Nile vocalist/guitarist to put out solo CD

[Nevermortal 0]

NILE guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders will release his debut solo album, "Saurian Meditation", on October 26 through Relapse Records. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

 

01. Awaiting the Vultures

02. Of the Sleep of Ishtar

03. Luring the Doom Serpent

04. Contemplations of the Endless Abyss

05. The Elder God Shrine

06. Temple of Lunar Ascension

07. Dreaming Through the Eyes of Serpents

08. Whence No Traveller Returns

09. The Forbidden Path Across the Chasm of Self Realisation

10. Beckon the Sick Winds of Pestilence

 

Asked if the album contains a lot of instrumental songs, Sanders recently had the following to say: "'Whence No Traveler Returns' is completely instrumental as is 'Dreaming Throught he Eyes of Serpents'. But mostly, the vocals take on a non-traditional role. There is only one [song] — 'Of the Sleep of Ishtar' — that is what you would call verse-chorus vocalizing with normal words.

 

"A lot of what [guest vocalist] Mike [breazeale] does is altered-consciousness ambient stuff, as in 'Awaiting the Vultures' or 'Luring the Doom Serpent', where he isn't really lead-vocalizing, more like chantings that weave inside the Baglama Saz and acoustic guitar set against exotic atmospheres, or vaguely functioning as ritual chaos, like in 'The Elder God Shrine', which has some big choir-like chants and gutteral voodoo vocalizing. Some pieces seem like instrumentals, and only technically have vocals — but they are not necessarily front and center — like 'Beckon the Sick Winds of Pestilence', where Mike imitates the sound of an African tribe heard from across the Serenghetti . But by and large that song is some sort of Ancient African Apocalypse complete with moaning and droning dying-in-the-sunset electric guitars. One of the songs is the exact opposite of an instrumental — 'Contemplations of the Endless Abyss' where EVERY sound (except the gongs of course) is Mike's voice — all the droning , dreamlike drifting in the abyss sounds that one would think must be some kind of keyboard are all derived from Mike's voice, layered and manipulated into otherworldly ambiences."

 

 

 

 

 

One of the comments at Blabbermouth says that there's not a lot of 'metal' to be found on here. Regardless, I'm down for it. Anything remotely having to do with Nile is great, I just wish there was actually *new* Nile coming out relatively soon.

[Dace59 0]

Hmmm, if this is gonna be some Ambient/Drone stuff, I'm still gonna get it.

As it can be just as good on some level as really brutal stuff. Definatly going to be interesting at least.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

...am I the only one starting to get kinda sick of Nile's "Egyptian" gimmick? Great music, but I also look for lyrical content, and aside from lessons on ancient history and ancient mythology, they've got nothing.

[Nevermortal 0]

...am I the only one starting to get kinda sick of Nile's "Egyptian" gimmick? Great music, but I also look for lyrical content, and aside from lessons on ancient history and ancient mythology, they've got nothing.

Well, they are called Nile for a reason....

 

I think it's much more refreshing than the kill/fuck/die/Satan/gore lyrics we get in death metal all the time. It's a little hokey, but then again, so is death metal in general some times.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Buuut, there IS a bunch of sick evil shit in there. Spoken part in Unas, Slayer of the Gods. There.

 

Eating entrails? Assimilating the wisdom of the gods? His existence is everlasting? *chug from hell

 

C'mon..how can that be construed as anything other than cool as fuck?

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

This forum keeps Nile in my regular rotation. I never listen to them outside of the music folder here. They come up in subject so often that when I read it I instantly have to put on 'Darkened Shrines" and kill myself.

 

I'm pretty sure that Unas, Slayer Of Gods is the most crushing song in history

[Steviekick 0]

...am I the only one starting to get kinda sick of Nile's "Egyptian" gimmick? Great music, but I also look for lyrical content, and aside from lessons on ancient history and ancient mythology, they've got nothing.

Well, they are called Nile for a reason....

 

I think it's much more refreshing than the kill/fuck/die/Satan/gore lyrics we get in death metal all the time. It's a little hokey, but then again, so is death metal in general some times.

I kind of agree with what both of you said. But the good thing is that there aren't 1,001 other death metal bands that are trying to do the same thing beating you over the head with Egyptian themed lyrics. They've just found their niche.

 

In that same logic, I also like Amon Amarth for the reason that all their songs are about crazy Viking battles and such.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Oh man, Viking bands. How do I love thee...let me count the ways...

 

Enslaved, Burzum, Bathory, oh well. those are the only ones I can think of currently that I love. But that's good enough.