Swordmaster was:

Vinnie Whiplasher - Vocals

Naughty Nightmare - Lead & Rhytm Guitars

Ricky Corpse - Guitar (New member 1998)

Thunderbird - Bass

Nicky Terror - Drums

The Postmortem Tale:

Formed in the summer 1993, by Nightmare and Whiplasher, during a wild metal party in Gothenburg, Sweden. The two madbrains decided to call the band Swordmaster.

Having big troubles with the line-up, the band - after only one rehearsal - recorded a couple of tracks just for fun. Even though the songs weren't supposed to come out to any labels, they did. Several record labels got their hands on the tape and wanted to sign Swordmaster.

The band finally became complete with Inferno on drumsand the infamous Thunderbolt on bass. Swordmaster then signed to Fullmoon Productions (Florida,USA) and recorded they well-known MCD "Wraths of Time", in spring '95, which has been completely sold out, again and again.

The line-up was changed when Inferno left Swordmaster to join Dissection (Swe). For a short time Swordmaster rehearsed with Ole Öhman (Ex. Dissection) on drums, but things didn't work out, not until the bringer of chaotic battery, Nicky Terror (Sacramentum, Deathwitch) joined the crew.

In February 1996 the band recorded two tracks for compilation albums, the tracks were "Claws of Death" and "Metallic Devastation", which were produced and engineered by Andy La Rocque of King Diamond. These tracks led the band to sign for Osmose Productions, France.

In December 1996 the band recorded their first jawbreaking full-length album"Postmortem Tales" in Los Angered Recording, Gothenburg, produced and engineered by Andy La Rocque.

In April 1997 the band went into the studio to record a MCD - "Death Rider 2000". It will be released in May 1998. The vinyl version contains two more bonus tracks!!!!! And it's strictly limited, so...GET IT!! (on)

Summer 1997 the band appeared on the "With a dragons blaze festival open air" in Belgium.

In December Swordmaster went on "The World Domination Tour part II" together with Dark Tranquillity, Enslaved, Bewitched, Dellamorte and Demoniac.

Swordmaster plays exclusive morbid corpse deathmetal rockhell!!

Releases

"Wraths of Time"

The first release from the swedish corpses. The MCD/MLP contents two tracks: "Wraths of Time", "Upon Blood and Ashes"+ a preview of "Claws of Death" (later released on Postmortem Tales). Hellish hardrock blazing with infernal speed.

"Postmortem Tales"

Taking the rockthrone in possession, the Masters return in fire and flames. Thrash and Death to the absolute max! This album is released on Osmose Productions, and really became a success for Swordmaster. "Postmortem Tales" is a fast, dark and heavy ride into the claws of hell - simply: a ride on burning highways!!

DEATHRAIDER!!!!!!!

New album with yet not finished cover. Due to be released 18 May.

Contains everything from blasting new Swordmaster songs 'til hard rocking rock n' roll tracks. The LP contains two extra bonus tracks so...BUY IT! (It's strictly limited to 1000 copies)

 

Lyrics

Song Name: Death Rider 2000


No sleep at the mountains of madness
You will face the face of a fucked up race
Called the "Psycho Explorers" by those of mortal grace
Well, now scream:
"Ride the roads of the rider 2000"
- And you'll burn
Yeah, I promise you'll burn at this high level of fire
So scream yet higher:

Death Rider 2000
Jet black engine and blood octane
Death Rider 2000
Spitting fire in a murderous flame

Burning
In the skies
Dying, yeah, you'll die as you rise
Take a visit to the horrordome
Yeah, welcome to the death rider's home
Dying
In the night
Burning, yeah, you'll die as you rise
Take a visit to the horrordome
Yeah, welcome to the death rider's home

Burning
In the skies
Dying, yeah, you'll die as you rise
Take a visit to the horrordome
Yeah, welcome to the death rider's home
Dying
In the night
Burning, yeah, you'll die as you rise
Take a visit to the horrordome
Yeah, welcome to the death rider's home

A frequent vision of the freaks new mission
Pure soul exile!

Ever tried to fire bullets from the barrel of a dream
Ever been cut up in a dirty scene
Yeah, well you'll see, now see
This hideous tourbillion that moves with me
Your soul is your fee, what did youm think?
That this ride was for free?
Commence your reign, cause you're now a psychonaut
So scream out in vain:

Death Rider 2000
Jet black engine and blood octane
Death Rider 2000
Spitting fire in a murderous flame

And what do you see, what do you see
As this hideous tourbillion moves with me?
"I see my name blow across this world"
Yeah, that's right, and you'll see it again and again
O' yeah goddamn!

Song Name: Past Redemption


Cascades of cold flesh
In a scenario of death
And powers pulsating
Strongly in the morbid sky
Soulless invaders
And the bloodless breed
Hearts drained on life yet alive

Nocturnal force, yeah rusty blades and withered veins
Force of destruction, decay and death!
Sensational wave of doom
Barbaric music opens bewitching
Captors of chaos, soul and steel
Thrilling release of wrath
No future no past
Finish the energy of souls
No beginning no end
Past redemption
No return from the Masters

Past redemption
Silver temple and the feast of flesh
Soulwine for the masses returning from their graves
Past redemption
Craving for pure paragon ways
Soulwine for the masses laughing in their graves

Watch the Night and taste the Whip
Watch the Thunder and taste the Terror
Hunger of the allied deepens to destruction
Day to year, yeah day to year to night forever

Past redemption
Silver temple and the feast of flesh
Soulwine for the masses returning from their graves
Past redemption
Craving for pure paragon ways
Soulwine for the masses laughing in their graves
Postmortem Tales

Song Name: Postmortem Tales


Metal shores and seas of bronze, magic spirit heart of doom
Electric rain and rotting flesh, chiming bells of solid bone

Welcome to the festival ?raising Cain
Sarcasm and scorn as the serpent uncoils
You've come to taste death and the sentence of stone

Iron chains and colossal chaos - enslaving for the power of death
Evoke the evolution ?now draped in sharp thorns of metal

Welcome to the festival ?raising Cain
Sarcasm and scorn as the serpent uncoils
You've come to taste death and the sentence of stone

Unleash a will
To bring that venomous wind a heart of ist own
And to end
The dream spared from a haunting forse
Rip what's lionized
Speak with the tongue of pure abomination
Raise the fists
Nail the centre of the enemy's eye, O yeah!

You face the face of punishment ?of fears unveiled by the end
We taste the wind by chaos cursed and watch the blades still their thirst

Sodomized and victimized
Postmortem tales ?speak for the dead

Sodomized and victimized
Postmortem tales ?speak for the dead
Living Cain ?everreign
Postmortem place ?blood's got to be shed Postmortem Tales

Song Name: Crush To Dust


Crushed to dust
And the tales are spoken in postmortem ways
The hammering of horror
Yeah, now feed on the flame of the fear
Undivine intervention
Prepare for death you childs of time
The metal bells toll
No escape as the sentence falls
Forever severed from the bonds of flesh
Sanguin juice colls through soal and sand
Watch through the eyes of the damned
Reveal the lust
Then crush to dust

Revealed in lust
And the days are tokens of postmortem ways
So dream of Utopia
And see the dream of a destiny perish
Bond, snared to their hearts
With thousands of chains crossing the sky
Screaming to die
Enjoy the scene where the victims lie

Fantastic funerals brought from the tormentor
Iron reign
Red rain
Screaming in vain
Fantastic funerals brought from the destructor
Iron reign
Red rain
Screaming in vain
Death Rider 2000

Song Name: Necronaut Psychout


Necronaut psychout
Hundred minds out on a soulcrushing tour
Mind transmission, it's the aces new mission
So tough in its kind
Yeah, you'll scream, now scream
Chemical astrodream of the team supreme
Away into ways in entombed waves
Why?
You'll see this death die!
Come on!

Fantastic wipeout
The killers are shouting out: "Come to the dome"
And you'll burn as a coppar soul of the midnight fireball
You say "Hey, no need to play" the master's gonna make you pay"
And it's your decision, and you'll better face this vision
Called the "Necronauts blood transmission"
Now listen:
Necronaut Psychout
The masters thay are screaming out:
Necronaut Psychout!

Then you met this Necronauts saying:
"Yeah, death becomes you"
And your heart is lithium, your blood is blue
"Who's to score, churn venom to their core!"
And you stand as the monolithic man
Cursed in a monolithic land
O' yeah and you're among the damned!

(666% Necronaut Psychout)
Death Rider 2000

Song Name: Firefall Of The Fireball


Hey!
Well I got a time to kill and spines to chill
As you face that grave you must fill
No salvation can stand my frustration
Burning tough in a fiend aggression
So you say: "Is it your hate? You know it ain't too late"
But I guess you can't change your "fate"
It's sold, lost and foretold
So die my friend
Yeah, burn, baby, burn!

We're the aces reflecting death in dying faces
Raising Cain
Yeah, you know you're racing Cain
Heaven turns, explodes and burns
Come on it's Firefall!

Razor's race
Velocity of death and bloodstained wrath
Razor's race

Ever felt like a brick in a game?
Ever felt that everything turns out the same?
Ever felt that a bullet would take you through it?
That a fire would fit?
So lit it!
Ever seen your powers weakening to the end
And not give a damn?
Well, sometimes you just have to play with a bad hand
So turn to dust!
You're dust in this soulless land!

And soon came the days when the race unveiled ist ways
So cold in ist naked face
And eternity completed ist grace
Closed was the gate, and sealed were their fate
Where the secret of death died
And the Soulless' ried became justified!

We're the aces reflecting death in dying faces
Raising Cain
Yeah, you know you're racing Cain
Heaven turns, explodes and burns
Come on it's Firefall!

Razor's race
Velocity of death and bloodstained wrath
Razor's race

And as the blood begins to leave you
Heaven turns, explodes and burns
"Yeah, you're just a player on the field"
And as death rises for you
No dream will ever save this souls from a cruel end
"No way, so die again my friend!"
Come on!