Story Behind The Song

An asteroid-mining robot spaceship runs amok and destroys the earth

Lyrics

Ripping the mantle, extracting the vein, the insatiable maw burrows deeper again
Feel the crack of the rock, hear it shudder with pain, this relentless machine built on capital gain
Now is failing, failing, forsaking the call of its master's commands
And desiring, craving, the iron the engine demands

Tormentor
Ripping with teeth made of steel
Tormentor
The blood of the rock soon revealed

They look to the sky, across a dark ocean it roams
Expanding in size, too quickly it reaches their homes

The shell of the planet is left to decay as the ground and its people are eaten away
Through rock and through mud, with oil and blood, destroyer of planets devours its prey
Now it's crushing, tearing, destroying all life with titanium hands
And desiring, craving, the iron the engine demands

Waiting for the end (drill, kill)
Melted to slag for the fires burning
Nothing to defend (drill, kill)
Nothing will remain

Tormentor
Ripping with teeth made of steel
Tormentor
The blood of the rock soon revealed
Tormentor
Slashing into the unknown
Tormentor
Harvesting life from the stone