EXTOL

Out of Bekkestua, Norway, EXTOL has been producing Christian Metal since 1993. With five studio albums and two EP's, this hard-hitting Norwegian band stretches the definition of Metal with their ever-evolving musical style.

Drummer David Husvik comments: “”Extol” is the album that was planned all the way, but never materialized. Partly due to changes in the line up, but also because of the band´s urge to always reach for something new. The album is the recap of 20 years of Extol-history, both musically and lyrically.“

(quote, courtesy of Facedown Records)

Off of their 2013 self-titled digital deluxe edition, here is STING OF DEATH.

Peter Espevoll – vocals

David Husvik – drums, vocals

Ole Børud – guitars, bass, vocals

Presented by METAL-CROSS with permission.

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Spoken INTRO (from 1 Corinthians 15:51-56);

But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we’ll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal.

Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life! Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?"

(Lyrics Part 1)

Anxiety, and fear

A life in chains

A clammy hand that grips the heart

Squeezing the joy out of everyday life

The perishable will clothe...

The mortal clothed with immortality

Itself with the imperishable

The mortal clothed with immortality

O' death where is your victory?

O' death why is your sting?

Inadequacy, shame

A notion of being small, nobody, nothing

A pain from deep within

Knowing I'm not the one I should have been

Spoken INTERLUDE (taken from 1 Corinthians 15:57-58);

It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three – sin, guilt, death – are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ.

(Lyrics Part 2)

Loneliness, emptiness

Withdrawing into myself

Confused about truth

Lost in the egocentric sphere of my pathetic life

Where is your victory?

The mortal clothed with immortality

O' death why is your sting?

The mortal clothed with immortality

O' death where is your victory?

O' death why is your sting?