At The Gate Of Sethu - Nile (2012)

My first contact with Nile was actually the oddly compelling solo work of their guitarist and leader, Karl Sanders. His album Saurian Exorcisms was a fixture for me the year it came out.

Then I listened to the main act–which features more of Sanders’ interest in all things creepy, eldritch, impenetrable, and Egypto-mythological–except replacing several layers of creepy with razor-sharp tech death.

As with a lot of tech death for me, it’s hard to believe it was recorded at tempo. It seems like they must have surely sped the tapes up on playback, but that’s not the case.

(sped up death metal would be amazing, especially if they didn’t pitch-shift it back down and it sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks belting out Nile songs)

Tracks I Liked

the whole album is solid, but it’s worth putting a few of their top-tier song titles in here for the record:

The Fiends Who Come To Steal The Magick of the Deceased

Natural Liberation of Fear Through The Ritual Deception of Death

Ethno-musicological Cannibalisms