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| length = 3:31
| BPM = 80
| versions = Pilgrimage<br>Pilgrimage (AltAlternate Version)
| live = [[With Teeth Spring Arena Tour]]<br>[[Performance 2007]]
}}'''"Pilgrimage"''' is the ninth track on the Left disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It is an instrumental track in a 3/4 time signature.
The "Buddha Boys Choir", credited for background chants on this track, was actually (with the exception of [[Keith Hillebrandt]], [[Clint Mansell]] and Steve Duda) a random group of bar patrons who were brought in from Igor's Buddha Belly across the street from [[Nothing Studios]].[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=788]
==Recording==
The end of the song features an entirely synthetic marching band arrangement. Its creation was revealed in an interview with Rolling Stone:[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart78.shtml]
<blockquote>"It shouldn't have taken place," Reznor says sheepishly. "The track was done. But at the end, I said, 'That's such a bizarre theme. What would it sound like played by a marching band going down the street?' A week later" - he nods in the direction of one of the studio's king-size Macintosh computers - "there's a band marching through the song. It's all on synthesizer." New Orleans, of course, is a city full of marching bands. "It would have been easier to get a band than it was to do it the way I did," Reznor admits, grinning.</blockquote>
==Song Credits==
On the vinyl version, the song does not fade in at the start, rather beginning with the guitar riff and building at its natural mix volume.
===Pilgrimage (AltAlternate Version)==='''''Running Time: 3:04''''' Released exclusively through on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1''. Also known as "Pilgrimage" (Alt) when it was originally released on Apple Music as part of ''The Fragile Instrumental'', this . This is a very different mix, though the arrangement is very close to the album version. Its intro, like the vinyl version, does not fade in.
==Live==
"Pilgrimage" has been used live as an introduction song tape on the [[With Teeth Summer Amphitheater Tour]] and the [[Performance 2007]] tour. ==External Links==*[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart78.shtml ''Rolling Stone'' article detailing the creation of the end of the track]
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