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(1993 – present)

Nile is a technical death metal band from USA. They formed in their hometown of Greenville, SC, in 1993, combine extreme speed and brutality of modern death metal with the ancient styling of Middle Eastern music.

With their self-proclaimed trademark of “Ithyphallic Metal”, Karl Sanders (guitar/vocals), Chief Spires (bass/vocals), and Pete Hammoura(drums) debuted with their Festivals of Atonement album in 1995, leading Nile to a southwestern tour in support of other big metal acts such as Obituary, Deicide and Broken Hope.

Viscera Productions was responsible for Nile’s follow-up EP “Ramses Bringer of War” in 1997 and was going to release their second album “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka”, if they hadn’t gone out of business later that year.

However, Relapse Records was more than happy to put it out in early 1998, giving Nile a wider distribution and a chance to hit the road with Incantation and Morbid Angel.

The follow-up, “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, was released in late 2000. Prior to this release, Pete Hammoura left the band due to injuries sustained in an accident, feeling he could no longer drum at the level which Nile required. Derek Roddy drummed on all of the tracks (except To Dream of Ur) as a guest. Also prior to “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, Dallas Toller-Wade joined as a second guitarist/vocalist. A collection of remastered, hard to find recordings, “In the Beginning” was released later the same year.

Chief Spires left the bands a few months after the release of “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, citing personal and professional differences. He was replaced by John Vesano. The band also found a new drummer in Tony Laureano.

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1	Hittite Dung Incantation full track	1,667
2	Those Whom The Gods Detest full track	1,456
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4	4th Arra Of Dagon full track	1,322
5	Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld full track	1,216
6	The Eye Of Ra full track	1,172
7	Kem Khefa Kheshef full track	1,144
8	Iskander D'hul Karnon full track	975
9	Sacrifice Unto Sebek full track	930
10	Cast Down the Heretic full track	859
11	Utterances Of The Crawling Dead full track	817
12	Lashed to the Slave Stick full track	787
13	Utterances Of The Crawling Dea	758
14	Annihilation of the Wicked full track	630
15	Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual In The Abandoned Towers Of Silence full track	624

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Elevenofone wrote:
50 minutes ago

Actually, my CD had the space...

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Wonderglue wrote:
yesterday evening

Actually it's Kafir!,with the Exclamation mark and no space between. Kafir is just a Misprint or Kafir !. Just like Iskander Dhul Karnon without ',it's wrong.

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ag0nysatan wrote:
yesterday afternoon

KAFIR SHOULD BE AT #1.

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brentondig wrote:
yesterday afternoon

I think Canada deserves a visit from Nile for once...

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ASSMan316 wrote:
yesterday morning

Yes@mattfca Why won't they come to Canada damnit!!!?

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duffeknol wrote:
yesterday morning

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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riclagarto wrote:
Tuesday evening

great new album

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Nightfall333 wrote:
Tuesday evening

Their last album is a pure SLAUGHTER!!!

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cosmicshroom wrote:
Tuesday evening

Go Max. <3

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Maxmaider wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

i'm just pointing what it says on the back of the album hildesheimer

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Leatherface91 wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

super_ruben09, you forgot Unanimated's new one, mofo.

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kalfitegrdan wrote:
Tuesday morning

As He Creates So He Destroys should be in the damn charts. [3]

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METALEROARG wrote:
Tuesday morning

I do

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Hildesheimer_ wrote:
Monday evening

Exclamation mark or not, who cares?

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Maxmaider wrote:
Monday afternoon

btw, its Kafir, not Kafir! >_>

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super_ruben09 wrote:
Sunday evening

v You got the title wrong.

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astral_dream wrote:
Sunday evening

Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor who is in the water .... outrageous

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ATKaleo wrote:
Sunday morning

As He Creates So He Destroys should be in the damn charts. [2]

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cosmicshroom wrote:
Sunday morning

As He Creates So He Destroys should be in the damn charts.

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warcommand- wrote:
Sunday morning

Oracles by Fleshgod Apocalypse is average crap. Another Necrowankfest successors.

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