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Warhead

by IRON CROSS

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1.
SET YOUR SITES I'm a loaded weapon Practice everyday Someone pulls the trigger Then you're blown away The barrels loaded Ready, ready, waiting Hollow points within I'm looking for a target So the firing can begin You can get what you wanted for free Come and take me Set your sites on me. Revolver running ramped Give it all you got Lovin’ every minute I can take a lot Exploded passion all around me Burning with a gun Hammering against my flesh Save me once again You can get what you wanted for free Come and take me Set your sites on me Set your sites Set your sites Set your sites Set your sites
2.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE Gone down slaughtering enemy Go, go right in Wait and see Stand there watching them bleed Slowly plead Shouting out! The scenes of pain and agony Hooks shining out from the head lean meat Pulley wheels riding steel Riding steel. Slaughter house Where nothing counts but your flesh Slaughter house I'll put your body to the test Piling up the bones Killing is easy Helpless victims fall to pray Carving out masterpieces In the slaughter house Yeah, I know I only have to take a number Go in now, take a seat Wait your turn Dig your grave You will believe Slaughter house We're nothing counts but your flesh Slaughter house I'll put your body to the test.
3.
Waiting for the Axe Not gonna live in anybody's grip Be held in place and kept in line By the chain and the whip Won't be condemned to hell When you're the one who's sinned Wait until the dead of night And fly like the wind Making a stand to live like a man Waiting for the axe Payload on his back Unfaithful to the rack Day break, whip cracks Hide in the shadows Running when I can Too late to turn around No time to give a damn Hounds of hell pick up the smell And hunt me to the grave If I die, I die a man Not somebody's slave Making a stand To die like a man Waiting for the axe Running straight into traps No time to relax Stop dead in his tracks Now waiting for the axe Forsaking all the facts Dying for what he lacks The axeman starts to hack
4.
F,K,Z 03:43
F.K.Z (Free Kill Zone) Tracers in the dead of night, Show the way Zero in on who I fight With no delay Go until the end of time At never ending pace Hurry to the finish line A never ending race Free kill zone Far from home On your own. Meet you in the middle Take your life by your hand. Chew you up and spit you out You obey commands Listen to the barrel r Roar a second at a time Open up with all I've got to keep me on your mind. Free kill zone All alone Can't postpone Life on loan Step into a showcase of a crowd’s demand Feel the eyes all watching you But no one's in the stands Waiting for the show to start But never really see Burning leagues that ripped apart the life in me. Free kill zone Deadly drone To the bow Life has blown FKZ Rounds empty You or me will die
5.
SEND FOR THE CROSS When pressure builds up inside And your backs against the wall The rest have run to higher ground to hide and watch you fall. IRON CROSS IRON CROSS We all have odds against us Few things on our side Grab a hold of the metal blade And hold your head up high IRON CROSS Let's beware Don't you know Metal isn't lost Stand tall Fight the blows Damn don't you fall IRON CROSS IRON CROSS IRON CROSS IRON CROSS
6.
Warhead 04:03
WARHEAD Death machine that ran on a dream The holocaust team That kept the machine With nuclear fusion Nuclear fission Living inside the big politician crown American hero Modern day Nero Testing effects of ground zero Uranium medium Treated in platinum Find em' and feed em' And hurry and batten' em' down Killing is easy as pressing a button All the years we've leveled to nothin' Alienation with all radiation Pulsing sensation of annihilation Here is the church And here is the steeple Open the door And here are the people That built the machine To thread the needle Filling its tank With high powered diesel Feeling the power of living gone sour Being the race that's starting to cower Hating each other Killing our brothers Needlessly strung We're starting to shudder out Killing all hopes of a new generation Dying of guilt of premeditation Knowing and showing The world would be going Setting the river of blood flowing out. No more tomorrow Life that we borrow No more decision No more religion Man's finest hour Nuclear shower Snowing in our hydrogen power.
7.
COME AND GET IT Not afraid of Taking chances Making scenes or dressing tight Catch a gleaming devil in your eye Come and be with me tonight If you want it Come and get it If you need it Come and get it Vicious thoughts are pounding in me Walking like the way you do Prowling hearts are on the loose tonight Don't you know i'm hungry too.\ If you want it Come and get it If you need it Come and get it Giving in is really easy Knowing that you want the chase Moving in a little closer Close enough to get a taste If you want it Come and get it If you need it Come and get it
8.
Chain Gang 03:04
CHAIN GANG Got to live sir got to live Always on the trail Right behind them up in front Always on our tail APB turn the key In the wind again Can you chase them in the dust Catch us if you can All the same Freedom's name Just a game to play Chain gang Way in front but not ahead On the run again If we stop we'll all be dead Kill us where we stand Dealt the chain You go with them To keep you on the line Keep them screaming in the night Keeps you all behind All the same Is freedom's name Just a game to play Chain gang You've got to follow Is the end of all time I'll be the winner Wait and see Ready to race out of the gate Going down south Agitate, instigate Beat you to the ground You're all alone Down the road Winner of the fight Violent screem That blew the game up into the night
9.
Cold Steel 03:39
COLD STEEL In the sleeping shadows Hunger waits within Pouncing on the pleasure The darkness always brings Silence has no weakness Even though it seems Grabbing at your shoulder Feeding on your screams Cold as the winter Still as the night Shattered to splinters Cold steel's in sight Staring into darkened spaces Clutching at your brain Holding back the terror That's pounding in your chest Is cold as the winter Still as the night Is shattered to splinters Cold steel's in sigh
10.
Crucible 03:09
CRUCIBLE Swinging from the hang noose Is hanging by the cave Clouds roll through the horizon Grasping for the blade The plague is now amongst us Nothing's to be spared The end is here all is dust Sending out the flare The sight of flesh is frightening Moving things are rare On the verge of extinction No one has a prayer A glimpse of what's disfigured Get away from disease Sign off It's all a blur No one has to see Looking for the promiseland Nowhere to be found The sword is raising from his hand Slowly falling to the ground

about

Little is known about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s homegrown thrashers IRON CROSS/HOLOCROSS. The band would seem to appear out of nowhere, launching an assault on the burgeoning Steel City heavy metal scene like a masked villain from parts unknown.
The band would only stick around for a few years before mysteriously slipping back into obscurity. But, within the band’s short time in the scene, they would deliver three albums. Over the decades, the two would become underground classics. One of which would come to be thought of by many as one of the greatest unsung thrash metal albums of all time.

IRON CROSS was formed in 1982 by guitarist P.J. Kacin, singer Char R.G, bassist Max Uzax and drummer Ray Molinari under the name IRON CROSS. Musically the band would start out with a more Sunset Strip-type sound akin to bands such as MOTLEY CRUE, RATT and Quiet Riot with some JUDAS PRIEST type elements. In 1985 IRON CROSS would record their debut album “Warhead” at Micro Mix Studios with engineer Jimmy Wilson (The Tung Bandits), who had previously worked with fellow local Pittsburgh acts ASSASSIN, VAHALLA and X-CALIBER. The 10-song album would be released on vinyl that year on Micro Mix Records.

The album would showcase a band that had not yet focused on an exact direction. And even though it would be comparable to Westcoast contemporaries, “Warhead” would hint at something more festering in the band. With an underbelly of aggressive angst, the tracks on the album would have a punkish no-nonsense, DIY vibe to them. This approach, accompanied by screaming vocals, grinding riffs and increasing faster tempos, would cause the band to merge slightly into speed metal territories. Clearly, IRON CROSS was not an L.A. band, nor did they pretend to be.

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released February 9, 2024

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