The stories behind The Fire Serpent

• Crushing Industrial Grooves and Guttural Force in Take B — Take B hammers home the mechanical ferocity of radiation therapy with distorted synths, double-kick blasts, and death metal growls.
• Submillimeter Calibration Inside the Radiation Vault — The Fire Serpent explores the staggering physics and meticulous servicing of linear accelerators in modern oncology.

Lyrics

Ten feet of stone,

three tons of lead,

the fire, serpent, the

slates and the dark.

I enter the titanium hall

The serpent coils within the steel

A million bolts of wrath made real

The beast would burn both bone and skin

Unless we chain its rage within I set the jaws, I tune the beam

Calibrating the dragon's clave

Focus the fury, sharpen the eye

The shadow within, the flesh must die

Some millimeters, a warrior's mark

A sliver of sun to pierce the dark

Beast of light

Obey my will

Strike the heart

Oh, oh,

The deal is nice

The deal is nice

The deal is nice

The beam ignites invisible pure

A weapon to cleanse, a fire to cure

It cuts the cancer from the womb

Leaving no mark inside the room

The mother rises, the curse is slain

Without a drop of spilled blood from her vein

We lock the serpent inside the cage

And turn to healing its deadly rage

We walk where common men fear to tread

Between the living and the dead

Wrestling monsters made of light

To give our people better night

Slap our baby, kill the affliction

Be Norman, fight the serpent

Lee, Lee, Lee -tion

Radiation Verified

The dragon has served its master