You ever stop listening to Nile for a while then realize its been a while... then just start listening pretty much non stop for a couple days in a row? I'm on day two. Now on day 3
Doing this right now. Haven't listened to them in years and the new album has made me go backwards through the discography. Finally made it. What a trip. On day 2.
This was my 1st ear orgasm Nile delivered to me upon the earth....I was @ Pleasant Valley State Prison...B yard...2001-2005...salute to the white boys who ran a respectable program with me on my first real chunk of time...this album got me fired up for long mandatory workouts and race riots...so truly emblematic and special CD to me..thank you Nile your in my heart
They are a unique band and deserve the attention. I guess because they're not overly "avant-garde" or tediously technical, they didn't overdo it on the oriental scales to the point that got cheesy and tired, Karl clearly has huge passion for the subject matter and there aren't many death metal bands that have such an obvious Candlemass influence.
"Hey, so what are you majoring in?" "I'm double majoring. Egyptology and music". "Interesting man. What... what are you planning to do with that?" **BLAST BEATS BEGIN**
Absolute killer album, straight up mystic brutality. The perfect mix of speed, heaviness, atmosphere. Absolutely spot on for what I expect an Ancient Egyptian death metal album to be.
you better listen to Devildriver if you want to consider Finishing your stuff like James bond lol , try this title ,Not all who wonder are lost , or this END OF THE LINE or GRINFUCKED , JUST RUN!!!!!!
This will always be a record that continually inspires to great ends. I was 18 when I first heard it. Pete recently joined my band in the studio to track some vocals for us. Dream come true.
I had an awakening. At age 30. Sitting on the end of my seat at the heaviest hardcore dude's apt.I've ever met i almost puked. He had professional gear in his house. Over 16,000 watts. Conert shit so loud ears rangd for 3 fucking days. He was a nice man.
This album is perfect. Not too long like their other albums just the right length to not get bored. Also a good amount of samples and different sounds and instruments to keep it interesting.
Also I feel the pacing of the riffs is perfect. Almost chaotic and immediate building on each repeat. Later albums they almost are just repeated so many times so George can at different beats over them.
@@wyrdwalkr absolutely. I love big drum fuck off albums. but these earlier ones were just precise and to the point. get in and get out. this will always be my favorite.
I heard this album years ago and never cared, was more into thrash those years, but now hearing this....wow such a bombastic album, those riffs and tone are nutts
Most incredible band to have ever existed. The atmosphere they create in their albums are all completely unique and massive in their own right. Every album is just more-NILE. when it comes to Nile, I don’t even rank their albums. They all have their spot at the top. It’s a mood thing which album I listen to at this point. Shamelessly and forever a Nile worshipper.
@@ryanmozert I didn’t mean to creep but I hit your profile and it says that you went to all of the albums to say catacombs is best lol. Hey if this is your favorite, you picked a good one to like
@@ZEPEH-46N2a pretty shitty one too Nile is my 4th favourite death metal act of all time behind Cryptopsy Spawn of possession and Opeth(their prog death era albums is my favourite band of all time in general)
Not all debut albums in death metal (or any genre of metal) have such a tremendous and memorable power as this. After almost 30 years of listening to death metal, I raise this album to the top 5 of all death metal debut albums!
Random play in the car years ago, my device popped up one of my Nile albums. A friend, my passenger, very into metal, his jaw dropped, "you rock harder than I do!". Hat tip to the late DJ Cy Thoth for the intro to Nile!
Just watching The Exorcist II: The Heretic and after 23 years found the source of the vocal sample starting at 6:18 in serpent headed mask. I have not lustened to this album in at least 15 years, but when it came on in the movie I instantly recognized it.
I remember around the year 2000 I bought this from Dr. Disc in Hamilton, Ontario. But, quite possibly I stole it. I used to steal a lot of CDs from there. I am not proud of it. In fact, I am ashamed. However, I bought a fair number of CDs there too. They probably still made money off me. But, its more like I got 2 for 1 deals. I was 18 year old or so. And, I remember that metal album artwork was really appealing around this time. Bands started using Photo-shop, or computer software to create album covers, rather than elaborate Iron Maiden-like painting artwork. Listening to metal on the internet was still about fiver years into the future (RU-vid in 2006). So, the album cover was really what caught my attention first. What I liked about this album was how it would speed-up, slow-down, go acoustic, and everything in between and even add in keyboard background type synth. The riffs aren't catchy. They are technical. It impressed me how the whole band could seemingly follow along and transition into all the different parts of the songs. The drumming is particularly impressive. After this album, Black Seeds of Vengeance and subsequent albums were faster, with more high speed blast beats; great albums too. In retrospect, that's what made Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka more interesting; the tempo varied. A lot of death metal albums can be brutality from start to finish. Nile mixes it up. Overall all, death metal is a genre that gets criticized as all sounding the same. However, Nile sounds like Nile. No one else sounds like them. Karl Sanders has his own unique playing style and guitar tone. The drumming is just as impressive, if not moreso. Nile was and is totally unique. I wonder if they ever regret the Egyptian theme and wish they could try something different. Maybe they could do a Star Trek themed album and Karl Sanders could dress up like Data, Spock, Captain Picard or a Klingon. They could do some outer space themed death metal.
When this album came out I remember going to a Morbid Angel gig and chatting with Trey after the show, he was like: "Guys, check out Nile's debut album, you won't regret it". He was damn right.
It's no surprise, Trey was well past his peak by that point, Domination was a sell-out album and albums like this paved the way for "nu-death metal" i.e. Tech-death.
@@sothis1448 Thats a horrid take, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh has been extremely influential to current century death metal and to multiple styles of it even!
@@davidv5584 Current century death metal? Only 90's death metal is real, everything after is a trend,all true metalists understand this. But surprise surprise I find a false metalist listening to a Nile album. Out of curiosity, what bands did the Formulas Stagnant to the Flesh influence?
this Record is Historical !!! I heard it first in 2002 and still it only gives me really big musical satisfaction! even if I don't usually listen to any metal music these days :p This is PURE GOLD OF METAL of all times.. \m/
You’re definitely not wrong man. The old records are very raw, specifically this one. Tracks like Kudurru Maqlu and Opening of the Mouth definitely drop the temperature a few degrees in the room. Creepy stuff for sure. That’s why for me, old Nile is my favorite.
Cronos Dimitri No, that is definitely one of the things they are missing. Compare Black Seeds Of Vengeance with their newest album. Compare In Their Darkened Shrines with At The Gate Of Sethu. There is no argument that the sound and content and style has changed dramatically. They went from being a borderline avant garde/world music, raw, atmospheric brutal technical death metal band with horror themes and doom elements, to merely somewhat Egyptian/Middle Eastern flavored, super clean and polished, straightforward tech death, stripping away much of what made them so unique and interesting in the first place. Also, there are moments on the early albums that are legitimately terrifying sounding (Opening Of The Mouth, The Black Flame, Khetti Satha Shemsu, I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead, etc). The band has not been this way for a long time now. I can't even bring myself to listen to the new material anymore than what is enough to confirm that they are sticking to the same formula that they created on Annhilation Of The Wicked, and while I really enjoy that album, and Ithyphallic, the formula has since become extremely predictable and stale. I think it is pretty clear that Nile is just a job to Karl now, and a technical exercise. To me, that is super underwhelming and dull. I'll go listen to Impetuous Ritual, Portal, Diocletian, Teitanblood, Akhlys or Antediluvian instead.
Tengo este cd y es mi favorito, sonido denso y con buena atmósfera, hasta progresivo diría, tal vez es el disco mas progresivo de Nile, sin dejar lo brutal que sobre sale en todo el disco sin caer en demasiado virtuosismo, muy bien equilibrado y técnico en todo.
@Curly Que How does that make it "fake"? It isn't just about lung problems, elderly people or those with diabetes are at high risk if they contract the virus.
Remember our drummer bought this album when it came and called come to listen this...wow it was so original, something else on this earth...maybe not from this world? Maybe Nile guys are from other planet like Blood Incantation or Morbid Angel 😱 I met Nile`s alien drummer Tuska 2008 afterparty, was so nice and modest and said that he loves Finland..I think because of finnish chikcs 😁
