Christian Death Metal Collective: TAKING THE HEAD OF GOLIATH

BAND NAME: Taking The Head Of Goliath

GENRE: Brutal Death Metal

STATUS: Split-up

LOCATION: Minnesota

Lineup:

Jake Martin - Vocals

Miles Sunde - Lead Guitars

Nathan Sherman - Guitars

Luke Renno - Bass, Backing Vocals

Steve Reishus - Drums

Past members:

Rob Blake - Guitars

Matt Vangsgard - Drums

Links:

Discography:

Beyond Brutal Live (live album)

March 9, 2017, Rottweiler Records (Digital)

April 14, 2017, Rottweiler Records (Digital)

1. The Expulsion Of Putrid Illusion 2:16

2. Trenches 3:27

3. Oblivious Into Oblivion 2:22

4. This Present Darkness 3:32

5. Audacity To Inspire 2:58

Taking The Head Of Goliath (EP, July 6, 2018, Rottweiler Records) (CD, Digital)

1. Of Sin And Death 1:06

2. Oblivious Into Oblivion 2:20

Oblivious

Senseless masses of flesh

So easily herded onto the path of least resistance

The brainwashed are being led by the brain-dead

Pathetic simpletons in lockstep

Multitudes of the clueless

Millions mindlessly marching to their deaths

The lost roll out their own red carpets

Grinning fools pass through the velvet rope to hell

You were made for so much more than this

You were made for more

Now fix your eyes upon the Lord

Cry out to the Lord

He is the way, the truth, the life

O sleeper wake and know your worth

Sleeper awaken

3. The Expulsion Of Putrid Illusion 2:07

Choose love or choose hate

Eternity or numbered data

Will you stand in the light or be swallowed by darkness

True strength is found in the recognition of one's weakness

Ask yourself

Do I trust in the promise of the Creator

Or do I

Still believe the lies of the creation

Choose life or choose death

Never again is now my friend

Make your stand

Brace for the expulsion of putrid illusion

Broken

Desperate is the man in need of hope

No longer deceived

He falls to his knees

Humbled

A prayer precedes the purge

You died the death that I deserve

Nailed to the cross

Jesus was stretched out

Was poured out for this

Redemption

He cleansed us of all sin with his precious blood

Therefore if anyone is in Christ

He is a new creation

The old is dead

The old is gone

Behold the new has come

The expulsion of putrid illusion

4. Trenches 4:10

For your blood spilled

For your lives

For your service

For your sacrifice

For those willing to die

For the stars and stripes

We are obliged to honor

Compelled to exalt our brave

Made for this, trained for this

Your calling never questioned

Protector, defender

Called to duty, called to action

Fear becomes focus when a soldier accepts his own death

A violent demise is not a matter of if, but when

Strange that survival stems from this somber philosophy

When it's kill or be killed, the selfless secure victory

Made for this, trained for this

Your calling never questioned

Protector, defender

Called to duty, called to action

We will never forget

The courageous warriors

Who have fought through the generations

For our liberty lives are exchanged

For twenty-one gun salutes

And folded flags

Veterans and military families

Battle-tested

Deserving of gratuity

You have stared into war's ugly face

For our nation's freedom

We give our deepest thanks

5. This Present Darkness 3:24

In the present darkness and ancient serpent lies

In wat as demons isolate

Pain, rage, hate

We become our own worst enemies

In a realm unseen by mortal eyes a war is being waged

Mankind driven insane

Evil forces whisper lies, manipulate

Doubt, dread, confusion

We fall victim to our own ruin

Without warning, skin begins crawling

Chaos consuming

The face in the mirror deforming

Seized by distress, revulsion

Bound and taken captive into desolation

Panicked impulse constricts these chains

Beneath the weight of our burden, we suffocate

My soul screams for escape!

Offense

Shame and fear

These curse of man common

To all descending into the depths of destitution

Familiar hauntings

Manifest

At the crucial moment

We deny the truth inside that puts these snarling

Beasts to death

6. Audacity To Inspire 2:44

This is the call

Rise up in righteous rebellion

Against the world of death

The wages of sin's corruption

Fearless in faith the persecuted persevere

God give them eyes to see and ears to hear

This charge is not without consequence

From this moment on the path is perilous

Hated by all, in virtuous defiance

Our heads will have to roll if we are to be silenced

Now at all costs we must reject passivity

Banish blame and complain, accept responsibility

Sons of God, born again, leading courageously

Our reward awaits in Heaven so we live our lives for God's glory

Love the unlovable, undesirable and undeserving

Grace, mercy, blood paid our debt, declared us worth

"Take up your cross and follow Me"

Die to self

Hearts engulfed in holy fire

Die to self

Audacity to inspire

7. Unearthed / Iniquity's End 4:25

Cord Of Three Strands (single, October 4, 2019, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Cord Of Three Strands 3:32

What God has joined together

Let no man separate

Enter into holy covenant

A vow taken to the grave

Divine design

Man and his bride

And the Godhead a cord of three strands intertwined

Commended spirits

Become one flesh

Cleaved together, a sacred union

From this moment until death

Til death

This love serves

This love endures

This love is without condition

This love submits

This love forgives

This love is free from perdition

Faith and truth abide through joy and pain, calm and storm alike

Standing firm on the rock of Jesus Christ

This cord of three strands is strengthened, per humility, repentance and praise

Lives lived for our King will be our legacy

Faithful until the end of days

Until the end of days...

Neoteric Tribal Barbarism (live single, August 23, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Neoteric Tribal Barbarism (Live) 3:26

Sun setting on the age of mankind

Long shadow of the mob stretch

Streets of cities worldwide

Irreconcilable divide

Targeted

We are the enemy identified

Before the rock of salvation is where we have drawn the battle line

As we prophesied

Lawlessness shall prevail in the end times

Repent

The kingdom is at hand

Black flags of the insurgency flown proud

Guillotines placed on the pedestals of statues torn down

Satan underneath the shroud

Flames silhouette the gallows atop their moral high ground

Subhuman decimation, genocide, ethical eradication

Violence is virtue, in this death cult, utopia void of truth

Slaughtered

Martyred

A sickle will swing reaping heavens harvest

A sick will swing reaping what remains for the great winepress

All knees will bend

All tongues confess

Futility Of The Flesh (EP, October 25, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (CD, Digital)

Features material the band recorded before they split up.

1. Futility Of The Flesh 3:20

Muscles atrophy, beauty fades

Body and mind betray, corpses degrade

Strong wills are crushed like brittle bones as the day of reckoning comes to pass

Control is ripped away like lifeless flesh torn from a carcass

Death devours indiscriminately

With hunger insatiable

The demise of all humanity

Disease ravishes, organs fail

Feeble the human form, none shall prevail

Brought low are the proud, the vengeful

The consequences eternal, the futility of the flesh

You cannot save yourself

You cannot save yourself!

You cannot save yourself

You cannot save yourself!

At once your kingdom crumbles

Treasures corrode

The temple reduced to rubble

By death, dethroned

2. Septic Enslavement 2:33

Of their own volition

Their captors sought out, self-chosen

Cursed legion of the flesh

Unholy kingdom of death

You slaves, you serve, you return

To your vomit, obedient

Wallowing in the filth of idols feculent

Willing subjects of this septic enslavement

Monuments of excrement constructed and worshipped

Have you no shame, you heathens?

No gods, no masters, reprobates creed

Do what thou wilt, the deceiver deceives

Extremes explored to entertain

Become addictions that enslave

Why such passion for self-destruction?

Immersed in sickening sludge

Depravity has taken dominion

Deification of your lust

The end is near

Judgement soon will come!

3. Neoteric Tribal Barbarism (Live) 3:26