Nile

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Nile is a technical death metal band from USA. They formed in their hometown of Greenville, SC, in 1993, combine extreme speed and brutality of modern death metal with the ancient styling of Middle Eastern music.

With their self-proclaimed trademark of “Ithyphallic Metal”, Karl Sanders (guitar/vocals), Chief Spires (bass/vocals), and Pete Hammoura(drums) debuted with their Festivals of Atonement album in 1995, leading Nile to a southwestern tour in support of other big metal acts such as Obituary, Deicide and Broken Hope.

Viscera Productions was responsible for Nile’s follow-up EP “Ramses Bringer of War” in 1997 and was going to release their second album “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka”, if they hadn’t gone out of business later that year.

However, Relapse Records was more than happy to put it out in early 1998, giving Nile a wider distribution and a chance to hit the road with Incantation and Morbid Angel.

The follow-up, “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, was released in late 2000. Prior to this release, Pete Hammoura left the band due to injuries sustained in an accident, feeling he could no longer drum at the level which Nile required. Derek Roddy drummed on all of the tracks (except To Dream of Ur) as a guest. Also prior to “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, Dallas Toller-Wade joined as a second guitarist/vocalist. A collection of remastered, hard to find recordings, “In the Beginning” was released later the same year.

Chief Spires left the bands a few months after the release of “Black Seeds of Vengeance”, citing personal and professional differences. He was replaced by John Vesano. The band also found a new drummer in Tony Laureano.

1	Sacrifice Unto Sebek full track	1,051
2	Cast Down the Heretic full track	1,024
3	Lashed to the Slave Stick full track	944
4	Annihilation of the Wicked	635
5	Ithyphallic	629
6	Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks from He Who…	610
7	Execration Text full track	609
8	The Burning Pits of the Duat	594
9	Eat of the Dead	568
10	Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise	556
11	Laying Fire Upon Apep	532
12	The Essential Salts	529
13	Sarcophagus full track	520
14	Spawn of Uamenti	516
15	Black Seeds of Vengeance full track	501

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Slit_Your_Guts wrote:
Friday morning

September 19th is set for big fun

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Hollowman92 wrote:
Thursday afternoon

One of the greatest death metal bands.

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Winter_Dave wrote:
Thursday afternoon

" "Annihilation Of The Wicked" is one of the greatest Death Metal Albums ever !!! " - true, true

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Thursday morning

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crazytribe wrote:
Thursday morning

srsly gaiz ithy isnt <b>BAD</b>

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drowned_maid wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Hail to NiIe - metal kings!

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Trillboo wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

UNAS!!!!!!!!!

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CubesOfMadness wrote:
Wednesday morning

Nile is just amazingly sick live.

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Sk8boyda wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

are you fucking kidding me. these guys are so tight. live it is perfect hit for hit. nearly everyone does back up vox. the drummer doesnt have to play with triggers (nor record with) and the fucking guitarist uses a fucking FRETTLESS 12 STRING GUITAR for some songs!! can you play that shit and make people go wild with it!?? didnt think so.

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jerkus wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

how this music it just bunch of white boys bangin instrument they cant play

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friguido wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

best death metasl i know

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pussyket wrote:
Tuesday morning

king of death

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celonq wrote:
Monday evening

death sux...

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www222gol wrote:
Monday afternoon

i don't like death metal, but Nile is good band.

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celonq wrote:
Monday afternoon

Unas Slayer of the Gods, fucken great long song ;:D:D:D!! \m/

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Sk8boyda wrote:
Sunday afternoon

ehh, eat of the dead is pretty fucking cool though. 12 string frettless guitar?!?!..sheahh.. bad aass!!

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SonicX wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Ithaphalic must be the best album to fall asleep with. It's so boring, it just MAKES you sleepy, even if you don't need to :|

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mattfca wrote:
Sunday morning

why do they never play Toronto?

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Sk8boyda wrote:
Sunday morning

fuck am i getting annoyed by the band BLOWME. anyway just saw nile a few months ago HOLY SHIT fucking amazing. I am so proud that these bad mother fuckers are from america. i love when we finally come up with really good shit. i mean Carl sanders..Dallas Wade!? american as hell. SICK FUCKING METAL

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theruthlessband wrote:
last month

please check out my band "The Ruthless" we are a melodic death metal band from jacksonville fla. we have music and videos here on last.fm and you can check us out at www.myspace.com/theruthlessband

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Sep 3 Ithyphallic Europe Tour 2008 A38, Budapest, Hungary
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