"Murdered slowly in minute increments of time / Pissing up a rope / Another moment passes by"

A lyric is worth a thousand words. Lamb of God's 'Choke Sermon' from their 'Wrath' offering sparks some interesting imagery. But how about some backstory?

Imagine the scene: a hapless, carousing fratboy is captured by a masked serial killer with a higher purpose and placed in a situation where our young victim must kill a fellow innocent or be killed in a ridiculously slow and bloody fashion. In his desperate indecision over the textbook Ethics 101 dilemma, he examines one of the various chains and ropes hanging from the shadowy ceiling and thinks to himself, "I really need to pee." And what better way to spend your last living moments than training your urine to defy gravity?

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