —Darkness In Christ
  14. —Bloodline [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
  15. —Mind Control [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
  16. —The Antichrist [Rehearsal]
  17. —South of Heaven [Jeff Hanneman home recording]
  18. —Fight Till Death [Rehearsal]
  19. —Mandatory Suicide [Live] [Soundtrack to the Apocalypse]
  20. —Payback (Live in Sweden '02)
  21. —Addict
  22. —Death's Head
  23. —Divine Intervention
  24. —In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  25. —Disorder
  26. —Unguarded Instinct
  27. —No Remorse (I Wanna Die)
  28. —Wicked
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Writer
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