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PERMIT THE NOBLE NILE TO DESCEND UPON THE UNDERWORLD

 Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 4:45pm by

thosewhomthegodsdetest

Nile’s new song, “Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld,” may have the longest title, like, ev-er, but that doesn’t make it any less stellar.

Back in May, the mighty Karl Sanders told me that the new Nile album, Those Whom the Gods Detest, would be “going in lots of different directions,” and would be less “straight ahead death metal.” This song is certainly heavy as a really heavy thing, but I can also definitely see what Sanders was getting at – it’s only just barely traditionalist American death metal.

Check the song out here. Those Whom the Gods Detest drops November 3 on Nuclear Blast.

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  • Roseman5285

    great song, however this is their longest title “Chapter of Obeisance before giving Breath to The Inert One in the presence of The Crescent Shaped Horns”

    • fasshole

      “Papyrus Containing the spell to preserve it’s possesor against attacks from he who is in the water”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Winnett/504952291 Daniel Winnett

    killer song
    also long titles fucking rule

  • F

    That’s not a long song-title in Niles book dude. These are long:

    “Libation Unto The Shades Who Lurk In The Shadows Of The Temple Of Anhur”

    “Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount Of Sunrise”

    “Chapter Of Obeisance Before Giving Breath To The Inert One In The Presence Of The Crescent Shaped Horns”

    “Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who Is In The Water”

    • F

      And btw, I do not understand what’s NOT death metal about this new track and what makes it sooo different from their other works? Since when has their material been “straight ahead death metal”…? I really don’t understand Karl sometimes.

    • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

      Fuck they like prepositions

      • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

        lol That’s fuckin’ awesome.

  • msv81

    This album kicks major ass, just like the rest of their catalogue. Not sure if I can call it their best quite yet, but I’ve only managed to give it a few spins….time will tell.

  • Fink

    Red Sparowes, anyone?

    3. “Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe.”

    or

    8. “Finally, As That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves.”

    On Amazon, track 3 has an even longer title that’s actually partially cut-off at the end. Ridiculous.

    • Malacoda

      It’s because they write a short story on the back of every album with the song titles. True.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Guzmn/570745539 Daniel Guzmán

        Bal.Sagoth also come up with really long song titles.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    Absu begs to differ with “… Of the Dead Who Never Rest in Their Tombs Are the Attendance of Familiar Spirits … Including: A.) Diversified Signs Inscribed; B.) Our Earth of Black; C.) Voor”.

    • Ben

      Agreed, absu is killer.

      • Canvas Of Flesh

        Agreed, Agreed! Absu>Nile

  • Ziltoid

    Boring. Then again, it’s Nile, so I’m not at all surprised by this.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Dasher/30826541 Matt Dasher

      Agreed. This band is frequently amazing for ten seconds. Then it starts sucking again.

    • cyrollan

      keep it down

    • Nate

      Really? I mean, I know you only like obscure shit, but really? Cultural influences don’t do it for you?

      • cyrollan

        I’m with you, Nate. Nile can be a lot of things, but boring might be on the top 3 List of Descriptors Which Nile Is Not.

        And honest to goodness, everyone’s got an opinion. And it’s all subjective, of course. However, I’ve heard Ziltoid complain about so many bands that I’m starting to think he’s a troll.

        • SourDeez

          Since everyone is entitled to their own opinion, it’s my opinion that if you find Nile boring you’re probably strung out on heroin. They have been doing the same thing lately, but that thing is 100% unique and inimitable and the musicianship is top notch.

      • Ziltoid

        Really now, cheesy passages after every few songs don’t qualify as “cultural influences.” It’s standard, run of the mill, boring tech death metal. The vocals are horribly unemotive and don’t provide anything to the atmosphere whatsoever. They just enjoy monotony. The drums, while played well, are just boring. the guitars play a few interestting sections, but as said before, 10 interesting sections don’t save a 5-9 minute song from being boring.

        • SourDeez

          So by “cheesy”, you mean that tons of other artists have incorporated egyptian pentatonic scales, harmony, and authentic ancient instruments into their interludes? I challenge you to name one.

          • Ziltoid

            I never said that it wasn’t original, bu t the egyptian influences are only noticeable in the interludes. the actual songs themselves have very little egyptian anything besides a few cheesy parts here and there. otherwise, straightforward, generic tech death.

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/62449cbe5ea8d22bcc2e76890fceaa37.png Lord Bling

    I like this new song, although I agree with those who said it’s not really that different from anything else they’ve done recently. I just hope the album as a whole is stronger than Ithyphallic. That was a disappointment after the brilliant Annihilation of the Wicked.

  • Zack

    I think the Flaming Lips win for longest song title:

    “What Is The Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That The Chemical (In Our Brains) By Which We Are Able To Experience The Sensation Of Being In Love Is The Same Chemical That Caused The “Big Bang” That Was The Birth Of The Accelerating Universe)”

    • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

      “Swedish group Rednex are the proud owners of the world’s longest song title.

      At 52 words and 305 characters, (including spaces) here it is:

      The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation ”

      Source: http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long170.html

  • Ronnie

    Is it just me, or does one of the riffs (haven’t listened to it more than once, so don’t know which one) sound a bit like Ob(Servant) by Psycroptic?

    • cyrollan

      good call, bromosexual. i’m not sure i’ll ever be able to listen to this song w/o thinking of psychroptic. (ya i bought ob(servant) too … an odd album considering its ADD nature and lack of solos)

  • SourDeez

    Goddamn, I love this band.

  • Aaron

    Love this new album. Love this band. The production is definately different this time around, but it sounds fresh and bone crushing.

  • Dudeus Odorificus

    It’s good, better than the previous one, a cut below “AOTW” but overall a solid effort.

  • My Penis Itches Bad

    I like the Strapping Young Lad reference in there hahah

  • Sandy n Papo

    by the cover this is certainly not sumeriancore, but egyptiancore

  • http://www.myspace.com/northwestroyale Blake

    Love the new song. This has stuck in my head more than previous work. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I almost want to say it sounds a little… “stripped down”? By that I mean, they’re letting the music “breathe” a little better, and I can understand a lot more of what Dallas is saying.

  • B-dizzle

    One time I listened to Nile and then ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

  • jj

    the album is like one longass song that won’t end

  • Jay-P

    It’s a cool album and all but its not exactly breaking the mould for death metal. Its just the same as it ever was. Epic intros followed by brutality. Maybe the odd bit of random instrumentation in the middle.

    I just wish the drummer would sit the fuck down and learn how to use a double kick, not ripping on his skills or anything because i sure as hell couldnt do it. But come on man it gets a little irritating by the end of an album.

    And have yourself a listen through again i can hear at least 3 previous nile songs ripped into bits on this. Good album but definately not the besy of the year. id’ give that title to vader.

    • SourDeez

      You can’t trivialize things like “epic intros” and “odd instrumentation”. Those things are fucking fantastic, they’re not just some little bits that were thrown in as an afterthought. I would argue that mixing those things in with brutal death metal IS breaking the mold for death metal. Karl Sanders actually collects and plays those ancient instruments, it’s not just some MIDI afterthought that they made and cut in using ProTools, it’s a legitimate part of their music. No one else does anything like that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Pelkonen/1184592898 Paul Pelkonen

    Friends,
    Let us not forget Blue Oyster Cult’s
    “The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein’s Castle at Westphalia”
    and Anthrax’s C11H17N202SNA which would have longest title if you wrote out the whole formula without any abbreviations…..

  • Biff Tannen

    I can’t believe anyone still listens to this garbage band. They have been repeating themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over for 10 fucking years.
    Their only great album was the first one.
    B O R I N G

  • Daniel

    Nile’s albums fucking slay. Too bad it’s all studio tricks and they can’t come close to reproducing it live.