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!