Nile The Burning Pits of the Duat Lyrics:
[Lyrics by Karl Sanders, Music by Dallas
Toler-Wade]

I Hath Been Immersed Head Down. In that, Which
Floweth In Abundance from the Slaughtered Ones. I
Hath Been Made to Eat Feces and Drink Urine. I Lay
in Chains before the Undying Flames. I am Helpless
in the Presence of He Who is Master of the Pits of
Fire. I am Humbled and Broken in the Presence of
Those Who Shall Consume My Shade in the Pits of
Burning.

[Guitar solo]

I Didst Bow in Homage to the Spawn of Set. I Hath
Kneeled in Homage to the Servants of Shesses. In
Rebellion, I Did Recite the Formulae of Rites in
Glorification of the Lords of Filth. I Hath
Recited the Formulae of Rites in Glorification of
the Lords of Wickedness. He Who Hath Dominion of
Khenti-Amenti Hath Uttered,

"Hack in Pieces and Cut Asunder the Bodies of
Mine Enemies and the Members of the Dead Who Hath
been Turned Upside Down. Scatter in Pieces Their
Shades. They Shall be Cast Down Headlong into the
Pits of Fire. They Shall not Escape nor be able to
Flee From the Flames Which Art in the Serpent
Set-Heh." I burn.

[Guitar solo]

My Heart Desires to Burn in the Pit of Fire. Allow
My Ka to Blaze in Flames and be Utterly Consumed.
I Stand in Submission Before the Living Uraei of
Flame Who Hurls Forth Burning Heat Against The
Tongues of Those Who Hath Spoken Evil. Incinerate
Me in the Pits of Burning. Sear Me in the Pits of
the Damned. Immolate Me in the Pits of Torment. I
Seek only the Charnel Bliss and the Blackened
Caress of the Burning Pits of the Duat.

[Guitar solo]

I Burn. I Burn. I Burn. I Burn in this Tomb of
Fire. I Burn in this Tomb of Fire. I Burn in this
Tomb of Fire. I Burn in this Tomb of Fire.

["The Burning Pits of the Duat" features
further collaboration with Dallas. I worked on the
lyrics and Dallas set the to music. Dallas really
felt that the lyrics and title unquestionably
called for utter underworld socery - riffs so
fast, chopping and iniquitous as to muscally
capture the sensation of being consumed in pits of
fire.

So Dallas went to work, and the infernal riffing
he conjured was so overwhelming in its brutality
and hellish in its technicality that for the rest
of us to play the material correctly required
weeks of intense rehearsal; not only to play the
riffs clean and in time (and to legitimately nail
the tricky changes), but for the drums to maintain
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the overwhelming 256 BPM blasting, constant quick
beat changing and crazy fills.

This was the impossible song at Nile rehearsals -
not only challenging but excruciatingly painful. I
would return home every night with my wrist in so
much pain that I begun to wonder if the song would
end my career. After weeks of work, when we
finally got the song rehearsed to the point of
being able to consistently nail it, I breathed a
thankful sigh of relief. I was reminded of the
time when John McEntree (Incantation guitarist)
toured with Immolation, and spent the whole tour
with his wrists in agony, wearing wrist braces,
because he was unaccustomed to the strain of using
completely differing groups of wrist muscles neded
to play Bob Vigny's unusual riffing style. Dallas
had "Vigny'ized" me. The song is
undeniably deliciously malevolent, yet fun to
play, even if it fucking hurts like a bitch.

Lyrically, the inspiration for this song comes
from the book "Am-Duat (Division XI)",
which shows that after the enemies of Orisis were
beheaded and mutilated, the remains were disposed
of by burning. The body was cut into pieces, the
spirit severed, the shadow driven away, the skull
battered in, and the pieces cast down into a pit,
or pits, of fire. The pictures which accompany the
texts leave no doubt on this point, for in them,
the pits are clearly shown, and we see the bodies,
souls, shadows and heads being consumed. Each pit
is overseen by a fire-vomiting goddess, who
dilligently ensures that the all-consuming flames
are renewed. Each goddess wields a knife, which
was used to stab, cut and hack the body into
"such a way that ye shall never again see
those who are living upon the Earth". The
entire horrible scene is related in detail from
the aforementioned text courtesy of renowned
Egyptologist Sir E. A. Wallis Budge:

"The Majesty of this God uttereth the decree:
Hack in pieces and cut asunder the bodies of mine
enemies and the members of the Dead who have been
turned upside down, O my Father Osiris. My Father
having been helpless hath smitten you, he hath cut
up your bodies, he hath hacked in pieces your
spirits and your souls, and hath scattered in
pieces your shadows, and hath cut in pieces your
heads. Ye shall nevermore exist, ye shall be
overtheown, and ye shall be cast headlong into the
pits of fire, and ye shall not escape therefrom,
and ye shall not be able to flee from the flames
which art in the Serpent Set-Heh. The fire of
Hert-Khettut-S is against you, the flames of
Hert-Hatu-S are against you, the blazing heat of
Hert-Nemmat-S is against you. Het-Sefu-S is
against you, and she stabs at you and hacks you in
pieces, and cuts you up in such a way that ye
shall never again see those who are living upon
the Earth. As for those who are in this picture in
the Tuat, it is for the Majesty of Heru-Tuati who
giveth the order for their slaughter each day.
Those who are in this picture, who are depicted
with the enemies of Osiris of the Duat, and with
Her-Utu-D, who is the guardian of this circle,
live by means of the voice of the enemies, and by
the cries of entreaty of the souls and shadows
which have been placed in their pits of
fire."

I chose to write the lyrics from the doomed
enemy's viewpoint. The character in the lyrics is
not only resigned to his ultimate doom, but
actively years for it - perhaps as a means to a
quicker end to his torment, or maybe just the
finality of glorious culmination of his chosen,
infernal path.]
Lyrics: The Burning Pits of the Duat, Nile [end]