I've been downloading a lot of Nile latley and I must say they are very good. Ok simple questions, can someone list all their albums for me, and which album should I buy first?
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Festivals Of Atonement
Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
Black Seeds Of Vengeance
In Their Darkened Shrines
I recommend you to get either In Their Darkened Shrines or Black Seeds Of Vengeance. They are all great albums.
Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
Black Seeds Of Vengeance
In Their Darkened Shrines
I recommend you to get either In Their Darkened Shrines or Black Seeds Of Vengeance. They are all great albums.
ffanatic
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Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka and Black Seeds of Vengeance are my favorite. But then again, In Their Darkened Shrines has Unas, Slayer of the Gods on it.
Damn, now I'm torn.
Damn, now I'm torn.
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SculptedCold
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I'd reccommend working through them chronologically. Catacombs of Nephren Ka, Black Seeds, and then Shrines. That's the order I most like them in also.
Catacombs has a clear and quite trebly production. It makes the heavy tracks sound fast and brutal, and overall i'd say it's the most punishing of the albums due to the production alone. It's about the most experimental album; there's a lot of purely atmospheric/instrumental tracks, mostly quite short, but generally their best, the heavy tracks are also quite short but have a lot of atmosphere. Tracks like Stones of Sorrow and Howling of the Jinn for example have interesting screaming vocals or samples (I can't tell which) thrown in the mix that add a lot of character to the songs. Catacombs is an album full of 'little touches' in the songs that make it stand out a lot.
Black Seeds is more developed. It's beautifully paced, much like Catacombs, but with longer instrumentals and chantings. They're also more developed and in depth than Catacombs' offerings but it's arguable that the atmospheric payoff isn't as thorough on Black Seeds because the brutal tracks don't have the same 'touches' that distinguished those on Catacombs. There also seems to be slight filler here and there (eg, Masturbating.. is more quantity than quality with the brutality) but having said that, it's still an excellent record, rounded-off with the epic To Dream of Ur which is one of their greatest songs; it's length complemented and dissipated effectively with the two closing instrumentals.
Shrines is a strange one. It's their most praised, though I don't see why. It's a much more traditional, straightforward record than the two previous ones, and it's got a dark, very muddy production. When you compare them there is a relative extreme lack of instrumental/atmosphere tracks...well, there's only two in fact. Halls of Saurian Entombment....which is excellent; climaxing and then plummeting in mood with the sinister drumming and benedictine-like chanting, but it's not enough; Ruins is forgettable and serves only as a closer. I can't even recall what it sounds like... Then, one can argue that tracks like Sarcophagus (also one of their greatest) and Unas Slayer of the Gods have enough intrinsic atmosphere to make-up for it, and that is true, but the lack of atmospheric experimentation on the record is better highlighted when one looks at all the other tracks, which are all straight-forward, all-out brutal death metal songs. True, the riffing is largely excellent, but the lack of touches in my view is even more telling, especially when we get to the two heavy tracks in the Shrines 'saga', which are for lack of a more respectable word, terrible. Well, not terrible, just faceless. They don't have any of the good riffing or character of the tracks before like Execration Text or Wind of Horus, and are just short brutal minutes rushing by. Although Tony Laureano is a bar-none phenomenal drummer, I don't think he suits Nile very well. Pete Hammoura and Derik Roddy had good feel for the songs on the two previous albums; they picked-out the riffs and paced the songs well....they knew when to blast the kit to fuck and when to let the songs breathe, but Tony does nothing but ultra blasting and insane fills. Yes, he keeps it slow on Sarcophagus and Unas of course, but those songs are engineered with a slow pace....as far as the 'heavy' songs go, Tony doesn't let them breathe at all, and although impressive on one face, it also becomes suffocating and inhibiting to the songs.
So, there's my ten pence. Catacombs and/or Black Seeds for their most balanced, atmospheric work. Shrines if you like things more straightforward and brutal.
Catacombs has a clear and quite trebly production. It makes the heavy tracks sound fast and brutal, and overall i'd say it's the most punishing of the albums due to the production alone. It's about the most experimental album; there's a lot of purely atmospheric/instrumental tracks, mostly quite short, but generally their best, the heavy tracks are also quite short but have a lot of atmosphere. Tracks like Stones of Sorrow and Howling of the Jinn for example have interesting screaming vocals or samples (I can't tell which) thrown in the mix that add a lot of character to the songs. Catacombs is an album full of 'little touches' in the songs that make it stand out a lot.
Black Seeds is more developed. It's beautifully paced, much like Catacombs, but with longer instrumentals and chantings. They're also more developed and in depth than Catacombs' offerings but it's arguable that the atmospheric payoff isn't as thorough on Black Seeds because the brutal tracks don't have the same 'touches' that distinguished those on Catacombs. There also seems to be slight filler here and there (eg, Masturbating.. is more quantity than quality with the brutality) but having said that, it's still an excellent record, rounded-off with the epic To Dream of Ur which is one of their greatest songs; it's length complemented and dissipated effectively with the two closing instrumentals.
Shrines is a strange one. It's their most praised, though I don't see why. It's a much more traditional, straightforward record than the two previous ones, and it's got a dark, very muddy production. When you compare them there is a relative extreme lack of instrumental/atmosphere tracks...well, there's only two in fact. Halls of Saurian Entombment....which is excellent; climaxing and then plummeting in mood with the sinister drumming and benedictine-like chanting, but it's not enough; Ruins is forgettable and serves only as a closer. I can't even recall what it sounds like... Then, one can argue that tracks like Sarcophagus (also one of their greatest) and Unas Slayer of the Gods have enough intrinsic atmosphere to make-up for it, and that is true, but the lack of atmospheric experimentation on the record is better highlighted when one looks at all the other tracks, which are all straight-forward, all-out brutal death metal songs. True, the riffing is largely excellent, but the lack of touches in my view is even more telling, especially when we get to the two heavy tracks in the Shrines 'saga', which are for lack of a more respectable word, terrible. Well, not terrible, just faceless. They don't have any of the good riffing or character of the tracks before like Execration Text or Wind of Horus, and are just short brutal minutes rushing by. Although Tony Laureano is a bar-none phenomenal drummer, I don't think he suits Nile very well. Pete Hammoura and Derik Roddy had good feel for the songs on the two previous albums; they picked-out the riffs and paced the songs well....they knew when to blast the kit to fuck and when to let the songs breathe, but Tony does nothing but ultra blasting and insane fills. Yes, he keeps it slow on Sarcophagus and Unas of course, but those songs are engineered with a slow pace....as far as the 'heavy' songs go, Tony doesn't let them breathe at all, and although impressive on one face, it also becomes suffocating and inhibiting to the songs.
So, there's my ten pence. Catacombs and/or Black Seeds for their most balanced, atmospheric work. Shrines if you like things more straightforward and brutal.
Hammer of Might
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Well said Sculpted! A very helpful and in-depth summary there!
I only have Black Seeds of Vengeance so I cannot comment on their other releases, but I would highly recommend this one!
I don't think you'll be dissapointed with any of them as they are all quite different, especially if you have already downloaded various tracks - presumably from a selection of their different albums?
NILE! \m/
I only have Black Seeds of Vengeance so I cannot comment on their other releases, but I would highly recommend this one!
I don't think you'll be dissapointed with any of them as they are all quite different, especially if you have already downloaded various tracks - presumably from a selection of their different albums?
NILE! \m/
The only Nile albums i got are "Amongst the catacombs of Nephren-Ka" and "In Their Darkened Shirnes". i haven't tried to "Black Seeds of Vengeance" yet and i keep hearing it's not good as the other albums maybe i ought to check it out.
Hammer of Might
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Even if that were the case (which I'm sure many people will say it's not),Black Seeds of Vengeance is still a great record in its own right which deserves investgation!
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FailingAcension
Spiffy, eh?
Psychonaut
God Of Emptiness
I'd do as SculptedCold recommended and work through them in order. I love the atmosphere on Catacombs. Each album has highlights so I'd get them all if I were you.
Oceanic Motion
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'Black Seeds of Vengeance' for me 
. I haven't got 'Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka' yet as I've only recently started to enjoy listening to Nile. 'In Their Darkened Shrines' is a good album but I don't think it deserves the amount of praise it gets :Smug: . And by the way "Sarcophagus" & "Winds of Horus" totally own "Unas, Slayer of The Gods" 
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. I haven't got 'Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka' yet as I've only recently started to enjoy listening to Nile. 'In Their Darkened Shrines' is a good album but I don't think it deserves the amount of praise it gets :Smug: . And by the way "Sarcophagus" & "Winds of Horus" totally own "Unas, Slayer of The Gods" .
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IMO The Blessed Dead is the best song on ITDS. One thing that every album has but could do without is those "Egyptian" interludes. It's basically filler. That is Nile's only weakness.Ageless said:'Black Seeds of Vengeance' for me
SculptedCold
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those egyptian interludes are the only things making Nile remarkably distinctive. that's why Shrines is relatively boring in comparison to the first two. for all the abundance of death and brutal death metal out there that does nothing but blast and buzz away for the entire length of an album, a band that adds actual atmosphere is rare, and certainly welcome.
I hope they ditch the straightforward approach to Shrines and get back to being more experimental on their next album.
I hope they ditch the straightforward approach to Shrines and get back to being more experimental on their next album.
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You think ITDS is straightforward? After Unas Slayer Of Gods many of the songs are slower with wierd Egyptian noises and chanting thrown in. that's why I like the first half of the CD a lot better than the second half. The first five songs are all pretty much standouts, and the only standout on the second half of the disk is Wind Of Horus IMO.SculptedCold said:
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