Metalscape: The Metal Podcast » Nile

Metalscape CXX – Motherlist

Zach — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:44:19 +0000

New iPods, new Immortal, new outlook on life, new apartment, new shirt designs, new voice, new career. lolwut?

Playlist:

Nile – Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld
Rudra – Hymns from the Blazing Chariot
Ensiferum – Stone Cold Metal
Immortal – Arctic Swarm
Mastodon – The Czar
Sepultura – Attitude
Om – (Version)
Carcass – Keep on Rotting in the Free World

Metalscape CXX - Motherlist

Crocs = Metal

ron — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:05:52 +0000

I’m sorry about all the Nile posting as of late, but I was listening to that new song of theirs on their MySpace and noticed they came out with a hilarious video for that Papyrus song.

You’d think that by signing with Nuclear Blast they’d get some sort of decent music video budget, but no, they managed to produce something even worse than that terrible “Sacrifice Unto Sebek” skit. I gotta give them props for the random Croc shots though; they’re fucking hilarious.

Nile goes down on some Nobles

ron — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:04:08 +0000

Egypt-core band Nile have posted a song off their upcoming “Those Whom the Gods Detest” album on their myspace. Titled “Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld”, it is a traditional long ass Nile song title, but I believe it could’ve been longer. And with more substance. They’ve been lacking in the song title department as of late.

The song itself is surprisingly not bad, after a couple of listens I found myself actually tapping my foot along with it. I especially like that harmonized guitar wailing in the middle that sounds like something the Nazgul would play when soloing. Check it out.

If the rest of the album is as good as this song, I might consider getting this special package thing they got going on:

Those Whom the Gods Detest

ron — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:45:53 +0000

That’s the title of Nile’s upcoming album which is apparently the first one to deviate from the band’s trademark Egyptian themes.

Ok that’s not true. Karl Sander promises that it will have more sand in it than your grandma’s vagina. Perhaps not as much. The artwork is pretty sweet, it reminds me of a history book. Track list was also posted and it contains some very interestingly named songs. Also worth noting on that link is that Nuclear Blast expects this to be Nile’s shortest running album, with a total duration of 0.00 minutes.

Props to Nile for breaking away from social constraints and political correctness by naming the first track on their new death metal album “Nigger”. You may argue that that’s not the literal meaning of the word, and that they might be using it in the original middle eastern context but I might argue that you’d be ruining my already frail joke. Asshole. Then you have a song about turd incantations which may actually be the best song title I’ve ever heard. We then skip to track No. 5 in which these motherfuckers apparently failed at spelling the word “Dragon” (a quick call to fellow crackpots Rhapsody would’ve solved that in a jiffy) and then the deadly spelling bee strikes again on track No. 8, which looks like it took 3 tries to get the name right. At No. 9 we have “The Eye of Ra” which is the quintessential, iconical and most famous Egyptian imagery element of all time:

Kinda weird actually, because you can call Nile everything you want, but they are certainly not cliché when it comes to their Egypt stuff.

Anyway it should be an interesting release. Ithyphallic was crap admittedly, but I’m still interested to see what has Mr. Sanders has cooked up this time.