Instruments of Destruction
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"Instruments of Destruction" is a metal song by the band N.R.G., featured in the album The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
The song plays in The Transformers: The Movie during one of the first scenes which sets the tone for the remainder of the movie; the scene where the Decepticons brutally massacre the crew of an Autobot shuttle.
Lyrics
Iron birds of fortune
Adrift above the sky
Cloudy revelations
Unseen by naked eyes
Flying tools of torment
Will penetrate the sphere
Erupt the rock of ages
Bringing final fear
- Instruments of destruction
- Tools of power-plays
- It's a violent eruption
- Existence strips away
What's it really matter
When nothing really counts?
Grave eternal darkeness
When you're drained of every ounce
And when the nightmare's over
The final from the storm
The rust of all creation
To ashes we transform
- Instruments of destruction
- Tools of power-plays
- It's a violent eruption
- Existence strips away
- Instruments of destruction
- Tools of power-plays
- It's a violent eruption
- Existence strips away
- Instruments of destruction
- Tools of power-plays
- It's a violent eruption
- Existence strips away
- Instruments of destruction
- Tools of power-plays
- It's a violent eruption
- Existence strips away
Album releases
- 1986 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Scotti Bros. Records)
- 2001 — N.R.G.: Transformed (Independent release) — New recording, plus the original "Unreleased Unedited" and instrumental versions.
- 2007 — The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition (Legacy Recordings)
Notes
- The band considers the "Instruments of Destruction" era to be one of their most fulfilling, and are very proud to have it featured in Transformers. <ref>Area 403's official biography for N.R.G.</ref>