NILE

With their diehard fans at their side, NILE fearlessly face the planet’s inevitable end with zero histrionics on their 10th album, The Underworld Awaits Us All, out August 23 via Napalm Records. The album follows the band’s critically acclaimed 2019 album, Vile Nilotic Rites, which debuted at #4 on the US Current Hard Music Albums chart and #5 on the US Top New Artist Albums chart, and that MetalSucks dubbed a “thoroughly satisfying technical death metal assault”. 

 

Boasting airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality, The Underworld Awaits Us All pushes each member of NILE – founding mastermind/guitarist Karl Sanders, longtime drum master George Kollias, vocalist/guitarists Brian Kingsland and Zach Jeter, and bassist Dan Vadim Von – to their furthest extremes both in artistry and performance. 

“When George, Brian and I first discussed the upcoming 10th Nile album – the music, the recording process, and the expectations we ourselves had – it was unanimously decided that we must up our game in every way,” offers Karl Sanders. “The playing, the musicianship, the writing, the brutality, the recording and production quality, and most of all, the effectiveness of all those elements becoming a cohesive fist, were all of utmost prime importance to us. We didn’t want to go backward or just do things the way we had done before; nor did we want to necessarily change who we are and what we love doing. We needed to stay true to the Nile sound and to Nile fans, while pushing forward and raising the bar on ourselves in every way.”

 

The members of NILE had quite a bit of time to hone their tracks to a razor’s edge, sending multiple songs to the chopping block several times and distilling their trademark Egyptology driven tempest down to its most streamlined essence. Once again produced and recorded at Sanders’ own Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina, the band returned to Vile Nilotic Rites engineer Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Whitechapel) for mixing and mastering.