American Death Metal veterans NILE, have dropped a lyric video for new single “Under The Curse Of The One God”. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “The Underworld Awaits Us Al”, which will be released this Friday, August 23rd via Napalm Records. The track combines sinister atmospherics with breakneck pacing and vicious riff acrobatics, soaring as a technical tour-de-force with career-defining drumming from George Kollias.
NILE’s Karl Sanders comments on the new track and lyric video:
“We are really happy that fans will finally have a chance to hear ‘Under the Curse of the One God’. It’s a ferocious and brutal NILE track, and steeped in Ancient Curses. Many thanks to Ingo Sporl for once again wielding his uniquely creative visual artistry to help bring our music to blasphemous life.”
Boasting airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality, the new album pushes each member of NILE – founding mastermind/guitarist Karl Sanders, longtime drum master George Kollias, vocalist/guitarists Brian Kingsland and Zach Jeter, and bassist Dan Vadim Von – to their furthest extremes both in artistry and performance. Once again produced and recorded at Sanders’ own Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina, the band returned to “Vile Nilotic Rites” engineer Mark Lewis (CANNIBAL CORPSE, DYING FETUS, WHITECHAPEL) for mixing and mastering.
Facing the planet’s inevitable end with their diehard fans at their side, NILE waste absolutely no time with histrionics on “The Underworld Awaits Us All”, distilling their trademark Egyptology driven tempest down to its most streamlined essence. Charging into battle as its namesake depicts, “Stelae Of Vultures” makes an immediate impact with dissonant guitar chords and supernatural drumming, teasing the auditory evisceration to come. Topped by impressive screams and gutturals, the track leads into “Chapter For Not Being Hung Upside Down On A Stake In The Underworld And Made To Eat Feces By The Four Apes”, citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead’s 181st chapter.
The album’s most succinct track, “To Strike With Secret Fang”, blends low-end punishment with Βlackened Death Metal inspiration, before album standouts such as “Naqada II Enter The Golden Age” and “Overlords Of The Black Earth” breathe new life with hrash and fusion experimentation, as well as real human choirs – adding a raw element to the NILE fold. Each track soars as a technical tour-de-force – featuring career-defining extreme drumming from Kollias, as well as razor-sharp soloing from all three active guitarists and palpable bass exploration. A perfect example of this equation is pinnacle burner “Under the Curse of the One God”, combining sinister atmospherics with breakneck pacing and whirlwind, vicious riff acrobatics.
Throughout the remainder of its 11 pummelling tracks and intricate interludes, NILE masters full-tilt speed and ferocious musicality. 30 years into their heavy reign, “The Underworld 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.
“The Underworld Awaits Us All” ’s mind-bending art was once again envisioned and created by Michał ‘Xaay’ Loranc, with reference to the cycle of life and judgment at its end.
“The Underworld Awaits Us All” track listing:
- Stelae of Vultures
- Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
- To Strike with Secret Fang
- Naqada II Enter the Golden Age
- The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka
- Overlords of the Black Earth
- Under the Curse of the One God
- Doctrine of Last Things
- True Gods of the Desert
- The Underworld Awaits Us All
- Lament for the Destruction of Time
You can watch the lyric video for “Under The Curse Of The One God” below:
