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Nile Album Review
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Band Name: Nile
Album Name: Annihilation of the Wicked Rating: 4 / 5 User Rating: 0 / 5 Label: Relapse Records Buy Album: Amazon.com Rate Album: Rate |
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Tracklist 1. Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount 2. Cast Down The Heretic 3. Sacrafice Unto Sebek 4. User-Maat-Re 5. The Burning Pits Of The Duat 6. Chapter Of The Obeisance Before Giving Breath To The Inert One 7. Lashed To The Slave Stick 8. Spawn Of Uamenti 9. Annihilation Of The Wicked 10. Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten |
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Nile is a band that continues to push metal's boundaries to the limits, as it does on its 2005 release 'Annihilation of the Wicked' (produced by Neil Kernon of Queensryche fame). Judging from its name and song titles, Nile has a thing for Middle Eastern imagery, and the album starts off with sounds straight out of the desert, "Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise." But there is nothing that could possibly prepare you for what is lurking around the corner, as perhaps "a metallic head-on collision" is a fitting description for the machine gun-like "Cast Down the Heretic." Guitarist Karl Sanders continues to make a valid argument that he is one of the top guitarists of the extreme metal genre throughout the album, as he has no problem keeping pace with the rapid-fire drums. If you're not well versed with this style of metal, the songs on 'Annihilation of the Wicked' may start to blend into one another after a while, but extreme metal fans will be writhing in ecstasy. Review by: Jason F Read Member Reviews |
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