CD: In The Pharaoh’s Chamber: Karl Sanders of Nile
Date: 02/01/03
Reviewer: JL Schwartz
Review:
Inside of the varied pigeon-holed world of music, profound intellect is a rare commodity. Even when it is openly displayed, it is rarely given any consideration by a market of consumers hungry for hooks that fit relatively familiar into their auditory senses. This is the void by which Nile has not only surpassed critic’s expectations of “Death-Metal” but has fulfilled an audience’s desire for blood lust and carnage with the sophisticated truth of a civilization that rivals modern history. By standing on the shoulders of giants, Nile offers vital introspection into a fascinating period of evolutionary thought without usurping fact with personal opinions. They are voices of the dead speaking out to us the living, demanding our attention to their prowess of a life that was not fanciful. Even if one is not so inclined to have their metal interlaced with a lay Egyptology lesson, the harder than hell delivery will drive even the most abject into a mosh-pit of frenzy. Nile stands poised and ready to become the masters of a genre that has begged for them since its genesis. Being granted entrance to the inner sanctum, MidwestMetal.Info came to honor metal’s newest mortal gods and hopefully decipher their hieroglyphic message for the masses.
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