Discover the story of the song > World Painted Blood – Slayer

The song describes a world where disease, fear, and genocide have become the norm, leading to the end of civilization as we know it. The protagonist warns of a coming storm and a godless society where man has gone insane. The chorus repeats the phrase "world painted blood" as a metaphor for the violent and destructive state of the world with no safe haven. The final lines suggest that the signs of death are all around us.