Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

1. Smashing the Antiu                             2'18
2. Barra Edinazzu                                    2'47
3. Kudurru Maqlu                                    1'05
4. Serpent Headed Mask                          2'18
5. Ramses Bringer of War                        4'45
6. Stones of Sorrow                                4'17
7. Die Rache Krieg Lied der Assyriche       3'13
8. The Howling of the Jinn                       2'34
9. Pestilence and Iniquity                         1'54
10. Opening of the Mouth                        3'39
11. Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand         4'17

Nile Are:
Karl Sanders: Guitars & Vocals
Chief Spires: Bass & Vocals
Pete Hammoura: Drums & Vocals

Additional Musicians & Instrumentation:
Xtra vocals for "Die Rache" by Mudflap & Penga Grande
Choir chants by the Gyuto Drukpa Tibetan Monks led by the Khamtul Incarnation of      Lobsang Kampa.
Damaru human skull drums performed by Mahala Kapala
Thigh bone flutes & Turkish gongs played by Drilbu Dungkar
Dumbecks played by Pete Hammoura

Executive Producers:
Matthew F. Jacobson & William J. Yurkiewicz, Jr.

Produced By:
Nile, Bob Moore & Earl Sanders

Recorded At:
The Sound Lab; Columbia, SC

Engineered By:
Bob Moore

Cover Image & Graphics:
Adam Peterson

All songs published by Release Relapse Music (BMI) and administered by Pubco. Lyrics used by permission.

Evil Thanx From Nile To:
Alice (u rule baby!), Mom & Dad Spires, Tommy, Papa, Bob & Irene, Karl Sanders, Ronda Lee, Kelsea Rain, Erika Rose, Dave (let's make a movie) & the rest of the Hammoura family, Doug & Emily, Flap, Brian, Tony, Tapeworm (4 your sick hands), G-Man & Family, Sandra, Allison, Paul (webmaster) Trunick, Dean (Rev. Bud Green), Mr. Crowley (4 protecting our evil dwelling), The never complaining neighbours, Mitch Chaddock, James Floyd, Tau & Brillo, Master Duane Bates, Charlie at Wavecenter, Prof. Randolph Carter, Scott Wilson, Glen & Aaron, the makers of dumbeks, all our on-line friends, the old country (your blood is our blood), Shon "Quest" Craig, Kevin Morris, Ludo @ Evil Omen Records.

A big hello to our new guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade (welcome to the catacombs).

Special Thanx to:
The Great Ramses, Craig Rowe, Earl Sanders, Bob (Die Rache) Moore, Matt and the excellent staff at Relapse Records, the zines, radio stations and fans who have supported us (this is just the beginning!).

Nile: P.O. Box 6062, Greenville, SC 29606-6062
E-mail: phammoura@juno.com & RSanders@sprintmail.com
Website: http://members.aol.com/nile666

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Smashing the Antiu

Burning of the Defeated
Dragging the Fettered Rebels
To the Block of Slaughter

Decapitated Headless
Naked and Bound
Captives Adorn My Shield

Arms Tied Behind Their Backs
Lying Bound in Agony
Fiends Hold Them with Ropes
Awaiting Beheadment and Mutilation

With Contempt for the Vanquished
We Exterminate the Dwellers
Of the Eastern Desert

Amenhiu!
They Are Doomed to Slaughter

We Stab Thir Bodies with Daggers
We Smash Their Skulls with Clubs
We Crush Their Bones
And Gash Their Faces
Their Necks are Broken and Severed
Their Bowels are Gored with Spears
Yeah! We Hack Off Their Limbs
And Cast the Phalluses
Into Pits of Fire

Smashing the Antiu

Barra Edinazzu

Zi Anna Kanpa
Zi Kia Kanpa

Gallu Barra
Namtar Barra
Ashak Barra
Gigim Barra
Alal Barra
Telal Barra
Masquim Barra
Utukku Barra

Idpa Barra
Lalartu Barra
Lalassu Barra
Akhkharu Barra
Kielgalal Barra
Urukku Barra
Lilitu Barra

Utuq Xul Edinazzu
Alla Xul Edinazzu
Gigim Xul Edinazzu
Mulla Xul Edinazzu
Dinger Xul Edinazzu
Masquim Xul Edinazzu
Barra Edinazzu

Zi Anna Kanpa
Zi Kia Kanpa

Serpent Headed Mask

Aa-herit Nebu Huit-Ra
We Come Before Thee
Wearing Serpent Headed Masks
In Sanguinary Worship
We Offer the Tcheser-t Senfiu
The Sacrificial Drink of the Gods of Blood
In a Goblet Carved from a Human Skull

Aa-t-aru
Fiendish Blood Drinking Reptile
Lord of the Ankhit-Thekh
Rites of Bloodfeast
We Propitiate Thee With Our Own
Fluid of Life and the Freely Offered Flesh
Of these Ritual Prostitutes
That Thou Mayest Copulate with Thine Self
And Spill Thy Seed upon the Black Earth

Aui-f-em-kha-nef Netri nek khefa
We Don the Abui Ames Machta
The Ceremonial Two Horned Phallus
To Become as Like Unto
The Two Horned Serpent God Sekhui
We Besmear Ourselves with the Bloodseed
Of the Living Serpent Goddes Arati
And with Curved Daggers Shed Our Skin

Ramses Bringer of War

Wretched Fallen One of Khatti
Rise Against the Opressing Sword
Encircled Abandoned Alone
I Smite the Vile Hittite Foe

My Father Amon what Carest Thee
For the Vile and Ignorant of God
My Father Amon What Carest Thee
For These Effeminate Ones
At Millions of Whom I Groweth Not Pale

Raging Like Menthu Like Baal in His Hour
Lo the Mighty Sekhmet Is With Me
I Enter In Among Them Even as a Hawk Striketh
I Slay I Hew to Pieces and Cast to the Ground
The Royal Snake Upon My Brow
Spits Forth Fire in the Face of Mine Enemies
And Burneth Their Limbs

My Chariot Wheels Trample the Fallen
Cut to Pieces Before My Steeds
And Laying In Their Own Blood
I Crush the Skulls of the Dying
And Sever the Hands of the Slain
I Ramses, Builder of Temples
Usurper of Monuments Slayer of Hittites
Bringer of War

Stones of Sorrow

Slaves Whipped to Death
In the Hot Sun
Drag the Stones of Sorrow

Vast Monolithic a Colossus of Stone
Greased with the Blood of Abraham

Of Human Bondage and Suffering
We Carve a Monument to Megalomania

Bleak and Endless is my Sorrow
For the Chain of Sut Is Around My Neck

Aperu Heseb Semedet!
It Is I Who Lift Up the Arm of the Inert
I Have Gone Out of Khemenu
And Am No Longer a Living Soul
I Have Been Initiated
Into the Hearts of the Baboons
And I Claim Dominion Over
The Legions of Uninscribed Shabitiu
Khunumu Khufu!
The God Khnum Is My Protector

Ushabti, Tekenu, Ushabti

Die Rache Krieg Lied der Assyriche

Ia Namtaru
Ia Lammia
Ia Asaku
Ia Pazuzu

Ia Zixul zi Azkak
Ia Gula zi Pazu
Alal Uggae Utukku Xul
Ia Ia Pazuzu

Ia Ningursu Ia Ia Umduggu
Shemti Shebui Nehenkau
Addu Nergal Arrallu

Nergal Dread God of War and Plague
Avenge the Shades of Our Fallen Ones
Blacken the Sun with Fierce Winds
Bring Forth Your Terrible Storms!
Yea! Burn the Flesh of Our Enemies
Gash Their Throats with Weapons of Iron
Destroy Them Utterly
With Locusts and Disease

The Howling of the Jinn

Nafs I Ammara
Fana Azif
I Am the Infidel

Fiendish Insects Encircle Me
Howling Wind Wraiths
Surround My Disembodied Ka

Dulcarnon
Hideous Unseen
Speaking in Tongues
Heard Only by the Mad

Shrieking Insects
Swarm Over Me
Suffocate Me
Suffocate My Soul

Majnun I Am Empty
Crawling Reptiles Devour My Soul
They Utterly and Completely
Annihilate Me
I Can Hear the Howling of the Jinn
Echoing in the Mountains of Kaf

Pestilence and Iniquity

Heralds of Pestilence
Blacketh Plague Rusheth
Through the Land
Burning Evil Winds
Carry Sickness
Invoking the Bitter Venom of the Gods

Loathsome Sickening Stench of the Defiled
A Cesspool Breeding the Unclean
Hordes of Locusts
Fiends of the South Winds
Cleanse the Earth from the Impure

The Daemon
That Seizeth the Body
The Daemon
That Rendeth the Body

Ruthless and Profane
Lord of All Fevers and Plagues
Grinning Dark Angel of the Four Wings
Spawn of Eng
Horned God with Rotting Genitalia
Pazuzu

Opening of the Mouth

I Split Open Your Eyes for You
I Open Your Mouth for You
With the Adze of Iron
Which Split Open the Mouths of the Gods
The Iron Which Issueth from Set

With the Adze of Iron
I did Clean your Bones
With Iron Hook and Chisel
I did Scrape Your Flesh
And Separate Your Bones for You

Sebau Fiends Work Evil
On the Body

Raise Yourself Asari
Receive Your Head
Collect Your Bones
Gather Your Limbs Together
Throw Off the Earth from Your Flesh
Khnemet-Ur Cometh to Thee

With the Iron of Set
I Hath Violated Thee
With this Phallus of Iron
I Hath Comitted Sodomy Upon Thee
And Forced Upon Thee My Seed

Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand

In the Cosmos There is Balm as Well as Bitterness
And that Balm is Nepenthe

Yet Underneath Endless Oceans of Sand
I Have Not Forgotten
Those Who Had Betrayed Me
Silent and Unmovable

I Am Not Sorry
For I Had Hated the Light

Now I Ride With the Undead
Across the Night-Sky
And Play By Day
Amongst the Catacombs
of Nephren-Ka

In the Sealed and Unknown
Valley of Hadoth by the Nile

I Know that Light is Not for Me
Save that of the Moon
Over the Rock Tombs of Neb
Not Any Debauchery Save
The Unknown Feasts of Nitokris
Beneath the Great Pyramid

But in the Loneliness of Entombment
I Welcome the Bitterness of Alienage