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  • Jack Rackham telling off the judge on his trial in the Spoken Word in Music part of "Calico Jack":
    Judge: John Rackham; You are charged with murder and piracy of the high seas. In the name of Her Majesty you will be taken from this court and hung, drawn and quartered. What are your last words, accused?
    Calico Jack: My last words? Ha ha! Who do you think you are? What right have you to judge over my destiny? Take your pompous words and stick'em where the sun don't shine! I swear we meet again, bye!

  • "The Ballad of William Kidd," in particular the intro and ending. Play that song while driving somewhere with great scenery and you'll have made one epic memory.
  • "Adrian S.O.S." from Gates to Purgatory. It's a powerful hammerblow of short but epic riffing set to Adrian, Son of Satan, breaking free and delivering a cathartic beatdown to racists and other oppressors of the world while liberating the enslaved masses.
  • John Xenir, just as he's about to be burned at the stake by the inquisitors, telling them off:
    Inquisitor: John, you have been found guilty of being in league with the Devil and of having used heathen and forbidden rituals. You will be committed to the purifying fire! So repent of your unholy sins, so that your soul can be saved from eternal hell!
    John Xenir: Your lies can't impress me, 'cause the truth will come to light! Yes, I will set a mark for that I will return to reveal the truth and who's the true evil!
    John says "You're a liar!"
    Long ago I was burned by priests,
    That you're the devil and you're the beast!"
  • The Badass Creed of the chorus to "Riding the Storm":
    Face in the wind, we're riding the storm
    We'll stay our course whatever will come
    Wandering souls in the sea of the damned
    Death or glory, ooh, we are riding the storm!
  • "Raise Your Fist", delivering another Badass Creed, this time within the song's Heavy Meta context of musically breaking free of the frustration and injustice of life:
    Come on kids, unite
    And let us feed the flames of rage
    Together we are strong
    So let's tear up this golden cage
    We shall overcome
    Repression and their strangling chains
    The shackles have to fall
    And we will be metallian kings
    Raise your fist!
    Raise your fist!
  • Also from the Under Jolly Roger album, the triumphant bridge of the thrashing Driving Song "Raw Ride", containing both one of Rolf's Precision F-Strikes and Metal Screams:
    I have to break free
    To live on my own way tonight
    I don't give a goddamn
    What you want to force upon me

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