Any good are these guys? Getting some now

Maybe the best album by them, if you ask me

I like the sample of Mars in "Ramses Bringer of War"

Really great debut. Definitely better than some of their later albums. xD

Written by Angelic Storm on 15.08.2010 at 14:34

Really great debut. Definitely better than some of their later albums. xD

I'm really not a Death Metal fan but I would say it's the only Nile album I can moderately enjoy. They went too much plain Brutal Death after this album.

Written by RavenKing on 15.08.2010 at 19:27
I'm really not a Death Metal fan but I would say it's the only Nile album I can moderately enjoy. They went too much plain Brutal Death after this album.

Although I like quite a lot of Nile's later stuff as well, the reason why I have a particular fondness for the debut, is the sound is more textured, and the egyptian influences are allowed to shine through a lot more. This is also why "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" is the album of theirs I like the least. The brutality is a tad too overwhelming, which for a band like Nile, who's uniqueness all comes from their egyptian influenced sound, wasnt a good thing. The debut is brutal, but not overtly so. So the songs, and their unique sounds have much more room to breath. Really, it is IMO one of the classic death metal debuts, and one of the very few that is also compellingly original.

Written by Angelic Storm on 15.08.2010 at 20:20

Although I like quite a lot of Nile's later stuff as well, the reason why I have a particular fondness for the debut, is the sound is more textured, and the egyptian influences are allowed to shine through a lot more. This is also why "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" is the album of theirs I like the least. The brutality is a tad too overwhelming, which for a band like Nile, who's uniqueness all comes from their egyptian influenced sound, wasnt a good thing. The debut is brutal, but not overtly so. So the songs, and their unique sounds have much more room to breath. Really, it is IMO one of the classic death metal debuts, and one of the very few that is also compellingly original.

That's pretty much how I draw a line between this album and the rest of Nile's discography. After that, they went too much for sheer brutality, at the expense of the other elements.

I have to say this is their best album. Best song length, brutal, atmospheric, the attitude is there. Good stuff. Recommend to ANYONE who likes ANY death metal.

Unless you like metal core. Then you should go gut yourself with a wooden cooking spoon.

I dont know why but i cannot fucking get into this album. i listened to it many many times with no good result. i was expecting for something great...

Written by Deadmeat on 20.06.2011 at 23:34

I dont know why but i cannot fucking get into this album. i listened to it many many times with no good result. i was expecting for something great...

I agree. Tracks 5 and 11 were real good, but the rest is just a reminder of why I don't like American Death Metal. There's no emotion or atmosphere/ambiance/spirit/whatever you want to call it. No FEEL to it.

^ Oh really? for shame.

Awesome album.

My very 1st death metal album back in 1999 , absolutely amaizing!

After hearing a classical song I've never heard before and recognizing some of the music, I just made the realization that the beginning of Ramses Bringer of War is totally taken from Gustav Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War.

Track 7 is too dope.

This album is very good but very short compared to the sucessors...

Written by F3ynman on 10.07.2022 at 14:35

Listening again to this and Annihilation Of The Wicked, trying to decide which is better.

Written by gavdann on 10.07.2022 at 23:13

I still think Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is their best. I freakin' love that album.

Black Seeds of Vengeance is also good but after that they tried to get too fast and too technical for my liking and as a result less memorable and less enjoyable.

(Continuing the conversation on Catacombs in this thread)

Yeah, this is a fun album too. I really like the middle tracks (tracks 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) and the intros of the last two tracks. They have a very melodic feeling and the Egyptian vibes take center stage.

The other songs try to do a faster approach, but I dont find them as memorable as what they pull off on Annihilation.

Written by F3ynman on 11.07.2022 at 17:12

Yeah, this is a fun album too. I really like the middle tracks (tracks 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) and the intros of the last two tracks. They have a very melodic feeling and the Egyptian vibes take center stage.

The other songs try to do a faster approach, but I dont find them as memorable as what they pull off on Annihilation.

After I stopped listening to metal almost entirely from about 91/92 I became interested in it again around 2000 and Catacombs, Pierced From Within and None So Vile were the ones which got me excited about death metal and extreme metal in general.

Catacombs is also quite short so doesn't drag on for too long. I do agree about the slower, doomy, more melodic tracks being great but I like the short, sharp neck snapping ones like Smashing the Antiu as well. It's just an all round brilliant album for me and their most enjoyable.

I'd love it if Karl Sanders and Chief Spires made up and Nile went back to basics personally.

Written by gavdann on 12.07.2022 at 16:28

Catacombs is also quite short so doesn't drag on for too long. I do agree about the slower, doomy, more melodic tracks being great but I like the short, sharp neck snapping ones like Smashing the Antiu as well. It's just an all round brilliant album for me and their most enjoyable.

I'm revisiting this, and, damn, this is growing on me big time! "Smashing the Antiu" is great indeed. There are so many cool riffs sprinkled in throughout the album that don't show up again, which would be disappointing, but thankfully the album is short so one can immediately hit replay once it's over

"Die Rache Krieg Lied der Assyriche" is still probably my favorite because it's the perfectly atmospheric marching song (even though the title is grammatically incorrect). But there are so many awesome tracks throughout, it's almost beside the point to name them all. I'll just point out "Stones of Sorrow" (just listen to that riff 2:12 minutes into the song!) and "Opening of the Mouth", which don't seem to be mentioned often enough. I was also reading "The Outsider" yesterday again, so the last track here is an especially fitting song for me at the moment.

By the way, I know I said in my Realm Of Chaos review that that Bolt Thrower album is the Reign In Blood of death metal. But, now, I might have to give that title to these 33 minutes of raw, ancient Egyptian brutality

Omgggg that guitar/bass tone is awesome. Love the groovy sections.

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