Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines lyrics
Tracks 01. The Blessed Dead
02. Execration Test 03. Sarcophagus 04. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu 05. Unas Slayer Of The Gods 06. Churning The Maelstrom 07. Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead 08. Wind Of Horus 09. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part I - Hall Of Saurian Entombment 10. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part II - Invocation To Seditious Heresy 11. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part III - Destruction Of The Temple Of The Enemies Of Ra 12. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part IV - Ruins 01. The Blessed Dead
Looked Down Upong With Scorn
We Work the Fields of the Masters And Share Not the Bounty of the Black Earth Destitute Servile Cast Out Affording No Tomb We Shall Be Buried Unprepared in the Sand We Shall Never Be The Blessed Dead Scorned By Asar Condemned at the Weighing of the Heart We are Exiled from the Netherworld Serpents fall Upon us Dragging us Away Ammitt Who Teareth the Wicked to Pieces Pale Shades of the UnBlessed Dead None Shall Enter Without the Knowledge Of the Magickal Formulas Which is Given to Few to Possess Not for Us to Sekhet Aaru Our Souls Will be Cut to Pieces with Sharp Knives Tortured Devoured Consumed in Everlasting Flames We Shall Never Be The Blessed Dead 02. Execration Test
Mut The Dangerous Dead
Trouble me No Longer I Inscribe Thy Name I Threaten Thee With The Second Death I Kill Thy Name And Thus I Kill Thee Again In The Afterlife Bau Terror of the Living Angry Spirits of the Condemned Dead I Write thy Name I Burn Thy Name In Flames I Kill Thy Name And Thus Thee Are Accursed Even Unto The Underworld Mut The Troublesome Dead Plague Me No Longer Thou Art Cursed Thy Name Is Crushed Thine Clay is Smashed And Broken Thy Vengeance Against The Living Shall Come to Naught 03. Sarcophagus
Who Dares Disturb
My Blissful Sleep Again in Anger Must I Rise How Long Unknown I Lay Entombed My World So Long Forgotten Did Disown Me Usurper I was Scorned Ah The Suffering They did Inflict Stained With Cosmic Black Sins The Sun No Longer Sets Me Free 04. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu
Kheftin Asar Butbiu
Enemies of Osiris Who Are To Be Burned Let There Be Fetters on Your Arms Let There Be Shackles on Your Necks Let There Be Chains Upon You Ye Shall Be Hacked to Pieces For What Ye Have Done To Osiris You Have Put His Mysteries Behind Your Backs You Hath Dragged the Statue of the God From The Secret Place You Hath Desecrated The Hidden Things of the Great One You Are Doomed To Stand And Receive in Your Faces The Fire Which Serpent Khetti Is About To Spit At You Khetti Great Serpent Who Lieth In Undulations Before the Damned Khetti Open Thy Mouth Distend Thy Jaws Belch Forth Thy Flames Against My Fathers Enemies Burn Up Their Bodies Consume their Souls By the Fire Which Issueth From Thy Mouth And By The Flames Which Art In Thy Body The Fire Which Is in the Serpent Khetti Shall Come Forth And Blaze Against The Enemies of Osiris Whosoever Knoweth How to Use These Words of Power Against the Serpent Shall Be As One Who Doth Not Enter Upon His Fiery Path 05. Unas Slayer Of The Gods
Poureth Down Water From the Heavens
Tremble the Stars Quake the Bones of Aker Those Beneath Take Flight When They See Unas Rising The Akh of Unas Is Behind Him The Conquerer Are Beneath His Feet His Gods Are In Him His Uraei Are on His Brow The Words of Unas Protect Him Unas This Bull of The Heavens ThatTrusteth With His Will Living On Utterances of Fire From The Lake Of Flame Unas That Devoureth Men and Liveth on The Gods Behold Amkebu Hath Snared Them for Unas Behold Tecber Tep F Hath Known Them and Driven Them Unto Unas Behold Her Tbertu Hath Bound Them Behold Khensu The Slaughterer of Lords Hath Cut Their Throats for Unas Behold Shesemu Hath Cut Them Up For Unas Unas Hath Ingested Their Spirits Hath Feasted On Their Immortality He Hath Consumed their Shadows Unas The Slayer of the Gods Unas The Sekhem Great The Sekhem of the Sekhemn Unas The Ashem Great The Ashem of the Ashemn Behold Orion Unas Riseth Unas Hath Taken Possession of the Hearts of the Gods Unas Feedeth on their Entrails He Hath gorged on their Unuttered Sacred Words He Hath Assimilated the Wisdom of the Gods His Existence is Everlasting Behold The Souls of the Gods are in Unas Their Spirits are In Unas The Flame of Unas in Their Bones Their Shadows are With their Forms Unas is Rising Hidden Hidden 06. Churning The Maelstrom
Am the Uncreated God
Before Me The Dwellers in Chaos are Dogs Their Masters Merely Wolves I Gather The Power From Every Place From Every Person Faster Than Light Itself Hail To He Who Is In The Duat Who Is Strong Even Before The Servants of Serpents He Gathers The Power From Every Pit of Torment From They Who Hath Burnt in Flames From Words of Power Uttered By the Darkness Itself Hail To He in The Pit Who Is Strong Even Before the Terrors of The Abyss Who Gathers The Power From The Wailing And Lamentations Of The Shades Chained Therein From He Who Createth Gods From The Silence Alone 07. Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead
Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead
And My Words of Power are Heard in the Underworld The Dead They are Compelled to Obey Me Even Unto the Worlds Below Yea I Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead An they Heed my Necromantic Demands For I have Bound Them Inexorably Cursed in this Life and the Next I Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead And They Tell me Things No Living Man Knoweth For I Have Taken Possession of their Shadows And They re Mine To Command in the Netherworld I Dream of the Dead And Their Shades Showeth Me Visions Which No Living Man Can Know I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead And Mine is the UnWritten Knowledge That Lieth Under The Black Earth To Speak The Name of The Dead Is To Cause Them to Live Again 08. Wind Of Horus
Ashu Give us Power
To Oppose this Legion of Shrikes They hath Defiled our Monuments and Graves For their Greed of Treasure Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn We Are the Breath of Horns Hot as the Desert Wind We are Slayers and Reapers of Men By the Arrow Shot from Lanata You will Fall to your Knees Dead or Begging Quarter Torn to Shreds by Obese Vultures Fossilized in the Desert Sand We are the Breath of Horns Hot as the Desert Wind We are the Slayers and Reapears of Men You will Never Escape This Valley Gallala Left to Decompose Forbidden the Underworld Bemused by Battle Lust I Gash your Throat And Splatter your Blood Upon the Altar of Bes We Erect one hundred Pyramids With your Severed Heads Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn 09. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part I - Hall Of Saurian Entombment
Through Subterranean Labyrinths of Catacombs
We Hath Crawled To Gather in this Dimly Lit Hall Of Colossal Proportion Which Few Ever See Along Black Walls Rise Tier after Tier of Carven Painted Sacrophagi Each Standing in a Niche in the Stone The Mounted Tiers Rising Up To Be Lost in the Gloom Above Thousands of Carven Masks Stare Down Upon Us We Who are Rendered Futile and Insignificant By This Vast Array of the Dead 10. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part II - Invocation To Seditious Heresy
And Here I Stand
I who would be master of the Black Earth Have summoned you here secretly You who are faithful to me To share in the Black Kingdom that shall nr Tonight we shall witness The breaking of the chains which Enslave us And the birth of a Dark Empire Who am I to know what powers lurk and and Dream in these murky Tombs They hold secrets forgotten for three thousand years But I shall Learn They shall teach me See how they sleep staring through their Carven Masks Priests Monks Acolytes Kheri Heb Rekbi Khet The Mummified Remains of the Sacrificial Whores of The Cannibalistic Serpent Cult s of Thirty Centuries With Black Incantation and Foul Necromantic Art Propitiated with the Blood of the Living We will waken them from their long Slumber The Ancients knew Nay Commanded the Words of Power And shall teach them to Me I shall restore them to Life To Labour for my own Dark Imperial Desires I will Waken Them Will Rouse Them Will learn their forgotten Wisdom The knowledge locked in those withered Skulls By the Lore of The Dead We shall Enslave the Living Pharaohs and Priests long Forgotten Shall be our Warriors and Slaves Who will Dare to Oppose Us Out of the Dust shall Avaris Rise 11. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part III - Destruction Of The Temple Of The Enemies Of Ra
Foul Enemies of Ra who have Rebelled
Malicious Fiends Spawn of Inertness Impotent Rebels Nameless Filth For whom Blazing Pits of Fire have been prepared By the Command of Ra Down Upon your Faces You are overthrown Your Skulls are Crushed in You are Destroyed Annihilated Gashed with Flints Your Windpipes Cut The Joints of your Backs are Rent Apart The Fire of the Eye of Horus is Upon You Searching You Consuming You Setting you on Fire Burning you To Ashes Unemi The Devouring Flame Consumes You Sekhmet The Blasting Immolation of the Desert Maketh an End of You Xul ur Adjugeth you to Destruction Flame Fire Conflagration Pulverize You Your Souls Shades Bodies and Lives Shall Never Rise Up Again Your Heads Shall Never Rejoin your Bodies Even The Words of Power Of The God Thoth The Lord of Spells Shall Never Enable you to Rise Again 12. In Their Darkened Shrines - Part IV - Ruins
I knew they were Accursed
so remote were these nameless desert ruins Crumbling and inarticulate the debris of its collapsed walls was Nearly hidden by the sands of the uncounted ages It must have been thus before the first stones of Memphis were laid And the bricks of Babylon unbaked Fear spoke from the age worn stones This desolate survivor of the Deluge This crumbling antidiluvial ancestor Of the Eldest Pyramid Only the grim brooding desert Gods Knew what really took place here What indescribable struggles and bloodshed Awoke some distant throng of condemned spirits And broke the tomblike silence of these crumbled Time ravaged remains these night black ruins Of some vanguished and buried Temple of Belial But as the Night wind diad away Above the desert rim rose the Blazing edge of the morning sun Which in my fevered state I swore that from some remote depth there came a Great crash of metal Like a great Bronze gate Clanging shut whose reverberations swelled out To hail the rising Sun as Memnon hails in From the banks of the Nile |