THOSE WHOM THE GODS DETEST = VINCE NEILSTEIN?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 11:30am by Vince Neilstein
A little birdy came and told me that Karl Sanders has never been to Egypt.
What what WHAT?!?!
This perplexing nugget of information came up in conversation because yours truly just booked a flight to Cairo in February. There will definitely be a serious Nile listening session in effect when I visit the pyramids, and, if Egypt’s mobile technology allows, blog and Twitter updates from The Middle East will be aplenty. Better yet, I’ll be traveling with someone who lived there for 2 years and speaks Arabic, and for at least part of the time I’ll be staying with a local metalhead. I’m really looking forward to exploring the underbelly of Egyptian metal culture, whatever that entails… I’ll probably get a lot of confused looks when I tell folks I run a website called “Metal Sucks.”
We’re trying mightily to get Mr. Sanders to accompany us on our journey. We’ll see how that pans out. In the meantime, Noisecreep is streaming Nile’s new track “Utterances of the Crawling Dead” which comes from Nile’s new album Those Whom the Gods Detest, out November 3rd. You should listen to it whilst imagining the hilarity of this Jewish metalhead traipsing around Egypt this coming Winter.
-VN
Egypt’s metal is existent and doing well, all things considered. If you have yet to do so, read Heavy Metal Islam, a fantastic chronicle of how our peers are enjoying the music we love in disparate circumstances, be it political or cultural.
Last I checked, Egypt has an annual heavy metal festival. One of four nations on the African continent to feature one, along with Morocco, Namibia as well as South Africa. Good times.
Yes, it is a good book. Reading it made me appreciate our freedom here; we can listen to our music without fear of being persecuted or oppressed.
This record is gonna rip! How often in a calenar yr do u get releases from C Corpse, Suffo, behemoth and Nile!? Amazing yr for death metal!
I remember buying decibel magazine right after ithyphallic came out, there he said that he had actually never been there, but he wanted to! Dont know/care if he has been recently :)
I think the new album is very good, at first listen I wasnt that impressed but it has really grown on me, I dig it.
Gonna buy this album too btw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC3EObh-maE
Karl Sanders is simply a great and very cool dude, the type of person, which you really want to meet in person! And it doesn’t matter if the man wasn’t to Egypt yet, he still writes kick ass music!
In case any of you care, I’ll be interviewing Nile for my radio show. The interview will air on November 8th at Midnight… radio.depaul.edu
Now, make fun of me!
You’re Jewish?!?!?!?!?!?
Very cool track, i kind of ignored nile because i didnt like the fact that they were american but had themed their music around egyptian culture, and to find out the dude hasnt even been to egypt?! But having listened to the track they actually sound pretty cool. Ill reconsider.
I received an advance of this record from NBA and find that there’s something a little off with it compared to other Nile records. I like it – and appreciate the changes Sanders and company have tried to inject in their tried-and-true formula – but something strikes me as odd with this new album. It might have something to do with the production. I know Erik Rutan was involved with the recording; maybe his influence is it.
Whereas with previous Nile albums, I always imagined a layer of sand (yeah, stupid I know) grinding up some of the highs, this time around they’re very distinct and the instruments are quite clear. Right, somebody’s bitching about being able to hear all of the instruments on a death metal album. But, like I said, compared to the rest of Nile’s catalog, while it’s a good effort, I don’t rank this one near the top.
You guys can afford a flight to Egypt???
Well, your parents are probably lawyers and doctors.
Whether they have been to Egypt or not doesnt really matter, because they are still amazing. People in America can write harmonies with harmonic minor scales, too. It’s not like Egypt has some brilliant secret to playing scales that the rest of the world can’t figure out.
Terrorizer did some issues on Middle Eastern metal. Check that shit out.
Also, Neshamah were from South Africa. Those dudes(girl) ruled.