Manticora is a heavy metal band from Hvidovre, Denmark formed in 1996 by Lars and Kristian Larsen. Their current label is Nightmare Records. Their lyrical content typically consists of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Although they are considered to be a progressive power metal band, they do have an essence of a speed metal influence. Their newest album, Safe was released in 2010.
Manticora may refer to:
Manticora (often misspelled Mantichora following an unjustified spelling change in 1837) is a well-known genus of tiger beetle that is endemic to Africa. Its members are the largest of the subfamily. All species are darkly colored, nocturnal, and flightless. Males usually have exaggerated mandibles compared to the females, used for clasping during copulation.
This genus was among the first formally described by a pupil of Carl Linnaeus, Johan Christian Fabricius, in 1792. The name Manticora comes from the ancient Persian for the legendary man-eating Manticore.
The first species of Manticora known to science was M. tuberculata, originally described by De Geer in 1778 in the Linnean genus Carabus. When Fabricius established Manticora he referred to the type species Carabus maxillosa, a junior synonym of M. tuberculata.
Manticora contains the following species:
Not a single trace, everything is gone, the circus has disappeared
Cool morning air, the dawn will come soon, the end of a night so weird
Walking purposeless, watching horrified, the bodies left all around
With the rotting smell of blood your last hope dies,
insane you fall to the ground
As you're lying there
A voice is singing to you
A growl as from deep inside the earth
For centuries your lost soul have been our feast
We leave your remains to bird and to beast
But in the black emptiness of space so cold
We'll wait patiently till we're older than old
And when finally the stars are right once again
We'll come back to rule you with torture and pain
Burning, destroying and with a violent gust
All that remains are ashes and dust
Again before your eyes, the gypsies are dancing,
a bloody face in the rising sun
you stumble to your feet, and without looking back,
you're screaming in fear as you run
As you're running away
A voice is singing to you
A growl as from deep inside your head
For centuries your lost soul have been our feast
We leave your remains to bird and to beast
But in the black emptiness of space so cold
We'll wait patiently till we're older than old
And when finally the stars are right once again
We'll come back to rule you with torture and pain
Burning, destroying and with a violent gust