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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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death metal, brutal death metal, technical death metal, metal, grindcore
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Top Tracks

1	Hittite Dung Incantation full track	1,820
2	Those Whom The Gods Detest full track	1,572
3	Kafir!	1,537
4	4th Arra Of Dagon full track	1,403
5	Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld full track	1,334
6	The Eye Of Ra full track	1,258
7	Kem Khefa Kheshef full track	1,227
8	Iskander D'hul Karnon full track	1,050
9	Sacrifice Unto Sebek full track	1,003
10	Cast Down the Heretic full track	947
11	Utterances Of The Crawling Dea	902
12	Lashed to the Slave Stick full track	832
13	Utterances Of The Crawling Dead full track	830
14	Annihilation of the Wicked full track	709
15	Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who…	675

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Elevenofone wrote:
10 hours ago

Those Whom the Gods Detest is easily the best Death Metal album of 2009. Followed by Skyfire's Esoteric.

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Wonderglue wrote:
12 hours ago

New Album is one of the top 5 Albums of 2009.

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Die_In_a_Fire wrote:
yesterday evening

You should get some English courses, in my opinion.

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Joey_Jackson wrote:
yesterday evening

nope. in my opinion new album not very well.

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BeyondVexing wrote:
yesterday afternoon

New Nile album is awesome!

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ag0nysatan wrote:
yesterday morning

kafir! is the best death metal song released in 2009.

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crustyjuggalo wrote:
yesterday morning

http://www.myspace.com/angelrotmetal plz listen

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ASSMan316 wrote:
yesterday morning

Nile is Greatness But Chuck is King! every one knows that!:)

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saulenskas wrote:
Wednesday evening

Kafir! is fuckin awesome \m/

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_tallica86_ wrote:
Wednesday evening

After my original dislike of this band I am really starting to dig this stuff. It's just a shame that the drums kind of overpower the guitars, making it hard to hear sometimes.

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super_ruben09 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

v Exactly.

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Die_In_a_Fire wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

No it's not a discussion, just you failing to back up your arguments.

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CVince9 wrote:
Wednesday morning

enough but its an endless discussion i see music diffrent as a musician anyway

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Die_In_a_Fire wrote:
Wednesday morning

Having an eye for music? I don't know about you, but I prefer LISTENING to it. [2] Not much you can say after a comment like that, is there?

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RColorado wrote:
Wednesday morning

the new album is some of the most beautiful and brutal music I ever listened to. listening to tit was a life changing experience. really.

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super_ruben09 wrote:
Tuesday evening

Having an eye for music? I don't know about you, but I prefer LISTENING to it. Also, there is still a huge difference between 'far from perfect' and Sonic Syndicate.

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CVince9 wrote:
Tuesday evening

Melodeath isn't creative and definately doesn't have unusual lyrical themes, that's a fact you ought to know too. All your 4 top bands sound almost the same, same recycled gothenburg sound. there go's the guy who knew so much about music :P... realy this discussion is pointless with u i thought u had an eye for what music was (im not defending my own music in this obviously my music is far from perfect ;) )

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super_ruben09 wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

"metal used to be about creating and trying out new strange things and sounds no rules no worrying about sounding "brutal" i think Chuck had a better idea for death metal... and i think even Nile would agree with that ( i dunno )" - Nile isn't trying to br00tal. Br00tal death metal is actually pretty much all shit (A few exceptions of course, Suffocation being one of them). Nile is trying new things, and they are creative. Not creative as say, Atheist, but a hell of a lot more exciting and innovative than Cannibal Corpse. I really don't see how this is an argument against Nile tbh, more like an argument for them.

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Die_In_a_Fire wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

No, you're just too stupid to get my point. You called Nile boring, I kindly corrected you. Obviously there are many other bands ( none in your top 4 included) that creatively combine different elements and use musical themes that aren't the mainstream, I don't see any point in mentioning any such bands in the Nile shoutbox. Melodeath isn't creative and definately doesn't have unusual lyrical themes, that's a fact you ought to know too. All your 4 top bands sound almost the same, same recycled gothenburg sound.

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Noise_Memories wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

www.last.fm/music/hathorus

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