Thanatos is niet alleen de mythische personificatie van de dood,
maar ook al decennia lang de gruwelijkste death metal band van de The Netherworlds.
Het resultaat is een godvergeten “hairbanging” zondag.

“To Thanatos, Fumigation from Manna.

Hear me, O Death, whose empire unconfin’d
extends to mortal tribes of ev’ry kind.
On thee, the portion of our time depends,
whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends.

Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds
by which the soul, attracting body holds :
common to all, of ev’ry sex and age,
for nought escapes thy all-destructive rage.

Not youth itself thy clemency can gain,
vigorous and strong, by thee untimely slain.
In thee the end of nature’s works is known,
in thee all judgment is absolved alone.
No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage control,
no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul.
O blessed power, regard my ardent prayer,

and human life to age abundant spare.

Link: Blood Incantation / Thanatos / Cruciamentum