1764 (The Beast of Gevaudan)

"1764 (The Beast of Gevaudan)"

Artist: Pandemonic
Album: The Art of Hunting
Genre: Thrash metal
Released: 2004

Songs from The Art of Hunting

"The Lycanthrope Within"	"1764 (The Beast of Gevaudan)"	"The Art of Hunting"

"1764 (The Beast of Gevaudan)" is a song from "werewolf metal" thrash band Pandemonic, featured on their final EP The Art of Hunting. It loosely follows the real historical account of the French beast and purported werewolf, the Beast of Gevaudan.

Lyrics

Vargo you fool what did you do
The curse of a gypsy is wrought upon you
Damned by the kin of the girl you did rape
To haunt the forests in a bestial shape

"All of nature will turn against you"
The gypsy said
"As will all the animals, and you will never rest"

1764 on a Sunday night in June
A sinister beast froze the spines of all who would hear it's eerie call
1764 awoke "The Beast of Gevaudan"
Condemned for all time, now the people would bleed because of his crime

Damned by his deed a werewolf Count Vargo would be

Vargo beware you better take heed
The words that were spoken will come true indeed
A bipedal wolf will assail you ahead
Leaving you wounded to join the undead

1764 on a Sunday night in June
A sinister beast froze the spines of all who would hear it's eerie call
1764 awoke "The Beast of Gevaudan"
Condemned for all time, now the people would bleed because of his crime

Damned by his deed a werewolf Count Vargo would be

Soon the curse takes control
Eating away Vargo's body and soul
His flesh no more than a shell
Hidden inside him a werewolf do dwell

Vargo survived; his friends found it strange
As he recovered his habits would change
His cook was to serve only meat dripping red
The urge to kill waxed in his head

1764 on a Sunday night in June
A sinister beast froze the spines of all who would hear it's eerie call
1764 awoke "The Beast of Gevaudan"
Condemned for all time, now the people would bleed because of his crime

Damned by his deed a werewolf Count Vargo would be