archaic

out of date; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Heard in 30 songs (44M+ combined views) — most famously in "The Blister Exists" by Slipknot.

Updated August 12, 2026

Songs Featuring “archaic”

Slipknot - The Blister Exists

Time: 0:50

Bones in the water and dust in my lungs!

Absorbing archaic like a sponge

The ultimate way is the way you control!

Slipknot - The Blister Exists

Clutch - A Quick Death in Texas

Time: 2:33

The piano player stopped playing

In the shadows I could hear Archaic Spanish phrases

The preacher stood up from his table In his right hand he held a bible

Clutch - A  Quick Death in Texas

The 1975 - Antichrist

Time: 3:27

Blood is on your tongue as well as your hands

Archaic and content, you just wash them off

Blood is on your tongue as well as your hands

The 1975 - Antichrist

Lorde - Glory And Gore

Time: 1:08

Delicate in every way but one (the swordplay)

God knows we like archaic kinds of fun (the old ways)

Chance is the only game I play with, baby

Lorde - Glory And Gore

The Blues Brothers - Green Onions

Time: 3:25

Yeah, people, I've got something to say to the State Department.

I say Take that archaic Monroe Doctrine,

And that Marshall Plan that says we're supposed to police force the world, and throw 'em out!

The Blues Brothers - Green Onions

J. Cole - Let Nas Down

Time: 1:47

And dog, you know how come

Labels are archaic, formulaic with their outcomes

They don't know, they just study the charts

J. Cole - Let Nas Down

Meshuggah - Nostrum

Time: 0:59

Artificial, divine

Great archaic obseletum

A prevarication, deceitfully contrived

Meshuggah - Nostrum

In Flames - December Flower

Time: 0:10

Towards the rich archaic heavens

Towards the lack diorama

In Flames - December Flower

Dethklok - Starved

Time: 0:29

Archaic Disgustion

Gourmalic repulsion

Dethklok - Starved

Hatebreed - A.D.

Time: 0:18

Can't justify greed at the cost of equality

Tangled in endless archaic chains of power, profit, gain

What about the poor bearing poverty's mark?

Hatebreed - A.D.

Heaven Shall Burn - Voice of the Voiceless

Time: 3:47

♪

An archaic way of thinking, so monstrous and absurd

♪

Heaven Shall Burn - Voice of the Voiceless

Aborted - Dead Wreckoning

Time: 0:41

Fucking go

Enter the archaic abattoir

Exiled to a pernicious wasteland

Aborted - Dead Wreckoning

Darkest Hour - The Sadist Nation

Time: 0:09

A morbid tradition

Of archaic value systems

Where violence justified

Darkest Hour - The Sadist Nation

Cradle of Filth - Haunted Shores

Time: 4:55

To scheme of my return

Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunders of the

Storm

Cradle of Filth - Haunted Shores

Alanis Morissette - A Man

Time: 2:27

I am a man who still does what he can

To dispel our archaic reputation

I am a man who has heard all he can

Alanis Morissette - A Man

Aesop Rock - Oh Fudge

Time: 0:58

The how is not important, it's the translation that matters

It says, "Beware the flesh in which archaic evils gathers", goddamn

I slosh when I move, mop not a broom, my body ate my shoes

Aesop Rock - Oh Fudge

Kreator - Psychotic Imperator

Time: 1:42

The reddest type of blood will stain the nation's leader

Repeat archaic history of corrupted deceiver

And in the shattered glass, a barbaric aggressor

Kreator - Psychotic Imperator

Malice - By the Grace of God

Time: 2:00

And it ain't over 'til we all say it (yeah)

And you ain't shooting shit, them guns is archaic

In closing, I see I'm chosen, all my pressure points frozen

Malice - By the Grace of God

The Black Dahlia Murder - Great Burning Nullifier

Time: 1:36

In a world that's always changing (changing)

Sanity so quietly is kept resisting archaic tradition

Now pass some down

The Black Dahlia Murder - Great Burning Nullifier

Sofi Tukker - Bread

Time: 0:16

In what you call purity

It's an archaic fallacy

That doesn't belong to me (jo-jo-joga pra mim)

Sofi Tukker - Bread

Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun

Time: 0:10

Living these days is making me nervous

Archaic doctrine no longer serve us

Now we're left as silent witnesses

Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun

Solitude Aeturnus - Destiny Falls to Ruin

Time: 1:38

And destiny falls to ruin

No discourse but archaic filterings

Of black and cryptic signs

Solitude Aeturnus - Destiny Falls to Ruin

Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide

Time: 0:50

The gallery of suicide, internal torment

Archaic carcasses, displayed degeneracy

Once within these walls a life of death will be unleashed

Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide

Carcass - This Mortal Coil

Time: 1:09

A fresh balance of terror, the equilibrium of hate

Archaic nescience unleashed

Entrenched, a bitter legacy

Carcass - This Mortal Coil

Cursive - Retreat!

Time: 2:07

♪

Since you've been away on holiday we've stomached your archaic rule

And since you've been away on holiday we've hosted some wars over you

Cursive - Retreat!

N0V3L - Notice of Foreclosure

Time: 0:54

Like sand between fingers

Archaic anthems obscuring the picture

Analog mediums

N0V3L - Notice of Foreclosure

Napalm Death - Rabid Wolves (For Christ)

Time: 0:32

The very doctrines that perpetuate your cult

Archaic ways that would take the place

Are just an inverted spin on the regimented code

Napalm Death - Rabid Wolves (For Christ)

The Faceless - Hymn of Sanity

Time: 0:55

Free your bodies from the contempt of a soul

Let it die with archaic ideals

The only heaven and hell are the ones you create for yourself here and now

The Faceless - Hymn of Sanity

The HAARP Machine - Machine Over

Time: 1:50

Advances in design will free us

From this archaic obsession

To grow and leave your fellow man below

The HAARP Machine - Machine Over

Armored Saint - Reign of Fire [1989 24-Track Demo]

Time: 0:23

Fantasize exploding hands

Archaic science

Master plan

Armored Saint - Reign of Fire [1989 24-Track Demo]