All about Nile

YAY DRUM TRIGGERS

some deathers really hate Nile. I get that they're not really in the highest echelon of DM but the "they always make the same album" criticism seems particularly weird in a genre whose fans routinely put albums by aging DM acts who merely stay in their lane in their annual top ten lists.

I do enjoy these dudes, I have seen them a bit too much live and their sound is a bit compressed even live, but I've been a fan since I was first getting into DM and managed to see them on their Black Seeds of Vengeance tour before I was even old enough to drink.

never quite understood the "they should put more of the Egyptian flavor into their music", like even the superior Melechesh still is ostensibly death metal on top of the Mesopotamian stuff.

also "Kafir" is a banger

in "Stones of Sorrow" it sounds like he's shouting "GEPETTO! GEPETTO! GEPETTO!"

dig the new one more than I did the last one. feel like this band is impervious to the effects of lineup changes, largely due to Sanders.

I recently wrote a death metal primer for The Wire and figured I had to include an album by these guys since they are so beloved in da scene. I chose In Their Darkened Shrines, and said:

Nile...are the product of one man’s obsessions. Guitarist Karl Sanders likes two things: death metal and ancient Egypt, and his band’s music combines blazingly fast riffs and machine-gun drumming with occasional passages of Middle Eastern instrumentation, and some orchestral flourishes here and there. What sets Nile apart, though, is Sanders’ willingness to go big. “Unas, Slayer Of The Gods” is nearly 12 minutes long, and In Their Darkened Shrines’ title piece is a four-part suite running over 19 minutes, and in each case the scale actually yields results.

Listening to At the Gate of Sethu rn and fuck i love this stuff

I had a cd of theirs that never seemed to fully sound present, maybe overly compressed or something. Was it In Their Darkened Shrines. Always seemed to be a bit distant no matter hwo loud i had it. So wonder if it was a dodgy copy or the production on the lp. Did like them overall though i think.
THink I pickled up another 2 or 3 cds by them but not listened in quite a while.