NILE
Nile is a technical death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, founded in 1993 by guitarist and vocalist Karl Sanders, who built the band's distinctive identity around a rigorous fixation on ancient Egyptian mythology, history, and religion. Signing to Relapse Records in 1998, the band released a string of critically acclaimed records including Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (1998), Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000), and In Their Darkened Shrines (2002), each raising the technical and compositional bar within the genre. Nile remains one of the most influential technical death metal bands in existence, distinguished by the depth of their thematic research and the extremity of their playing.
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NILE Discography
11 tracks
- 1 Smashing the Antiu 2:18
- 2 Barra Edinazzu 2:47
- 3 Kudurru Maqlu 1:05
- 4 Serpent Headed Mask 2:18
- 5 Ramses Bringer of War 4:45
- 6 Stones of Sorrow 4:17
- 7 Die Rache Krieg Lied Der Assyriche 3:13
- 8 The Howling of the Jinn 2:34
- 9 Pestilence and Iniquity 1:54
- 10 Opening of the Mouth 3:39
- 11 Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand 4:17
12 tracks
- 1 Invocation of the Gate of Aat-Ankh-Es-En-Amenti 0:43
- 2 Black Seeds of Vengeance 3:35
- 3 Defiling the Gates of Ishtar 3:38
- 4 The Black Flame 3:21
- 5 Libation Unto the Shades Who Lurk In the Shadows of the Temple of Anhur 1:32
- 6 Masturbating the War God 5:41
- 7 Multitude of Foes 2:09
- 8 Chapter For Transforming Into a Snake 2:25
- 9 Nas Akhu Khan She En Asbiu 4:15
- 10 To Dream of Ur 9:07
- 11 The Nameless City of the Accursed 2:51
- 12 Khetti Satha Shemsu 3:32
8 tracks
- 1 Divine Intent 6:25
- 2 The Black Hand of Set 2:20
- 3 Wrought 8:44
- 4 Immortality Through Art / Godless 5:15
- 5 Extinct 9:36
- 6 The Howling of the Jinn 2:22
- 7 Ramses Bringer of War 4:55
- 8 Die Rache Krieg Lied Der Assyriche 2:44
12 tracks
- 1 The Blessed Dead 4:53
- 2 Execration Text 2:46
- 3 Sarcophagus 5:09
- 4 Kheftiu Asar Butchiu 3:52
- 5 Unas, Slayer of the Gods 11:43
- 6 Churning the Maelstrom 3:07
- 7 I Whisper In the Ear of the Dead 5:10
- 8 Wind of Horus 3:46
- 9 Hall of Saurian Entombment 5:09
- 10 Invocation To Seditious Heresy 3:51
- 11 Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra 3:11
- 12 Ruins 6:01
10 tracks
- 1 Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise 0:51
- 2 Cast Down the Heretic 5:45
- 3 Sacrifice Unto Sebek 3:02
- 4 User Maat Re 9:14
- 5 The Burning Pits of the Duat 3:52
- 6 Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath To the Inert One In the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns 5:21
- 7 Lashed To the Slave Stick 4:18
- 8 Spawn of Uamenti 1:14
- 9 Annihilation of the Wicked 8:36
- 10 Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten 9:46
12 tracks
- 1 What Can Be Safely Written 8:15
- 2 As He Creates so He Destroys 4:36
- 3 Ithyphallic 4:40
- 4 Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who Is in the Water 2:56
- 5 Eat of the Dead 6:29
- 6 Laying Fire Upon Apep 3:25
- 7 The Essential Salts 3:51
- 8 The Infinity of Stone 2:04
- 9 The Language of the Shadows 3:30
- 10 Even the Gods Must Die 10:01
- 11 As He Creates so He Destroys - Instrumental 4:50
- 12 Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who Is in the Water - Instrumental 2:56
12 tracks
- 1 Cast Down the Heretic 5:45
- 2 Sacrifice Unto Sebek 3:02
- 3 Lashed to the Slave Stick 4:18
- 4 Execration Text 2:46
- 5 Sarcophagus 5:09
- 6 Unas Slayer of the Gods 11:43
- 7 Masturbating the War God 5:41
- 8 Chapter for Transforming Into a Snake 2:25
- 9 Black Seeds of Vengeance 3:35
- 10 Howling of the Jinn 2:34
- 11 Barra Edinazzu 2:47
- 12 Smashing the Antiu 2:18
10 tracks
- 1 Kafir! 6:50
- 2 Hittite Dung Incantation 3:48
- 3 Utterances of the Crawling Dead 5:09
- 4 Those Whom the Gods Detest 8:06
- 5 4th Arra of Dagon 8:40
- 6 Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld 3:31
- 7 Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence 2:32
- 8 Kem Khefa Kheshef 6:17
- 9 The Eye of Ra 5:00
- 10 Iskander D'hul Karnon 6:40
5 tracks
- 1 La Chant Du Cygre 4:34
- 2 Worship The Animal 5:24
- 3 Nepenthe 7:46
- 4 Surrounded By Fright 8:03
- 5 Mecca 8:59
13 tracks
- 1 Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame 4:29
- 2 The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased 4:30
- 3 The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh 5:30
- 4 When My Wrath Is Done 3:11
- 5 Slaves of Xul 1:24
- 6 The Gods Who Light up the Sky at the Gate of Sethu 5:43
- 7 Natural Liberation of Fear Through the Ritual Deception of Death 3:30
- 8 Ethno-Musicological Cannibalisms 1:40
- 9 Tribunal of the Dead 5:54
- 10 Supreme Humanism of Megalomania 4:36
- 11 The Chaining of the Iniquitous 7:05
- 12 Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame - Instrumental 4:05
- 13 The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh - Instrumental 5:30
10 tracks
- 1 Call to Destruction 5:45
- 2 Negating the Abominable Coils of Apep 4:14
- 3 Liber Stellae Rubeae 3:48
- 4 In the Name of Amun 6:49
- 5 What Should Not Be Unearthed 6:58
- 6 Evil to Cast out Evil 5:37
- 7 Age of Famine 4:11
- 8 Ushabti Reanimator 1:30
- 9 Rape of the Black Earth 4:35
- 10 To Walk Forth from Flames Unscathed 6:36
11 tracks
- 1 Long Shadows of Dread 4:07
- 2 The Oxford Handbook of Savage Genocidal Warfare 3:09
- 3 Vile Nilotic Rites 3:28
- 4 Seven Horns of War 8:48
- 5 That Which Is Forbidden 5:35
- 6 Snake Pit Mating Frenzy 2:48
- 7 Revel in Their Suffering 5:44
- 8 Thus Sayeth the Parasites of the Mind 1:42
- 9 Where Is the Wrathful Sky 4:40
- 10 The Imperishable Stars Are Sickened 8:00
- 11 We Are Cursed 6:53
11 tracks
- 1 Stelae of Vultures 6:19
- 2 Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes 3:50
- 3 To Strike with Secret Fang 1:58
- 4 Naqada II Enter the Golden Age 5:27
- 5 The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka 1:18
- 6 Overlords of the Black Earth 4:44
- 7 Under the Curse of the One God 4:45
- 8 Doctrine of Last Things 4:39
- 9 True Gods of the Desert 7:08
- 10 The Underworld Awaits us All 8:36
- 11 Lament for the Destruction of Time 4:50
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