Obsidian Gate
Whom the Fire Obeys
1. March of Sethian Legions (Introduction)
2. Jackal-Headed Devourer
Dreaded shadow of the land beyond the river
Of dust and sand and of the waterless infertility
Where woe and emptiness are guest of him
Who is both human and chakal, god and beast in one
He who judges mercilessly and cruel any man's departed soul
Anubis, Anubis, what fault rests on my shoulders
That your wrath now comes upon me?
Anubis, Anubis have mercy!
O Jackal-Headed Devourer!
You deny my mouth to open
The storming sands emit armies of locusts
Feeding on my hair, skin and flesh
And the risen dead mock at me
Stung by scorpions and maimed into shreds by rabid canine beasts
The anguish is overwhelming
For the weight of my heart is heavier than the granite
Of the monuments I have erected
O Jackal-Headed Devourer - You deny my mouth to open and speak...
Solo: Zeitz
You deny my mouth to open
In death I will become mere void
The blood I spill is twice the ocean of blood
Which I have poured from my numberless enemies
Son of Ra, Judge of the fallen,
Who casts my soul into the fiery maw of Ammit
You deny my mouth to open
That I might writhe in my sin
You deny me from all bliss
3. Khnemu Her-Shef
Khnemu Neheb!
Khnemu Neheb!
From the spring of creation he did rise
He who expelled what was god, man and thing
And the pillars of the world
Thus he swirled in creation made to worship
From the cradle of time he came from the waters
And the heights and the Tuat
One of my being is the sun
One of my being is the moon
"I am the one who is Creator
I am he who did create himself
I am the primeval watery abyss"
From the water born, Ram of Qebh
Ever-streaming yet ever-growing
Spring of the fathers of fathers
Of all that is and shall be
One Ra, Shu, Qebh, Osiris
"And I am the Nile who riseth at his will
Give health for me to those who toil
I, the almighty, the father of the Gods"
From the spring of creation he did rise
He who expelled what was god, man and thing
And the beasts who seek prey
Thus he swirled in creation made to worship
From the cradle of time he came from the waters
He is the sun forged as man
Blessed be him who is of all fire
Khnemu Neheb!
Khnemu Neheb!
Khnemu Neheb!
Khnemu Her-Shef!
4. Plagues upon Them!
Behold, condemned ones
See, the sky becomes like tinted in sludge
And all water turned into blood
And the wind chants a hymn of death
Ruin, disease and decay
The land becomes flesh
By the crawling ones risen from rivers
Vermin feeds on the mortals
Famine and death ooze from a putrid breeze
Foul stench
Of the cadavers which litter the grounds,
Numberless in quantity
And the drums of war are beaten relentlessly
Plagues upon them!
Plagues upon them!
And all the cattle blisters and suffocates in purulence
Who eats from its flesh dies devoured from inside
Behold, woe has now come unto those who insulted the gods
Hailstorms smite the lands
Like skyforged cudgels, pounding and shattering the skulls of the damned
Pitchblack darkness crawls from beyond
To bury the carnage under its all-drowning, smouldering mass
A final breath
From your firstborn before they decease
In deep desolate silence
Lies the palace of a regent now rotting
Mass graves within the sands
All the traces of life remain buried
Punishment, ultimate endtime
Death takes his harvest a thousandfold
The gods have been speaking,
Alas the mortals did not hear
Who is not willing to hear must feel
The plagues upon them
5. Sekhmet, the Wrathful
Untamed, wrathful goddess, avenger of wrongs
Thou fearful deity who is
Worshipped by the warlords and kings
Scarlet lady, lion goddess
Bloodcraving, furious one
May thy flaming arrows strike my myriad enemies
Spirit of doom, embodified in all annihilations
Wrath of the sun, who dries out the cadavers of the slain
Sekhmet, the wrathful, assaults the living!
The presence of death, rampage
And completer ruin is
Balm for thy ever-raging heart
Thy breath exhaled
Among the countless warfields is
The churning wind that made the desert boil the legions of the foe
We, who have hacked off the limbs
And skulls of a countless enemies
We piled the corpses up high to send thee praise
Yet thy bloodlust is never to be quelled
Thou will rage and slay
Until humanity is eradicated
Excessive slaughter until the end of all human life
Cruelties beyond any cruelty one could conceive
Are what made thee longing
For even more bloodshed
The inventory of death will never be unsupplied
Sekhmet, the wrathful, assaults the living!
And thy temple is filled
With the whisperings of thy name
Amongst thy one-hundred statues
Painted with blood
Cast plagues upon the ones
Who try to defile this place
Where you may be worshipped
Besides the tomb of Amenhotep
We, who have shed the bowels
Of those whom we have conquered
We piled their skulls up high to send thee praise
Yet thy bloodlust is never to be quelled
Thou will rage and slay
Until humanity is eradicated
6. The Vengeance of Thoth
Nefer-Ka-Ptah
O fool, your greed for wisdom
Is without boundaries
Whenst in the temple
Those scriptures made thee forget
To worship the everlasting gods
For thy urge
To possess the Book of Thoth
Which contains all the magick in this world
Yet so secretly hidden,
Unreachable for tresspassers
So festering with greed within thy heart
Open thou the Book and read the sacret text
And become enchanted with their magick
Behold the sun and the shapes of the gods themselves
Invincible you are and the powers are with you
The seed of thy pain - the vengeance of Thoth
An eye for an eye
Betrayer of gods, face the vengeance of Thoth
Thou must repent in the torments
Come, harvest thy pain - the vengeance of Thoth
An eye for an eye
Betrayer of gods, face the vengeance of Thoth
Thou must repent!
Guarded by the great snake
And all manner of crawling abomination
The book yet resides in golden vest
O Nefer-Ka-Ptah
Cry magickal words at the beasts
And the crawlers shalt become still
When Thoth discovered the theft, he raged in tameless fury
So he stepped up unto the majesty of Ra:
"Avenge me, O Ra, upon Nefer-Ka-Ptah
That he may taste my wrath."
And Ra allowed Thoth to slay the thief
And cast him down into the underworld
Where the fires will whiplash him
And Apep may devour his soul
1st solo: Boms
2nd solo: Zeitz
7. Entomb Me Beneath the Glare of Aton
One shadow descending
From the bottomless underworld
Cold churning maw devours me
Death takes me towards the depth
Towards pits of fire in which I must be cleansed
Into the gorge of the reptile
Whose hunger I must still
Towards the judgement
Where my heart is utterly weightened
Embalmed for Eternity
I Will rest in a chest of gold
Defeating the deterioration of the flesh
Alas, my soul is facing the most horrid torments
Lay me to rest under the stones of my temple
That I may pass judgement in the flames of the fire
Claning my soul
Entomb me beneath the glare of Aton
O father of gods, guide me to bliss
When the shadow is gone
Infinitely, I shall be unharmed
Amongst the numberless dead roaming with hate
One shadow descending
My flesh is mummified
The desert sands have pounded against my coffin...
Endlessly
Time consumes the monument called I
Lay me to rest under the stones of my temple
That I may pass judgement in the flames of the fire
Claning my soul
Entomb me beneath the glare of Aton
O father of gods, guide me to bliss
When the shadow is finally gone
8. Becoming Iblis
Djinn of the desert
One with dust and glowing sun
A cursed phantasm lurking
A serpent's rattle from beyond the sands
Iblis, guard of the gate
Warden of paradise
A flame of purest will
Disobedience wcame with his name
And the time was nigh
When god crafted Adam
The angels submitted without own will
And the desert trembled
When Iblis defied:
"I am superior, I am of fire, not of clay like him!"
This, the fall of the Iblis
Hidden in flame until judgement day
Shaytan incarnate
Hidden in flame, foul whisperer
Djinn of the desert, devil of the sands
His spirit infests the minds with spite
And the hearts will crave for blood
Whisperer, who burneth the houses of the faithful
Your curse is made of flame
Whisperer, who turned earth into abattoir
Your curse is made of flame
And smoke rose from every house
And red rivers flew countless
Envy and wrath possessed the hearts
Of those who followed Adam
Until the day of judgement
Damned to slaughter, piles of dead,
Mountains of skulls
Becoming Iblis
The curse of man
Whisperer, who is everlasting disobedience
The gods despise your being
Shadow of the shadows
Particle of the genius
Scorpions tail and snakes venom
Grim voice within our shells
Reborn, never dying
The wind is your voice
Silence never! For this is the voice of the path we walk
Djinn of the desert
One with dust and glowing sun
A cursed phantasm lurking
A serpent's rattle from beyond the sands
Becoming Iblis
The curse of man
9. Feed Him to the Desert
Searing glare
The solar disc casts its wrath
Upon your woeful, smitten limbs
Vultures of the desert
Circle above your cage
Wherein you languish in your own feces
Judgement creeps upon you
Your sickening fate which the gods have given
Agonized in scaphism rite
For you must repent by the most vile tortures
They have sliced your sinews
That thou might never escape from your end
They flayed your skin, boiled your legs
That the desert insects may feed on your wounds
You must burn, in sandswept pain
For Atum-Ra!
Lengthening your caustic death
For which you are fed to the desert...
The sun is boiling you
In this chest besmeared with thy shame
Descending shadow of death
Takes your soul on his blackened wings
In the Duat your horrid fate awaits
Therein your sins burn alight
And your soul will be shattered
Numberless crawlers, flying disgrace
Hatch their breed within you wounds
Festering alive
Under Ra's devouring eye
You are fed to the desert to nourish the sands
You must burn, in sandswept pain
For Atum-Ra!
10. Discarnated in Fevers
Serket, O Serket-Hetyt
Serket, O venomous
Serket, O Serket-Hetyt
Serket, O Scorpius' tail
Serket, call back thy eight-legged legion
For their weapons shall point unto me no longer
And may end the piercing of my flesh
Serket, O Serket-Hetyt
Serket, O venomous
Serket, O Serket-Hetyt
Serket, thy poison churns
Deep within my veins, I am drowned in fire
My eyes start to spin in circles
And my breath is taken from my drying lips
Suffocating me from beyond my flesh
The gods have seen my unrighteous deeds
And the blistering, fierce hatred within
The gods have condemned my unrighteous deeds
And the abyss of my festering heart
They cast the sting of Serket upon me
In numberless times
That I may engulf in the flames
Of most brilliant, pure anguish
My soul shall be utterly consumed
By invertebrate in the bottomless depths
Being prey for the soulless
Then discarnated in fevers
Deep within my veins broods deterioration
In the process of redemption, sinnery drools
And my vouce is taken from my drying lips
That I might never again speak in heresy
Serket, O vigorous
Serket, O Serket-Hetyt
Serket, O Scorpius' Tail
Serket, call back thy eight-legged legion
For their weapons shall point unto me no longer
The squirming abyss, grey and cold, pulsating
It pulls me deeper, devouring me, digesting me
Obliviation
I become void, eradicated from all being
In fevering dissolution I am utterly condemned
Disintegration
Obliterate, Incinerate, Disintegrate me
Discarnated in fevers
11. Whom the Fire Obeys
Rise from the dead,
Rise from the underworld,
Rise from the condemned
Rise from the chasms of flame.
He, who was cast out
And sentenced to eternal pain
Whose limbs were severed
And buried in many temples across the land,
His oath, his curse
Awakened by the ancient chants
Ptah-Seker-Ausar - blind thou art
In this darkness of death
Ari enti-s qeman unenet
Sa xeperu tef tefu ma ma!
Thy eyes have been blinded
The flaming curse awake
His armies gather on the Ta Dehent
An undead legion of chakal fiends
To burn the temples and slaughter and burn
He, who was condemned and erased from all being
Whose name was sealed with the spell of unmaking
His limbs were gathered
And welded together by unholy flame
By those who dwelled
In the shadow of the ostracized
Xaa em, Nefer-Tmu en sessen
Er sert Ra, er sert Ra!
And the bloodshed will be enormous
For the dead will outnumber the living
Whom the fire obeys
Holds the power superior
Whom the fire obeys
Inverses Tuat and earth
Seset-tu em, setau an rex-tu
Bu etuf an qem tephet anu!
He who was unmade, now reborn as the scourging flame
Veiled in all the evil he absorbed in life and death
His sword a strike to the gods, helpless they remain
All life falls prey for him whom the fire obeys
Ap-f em xenen-f em xeper
Em nest sut am uaa-k Ra!
Kneel to your new god - or remain incinerated
The desert is molten and black
And the beast give praise to him
Whom the fire obeys!
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