I have come to think that this track is based off of Dante's Inferno. I know nothing about if Trent was inspired by it or not. What sways me is the song title: Pilgrimage. If you have read the Inferno you will know that the narrators quest is referred to as a pilgrimage and that he is sometimes referred to as a pilgrim. The song makes a lot of sense when viewed in this light. Imagine it as a chaotic descent into the bowls of Hell with all the souls and demons imprisoned there shrieking out their torment at once.
Significantly, at the end of the song we hear three seperate screams. At the center of Dante's Inferno Lucifer sits weeping in a frozen lake of ice forever chewing the souls of Brutus, Judas and Cassius. After which we here a gradual increase in tempo as the narrator and his companion Virgil near The fallen one, for in order to leave Inferno they must scale the body of the beast itself. The music of Hell gradually fades to an echoeing drumbeat as they leave.
I have come to think that this track is based off of Dante's Inferno. I know nothing about if Trent was inspired by it or not. What sways me is the song title: Pilgrimage. If you have read the Inferno you will know that the narrators quest is referred to as a pilgrimage and that he is sometimes referred to as a pilgrim. The song makes a lot of sense when viewed in this light. Imagine it as a chaotic descent into the bowls of Hell with all the souls and demons imprisoned there shrieking out their torment at once. Significantly, at the end of the song we hear three seperate screams. At the center of Dante's Inferno Lucifer sits weeping in a frozen lake of ice forever chewing the souls of Brutus, Judas and Cassius. After which we here a gradual increase in tempo as the narrator and his companion Virgil near The fallen one, for in order to leave Inferno they must scale the body of the beast itself. The music of Hell gradually fades to an echoeing drumbeat as they leave.