International-renowned American loss of life steel icons NILE go back in 2024 with their highly-anticipated tenth onslaught, ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’, out August 23 by way of Napalm Information
Boasting hermetic technicality and unrelenting brutality, the brand new album pushes every member of NILE – founding mastermind/guitarist Karl Sanders, longtime drum grasp George Kollias, vocalist/guitarists Brian Kingsland and Zach Jeter, and bassist Dan Vadim Von – to their furthest extremes each in artistry and function.
As soon as once more produced and recorded at Sanders’ personal Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina, the band returned to ‘Vile Nilotic Rites‘ engineer Mark Lewis (CANNIBAL CORPSE, DYING FETUS) for blending and mastering.
In birthday party of lately’s announcement, NILE have dropped the album’s first new unmarried, “Bankruptcy for No longer Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake within the Underworld and Made to Consume Feces through the 4 Apes“, along a brand new authentic track video. Crowned through killer screams and gutturals, the monitor is a winding hacksaw of brutal tech-death injections mentioning the Egyptian Ebook of the Lifeless.
NILE‘s Karl Sanders feedback at the new monitor and video: “’Bankruptcy for now not being Hung Upside Down‘ is one in all our favourite tracks at the new report. It’s numerous a laugh to play, difficult and unpredictable, however with an infectiously brutal, unrestrained vibe that I’m very positive will likely be a blast within the mosh pit all through are living displays.
“We’re tremendous satisfied to be running with Tom Flynn for the video for this tune – he’s a visionary with insanely ingenious concepts and a in point of fact cool man to paintings with. Very excited for folks to peer what he has been cooking up with this video.”
Dealing with the planet’s inevitable finish with their diehard fanatics at their aspect, NILE waste completely no time with histrionics on ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All‘, distilling their trademark Egyptology-driven tempest all the way down to its maximum streamlined essence.
Charging into struggle as its namesake depicts, “Stelae of Vultures” makes an instantaneous affect with dissonant guitar chords and supernatural drumming, teasing the auditory evisceration to return. Crowned through spectacular screams and gutturals, the monitor leads into “Bankruptcy for No longer Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake within the Underworld and Made to Consume Feces through the 4 Apes”, mentioning the Egyptian Ebook of the Lifeless’s 181st bankruptcy.
The album’s maximum succinct monitor, “To Strike with Secret Fang”, blends low-end punishment with blackened loss of life steel inspiration, ahead of album standouts reminiscent of “Naqada II Input the Golden Age” and “Overlords of the Black Earth” breathe new lifestyles with thrash and fusion experimentation, in addition to actual human choirs – including a uncooked part to the NILE fold.
Every monitor soars as a technical tour-de-force – that includes career-defining excessive drumming from Kollias, in addition to razor-sharp soloing from all 3 lively guitarists and palpable bass exploration. A super instance of this equation is pinnacle burner “Underneath the Curse of the One God”, combining sinister atmospherics with breakneck pacing and whirlwind, vicious riff acrobatics.
During the rest of its 11 pummeling tracks and complex interludes, NILE masters full-tilt pace and ferocious musicality. 30 years into their heavy reign, ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All‘ proves that NILE is marching onward and without a doubt upward, bleeding steel for his or her fandom for so long as the sands of time permit.
Karl Sanders says in regards to the album: “We’re more than happy to be sharing with fanatics Nile’s tenth album. We labored extra time making this report as killer as shall we – as a result of we sincerely felt fanatics deserved our very best efforts. The Underworld Awaits us All – and we can see you there.”
‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’’s mind-bending artwork was once as soon as once more envisioned and created through Michał ‘Xaay’ Loranc, referencing the cycle of lifestyles and judgment at its finish.
NILE ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’ Observe Record:
- Stelae of Vultures
- Bankruptcy for No longer Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake within the Underworld and Made to Consume Feces through the 4 Apes
- To Strike with Secret Fang
- Naqada II Input the Golden Age
- The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka
- Overlords of the Black Earth
- Underneath the Curse of the One God
- Doctrine of Closing Issues
- True Gods of the Desolate tract
- The Underworld Awaits us All
- Lament for the Destruction of Time
NILE lately introduced a complete Eu excursion for September 2024, adopted through a Japan excursion in October 2024. The band was once additionally simply showed for Maryland Deathfest 2025, and can make two pageant appearances this summer season.
See under for a complete listing and keep tuned for extra excursion bulletins, coming quickly!
NILE Fairs:
June 21, 2024 – Dessel, BE @ Graspop Steel Assembly
June 29, 2024 – Clisson, FR @ Hellfest
Might 22-25, 2025 – Baltimore, MD, USA @ Maryland Deathfest XX
NILE Underworld Europe Excursion 2024:
September 3, 2024 – Essen, GER @ Turock
September 4, 2024 – Amstelveen, HOL @ P60
September 5, 2024 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
September 6, 2024 – Glasgow, UK @ Slay
September 7, 2024 – Dublin, IRE @ Opium
September 8, 2024 – Belfast, N.IRE @ Limelight2
September 10, 2024 – Manchester, UK @ Insurrection
Sept. 11, 2024 – London, UK @ Underworld
September 12, 2024 – Drachten, HOL @ Iduna
September 13, 2024 – Uden, HOL @ De Pul
September 14, 2024 – Brugge, BEL @ Het Entrepot
September 15, 2024 – Mannheim, GER @ MS Connexion Complicated
September 17, 2024 – Barcelona, SP @ Salamandra
September 18, 2024 – Valencia, SP @ Almassera
September 19, 2024 – Sevilla, SP @ Customized
September 20, 2024 – Lisbon, POR @ RCA
September 21, 2024 – Porto, POR @ Arduous Membership
September 22, 2024 – Madrid, SP @ Mon
September 24, 2024 – Moncalieri (TI), ITA @ Audiodrome
September 25, 2024 – Rome, ITA @ Largo
September 26, 2024 – Modena, ITA @ Notte Tempio
September 27, 2024 – Aarau, CH @ KiFF
September 28, 2024 – San Dona’ Di Piave, ITA @ Revolver
September 29, 2024 – Munich, GER @ Behind the scenes
NILE Japan Excursion 2024:
October 8, 2024 – Tokyo @ House Bizarre
October 9, 2024 – Tokyo @ House Bizarre
October 10, 2024 – Osaka @ Varon
NILE in Bangkok:
October 12, 2024 – Bangkok, TH @ Mr. Fox Reside Area
NILE Australia & New Zealand Excursion 2024:
October 15, 2024 – Perth, AU @ Milk Bar / Civic Lodge
October 16, 2024 – Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
October 17, 2024 – Brisbane, AU @ The Brightside
October 18, 2024 – Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts
October 19, 2024 – Hobart, AU @ Uni Bar
October 20, 2024 – Sydney, AU @ Crowbar
October 22, 2024 – Auckland, NZ @ Whammy
NILE are:
Karl Sanders – Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards,
George Kollias – Drums
Brian Kingsland – Guitar, Vocals
Zach Jeter – Guitar, Vocals
Dan Vadim Von – Bass
