BAND NAME: Tortured Conscience
GENRE: Brutal Death Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
Lineup:
Duane Keith II - Vocals
Jeff Lenormand - Guitars, Bass
Rene Gerbrandy - Drums
Past members:
Paul Ponitkoff - Vocals
Berto Salas - Vocals
Shannon Frye - Vocals, Drums
Mike Soria - Bass
Dustin Freeman - Bass
Emad Jaghab - Bass
John Gotelli - Drums
Links:
Discography:
Face Of God (demo, 2001, Independent) (Cassette)
Side A:
1. A New Trend 3:07
There's a plague among us
Tainting the truth of Christ
Taking the Word of God
Dissected and diced
They will tell you of paths
Other beliefs embraced
"It doesn't matter what,
In all truth is laced."
But what does our Lord say?
What do His words decree?
"No one sees the Father,
No one except through Me."
How would you interpret
These words of our Christ Lord?
What way would you see them?
How would you have them whored?
New Age philosophy,
With every diseased breath,
Is infesting the truth
And will only bring death
Watering down the Word
So as not to offend
This way of deceiving,
The way of the new trend
Spreading the truth of God
Is "politically incorrect"
Realizing ourselves
And sin is the effect
The deceiver lives within
The world we have today
When God is forgotten
Death, destruction the way
False teachers among us
Claiming to spread the truth
But on our Judgement Day
Christ will say, "I never knew you."
2. Chain The Fallen One 3:11
Shrouded by the blackness inside
Spiritual suicide
Into sin we are born
Filthy robes we adorn
To the fire we crawl
Forever we do fall
We don't think we need God
Liars call Him a mythic fraud
The advisory lies
Break these, our hell-bound ties
Complacency, our major sin
In this world we have to live in
Chain the fallen angel
Untie the weed's tangle
Turn to the Lord
Run from the horde
Kill the devil inside
Break the chains and deny
Let him burn and forever rot
Let him die in battles you fought
When Judgement Day is here
Let your conscience be clear
Let the world hear and see
That by Christ's blood, we are set free
Side B:
3. In Hell 3:06
Fire surrounds, searing flames
Dying in fire, painful death
Flames ignite your every breath
Intense heat sears your soul
So you scream, no one hears
The bowels of Hell it sears
Soul consumed to everlasting rot
Flames ignite your flammable breath
Intense heat sears your soul
Everything you've known is gone in a flash
Grilled, and burnt and black as you burn
Neverending, everywhere you turn
Molten rock rolls over your soul
To burn in hell was your ultimate goal
Now you are there, screaming in pain
Where is the water to ease the suffering
Scenes of gore are yet neverending
But you feel it inside
This is just life
In Hell!
4. Internal Torment 4:10
I knew that I was saved
But I constantly felt
A disconnection; a hollow whole
A sinner's life that I embraced
Walking on my own path
Instead of the way of God
Weakened state of being I fell
Into the abyss of sex and porn
The cyber net and all its trappings
Pictures danced on the screen
But the light of God shone through
Exposing my hypocrisy
Hiding behind "Once saved, always saved."
Satisfying my selfish urges
Perverse sexual acts I played out
Abomination of all that is holy
Christ will never forsake me
It was I who forsook Him
Shame now envelopes me
Forgive me oh Lord, forgive
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
My conscience is tortured
All the guilt
Wears me down
Throughout me
Self-hatred
Will I see
God's glory
Will I fall
Into Hell
All the guilt
Wears me down
Throughout me
Self-hatred
Calling on
God's mercy
Save this lost
Soul I beg
Fighting myself I lose
Battle within
Raging inside my soul
Begging to be set free
The Collection Volume I: Tools Of The Trade (split, 2002, Sounds Of The Dead Records) (CD)
9. Tortured Conscience - A New Trend 3:07
10. Tortured Conscience - Chain The Fallen One 3:11
11. Tortured Conscience - In Hell 3:06
12. Tortured Conscience - Internal Torment 4:10
Every Knee Shall Bow (album)
October 10, 2006, Bombworks Records (CD)
February 19, 2007, Bombworks Records (Digital)
2021, Battlefrost Productions, Remastered (Digital)
September 13, 2022, Omnipotent Radio Records, Unofficial (Digital)
June 30, 2023, Vision Of God Records, Remixed, Remastered (Digital)
Track 11 on the Vision Of God version is a 2020 re-recording of the track "No Ambiguity".
Tracks 12-15 on the Vision Of God version are from the demo "Face Of God".
1. Blinded 5:12
BLINDED!
The destiny of death
Befalls the ones who walk
On left-handed roads to destruction
Secularist or Satanist
It's all the same, it leads to one place
Death
Follower of the Advisory
Whether you heed the Fallen One
Or the philosophies of the lost
Death will still await you
"Do what thou wilt"
"Be your own god"
Cheap slogans
For self-serving fools
Their words spew out
Like cries from the goat
Feasting on droppings
Of their unseen master
You say that faith
Is for the weak
For the blind
To reality
But your misconceptions
Of the faith
Blind you
Unschooled on the Word
Are many of you
And your kind
"The Bible is a lie"
Are the words you repeat
Like a marionette
On a puppet master's string
You repeat things
You know nothing about
How have you come
To your way of thinking
Have you studied
The Word for yourself?
You go on feasting
On their words
Like a slave to mankind
Never
Questioning
Has there ever been
A moment in your life
When you asked yourself
"Why am I here?"
The voice inside of you
Talking to your soul
Is the Holy Spirit
Convicting
You
Feeling His presence
Taking away your pride
Chipping at resistance
To the truth
In Him
Hear
The God
You so
Reject
In surmounting lies
Engulf your life
Won't you take this step?
Embrace the Father
Do not fall
Into the trap
Of believing
The world's ways
Hear
The God
You so
Reject
In surmounting lies
Engulf your life
Won't you take this step?
Embrace the Father
2. Apostate Return 3:59
There was a time
I looked up to you
I heard you testify
You encouraged me
You did not know me
But I knew of you
Hearing your words
Of praise and worship
But you turned away
From the faith
When dancing on glass
Became more important
You turned your back
On the father
After all you've learned
After all you've seen
Apostate
Return to
The Christ that died for you
Once were
You mighty
In the faith that saves you
You walked
Away from
The God that loves you
Please rethink
Your position
And come back
Come let us reason together
And look at the facts
Christianity
Is based in evidence
Normal Geisler
Josh McDowell
William Lane Craig
Hank Hanegraaff
These men have dedicated
Their lives to show us
That the evidence shows
The Bible to be true
To hear
You say those words
"I don't believe"
Cuts me
Like a knife
Can't you feel
The tears of God?
You turn your back
On your faith
To live worldly
Read the works of the giants
The apologists through time
Test the Scriptures for the facts
See for yourself the truth
The truth that lies
Inside those pages
Of Holy Scripture
Apostate return
3. Modern Day Pharisees 3:58
You stand across the street
Of the funeral home as they lay to rest
Their son who died at the hands
Of a violent bunch, hatred in their hearts
You add to their pain
With their signs of judgement
You have no right
To tell them
That "God hates gays"
When you yourself are no less a sinner
Self-righteous hypocrisy
Flows through
Your lips, foul stench of inquisitional hate
Hardening the hearts of those who hear
Solidifying their belief that religion is hate
You rekindle the choke of religion
Smothering out any spark of faith
Christ came to save me, not judge
Who are you to think you're less of a sinner?
God does hate all sin
But He loves all sinners
He died for them
Tell the lost of His love
Show them His saving grace
Instead of telling them that God
Hates their particular sin
Tell them that you'll
Pray for them
And that salvation
Can be theirs, too
You were called to be
The salt and light of the world
Not to be a vessel of
Anger and hate
What in your actions shows the
Love of our Lord?
Look in yourself, what do you see?
We are all sinners and we
Are all lost
We have all come short
Of the glory of God
We are no better than anyone else
The log is still in our eyes
It's the blood of Christ
That saves us all
From the fiery pits of Hell
Not your signs, not your slogans
And not your finger pointing
There is a place for accountment
But only after one trusts you
And only after you've
Shown them that any discipline
Comes from love
Christ
Is the way
The truth, and the life
Can you
Realize
The sin in you
Is no better, no worse
We cannot forget
That we were once
Lost and now are found
4. The Trial 3:54
They say that He is a prophet
And that He is the one
They say that He
Is the Son of God
To bring us all our salvation
He is calling us hypocrites
Stirring the people to riot
We cannot kill Him ourselves
So let us pawn him off
To Pontius Pilate
The people love
This man called Christ
A riot He
Could certainly entice
Contradicting
That what we say
May He be dead
Before the end of the day
Blasphemy filled
Within His words
The things He says
Are so absurd
We are holy
We are just
We have to do
What we must
Price him that He
Be delivered
Pay Judas
30 pieces of silver
Betrayal supreme
Forgiveness divine
A kiss upon the cheek
Will be the sign
The trial of Christ
May now commence
I know Herod
Will be convinced
That the words of Jesus
Shall be our downfall
This Man is dangerous
To Caesar and us all
Only a few will weep
And fewer will sorrow
But these peasants
Will forget Him by tomorrow
Gone will be He
And all His prophecies
To this mere man
They will never fall to their knees
We beg of you
To find Him guilty
Let Him be crucified
Among the filthy
So let it be written
So let it be done
Let this Man's name
Be spoken by no one
"The people have chosen
The Nazarene to die
I cannot understand
Where your reasons lie
Jesus has done nothing
To deserve this fate
Barabas is the one
Who is filled with hate
My conscience is cleansed
Swept away like a flood
I wash may hands
Of this Man's blood"
It is finished
5. The New Trend 3:07
There's a plague among us
Tainting the truth of Christ
Taking the Word of God
Dissected and diced
They will tell you of paths
Other beliefs embraced
"It doesn't matter what,
In all truth is laced."
But what does our Lord say?
What do His words decree?
"No one sees the Father,
No one except through Me."
How would you interpret
These words of our Christ Lord?
What way would you see them?
How would you have them whored?
New Age philosophy,
With every diseased breath,
Is infesting the truth
And will only bring death
Watering down the Word
So as not to offend
This way of deceiving,
The way of the new trend
Spreading the truth of God
Is "politically incorrect"
Realizing ourselves
And sin is the effect
The deceiver lives within
The world we have today
When God is forgotten
Death, destruction the way
False teachers among us
Claiming to spread the truth
But on our Judgement Day
Christ will say, "I never knew you."
There's a plague among us
Tainting the truth of Christ
Taking the Word of God
Dissected and diced
They will tell you of paths
Other beliefs embraced
"It doesn't matter what,
In all truth is laced."
6. The Word Became Flesh 3:00
Shiloh
Prince of peace
Emanuel
God is with us
The Door
To eternal life
The Way
To the everlasting Father
Messiah
The chosen one
King of kings
Like no other
Triune
Son of God
Blessed
Ruler of all nations
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Long live the King
Born of a virgin
In the town of Bethlehem
Prophesied Messiah
Sacrificial Lamb
God
In
The flesh
Condescending
Through time and space
In the beginning there was the Word
And the Word was with God
And the Word was God
And the Word became flesh
The Law was a shadow of things to come
Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law
The Alpha and the Omega
The beginning and the end
Before Abraham was
I Am
The truth, the way, the life
The only one whose name saves
No religion, no opinion
Nothing but the blood of Christ
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Jesus is God
Long live the King
7. Internal Torment 4:17
I knew that I was saved
But I constantly felt
A disconnection; a hollow whole
A sinner's life that I embraced
Walking on my own path
Instead of the way of God
Weakened state of being I fell
Into the abyss of sex and porn
The cyber net and all its trappings
Pictures danced on the screen
But the light of God shone through
Exposing my hypocrisy
Hiding behind "Once saved, always saved."
Satisfying my selfish urges
Perverse sexual acts I played out
Abomination of all that is holy
Christ will never forsake me
It was I who forsook Him
Shame now envelopes me
Forgive me oh Lord, forgive
My conscience is tortured
All the guilt
Wears me down
Throughout me
Self-hatred
Will I see
God's glory
Will I fall
Into Hell
All the guilt
Wears me down
Throughout me
Self-hatred
Calling on
God's mercy
Save this lost
Soul I beg
Fighting myself I lose
Battle within
Raging inside my soul
Begging to be set free
My conscience is tortured
8. Every Knee Shall Bow 3:43
I prayed for you
Night and day
For yo uto come
To Christ and His way
You told me that
My words were in vain
To stop wasting time
There was nothing to gain
I stayed your friend
And never left you
But now I must go
To be with God who is true
Why didn't you listen
To the voice inside
And strip away
All humanistic pride?
Fear this day
The day of the Lord
Run and hide
In your accord
Read His Word
It will tell you how
Every knee shall bow
You mocked His name
And call Christians fools
Taking your liberties
And take God out of schools
You change the pledge
Your atheistic ways
Feel the fear
And the end of days
God has waited
For all to come to Him
But you hardened your hearts
And made His light in you dim
Denying the essentials
Of Christian doctrine
Choosing your own path
And staying in sin
Fear this day
The day of the Lord
Run and hide
In your accord
Read His Word
It will tell you how
Every knee shall bow
A world will come
A new Heaven and earth
The pains you feel
Are the pangs of birth
Cast aside
Into the pit of Hell
Destroyed with the devil
And the angels that fell
Momentary pleasures
Are a thing of the past
Moth and rust destroy
Those things couldn't last
The joys you felt
Are long since gone
You realize now
Your choices were wrong
Fear this day
The day of the Lord
Run and hide
In your accord
Read His Word
It will tell you how
Every knee shall bow
9. No Ambiguity 3:00
No ambiguity
Blatant words I sue
No hidden messages
No flower poetry
You were not ashamed
Of me while on the cross
I praise your name
From the hilltops I say
I am yours, my Lord
Do with me what you will
I accept you as my Saviour
The Lord of my life
You died for me, I live for you
These words I say
I praise you
Tell all the world
Spread the good news you said
While others may hide their faith
Locked away in their hearts
I sing your praises, oh God
And tell you that I love you
Purge me from all sin
Sanctify me, Christ my God
I am yours, my Lord
Do with me what you will
I accept you as my Saviour
The Lord of my life
You died for me, I live for you
These words I say
I praise you
You are the one I call
God above all others
I have no other gods before you
God I love you
In closing, I'd like to tell you all
That Christ is the way
No one sees the Father
Except through His blood
Freedom of volition
To choose or to choose otherwise
Make the choice now, my friend
Is it Heaven or is it Hell?
I am yours, my Lord
Do with me what you will
I accept you as my Saviour
The Lord of my life
You died for me, I live for you
These words I say
I praise you
10. Crucify (Bloodgood cover) 3:18
VISION OF GOD BONUS TRACKS
11. No Ambiguity (2020 re-recording) 4:22
12. A New Trend 3:06
13. Chain The Fallen One 3:10
14. In Hell 3:06
15. Internal Torment 4:09
One Law One King (album, December 22, 2023, Vision Of God Records) (CD, Digital)
1. An Open Letter 6:06
They have lied to you
If you insist that we
Must translate those that don't
Have the definite article "the"
As "a god" not "God"
Then what do you do with all
The 282 times
The New Testament says "theos"
With no article at all?
Are we to translate
2nd Corinthians 5:19
As "a god was in Christ"?
How absurd that would be!
Just look at John chapter one
To see that the Watchtower
Have always been lying to you
Verses 6, 12, 13, and 18
Where do you see the definite
Article in any of those?
Can't you see how your leaders
Have betrayed you?
What John teaches is
That the Word is eternal
The Word is holy personal
And the Word is deity
They have been
Lying to you
They have been
Lying to you
They have been
Lying to you
The Watchtower lies to you
The word for "firstborn"
Is "prototokos"
Meaning "special" or "unique" not "created"
David was called "the firstborn"
But he had older brothers
Israel was called "the firstborn"
But there were other nations
"No one has seen God at any time
The only begotten God
Who is in the bosom of the Father
He has explained Him"
Yet did not Isaiah
Say he saw the LORD
Sitting upon His throne
In His holy temple?
Who walked with Abraham
By the oaks of Mamre?
It was the pre-incarnate Christ
He was the One who was seen
No one has seen God the Father
But God the Son
Is the one that has been seen
It is the Son who reveals the Father
The only begotten Son
Who is equal with Yahweh
2. Borrowed Capital 4:43
Atheistic bankruptcy
Using borrowed currency
Cannot ground the absolutes
Can't make sense of any truth
Knowing what God has shown
His existence is all known
Embracing the absurd
No excuses will be heard
Bringing up Theodicy
Complaints about morality
As if there are any "oughts"
Explaining "why" you cannot
You cannot have it both ways
Consistence you betray
Morality cannot exist
Without God it's man-made mist
Claiming we are an accident
All the while you're the activist
You judge between the good and bad
But there is no standard to be had
As an atheist, yes, you can be moral
You can recognize between the good and the evil
But you cannot tell me any reason why we should
Why is any one action bad or good?
If we are truly just evolved stardust
Why the obligations? Nothing else has a "must"
Lions kill, they do not "murder"
They do not hold the blame
So why are we wrong by doing just the same?
Sharks will forcibly copulate
But they do not commit "rape"
Some in the wild have eaten their young
But "infanticide" has not been done
Many debates have dealt with this issue
But no one has an answer to why they commit to
Something they cannot defend rationally
Instead they sit back and say that we're in the fantasy
They just claim a non-belief
"That's not good enough" their motif
They claim that they
"Don't have a worldview to
Have to defend"
It's something they cannot do
Why are we held to a different, man-made standard?
As if we answer to someone we must pander?
A non-existent God means there cannot be morality
It could not exist in any objective reality
You cannot have it both ways
Consistency you betray
Morality cannot exist
Without God it's man-made mist
3. Rise 3:09
Rise, my Christian brethren
Rise against the world
They laid the seed
While we were all sleeping
While we waited for some Rapture
To take us all we took
Our eyes off the demonic realm
Now we see the fruits of their laboring
Taking the schools
Warping young minds
Truths we took for granted now are all challenged
The child-like mind has the loudest voice
We have all been silent for far too long
Time to crush the head of the serpent's horde
Bring down all the strongholds against the Christ
By putting on the armor of God and fight!
"Why should we polish
The brass on this sinking ship?"
This question has caused us to
Let the demons fly
Foundations that once
Honored God and His law
Are now laid to waste
And we let it happen
Crumbling foundations
Of this Godless world
Government now
Honor those that mock Christ
The media and arts
Have always had an agenda
Spread their seed
Their waiting game
We have all ben silent for far too long
Time to crush the head of the serpent's horde
Bring down all the strongholds against the Christ
By putting on the armor of God and fight!
Accept no allegiance from those
That say they're on the right!
Who do not have Christ as
Their grounding in truth
They are just as lost as those that
Are on the left
They cannot bring peace
That's only found in Christ
Waxing elegant about
What must be done
But nothing they offer can kill
The underlying disease
Though they can point to the problem
They have no answer
Because in the end
"Says who?"
We have all been silent for far too long
Time to crush the head of the serpent's horde
Bring down all the strongholds against the Christ
By putting on the armor of God and fight!
4. Who Is The Blessed Man? 4:12
Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never
Count against them, payment in full
And by that will, we have been made holy
Through the sacrifice of the body of Christ
Once for all time, never to repeat
No more sacrifice
Who is the blessed man
The one who walks free?
Who is the blessed man
Justified by His blood?
If it's not for one time
The shedding of His blood
Did not wash away your sins
How are you the blessed man?
And by that will
We have been made holy
Through the sacrifice
Of the body of Christ
Once for all time, never to repeeat
We cannot put Him back
Upon the cross
Who is the blessed man
The one who walks free?
Who is the blessed man
Justified by His blood?
For by one
Sacrifice He has made
Perfect
Forever
To those who are being made holy
Can't you see?
"He has made"
Is past tense
Meaning
It's already been done
No need
For further sacrifice
His blood
Washed all your sins
Away
Do you have assurance that it's not by your will but His?
Do you think you have to have some altar Christus to forgive?
Or is it by some other
Road you must travel
When you're guilty of sin?
Is there someone else you must call to?
Pray to your dead saints, they cannot hear you
There is no co-mediator
Your hope is in Christ
Put away your icons and
Only call upon Him
Who is the blessed man
The one who walks free?
Who is the blessed man
Justified by His blood?
5. One Law One King 1:56
Oh how I love Your law
Meditate upon it I do
Day and night I contemplate
Your precepts objectively true
Your law brings me to the Christ
For the life that is His to give
Christ points me to the law
To show me how I should live
One law, one King
Man's ways subjectively change
With the flow of society
Claiming to know the truest ways
Guilty of pseudo-piety
Many in Your church dismiss
Your law as abrogated
But with it do I stand
Your will for us clearly stated
The common mantra said by rote
Is "we are under grace, not law"
As if it were not by grace
That we could do Your will at all
The casual dismissal of Your law
Is something I will constantly decry
For I know where I stand
By the grace of God go I
One law, one King
6. Necessary Preconditions 2:56
The necessary preconditions for intelligbility
The future will be like the past
If the universe is the product of randomness
How do we get uniformity?
How can a cosmic accident
Produce a uniformed universe?
There are no brute facts
You cannot appeal to "just is"
No can probability be the crutch that you lean on
You still need to account for the very thing you take for granted
It is not random
Some would say, "Of course it's not random"
But how can this be without a divine Controller?
How do you get order from this chaotic cosmic event?
Who guides all the atoms from going rouge?
What would have to be true
In order for the Universe
To operate in a uniform, law-like fashion?
I submit to you it would take a sovereign God
Controlling all things in a rational, predictable way
The fact is worldviews must have grounding
Otherwise you believe nonsense
You may mock, ridicule, even insult
But then it's up to you to provide your own answers
At best you can only assume
But you cannot account for
How science is even possible
Or how anything is knowable
Without God, all is nonsense
7. Before He Spits Back 2:21
Kiss the son, lest He be angry and you perish in the way
For His wrath is quickly kindled
His hand of restraint shall be lifted
We are under the curse of God
Land of decay and rot
We forsook Him long ago
Threw Him out of the public square
You can only spit in God's face for so long
Be He spits back
Your legislation mandates
Morality across the land
But what standard do you lean on?
What is your objective source?
You have none
Look all around you
Gaze at all the chaos
We turned our backs on God
Reaping what was sewn
You actually have nerve to ask Him
For His blessing of this land
While passing laws that
Scarring the imago dei
You can only spit in God's face for so long
Before He spits back
Do not dare ask Him
To bless this land
He grant repentance
Turmoil all around us
Violence in the streets
You point to others and say
"They're to blame!"
But I have to ask you
A very simple question:
The further we get from God
Are things getting better?
You can only spit in God's face for so long
Before He spits back
8. You Can't Be Serious 2:20
If you think that God created on
The basis of what free creatures would do
Then I have to ask how does
He know these decisions
When they don't come from God or man?
Are these things on the outside of
God in some kind of unknown cosmic ether?
You can't be serious
How can such a brilliant mind rude our Holy God
To this sub level
Eisegesis to the point that you insist that God must
Play "the hand that He's been dealt"
Exactly who is this dealer that God must answer to
To make His plan unfold?
Why shouldn't we be praying to this god
And worshipping this one that gives God His hand?
You can't be serious
Jesus said He is the way and the truth
So all truth is within Himself
Contrary to your insistence that
There is no "truth maker" and things are "just"
Things are what they are because
Christ is the foundation
Of all that is true
Your answer to theodicy lacks the logical grounding
On which it can stand
You can't be serious
9. Moloch Reborn 2:45
Societal woes scream loudly from the womb
Lovers of death, worldly self is consumed
"My body, my choice," words drip with impurity
Me, myself, and I, the unholy trinity
Scattered parts in a basin tomb
Skulls are crushed and brains vacuumed
Suction, acid, limbs are torn
Moloch reborn
Adoption not an option in a world of indulgence
"I'm killing my baby and I have no repentance!"
Suppressing the truth in their unrighteousness
They know that a holy God exists
Scattered parts in a basin tomb
Skulls are crushed and brains vacuumed
Suction, acid, limbs are torn
Moloch reborn
Holocaustic massacre!
The church must stand for life and suffer what may
Thousands are lost by the end of the day
No longer silent by the blood and the kills
We must tear them down, the abortion mills
Scattered parts in a basin tomb
Skulls are crushed and brains vacuumed
Suction, acid, limbs are torn
Moloch reborn
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