ZENLAY in the Deep Desert
Andreas Knappe
metal
deep
world
power metal
Blazing power metal at 190 BPM
twin guitars galloping in harmony over thunderous double-kick. Male vocals jump between soaring cleans and piercing high screams; gang shouts on the hook. Big
anthemic chorus with stacked harmonies
then a half-time
chug-heavy bridge before a shreddy guitar solo explodes back into the final chorus.
Creada el ene. 5, 2026
Letra
[Intro]
Engines howl at dawn
Sandstorms scrape the sky
Yutani banners
Torn
But held high
[Verse 1]
Slipgate dock on Arrakis
Steel fangs kiss the dust
Manifest carved in our helmets
“Deep Desert or rust”
Spice stains under our eyelids
Burning every breath
Carriers lined like warships
Shaking hands with death
[Chorus]
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Raise your voice
The dunes awaken
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Feel the desert’s hunger taken
Riding out where the maps decay
If the worm is coming
Scream ZENLAY!
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Shai Hulud is on the way
[Verse 2]
Federation code on the scanners
Red lights
Then black
Sandcrawlers push into silence
No trail
No track
Radio fills with static
Then a distant quake
Whole sky bends at the horizon
Like the planet’s spine will break
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear it underfoot now
That ancient
Grinding drum
Every heartbeat counting backwards
To the moment it will come
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Deep Desert
Sacred throat
We’re a whisper in your roar
If this run will be our grave
Make it legend
Nothing more
[growled vocals] It rises / it rises
From a mile below the sand
[full band stops
A cappella gang shout]
ZENLAY!
[Band slams back in
Half-time]
Run
Rider
Run
You can taste its breath
Every grain of spice
Every debt of death
[guitar solo]
[Chorus]
Engines howl at dawn
Sandstorms scrape the sky
Yutani banners
Torn
But held high
[Verse 1]
Slipgate dock on Arrakis
Steel fangs kiss the dust
Manifest carved in our helmets
“Deep Desert or rust”
Spice stains under our eyelids
Burning every breath
Carriers lined like warships
Shaking hands with death
[Chorus]
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Raise your voice
The dunes awaken
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Feel the desert’s hunger taken
Riding out where the maps decay
If the worm is coming
Scream ZENLAY!
ZENLAY! (ZENLAY!)
Shai Hulud is on the way
[Verse 2]
Federation code on the scanners
Red lights
Then black
Sandcrawlers push into silence
No trail
No track
Radio fills with static
Then a distant quake
Whole sky bends at the horizon
Like the planet’s spine will break
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear it underfoot now
That ancient
Grinding drum
Every heartbeat counting backwards
To the moment it will come
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Deep Desert
Sacred throat
We’re a whisper in your roar
If this run will be our grave
Make it legend
Nothing more
[growled vocals] It rises / it rises
From a mile below the sand
[full band stops
A cappella gang shout]
ZENLAY!
[Band slams back in
Half-time]
Run
Rider
Run
You can taste its breath
Every grain of spice
Every debt of death
[guitar solo]
[Chorus]