1. Still Echoes
"It is a history of Pankrc Prison and of the people who have been in control of that prison. The first line is, 'A thousand heads cut clean across their necks right down the hall from me.' There was a guillotine right down the hall from me from when the Nazis had the prison. From 1943 to '45, they executed almost 2,000 people by the guillotine 'cause it's cheaper than shooting and quicker than hanging. At the end of the war, the Nazis threw the guillotine into the river in order to hide what they had done at Pankrc because the SS moved in there and set up headquarters. The head of the Gestapo unit there went under intense interrogation and revealed where they had thrown it in the river. So the Czechs dredged it up and now it still sits in there, in the room where they executed all these people. They call it the Pankrc 'saw room' or 'ax room.' So there are a few different references to the history of the prison in there." - Randy Blythe

История о тюрьме Панкрац, в которой в период 1943-1945 нацисты, используя гильотину, казнили около 2000 людей. Гильотину выбросили в реку, но ее нашли и таки вернули на место в память о совершенных злодеяниях.

2. Erase This
"Lyrically, 'Erase This' deals with negative people and how they can drag you down without you even necessarily realizing it. It's about people you may even be close to, but who are stuck in their own self-pity and woe-is-me, kind of victim status. That kind of energy can spread like a virus. Most of us as humans have been on both the giving and receiving end of that kind of attitude, but the older I get, the more I try to focus on not allowing that type of vibe to enter my mindset. Musically, it's pretty trademark Lamb of God riffing. It's got that '12 over 4' [time signature] groove that we've used before in songs like 'Laid to Rest' and a cool talk box in the bridge. I think it's a pretty badass track. It's one of my favorites on the album." - Mark Morton

Это о людях, которые капают тебе на психику, рассказывая охренительные истории о том, как у них все плохо и какие они бедные-несчастные. Часто это могут быть близкие люди. И это очень негативно на нас влияет.
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3. 512
"Those are the numbers of the cell where I wrote the beginning of these lyrics in. That song is about the radical mental and emotional shift you undergo when you go into prison. If you're gonna survive in prison, you cannot have the same mentality as the normal guy living a normal life. The guy who lives in suburbia and goes to his job has a completely different mentality than a prisoner. There's aspects of your personality that you could cultivate in prison that are beneficial to your survival that would be seen as psychosis or extreme paranoia. You have to be ready for violence at any time." - Randy Blythe

512 – это номер камеры, в которой сидел Рэнди, начиная писать эту песню. Она про то, как должен поменять свой психологический настрой, ментальность человек, попавший на зону. Какие-то аспекты своей личности необходимо будет усилить для выживания, и которые будут рассматриваться остальными как психоз или крайняя степень паранойи.


4. "Embers"
"'Embers' is about a relationship. I wrote all of Chino [Moreno]'s lyrics and they deal with how loss affects interpersonal relationships, like in a family dynamic. If a family member dies, that can really twist things up. I used a sort of 'oceanic' vibe in the lyrics. I'm talking about 'I've been staring at her laying still for so long,' and I'm talking about the ocean at that point. The ocean is a metaphor for life.
When the band wrote the music to that one, there were two different endings. In one, it was 'Lamb of God,' like, boring, we've done it a million times. And then Mark wrote this other beautiful, swelling thing, and I heard it when I was still down at the beach writing my book and listening to it. I'm a huge Deftones fan, and I could hear Chino's vocals on it. One day, during the preproduction I come in and Mark and Josh [Wilbur, producer] are sitting there and they're like, 'What do you think about Chino doing vocals?' I'm like, 'Yes!' Chino came and he sang me the melody he had in his mind, sort of nonsense words like how we singers do. So I took some fragments I had and made it fit. He crushed it. He's Chino. There's no one that sounds like him." -Randy Blythe

Про отношения. Что имеем - не храним, потерявши - плачем. Под потерей понимается смерть близкого.


5. "Footprints"
"I travel a lot and I was living at the beach when I was writing this record. I haven't lived through a full summer of tourist season since I was a kid, and I had forgotten how fucking horrible they are. There is no reason for tourists to behave like fucking animals and children. The locals are not your goddam maids, and if you want the beach to be nice or the mountaintop to be nice or the town to remain picturesque, don't like throw trash everywhere, don't destroy beauty. I'd be sitting on my front porch and see people throwing shit out the window. Like, are you insane? So 'Footprints' is about [carbon] footprints. It's kind of an ecological song. You can party, fine. Just don't be an asshole." - Randy Blythe

Экологическая песня. Про свиней-туристов, которые всюду раскидывают свое говно, ведут себя, как пидорахи и таким образом оставляют свои футпринты – следы.
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6. "Overlord"
"People think of me as a screamer dude, but all that clean singing is me. What happened was Willie [Adler, guitar] was demoing stuff at his house and sending us riffs. I heard that one and I was like, 'Holy fuck. It's time for me to sing clean, finally.' It just happened, completely organically and it worked out. I don't think we, as Lamb of God, have had a song that would fit clean vocals before." -Randy Blythe

Тут Блай говорит лишь о том, что это логовский эксперимент с чистым.

7. Anthropoid
"Have you heard of Reinhard Heydrich, the 'Butcher of Prague'? He was the architect of the Final Solution during World War II, and he was the most feared man in the Third Reich. He was brutal. When the Nazis came into Czechoslovakia, the Czechs put up some resistance. So the Nazis sent in Reinhard Heydrich, who is the 'Young Evil God of Death,' the 'Blonde Beast,' the 'Butcher of Prague.' As you can tell, he wasn't a pleasant person. He destroyed the people of Prague and crushed their will, except for a group of Czech-born, British-trained paratroopers who were like, 'OK, we need to raise the morale of the Czech people. They carried out the only successful assassination attempt on a high-ranking Nazi Party official [Heydrich]. They fucked this dude up and then hid out in the crypt of this church in Prague, the Cathedral of Saint Cyril and the Methodius, for about a month and then somebody ratted them out. There were seven of them left, and the Nazis busted in the church and a firefight ensued. Three were killed upstairs and they retreated to the crypt for, I believe, eight hours. Four men held off 800 Nazi storm troopers and eventually when they ran out of bullets, they killed themselves in the basement of that church. You can go to the basement of that church and see where they were trying to dig out of the basement into the sewer system to escape . They fought until they were out of bullets.
Those dudes were what I consider superior men, and I wanted to honor them with a song. So that song is about them and killing the Butcher of Prague. It's an honor." - Randy Blythe

Про диверсантов британского Управления специальных операций, которые выпилили Рейнхарда Гейдриха, обергруппенфюрера СС, известного своей беспощадностью и сломавшего волю чешского народа. Его называли «Пражский мясник». Выпилив мясника, ребята спрятались в Кафедральном соборе Святых Кирилла и Мефодия, где сидели месяц, пока кто-то не настучал нацикам про них. Троих из семерых убили при нападении, а оставшиеся четыре укрылись в склепе, где сдерживали натиск 800 нацистских штурмовиков в течение 8 часов, пока у них не закончились патроны. Недолго думая, герои покончили собой, чтобы не попасть в плен. Они бились до последнего. Об этом и песня.


8. Engage the Fear Machine
"Obviously it's about the media. What ever happened to ebola? How long ago was that? We were all going to die, you know? The news just takes everything to the next limit, and it keeps viewers glued to the TV and it brings in advertiser dollars and it makes me so fucking mad. I was flying a lot during that time. I remember one time in an airport, every bar I'd walk past every TV was going, 'Ebola is coming!' Like it's the Mongolian horde. I'm like, 'Man, fuck you. This is complete nonsense.' They're using scare tactics. They're controlling us through fear. It's nonsense. I reject it." - Randy Blythe

Капитанство про массмедиа. «Они контролируют нас через страх». «Не смотрите, дети, ТВ».


9. Delusion Pandemic
"The Internet is a useful tool, and you can use it to find out things, but I think it's created a creatively stifled environment. I do not like mashup culture. There is nothing original about it. It's a waste of my cerebral space. Everything's getting shittier and shittier and shittier. I mean, I'm not Ernest Hemingway or whatever, I'm not the new greatest photographer in the world, but at least I'm writing my own stuff and I'm doing my own thing. Internet memes – what the fuck is an internet meme? Why are you paying attention to this? Why is there some stupid picture that you put some stupid little things on that say something dumb? This is cerebral garbage. You are clogging your mind." - Randy Blythe

Критика 95% интернетов, которые состоят из мемчиков и смихуечков чуть более, чем полностью. «Это мусор для мозга. Вы засоряете свой разум.»


10. Torches (feat. Greg Puciato)
"There was a Czech student named Jan Palach in 1969, around when the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia because the people said, 'We don't want to be communist anymore and we are going to become a democratic society. The Warsaw Pact forces – Russia basically – said, 'Oh no, you're going to stay communist,' so they invaded. And the Czechs had already had their asses kicked by so many different groups. But right before that, the Nazis just destroyed, brutalized, Czechoslovakia. So there's this student and he saw how the people were defeated. So he went to Wenceslas Square to the stairs of the National Museum during a busy time of the day and doused himself in fluid and caught himself on fire. And he walked down the steps in protest and then boom, hit the ground and died a few days later. He came a symbol of dissidence for the Czechs up until the rest of the brutal communist area. Learning about that while I was awaiting trial, I had a lot of respect for him, and it also made me think about what kind of mentality does a person have to be to be so upset that you burn yourself alive? That's got to be an unpleasant way to go. 'Torches' was inspired by visiting Jan Palach's grave. The other voice on the song is [Dillinger Escape Plan's] Greg Puciato. He crushed it." - Randy Blythe

Песня посвящена чешскому студенту Яну Палаху, который сжег себя в знак протеста против оккупации Чехословакии войсками Советского Союза и других стран Варшавского договора в 1969 году. Оккупация осуществлялась с целью прекращения реформ, известных как «Пражская весна», которые являлись попытками предоставить дополнительные права гражданам в процессе частичной децентрализации экономики и демократизации страны.