Better Left Dead

by Miasmic Serum

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1.
Serum of life. Hidden in the lab,the writings of my master I study To take to life a dead body No one can understand the genius of inverting the state of death to living. Reanimator of life. Breaking death's dominion Vein located. Needle engaged. Artery pierced, time flows backward. Injection. Resurrection. Inject. React. Return. Breathless flesh underneath my scalpel. I inject the poison to live. Undisturbed my experiment continues The serum of life behind the brain will flow Soon I will be the master of life and death who takes back to us who's already gone. Reanimator of life. Breaking death's dominion. Expired flesh now returns. The silence I wake from the tomb I bring back the pulse, with poison in its beat Serum of life. I am the guide, the soul I destroyed. From my hand, rot reborns. This formula through science all the corpses reanimates.
2.
Verdict 03:46
I am closed in a room, sweating cold waiting their attack They are unstoppable, created to kill, no light in their eyes If I only can come back, my god, I’ll destroy them all, It's too late, it's too late, They are everywhere, Pushing at the door. They wanna enter. They wanna destroy, their only purpose is to kill The air is rotting. They remember I've made monsters. This room is not safe. It's a waiting grave. I hear them breathing through the cracks. They are whispering my name. They are full of hate. And it is all for me. The walls of this lab will be my tomb. Waiting will drive me mad. I hear my name whispered by shadows. I fed their life with poison. And now I wait for the venom to return. They should be back by now. They should be dead again. They should never have moved at all. They are not gone.
3.
There’s no light, no air in this agony Just the crushing weight of silence. My buried mind still screams in paralysis My stomach dissolves My hunger still remains. A Murderous instinct, let me moving Searching for the next one. Blind to life in love with death, my hunt is clear. No one can stop me, and I will never do Some things are better left dead My hunger is for blood Eating flesh is a killing spree My instinct sharpens, breathing out rot. I used to be man. Now a corpsed crime. I will find the hand that pulled me back Driven by curse, let me out of this body. Some things are better left dead Undead monsters, perfect killers. Flesh eaters. Back to life, only to kill. Reanimation. Damnation. Unstoppable.
4.
Under the harvest moon, a sickness crawls through the earth, blackened grain, poisoned seed, twists the world, visions of demons. In the darkness, witches whisper. Their names forgotten, lost to the flames. The body burns, tormented by the fire. Witches dance writhing in agony. Its poison feeds the flames of madness. Ergot in the blood, the mind devoured. Visions burn like fire in the night as the hunt for witches turns into dust. The cursed grain, the harvest of doom, feeds the madness that drives them all. Witches' curse grows stronger in burning fields. The land thirsts for blood and ashes of burnt flesh, Shredded by visions The hunted and the burning, lost to damnation forever trapped in this hallucination. Reality crumbles into the void. Shadows will speak as the dead walk in twisted dreams. Witches will remain in corrupted minds.

about

“Better Left Dead” is a concept EP based on the horror short story "Herbert West–Reanimator" by the American writer H.P. Lovecraft, and it is also visually linked to the 1985’s comedy horror movie “Re-Animator”. The opening track “Serum Of Life” explicitly tells the reanimator's point of view. His ability to bring life back is due to his venom and poison injections. The title track of the EP, tells the opposite way, so it’s the reanimated corpse to speaking from its point of view. And the concept lyrics tragically end with the “Verdict”, where all corpses finally find the way back to their reanimator, and carry out their brutal revenge.


FFO (for fans of): Malevolent Creation, Frozen Soul, Morbid Angel, Obituary

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released October 24, 2025

Julian Serrato – Bass
Gabriele Marchioni – Drums
Riccardo Marconato - Vocals
Vanny Piccoli – Guitars & Vocals

All music written and arranged by Miasmic Serum.
All lyrics written by Vanny Piccoli.


"Better Left Dead" was recorded in Treviso, Italy, between April and July 2025.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Giovanni Pezzato @ Alter Recording Studio.

Art by Simone Faggian (IG: _thegarbagekid_)

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Miasmic Serum Treviso, Italy

Miasmic Serum is a viperous old school death metal band that is conceptually related to poisoning, intoxication on the whole, toxic plants, animal venoms, and even personal previous psycho-nautical experiences. In fact, Miasmic Serum stands for an unhealthy exhalation of a serum, which can be identified in the animal and plant kingdoms. ... more

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