PERHAPS THE GODS DETEST NILE, BUT WE DON’T

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 11:30am by Axl Rosenberg

Wow. For some reason I didn’t think we’d be getting a new Nile album ’til 2010, but their latest offering, Those Whom the Gods Detest, will be out November 3 on Nuclear Blast. Sweeeeet.

Here’s the cover art, which, natch, sticks to the whole Egyptian theme, but I think is still pretty cool:

thosewhomthegodsdetest

And here’s what Karl Sanders told me about the new album a few months back:

“This [Nile album] is probably going to be a polar opposite to the last record… In terms of the song structures, instrumentation, things like that.  There are a lot of other influences that are going to be on this record.  The last two Nile records I felt were more straight ahead kind of death metal.  They were big and sprawling and orchestrated out the ass with lots of stuff on it.  I think for awhile we wanted to show people the more metal side of us.  This new record is going in lots of different directions.  The songs that are written so far have lots of layers and different ideas.  It’s going to be an interesting record.”

I guess we’ll see if Karl was talkin’ da truth in November!

-AR



21 COMMENTS on “PERHAPS THE GODS DETEST NILE, BUT WE DON’T”

  1. Nate says:

    This is my abso-fuckin-lutely favorite band… Karl Sanders is a genius, I have yet to be disappointed.

    • vegan says:

      if you wanna be dissapointed check out his “betcha cant play this” on youtube. i was gonna meet him in a bar where he was gonna be but i was too young, i like sanders but just watch that video

  2. Jesse Menard says:

    I’m hoping they stray away from the straight death sound. Hopefully he can bring more of what he did on his latest solo album into this new Nile offering.

  3. SP420 says:

    As long as they don’t pull a 1349 and go shitstain ambient on us, I’m fine.

  4. d00shc00gr says:

    Fuck yeah! Now I have TWO albums to be excited about this fall. Baroness and NILE! What an awesome surprise

  5. Gospel of Madness says:

    Great cover art.

    Great Album title.

    Killer band.

    November 3rd is too far away.

  6. myke says:

    hmmm i thought they were signed to nuclear blast. back with relapse i guess

  7. noobpotato says:

    I WANT!

  8. Mark Gavin says:

    You know what would be cool? A new Carcass album.

  9. hibernum says:

    Nile get bonus points for spelling whom instead of who.

  10. Choronzon says:

    Great cover art – way better than that blurry mess that was “Ithyphallic”. I wasn’t too fond of “Ithyphallic”, hope this one is more in the vein of “In Their Darkened Shrines” and “Black Seeds Of Vengeance”.

  11. anybody who claims nile sucks surely have a vagina

  12. SourDeez says:

    Holy shit, a new Nile record!!!???? And it comes out in less than 2 months? Have I been living under a rock?

  13. Fong Chung says:

    This is going to rule very hard, and probably end up being one of my personal favorites for the year.

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