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For my money, the absolute best death metal out there. They keep making the same record and it keeps GETTING BETTER. How that's possible, who knows. Must be Karl Sanders' affinity for the almighty riff. I love the lyrical content, egyptian mythology is the coolest subject matter for this style of music EVAR. Discuss plz.

Nile is damn good but I still can't get past this vid :/

They used to be pretty high on my list. But they just kinda do the same old same old. So I skip every other album these days. I never bothered with the lyrics. But I love the riffs on the early stuff. They're technically better then most others. I prefer them when Chief & Pete were in the band though. They were absolutely amazing live with that lineup. And I rarely missed them when they came through town. Which was a lot about the time when Relapse initially signed them. Nephren Ka is a masterpiece.

They formed in the city I live in! About the only metal band to ever come out of South Carolina I think. They should collaborate with South Carolina's other successful band, Hootie and the Blowfish. :cool:

Pucky Wrote:They formed in the city I live in! About the only metal band to ever come out of South Carolina I think. They should collaborate with South Carolina's other successful band, Hootie and the Blowfish. :cool:

"Hootie and the Invocation to Transcend Spiritual Tyranny of Ramses in the Water of the River of the Treacherous Nile where the Demon Seeds of Vengeance Harmonize within their Darkened Shrines with Blowfish"?

Nile just owns!!

My favorites would have to be "In Their darkened Shrines" and "Black Seeds Of Vengeance."

I don't like how they got rid of a lot the ethnic "orchestration" in "Annihilation of the Wicked" and "Ityphalic."

I own Black Seeds of Vengeance, and the greatest hits called Legacy of the Catacombs.

I fucking love Black Seeds, such a solid disk. I only really cared for a couple tracks on the greatest hits... it's been awhile since I've heard it though. I should dust it off.

Nile is probably my favorite tech death band. I've got Black Seeds of Vengeance, In Their Darkened Shrines, and Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka, all of which are great.

I love Nile, much more than I once used to. Initially, I sure was wowed by the sheer speed and punishing heaviness of their style...Nile seemed 'unique' and 'original' in the truest sense of the words and was a stand-out 'new' arrival when they burst onto the scene in the late-90s. But, the overarching Egyptian/Middle Eastern thematic references that dominates their albums' lyrics and partially their 'sound' used to really bore me to distraction and piss me off (and still does ) when I first heard them nearly ten years ago. Sadly, they aren't anything spectacular, performing LIVE, as incidentally are a lot of tech-dm bands. But Nile are an absolutely outstanding, virtuoso bunch of musicians playing compelling brutal-tech dm, all the way through to today.

My own favourite Nile discs are Nephren-Ka, ITDS, and AoTW. I love the first half of Black Seeds, but the second half fizzles and fades away a bit, for me. Their last one, Ithyphallic, is a bit of a tired effort sounding too much like a retread of elements off all their previous discs. That said, I still enjoyed very many segments of Ithyphallic, with that uncompromising Nile sound and attitude.

Guys, for those of you here that are huge on Nile, or generally dig quality tech-dm a lot, I reckon you might really like Australian tech hot-shots Psycroptic, or acts like Gorguts or the awesome brutal-tech masters, Deeds of Flesh, to name only just three.

Insane band.

Anyone heard the new album? I've heard that it's really good.

^I've been meaning to buy myself a copy, along with both of Sander's solo albums.

Sander's solo stuff is great, very Egyptian in atmosphere. You listen to it and feel like your on the banks of the Nile 3000 years ago.

(10-30-2009 09:36 PM)mntwinsfan Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone heard the new album? I've heard that it's really good.

Well, I finally got it (along with a few others), and it's quite good. Not at Amongst the Catacombs level, but definitely one of Nile's better albums.

I got Those Whom the Gods Detest, over the past week-end...and I gotta say after 3 full listens, I'm finding it frighteningly fun. After the slight let-down of Ithyphallic, I hadn't honestly expected Nile to make such a strong comeback.

There's nothing groundbreaking or radically new on TWTGD, but Karl, Toller-Wade and Kollias combine to make a record that is seething with a certain focus, freshness and ferocity that sounds terrific.

TWTGD has turned out to be among my best extreme metal purchases of the year----so late in the year, too, with already loads of top-notch discs that I had bought in the previous ten months, so far. Next only to Catacombs and Annihilation, TWTGD is definitely my favourite Nile album.

Sooo, when exactly did Dallas get rid of his skullet?

Maybe he thought Nile would be better if he cut his hair

Too bad he's wrong

The first death metal band I've listened to. This was a while ago - about 6 years ago, when I was a little metal fledgling - all brutal and stuffs. Funny thing is, I wasnt considered a metal head amongst my fellow younglings, since I didnt listen to the all "HARDCORE" stuffs like Judas Priest, Hammerfall etc. *sigh* All the faggotry I had to endure.
Anyhoot. Yeh. Couldn't have asked for a better band to introduce myself to DM.

One thing that slightly bothers me about Nile is their guitar sound. It sounds really good for chunky chords and grooving and single-note tremolo stuff but I find that I really need to concentrate to understand the low-register flurry of notes, cause it really sounds like mush to me.

Also, ARRA ARRA ARRA DAGON DAGON DAGON

One thing that bothers me about Nile is that guitard who has long curly hair, but is balding and looks like Dr Rockso - in a bad way.