The instrumental piano ending was intentionally written to be an ambigous "answer" and conclusion without the help of vocals.

[Notes:]

• The title was taken from a Blacksploitation film whose movie trailer was featured on rental copies of "Faces of Death". In the early days of the band, the band would often spend most of their weekends together, order pizza, and watch "Faces of Death" after rehearsing.
  
  Both Zadoc and Dark Cloud remembered how unintentionally funny the trailer was and the ominous narrator repeating the title "Brotherhood of Death" throughout it. With their bizarre senses of humor, it seemed fitting to use the same title, despite the song having nothing in common with the plot of the movie, it was still connected to "Faces of Death" in a humorous way.
• The song was written in parts over several years. Zadoc had written the guitar part for the verses around the same time that both "The End of Time" and "No More Goodbyes" were written in late 1992, but despite some early lyrical ideas inspired by the recent death of Dark Cloud's step brother, neither could think of how to finish the song
• Zadoc wrote the ominous piano outro in early 1995 when the band first started to add synthesizers to their sound. However it wouldn't be until a few months later when Dark Cloud's role in the band moved from drums to keyboard that he would write the fast paced keyboard line for the song's intro that everything was tied together.
• The guitar parts for the verses were inspired by Led Zeppelin's "Over the Hills and Far Away" and Pink Floyd's "Mother".
• The ominous middle section was inspired by another local Syracuse area band's sound who called themselves "Sunshine". Sunshine's main songwriter and guitarist, Monster, would join the band several years later.
• A music video was filmed for this song in 1997, but never made it out of the editing stages. Of the scenes that were filmed:
  • Many steeples, churches, and church bells around the Syracuse area. One bell belonging to a church in East Syracuse was actually filmed after Zadoc forcefully pushed it to get it to ring. Due to the late time of day and the loud noise it made the band and the film crew quickly scattered after getting the shot.
  • A face was sculpted out of clay upon a plastic skull, using stop motion filming, it was filmed to appear that the flesh was melting away.
  • Guitarist Kirk Brinley was chosen to play the protagonist of the song primarily due to the fact that he was the most "ordinary" looking guy in the band.
  • In another stop motion shot, Kirk was placed on top of a crude coffin and slowly covered by fake spider webbing.
  • The band went to several funerals and filmed from a safe distance
  • At a cemetery with a freshly dug grave, Zadoc was filmed laying on top of a coffin ready for burial
  • A poker game was filmed with a visible "Dead Man's Hand" held by one of the players.
  • Dark Cloud was filmed in shadows navigating a lengthy sewer pipe tunnel. Several years prior during a brief time he was homeless, he had actually lived in that pipe.
• The song is slated to be rerecorded for the band's forthcoming next album.