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US death metal icons NILE return with their long-awaited album“The Underworld Awaits Us All”. Once again, they combinetechnical precision with merciless brutality to create a bloodcurdlingdeath metal attack. All band members, without exception,demonstrate enormous musical skill on their instruments. With aband history of 30 years, NILE prove with “The Underworld AwaitsUs All” that they will continue to provide their fans with the finesttech death for as long as the hourglass allows.World-renowned American death metal icons NILE return in 2024 with their highly-anticipated 10th onslaught, The Underworld Awaits Us All, out August 23 via NapalmRecords. Boasting airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality, the new album pusheseach member of NILE – founding mastermind/guitarist Karl Sanders, longtime drummaster George Kollias, vocalist/guitarists Brian Kingsland and Zach Jeter, and bassist DanVadim Von – to their furthest extremes both in artistry and performance. Once againproduced and recorded at Sanders’ own Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, SouthCarolina, the band returned to Vile Nilotic Rites engineer Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse,Dying Fetus, Whitechapel) for mixing and mastering. The Underworld Awaits Us All’s mind-bending art was once again envisioned and created by Michał 'Xaay' Loranc, withreference to the cycle of life and judgment at its end.Facing the planet’s inevitable end with their diehard fans at their side, NILE wasteabsolutely no time with histrionics on The Underworld Awaits Us All, distilling theirtrademark Egyptology driven tempest down to its most streamlined essence. Charging intobattle as its namesake depicts, “Stelae of Vultures” makes an immediate impact withdissonant guitar chords and supernatural drumming, teasing the auditory evisceration tocome. Topped by impressive screams and gutturals, the track leads into “Chapter for NotBeing Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by theFour Apes”, a winding hacksaw of brutal tech-death citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead’s181st chapter. The album’s most succinct track, “To Strike with Secret Fang”, blends low-end punishment with blackened death metal inspiration, before album standouts such as“Naqada II Enter the Golden Age” and “Overlords of the Black Earth” breathe new life withthrash and fusion experimentation, as well as real human choirs – adding a raw element tothe NILE fold. Each track soars as a technical tour-de-force – featuring career-definingextreme drumming from Kollias, as well as razor-sharp soloing from all three activeguitarists and palpable bass exploration. A perfect example of this equation is pinnacleburner “Under the Curse of the One God”, combining sinister atmospherics with breakneckpacing and whirlwind, vicious riff acrobatics.Throughout the remainder of its 11 pummeling tracks and intricate interludes, NILEmasters full-tilt speed and ferocious musicality. 30 years into their heavy reign, TheUnderworld Awaits Us All proves that NILE is marching onward and undoubtedly upward,bleeding metal for their fandom for as long as the sands of time will allow.
Technical-Death-Metal · 33.5€ · https://backstage.eu/nile-underworld-europe-tour-2024.html