He talks about slaves building a tower, so the wizard, the Stargazer, can go up to the top of the tower to try to fly. But all the other animal behaviour is right in there. The bulk of the work was engineered and produced by Sanders at his Serpent Headed Studios, while the drums were engineered by Jim Touras and George Dovolos and recorded at Esoteron Music Studios in Athens over a 10-day period. "Vile Nilotic Rites" He worships dogs and reptiles He blackens his eyes with soot like a prostitute He dances and plays the cymbals in vile Nilotic rites I am asked if he has gone mad If he has been bewitched, having coupled with a sorceress For he has become soulless, degenerate Karl: Long Shadows Of Dread was born after I had been watching a BBC documentary on Netflix called Long Shadow by David Reynolds. That shit did not happen. But then I stumbled across some videos about the Narcisse snake pits in Canada, where every year about 75-80,000 snakes come for this great big get together where it’s basically a giant mating ball. Everybody got involved this time. Our country’s falling apart there’s been famine and drought for 40 years – we’ve got nothing to eat, the gods don’t give a shit. Artist: Nile Album Title: Vile Nilotic Rites Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 1 November 2019 In my formative teenage years, I always thought death metal was incredibly boring; to the uninitiated, it sounded like a huge cacophony of brutal noises with, if I’m honest, a lack of variety and anything approaching a memorable melody.… We went out on various expeditions to different places, and on one of the days, we were in Saqqara. And that’s why that shit is forbidden. So it just sat there on my hard drive for a while until I came across a video about zombie ants; the name of the zombie ant video is a science video called Mind Controlling Insect Overlords. The title itself, however, pushes the proverbial felucca to Khartoum, but it’s not all academic, of course. Nothing superfluous or idiosyncratic were allowed to persist on and live through NILE’s new team-based songwriting process. The musical journey that the song goes on is always interesting, and it’s a new thing for NILE. The gods were daily propitiated as a means of keeping order in the universe, they wanted shit to stay the same, they weren’t interested in change. For »Vile Nilotic Rites,« the mantra was: if it’s not right for the song, it gets cut. The Nazis didn’t invent it. What were they not allowed to do? In those last few generations as things are on the decline, could they see it? “I was having a long conversation about NILE with Brad. There was also a lot of Rusty Cooley-isms in the guitar parts for this. However, what becomes clear almost immediately with Vile Nilotic Rites (Nuclear Blast Records), the latest offering from US Death Metallers and aficionados of ancient Egypt, … Nothing superfluous or idiosyncratic were allowed to persist on and live through NILE ’s new team-based songwriting process. It’s speculation, of course. There’s nothing profound about it, but I don’t think songs always have to be laden with patience-testing deep meaning or explain the mysteries of cosmic existence, or make fucking tiresome profound philosophical statements. Karl: This song could be thought of as one half of a thematic pair of songs dealing with a singular idea but from opposing viewpoints. OK, the ideas originate in academia but they don’t stay there. “Those first few seconds are meant to instill a hammer blow of god-like heaviness. Vile Nilotic Rites is a good album featuring some very good songs. Long Shadows of Dread 2. That’s how we rolled this time around.” The snakes will tangle themselves up, 100 or so at a time – it’ll be 100 male snakes all trying to mate with one female, one big swirling mass with all these snakes getting all fucking wacky. Culver City, CA 90230, USA It is a testament to how much everybody was willing to pay the price to work together as a team and do the right thing for the songs. NILE - Vile Nilotic Rites (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO) So I really thought there was a lot of possibility there and I was absolutely right. It’s got a mid-paced kind of groove, it’s got some slow stuff and only a little bit of fast stuff. “We could’ve made an additional whole other record of cast-off drum parts. It’s meant to just get you in the pit and slam with your metal brothers and sisters. The newsreader reads this thing in the Forum right there, he says “He worships dogs and reptiles. He comes back a couple days later with this totally abusive, fast and brutal fucking song with impossible guitar parts. Karl: The words for this came first and what I was talking about was that, in modern times, there is a phenomenon called the movement of the stars. I thought a little bit more about this, and I started focusing on the Ronnie James Dio song Stargazer from the RAINBOW album. We wanted everything to have fire on it. This one is definitely to Brian‘s credit. »Vile Nilotic Rites« is for the fans!” This page includes NILE Vile Nilotic Rites's : cover picture, songs / tracks list, members/musicians and line-up, different releases details, buy online: ebay and amazon, ratings and detailled reviews by some experts, collaborators and members. “I’m extremely happy with the job Mark did on »Vile Nilotic Rites.« It’s heavy, I can hear everything, meaning I can even hear the bass on a NILE album, which is a first. “It started at a Denny’s in Seattle in 2016,” says Sanders. The strong will ultimately survive. I knew as soon as it was written that it was going to be the album closer. It didn’t really need to be fucked with. Here’s what was so twisted about this. NILE were particularly exacting on their new album because they could. That really was my frame of mind when I was writing this. No, the Egyptians suffered and their neighbours probably said, “Fuck you.”. Both Brian and I are students of THE BEATLES, master songwriters. This was another one that I really wanted Brian to do because he’s got a lot of these black metal influences with the discordant melodies and the other side of the universe – black metal kind of stuff that he loves. Did they have advanced technology back then? It was probably the best thing he’s ever played his life. »Vile Nilotic Rites« was appropriated by Sanders from the HBO series »Rome« - episode 'Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop A Hungry Man),' in fact - while 'Oxford Handbook Of Savage Genocidal Warfare' was initially informed by a Nazi documentary Sanders had watched but manipulated and then correlated instead to Assyrian king, Sargon II. So, the common guy, living 2,000 years ago in Egypt, did he realize his civilization was about to bite it to the Greeks, the Romans, or the Arabs? The astronomers of ancient Egypt spent a lot of time observing, studying and recording all the movements of the stars. We Are Cursed: Show all Tracks But that’s the just first verse… It took me months to figure out exactly where the song was going to go. One way or another - destroying the planet or blowing ourselves to smithereens - we’ll end ourselves. Our new guitarist, Brian [Kingsland] brought music for four songs. There’s some impending doom that’s about to unfold on us.” I mean, we had to cut 4 minutes from 'Revel In Their Suffering.' The ancient Egyptians were greatly concerned with the night sky and the mystery that it holds – for example, there were priests who did nothing but look at stars, that’s what they did. We are zooming into the songs on this album. Everything we did had to live up to our own rigorous requirements. But that’s really where Long Shadows of Dread is coming fr om, feeling the slow encroachment of evil upon the order of the universe in the time of the ancient Egyptians, as they were inevitably headed for the death of their civilisation. This ethos bears out on »Vile Nilotic Rites.« It’s not dwelling on the band’s past - it’s showing what the band is capable of now. This is a band upping their game and then some. It’s just one guitar riff, it’s not enough to make an instrumental with, what do we do with it? What Toner was saying was that Mark Antony and Alexander the Great might have been great, disciplined military conquerors from Western nations (Rome and Greece respectively) but according to popular opinion and the classical take on this; their taking on of Eastern ways had a corrupting influence and that’s when they fell prey to all manner of spiritual and moral degradation. There’s a species of ants in tropical South America and Southeast Asia that gets infected with this fungus, and the fungus takes control of their minds in order to spread more fungus. It’s a metal song but it’s the big catchy one, and it’s even got a sing along chorus that works pretty goddamn well live. Karl: Again, I was watching Netflix and there was a black and white documentary about the Einsatzgruppen, Nazi death squads that carried out the extermination in Nazi occupied territories in World War Two. These guys also are the forefathers of magic, all “magic” today is descended from ancient Egyptian magic. Brad had come over and we were playing some guitar, we had some riffs that we were bouncing back and forth that had a real serpentine, cult-like, Middle Eastern sounding kind of thing. When I came across the line “abomination of desolation” in the Thelema, I was like “oh, shit!” as that was the name of the aborted first MORBID ANGEL album that became a demo, Abominations of Desolation. The first verse from "Vile Nilotic Rites" comes from the HBO series Rome. Is this a theological conflict? Watch the lyric There was so much stuff that was exactly perfect for the song I was trying to write, so I had to name the song something that paid homage to this book. Vile Nilotic Rites is a juggernaut of an achievement built upon the sturdy stones of albums past, and filled with rare gems that will surely play alongside staples of Nile’s live catalogue for years to come. When bands replace key members of personnel, it can take some time for the new line-up to settle. If you do … The pre-production of songs like 'Long Shadows Of Dread,' 'Seven Horns Of War,' 'Snake Pit Mating Frenzy,' and 'The Imperishable Stars Are Sickened' served two purposes: one, it provided drummer Kollias, who was ensconced in a horde of drums and percussion in Greece, the full picture and two, it acted less like a blueprint and more like an exact map of »Vile Nilotic Rites« for mixing and mastering engineer ace Mark Lewis (BELPHEGOR, FALLUJAH). “You’ve got to be strong enough to survive through periods of bleakness, times of no hope, where things look like they’ll never turn around,” NILE’s Karl Sanders says. The album came out in November 1, 2019 under the … I have pages and pages of notes and quotes about genocide and war atrocities in ancient times, by a whole bunch of different people from a whole bunch of different countries. There’s no way I cannot write this song. But here change was upon them. This book is a lot like H.P. So, I had to ask myself, what are the neighbours going to think when the people who’ve been abusing them for years finally get their fucking bad day from the gods? [Musically], it pretty much starts with a big bang. With a new band behind NILE - creative chief Sanders and long-time drummer George Kollias hold the fort - they reconfigured the foundation to focus on teamwork and, ultimately, songcraft. So, these guys were really concerned with looking up at the night sky and stargazing, but it’s also kind of considered that the Egyptians might have had advanced technologies which we don’t even possess today. What I mean by this is: the drums and vocals aren’t fighting each other; the guitars and drums aren’t fighting each other; it’s all working together, cohesive. Technical death metal Egyptologists NILE are proud to reveal that their ninth studio album, 'Vile Nilotic Rites', will be released on November 1st via Nuclear Blast. But it’s pretty much me and George on this one. As for what NILE want out of »Vile Nilotic Rites,« it’s appreciation and recognition for not only forwarding NILE’s boundaries but also pushing death metal to new creative heights. Genocidal warfare is of course a respectable topic for a death metal album but it’s not really a new idea. Your brain is only capable of holding X amount in immediate memory, so it was like a great big song eraser, it was so fucking good. The weak fall by the wayside. Revel in Their Suffering and We Are Cursed both examine what could have easily been the social attitudes on the living conditions of the people who lived through the great famine and ruin at the end of the Old Kingdom, similar to the track Age of Famine from What Should Not Be Unearthed when they had to resort to cannibalism because there’d been 40 years of drought. But then I stumbled upon a book called The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. That’s just the way it goes. It didn’t really come together until I found the book by Jerry Toner, Homer’s Turk. Karl: The Holy Books of Thelema, by Aleister Crowley. We are cursed. Revel In Their Suffering 2. We’re fucking cursed. They’re moving away, because they don’t want anything to do with mankind whatsoever. Red Vinyl 2LP in gatefold Track Listings Disc: 1 1. If so, how did they interpret the movement of stars moving away as the universe is expanding? “You just gotta keep believing in yourself and pushing forward. It was a lot of work, a lot of songwriting lessons were brought into play. So when that shit was happening to the Egyptians, all these other little countries had been conquered, subjugated and exploited by the Egyptians for hundreds, if not thousands of years, at one time or another. Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites (2019) saxystephens / January 06, 2020 / Comments 0 / 0. Every day the newsreader would read the news, current events, public service announcements, political propaganda, you know, whatever was going on. There’s a lot of different influences going on in the song. Second track “Oxford Handbook of Savage Genocidal Warfare” is a blistering aural assault from the start, while the evil, HBO series Rome inspired … “If people heard all the amazing drum parts that we had to toss because they didn’t fit the songs they’d be astounded,” says Sanders. I mean, that was just one fucking section. Today, the band gives fans a taste of the album with the release of the first single 'Long Shadows Of Dread'. He wrote this four minutes of fucking incredible music. Then, of course, there’s a song about zombie ants ('Thus Sayeth The Parasites Of The Mind'), which is not only par for the course with Sanders but also germane to the aesthetics of death metal. So if the stars are moving away, what’s going on here? That’s what their job was, to record the movements of the stars. He had to make a hard choice though. Their drugged and drunken debaucheries is the stuff of legend, and that’s the beginning and end for those guys. Karl: This song is inspired by my trip to Egypt, to work with Nader Sadek. Ancient genocidal warfare, it’s not a new idea. We wanted fans to listen to this album, to sink their teeth into and enjoy it. Well 14 years and 5 albums later, that answer is pretty clear. A lot of good fat was trimmed from these songs. I gave this one to Brian, because he’s got a lot of black metal influence. NILE are: Karl Sanders (guitars/vocals), George Kollias (drums), Brad Parris (bass/vocals) and Brian Kingsland (guitars/vocals). I eventually got my Lord of the Rings soundtrack by Howard Shore and gave it a listen to see what’s in there. »Vile Nilotic Rites« was appropriated by Sanders from the HBO series »Rome« - episode 'Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop A Hungry Man),' in fact - while 'Oxford Handbook Of Savage Genocidal Warfare' was initially informed by a Nazi documentary Sanders had watched but manipulated and then correlated instead to Assyrian king, Sargon II. The death metal band Nile have pushed back the dates due to coronavirus outbreak. That’s a classic. Vile Nilotic Rites The Dark Star moved through the cerulean chaos of hyperspace, sleek hull refracting the incandescent light which assailed it. The universe is expanding; therefore, stars are measurably moving away from a centre point. Karl Sanders from NILE sat down with us for a special track by track interview! For their ninth full-length, death metal lifers Nile have embraced the same brisk, energetic vibe that much of their Nuclear Blast era has had, making Vile Nilotic Rites another example of how this band can invigorate when they want to. Technical death metal Egyptologists NILE are proud to reveal their ninth album, Vile Nilotic Rites, will be released on November 1st via Nuclear Blast. We wanted the parts to do what metal guitar, bass, drum, and vocal parts are supposed to do. First albums back can be cagey affairs as confidence and momentum are often exchanged for uncertainty and caution. Recording information: Recorded and produced at Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina. Now, this is NILE!’” So I’ve seen this, obviously it was some sort of fate; I open a book and here this is, maybe this is the song I’m supposed to write. The band is on fire as of late with a renewed sense of brutality, which is on full display on its ninth full-length, Vile Nilotic Rites, its first album in four years. Ithyphallic, indeed! They were on the decline already before they were conquered by the Greeks, then the Romans and then the Arabs dealt them the death blow. We’re going to do something meaningful now. The Indiana Jones scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where he falls into the snake pit – that was the first thing that came to my mind. All there was to eat was each other, the country had descended into chaos and cannibalism. That’s what this song is for. If 5000 years ago they built these pyramids, and today they’re building skyscrapers why am I looking at all these destitute people? I do the majority of the writing; I’ve always done it and I probably always will. Thus Sayeth The Parasites Of The Mind 3. Oxford Handbook of Savage Genocidal Warfare. We went there and on the way back we had to go a different route to Cairo, so we went through this incredibly poverty stricken area. We are here to conquer!” Well, I don’t know. So I gave it to him and he kept it for a while. Disc: 2 1. They don’t want anything to do us. In That Which is Forbidden, the character in there wants to defy the natural order, to defy the will of the gods; he wants to command the universe, to enslave untold worlds. It had to be in tune, it had to be played right, it had to have fire on it, and it had to sound good. “But there’s a different side to the lyrics this time around. In the first couple of chapters of the Bible when the ancient Hebrews were trying to take the Promised Land, every little city state, they went in and they slaughtered every man, woman and child. Seven Horns Of War 2. We’re a team of horses going in the same direction. In my mind, I pictured something like ANGEL CORPSE – very old school, blazing guitar, blast beats, double bass – but I was busy working on something else. I was working through it, and it seemed a lot like this particular passage at least, was an exhortation towards some sort of war of extermination. Sacrifice the solo for sake of the greater good of the song. The people who listen to NILE are the most important people in our so-called orbit. Holy fucking crap. I didn’t have to do it all by myself this time. »Vile Nilotic Rites« is the culmination of all that’s come before it and will be the flag for everything that’s to come after. Long Shadows of Dread (4:07) 02. It’s heavy, it’s crushing, and it is the end of the world. NILE has a new ethos: we’re not going to live in the past. We spoke with Sanders about Vile Nilotic Rites, how he’s inspired by Egyptian history, and news on his future solo album. I was so in love with it, he put his heart and soul into this fucking guitar solo. Viewed from planet Earth, over time, you can see that stars are moving beyond the regular night procession. That it’s NILE’s 25th anniversary - they’ve persevered through thin and thick - is also of importance to Sanders and crew. If a part was savage but didn’t fit, out the door it went. So, I started thinking about all this, what kind of stuff was forbidden to these ancient occult, stargazing guys?