NILE - 'Annihilation of the Wicked' (Full Album Stream)

[@MegaCurtisimo]

People say Nile's stuff is hard to play. I don't know what they're talking about. I just load up a cd or mp3s of theirs & press play. Boom, I'm playing Nile. Simple.

[@drewp.weiner5708]

Always love a good dad joke.

[@patrykkowalik1156]

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[@TurtleFL]

Not hard to listen to, either. Just nod your head to the rhythm. Really fast. BTW, Tylenol (paracetamol) and aspirin work pretty well on those neck muscle aches...

[@Nile8765]

haha yeah. I remember when i first started playing guitar YEARS BACK, the first day, I pulled up a nile tab and tried play some of their songs. You can probably guess how that turned out. I gave it about 1 year before attempting again

[@runlevel0]

Bwahaaaa!!!! OMFG

[@carlospizarro6984]

Even though i've been at many Nile's concerts, i've never being able to yell "PLAY CHAPTER OF OBEISANCE BEFORE GIVING BREATH TO THE INERT ONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CRESCENT"

[@nickevans8990]

😂😂😂Nile themselves probably can’t either

[@nikosalexopoulos6542]

I tried once, but then the concert was over before i could finish my sentence

[@David_Vander_Vliet]

Hahahaha

[@meneerlagerwaard2047]

... shaped horns

[@flingflang69]

ROFL

[@pipinfresh]

I had the hoodie they released for this album. It was my prized possession, I wore it every day. One night I went to a house party, got black out drunk and when I woke up in the morning the hoodie was gone. I searched everywhere for it but never found it. To this day, some 17 years later, I still miss that hoodie and get periodically pissed off I lost it. Such is life.

[@lexbeltran1354]

Some heretic probably stole it

[@Dis666]

Similar story brother x

[@stereoraptormusic]

I mourn your loss brother. Actually felt the pain in your writting, since I also have a beloved Defeated Sanity hoddie I wear basically everyday. It is still with me, so I'm lucky. Hahahah Stay strong! \m/

[@WillTFord-sr7sn]

Life lesson. Stay away from alcohol. Watch everyone crumble whilst drinking your Fanta, yes please any day.

[@babyfactory587]

Ra recalled it back to the sun or something

[@hvrjstn]

Everything about this album is brutal. No heretic was left alive during the making of this masterpiece.

[@coldwelthsimms5958]

lol

[@johnwaynegacy4904]

errata Goodbye mr. Wade 😥

[@joshstanton267]

they were all cast down, apparently haha

[@meneocuskill3371]

I saw NILE in March in Clifton Park for the first time and I was in awe right form that moment. Yeah! Brutal! The hell yeah!

[@TheCumberlandbeggar]

Heavy AF

[@Elendill2003]

User-Maat-Re takes me to another world. What a fucking great album.

[@Dis666]

It's so immersive. Then when that rolling riff comes in. gives me goosebumps everytime

[@MoreBuffMoreMuff]

Greatest song ever. Perfectly arranged and written.

[@6nferno]

@@MoreBuffMoreMuff Yeah I second that motion /,,/.

[@David_Vander_Vliet]

Absolutely! That's my favorite song

[@abcdefghijkl5408]

Absent the double-bass and vocals, that song sounds like remission-era mastodon

[@MatthaiosVaf]

What an album. "Cast Down The Heretic" is one of the best album openers ever

[@magnetarkhan]

Lmao fr it straight up scared me

[@koloscsaszar250]

@@magnetarkhan same

[@AgeofReason]

It's too fucking short and should be played at birth of everyone.

[@ContaminatedBeef]

kicks you right in the fucking face

[@JeanWagner-]

Touchstone

[@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce]

What I love is that this is heavy as FUCK all while still sounding like greatly composed music. Not just noise or br00tality for the sake of noise or br00tality

[@newerest1]

I like how I actually can hear lyrics in the vocals...as opposed to unintelligible death metal where there's no point to even having printed lyrics since it doesn't sound like it at all

[@Frostuin]

Them ancient egyptians sure had some awesome music!

[@djcrittenden3771]

you win.

[@VortechBand]

It's a bit obscure, but the pyramids used to be cubes. Then Nile released their first demo...

[@eugenkramaric1173]

@dismalrealm Illuminati on work

[@fartkerson]

Ancient South Carolina, Egypt.

[@coreymoore182]

Experts still have no idea how they got that guitar tone way back then

[@chainsawz1]

didn't know "Riff City" was a place in Egypt

[@someoneelse101]

It is now!!!

[@zerocascade]

hell yea

[@HPLovethrash]

This album still holds up today, but back in 2005 it definitely caught me off guard. I'd never heard drumming like that before.

[@lorenzofabiani3256]

I agree 100%, it was years ahead of his time. At the first listening i was speechless. You should also check out the new Hideous Divinity EP, the drumming is something out of this world: fast and technical but musical at the same time. If you dig "Annihilation of the wicked " you won't be disappointed.

[@firmanaringga]

Ol

[@FelipeKariri]

Check Krisiun's second album called Conquerors of Armageddon. It was recorded in 1999 and the drums are unbelievably fast and clean also 🤘

[@nategin9009]

@@FelipeKariri krisiun is sick. seeing them next month with deicide

[@U.F.O_0908]

Lashed to the Slavestick remains one of the most epic metal songs ever to be created, even after all these years. Long live Nile!

[@peppefrasca5179]

Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount Of Sunrise 0:00 Cast Down The Heretic 0:51 Sacrifice Unto Sebek 6:36 User-Maat-Re 9:39 The Burning Pits Of The Duat 18:54 Chapter Of Obeisance Before Giving Breath To The Inert One In The Presence Of The Crescent Shaped Horns 22:47 Lashed To The Slave Stick 28:08 Spawn Of Uamenti 32:26 Annihilation Of The Wicked 33:40 Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten 42:17

[@simonarsenault3298]

Thanks

[@ekthorvd6739]

I saw you commenting in suffocation albums lol

[@harryprice208]

You the real MVP

[@jacobdavis5518]

🆒

[@Pootrifaction]

Throughout time there have been only a handful of brutal albums that will live forever. This, my friends, is one of them. When you go years and years without hearing an album and then you put it on and remember every nuance and note, every riff by heart from the depths of your mind - you know it's one of the legacy albums. So many memories from this album. Metal will never die.

[@duncan-_-]

user maat-re is one of the heaviest fucking death metal songs ive ever heard

[@spaceedementia]

Duncan Robertson true 🤘😌

[@hubbyhub2050]

one of my favorite tunes

[@el.pibedelrock]

I found it to be the least heavy song of the album lol but yeah its an awesome song

[@Henry_Okinawa]

Right at the level of Eat of the Dead ;-)

[@ВикторГончаров-е1к]

Самая тяжёлая песня сынок это песня группы cannibal corpse .meat hook sodomy 1991 года тяжелее нету.

[@KristianvanTuil]

I keep returning to this death metal masterpiece. Classic! Brutal, technical, atmospheric, brilliant.

[@rphxleonine]

I think User-Maat-Re is the best song Nile has ever done.

[@peterfarkas9857]

for me it's the same generic masterpiece like the rest of them.

[@lil_kizior_666dopeshit2]

Nope Unas the slayer of the gods

[@aggelosmanolis5689]

​@@lil_kizior_666dopeshit2 that and annihlation of the wicked

[@tsav8449]

Lashed To The Slave Stick

[@sommelierofstench]

this shit blew my mind the first time i heard it. still impressive and just as crushing

[@sommelierofstench]

***** nice try

[@zaubertricks7627]

+Yoda's Bitch hey man, dont be ridiculous on the internet

[@anarchyroks6663]

+Yoda's Bitch hail satan, fuck you and your mainstream music

[@spaceedementia]

ElectricSoldier i saw one of their older guitarists live in his own band... may one of this album's ... blondie...i was always out of it... on an mtv headbangers ball tour in a small venue in shreveport. he was nice as fuck tho!!!

[@louisblack8474]

Yoda's Bitch lame...

[@C20H25N3Ofya]

I still remember buying this album in 2005 then taking it home and delving into it after smoking some weed. I was still exploring death metal at the time and when I heard this everything clicked and it blew my ass away like few albums have done before or since. It's one of those game changers for me as far as musical exploration goes. User-Maat-Re is probably my favorite Nile song ever.

[@stevenvinson1615]

User maat re is so under appreciated I feel. Heaviest shit ever

[@danielholland4520]

that songs riffs are fucking monstrous, love it

[@deceiver444]

Such a merciless piece of music.

[@hybridmiceinvadesEU]

relentless commentary

[@focus_sk8-yd8nf]

@@hybridmiceinvadesEU Undeniable pixel based reality with bonus song.

[@apparitionindustries]

Why is relapse so cool with uploading all the albums taken down by labels from these mega names in death metal. This is amazing!

[@christopherk.5087]

+Joseph Sendzik Relapse Records own these albums thus they can do whatever they want with them

[@anarchyroks6663]

+Yoda's Bitch hail satan, fuck you and your mainstream music

[@bpjunkiezzz8279]

I''m sorry for the bad etiquette that you've been subjected to. Keep doing what your doing Yoda's Bitch.

[@JanderVK]

Because they don't live in the last century.

[@jamesleclair842]

They own the rights and its an EASY way to make ad revenue.

[@phried_squirrel]

This was the first death metal album I ever bought when I was about 15. I'm now almost 27, and I don't think I have bought one since that's been as good. Nile absolutely slays.

[@MathaelTheDestroyer]

literally same. Buddy of mine mentioned this band to me in high school, I went home and listened to AoW (song) on KZbin. When those triplets came in over the lead in the beginning of the song my life was permanently changed.

[@californiamonster8877]

old decapitated and nile are where im at

[@californiamonster8877]

and now azarath

[@Gumbo72203]

@california monster if you like Azarath check out Deception from Poland

[@Gumbo72203]

This was me except with Black Seeds when that came out haha. Same age. Those were heady times. A golden age the likes of which will probably never be seen again cuz it was all still new.

[@toprak3479]

"Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns" Memorable name.

[@joshstanton267]

the name tells an epic story just like the song does :)

[@i_am_a_music_maker5212]

"dusk falls upon the temple of the serpent on the mount of sunrise" is a close second

[@slayer8273]

@@i_am_a_music_maker5212 "permitting the noble dead to descend to the underworld" is also hilarious.

[@thefilmeffect6089]

@@slayer8273 Nothing beats "Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve It's Possessor Against Attacks From He Who Is In The Water."

[@slayer8273]

@@thefilmeffect6089 True that. Great to see some people are still listening to Nile

[@mikemayne327]

That drumming, these basslines and fast string plucking, these fast guitar passages and these riffs, this agressive and low vocals! Every fucking instrument is played at a very high level of musicianship, everything is perfectly combined, everything is perfectly mixed and the mastering is just amazing, the album cover artwork is also great. I love Nile and I really love this album. There are not many gems like this and it's fantastic that albums like this one do exist!!!!!!!!!!

[@bluntedatbirth1]

This is the one, right here. Absolutely amazing death metal.

[@antisystemicparadise1202]

Their best album in my opinion

[@thrasher82]

Same 😎

[@JeanWagner-]

Brutal Legend

[@paulgorhamiii9926]

I remember buying this album the day it came out, and being absolutely blown away by this death metal masterpiece, didnt take this out of my cd player for months, George Kollias took them to the next level. Still one of the best in Nile's catalog. You shall be lashed to the slave stick..

[@HKKetoRecipes]

What an album!

[@bfkc111]

I don't know what to tell you, sorry. Or was this a rhetorical question? Okay, tell us.

[@jbscornerstore]

I say the same thing about your Chicken Jalfrezi when I listen to this album and give it a good mix ; )

[@glohitia666]

Fuck you! And fuck all!

[@susanm.tapper579]

rock n roll

[@franciscoavelar5994]

NEFERTITI

[@bartoszgamrat4848]

one of the best modern metal bands

[@roosolini7105]

They aren't modern

[@mrdeathamore]

@@roosolini7105 well, depends how you measure it. they're not from 70s or 80s, so they're pretty modern.

[@kvltman782]

@@mrdeathamore Yeah, but the 90s was 30 years ago. That is old now in music terms.

[@peterfarkas9857]

Of course its modern. They taking the genre to newer heights.

[@jacquelynberry2789]

Yea i mean they arent a brand new band but they arent just old school thrash or plane death metal so i could see them being categorized as new

[@silentman3982]

My favorite Nile album and one of the greatest achievements in death metal... the musicianship, songwriting and production are simply perfect.

[@nathanmartinez2630]

Guitar sound is kinda dry this album, but songwriting & musicianship is off the charts

[@thefilmeffect6089]

@@nathanmartinez2630I love it. It sounds like a chainsaw cutting everything down in its path.

[@JeanWagner-]

TO'

[@xul3184]

I'm almost amazed my 9th grade ears were able to appreciate this at the time, I had listened to nothing like it prior in terms of actual heaviness.

[@dimifisher]

Lol, try napalm death or carcass, Nile are good but they tend to be a bit tedious after a while

[@twobirdsstonedatonce]

@@dimifisher and Napalm Death doesn't? XD

[@dimifisher]

@@twobirdsstonedatonce no, i can sit down and listen their whole records most of the times atleast, Nile are great though, i dont bashing them

[@chevroletonly9653]

@@dimifisher napalm death, and carcass suckass!! Listen to disgorge

[@chevroletonly9653]

Listen to disgorge, defeated sanity, gorgasm, spawn of possession, deeds of flesh

[@wolvie90]

In the past 10-15 years I've become a lot more selective about my music. Back then, I just went for the most brutal and more importantly, the most obscure things I could find. The more my internet forum echochambers proclaimed "this is more brutal!" the more interested I was. Anything on the level of popularity of Nile was quickly abandonend. Lo and behold 15 years later, what stuck around? Nile. I haven't listened to this album in at least a year or two but the riffs are still fresh in my mind. The "brutality" is comparable if not better than whaterver shit Unique Leader band I was into at the time. The opening riff of Sacrifice Unto Sebek is burned into my brain and there it shall stay.

[@GixxerRider1991]

It's incredible how heavy this album is while still managing to have sections that are so soft and melodic. This album is a majestic death metal symphony.

[@Jaundice__]

The guitar tone here is absolutely huge and crushing, probably my favorite Nile record yet and I’ve been a fan since Black Seeds first hit.

[@williamjhunter5714]

On Myspace, Nile ran a draw to see who would attend the Master Class given by Karl Saunders before the Concert in Cleveland. I was one of the winners, met the band and took the lesson. Then saw the soundcheck with back stage passes. I had made a King Tut themed flying V using Warmoth components, gold leafed with 24kt gold. I had stayed up all night to be ready and then asked Dallas if he wanted to use my King Tut Guitar for soundcheck. He realized I didnt tune the lowest string to D from E and handed it back. I was so close to hearing my guitar play this albums music, but he posed for photos with it after the check. Then we watched this albums concert.

[@filmcoolstuff]

BS. Let's see the pics

[@karsaorlong666]

He couldn't take 2 seconds to tune? Show the pic.

[@pinkfloydicus]

unbeatable album. I also like the fact that every song could be the name of a Yu Gi Oh card

[@ryanmozert]

lol

[@jbox369]

You've opened my mind. 😮

[@suestorm00]

I thought the same 💀

[@slayer8273]

This album is the absolute apex of brutal death metal

[@faronwhite7508]

One of the first times hearing Nile, I was around 14/15. I'm 25, just came back. So fucking sick.

[@nikokiiskinen7907]

Haha, about same here.

[@neuro3680]

It's happens so many times with so many bands !

[@thomasjensen5042]

Same

[@nathanmartinez2630]

Same

[@bizzjoe]

Lovely relaxing music for a Sunday afternoon.

[@kkech1]

Just discovered Nile and am on a binge. This album is best till now.

[@xtheoptimistx]

One of the greatest death metal albums of all time for sure! top 5 for me.

[@richardappleyard962]

try listening to left hand path by entombed theres so much talent out there going unsung while shit wannabees hog the music chart

[@peppefrasca5179]

Everyone and their mother knows Entombed.

[@rudi_tabootie]

Entombed it shit. Listen to Pyrexia

[@dimifisher]

@@rudi_tabootie🤣 entombed is awesome, you are noob

[@rudi_tabootie]

@@dimifisher Entombed has one good record. Two ok ones, and the rest are god awful. Get past you introductory knowledge of Death metal. Entombed isn't even in the top ten Death metal bands. You have no idea what you're talking about

[@josearriaga1227]

The riff in Chapter of Obeisance... at 23:34 is one of my favorite Nile riffs ever. The way it comes in out of nowhere is sick. Its only a 8 second or so riff. Nile has a lot of riffs like that where they could build a song off of it or maybe do a fading outro but for some reason only tease you with it.

[@ryanmozert]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXWnZaeloN2Bm8Usi=GipDbAnA0YKZ59qC

[@thomasbuyse5262]

Been listening to this gem for 17 years now, about 500 times. I will never ever grow tired of this. No album in my catalogue comes close to the amount of plays I have on this one. This level of brutality has never before and never since been combined with this amount of atmosphere. I feel more powerful than Cthulhu every single listen. Absolute masterpiece!

[@fromthenorth2]

Gotta love Nile.

[@icemilitia]

The album that got me into Extreme metal!

[@orionbekesi]

Me too

[@a.od-reszki4674]

I like ossdm but not really into this kind of dm... But this is really good, any recomendations?

[@joeyuzwa891]

A. Od-Reszki Reign Supreme by Dying Fetus, Effigy Of The Forgotten by Suffocation, Colored Sands by Gorguts, None So Vile by Cryptopsy

[@nicholasmays4257]

Is it just me or is Nile one of the most underrated metal bands out there

[@SmashingTheAntiu]

just you

[@brewtalityk]

That title belongs to Bolt Thrower

[@brewtalityk]

Bolt Thrower's name is far less known these days that it was 20 years ago, yet other bands from the same era are more known these days than Bolt Thrower is. I've mentioned their name to many people who listen to death metal yet have never heard of them.

[@wolf89433]

I'd say they're among the most well-known and well-liked death metal bands, so it's just you :D

[@JacksonAxe]

Only a handful of bands can do no wrong. NILE, Dying Fetus etc.

[@Kharn526]

17:56 holy fuck this sounds like very gates of the Duat opening !!! well done Nile, really.

[@Orpheus-Aquarius]

epic epicccccccccccccccccccccc hail nile \m/ cheerssss from The Desert of SAUDI ARABIA.

[@Buzzah]

Even after all these years this is still my favourite album ever written!!!

[@1t3j8]

My favorite Nile album!

[@sriharis6706]

The album I fell upon during the lockdown in 2020! I have travelled the whole of Egypt by listening to this album.....YES!

[@pygmybehemoth3988]

I don't know if this is my favorite death metal album but it's definitely my most revisited. It manages to be blisteringly fast, bludgeoningly brutal and dizzingly technical while staying CATCHY. Not an easy feat, hats off to these mythological lads.

[@dcs2690]

hold on 'cause it's one hell of a ride

[@SutekhTheDestroyer]

One has to be careful when listening to extreme metal, because once your ears become attuned and you develop a taste for it, nothing else satisfies in quite the same way.

[@old_romans]

I don't even know how I'm typing this while my face is on the floor all melted.

[@XX-mx4jt]

You paid attention in your typing class?😂

[@metalblade8787]

4 dislikes 4 people sacrificed unto sebek

[@spaceedementia]

Working Man Music 😁😁😁

[@spaceedementia]

Working Man Music 😁😁😁

[@guestkid9976]

44 dislikes 44 sacrificed

[@MU-TH-UR]

64 sacrified, the Gods should be pleased. Before Unas Slay them that is.

[@joanthemad5894]

I’m 79th, guess I’m dying

[@sintheticsounds1686]

Cast Down the Heroin never gets old.

[@JablesMullet]

I remember hearing about some Egypt based death metal band and thinking haha. But then I was at some show where they opened and was completely blown away. I can’t even remember who I was there to see. I just remember Nile.

[@thefilmeffect6089]

I sat down to listen to Sacrifice Unto Sebek a little while ago and I just ended up listening to the whole album. I couldn’t stop. The songwriting is just too damn good. Every song is catchy or brings something interesting to the table.

[@HeatherRichardson-g3p]

I couldn't stop either, this album is kicking my ass and just won't stop!

[@mercilessoverlord1330]

"Annihilation of the Wicked" best song from them and one of the best in the world ever.

[@josearriaga1227]

This album is sick beginning to end. Cast down the heretic is just absolutely crushing

[@joanperezgimenez6346]

FUCKING INSANE. Cast Down The Heretic, Lashed To The Slave Stick, Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten are the best songs of the album IMO.

[@waz9302]

What a masterpiece. The whole album just flows, starts and ends right. I used to listen to it all the time.

[@maccaspope2275]

Am I the only one who thinks User-Maat-Re is the best song?

[@stevenvinson1615]

Nope. The slower it gets the better

[@guitarkoala5]

This and the title track are my favorites. So crushing and brutal 🤘

[@adrianfuentes8423]

no, you are not

[@arikkthorn]

Lash to the Slave Stick destroys everything on this disc.

[@Krimson5pride]

This is one of the most captivating, creative and intelligent (without being pretentious) band in its genre. Simply amazing

[@edwinhassid.7337]

Why have Nile never played in Egypt? imagine watching Nile play with the pyramids in the background!

[@ovwarrior]

Lol do you know anything about modern day egypt?

[@edwinhassid.7337]

@@ovwarrior not really... explain

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

@@edwinhassid.7337 Late comment, but Egypt is awash with civil violence and unrest (has been for some years now), tourism overall has taken a devastating dive. Also, being a Muslim nation now Metal music really isn't embraced or accepted as any kind of norm, there have been several metal musicians native to countries in the region who have been killed because of it or imprisoned on basically heresy charges. It isn't safe for them to play there. Slayer had some problems even back when they recorded Seasons in the Abyss in the region, they had a pretty substantial production team and a lot of security around them to keep them safe for the short time they were there, but still isn't nearly as dangerous as it is right now in the country.

[@Hambone3773]

It would be Slaytastic

[@PazBinv1]

@@edwinhassid.7337 Much of Egypt is filthy too.

[@funkjaw]

I'll always remember the night I was blasting User-Maat-Re from my home stereo and my neighbor came over to smoke some weed. He walked in the house as I left the song playing full blast and he said "damn bro, ok, wow, you doing alright?". Yes, yes I am!

[@ZG60000]

Best metal album ever. Everything is perfect on this album.

[@Armageddon-yt3so]

man I can never decide if I like this album or Ithyphallic more. either way NILE is awesome

[@SutekhTheDestroyer]

I think I prefer this one a little more, as the production is better. Still both amazing albums.

[@claudes04]

This is and will always will be in my top 3 albums It is a masterpiece... very well made, excellent quality and skill

[@-LSTR-]

So damn technical without sounding all too clean, great album

[@ryanmozert]

true

[@IICARRIONII]

Reason enough to buy a good pair of headphones

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

Fuck man, I think I'm finally starting to GET death metal.

[@HeatherRichardson-g3p]

Once you're hooked your hooked, forget about it , game over. I'm 58 and I appreciate almost any genre of music that takes talent to play, sure it sounds like noise to the average listener but anybody that gets it realizes how technical alot of this type of music is .

[@conanthebrobarian6484]

It's fucking funny when they name a track that is at least ten words long. I'm waiting for the day when one track is an essay on the back of the album.

[@-sentient-5550]

Conan the Brobarian Track list will be an additional fold out page

[@DisemboweII]

Bal-Sagoth do it a fair amount; they have an album called "Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule" with song names like "And Lo, When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citadel of the Obsidian Crown" Don't let the long names put you off though, they're excellent and not as edgy as they sound

[@peppefrasca5179]

Oh well, you will love Demilich too :^D

[@porkmilk8984]

And the song will be an instrumental

[@beaubrotzman3141]

Read ya there man. 🧐

[@hornsby424]

Do NOT miss a chance to see these guys live... great stuff

[@maurotreze]

Nile is like Suffocation's lost brother but got sicker

[@valentinvas6454]

Suffocation toured with Nile in 2015. One of the best concert I've ever seen.

[@0reason2exist]

I'm 34. I still remember when this came out.

[@JeanneMadsen]

This is masterpiece

[@Payito5607]

Love the lyrics department of this album, Cast Down and User-Maat-Re, have really epic lyrics, and contain great storytelling. Great album in general, hail Nile.

[@klasyk1504]

great composition

[@billybishop1997]

My favorite Nile album. It's probably a lot of people's favorite Nile album too. Who agrees with me?

[@jacobdavis5518]

masterpiece, I've appreciated Nile ever since 2011!

[@LloydFreakingIrving]

Dead ass this is the best technical death metal album of all time imo. Masterpiece after masterpiece after MASTERPIECE.

[@thiagoperovanomusic]

One of the best death metal albums, ever! Amazing energy!

[@MalevolentReflux]

My first ever moshpit was on 'Lashed to the Slave Stick', sparked my love for death metal.

[@Sannerip07]

just amazing

[@dominikszkoda970]

One of the best LP ever recorded. EVER. Pure awsomness

[@amaranthine-one]

And another very underrated album, this is epic music

[@massivetractor1230]

literally their top rated album by fans 🤣

[@DanielCosta-l9f]

One of the Best DM albums ever released. 50 plus minutes of pure brilliance

[@JeanWagner-]

😮

[@JeanWagner-]

✓ Kiefer Sutherland

[@JeanWagner-]

Betty Crocker

[@RamblinVan]

17:10 you can pinpoint the moment at which an ancient mummy explodes at the chest, hundreds of feet below the earth in the catacombs of a pyramid, unleashing a whirlwind of scarabs to wipe out all those who ran and hid from sacrificing blood and sweat so the ancient gods may save our world from the horrors of modern man

[@SelfHealingGod]

Busted 2 headphones on his album. For me a band which changed Metal is Death. So for me that is the greatest moment which I thought will be over. Then Nile came and took over. I been listening to Metal since the 80's. So let's see who can take it up a notch. As for now, I don't see anything as good as Death & Nile.

[@williamdarkzydeblackenedha9344]

I am also old school metal...give the latest cattle decapitation albums a listen. They are fantastic.

[@louisblack8474]

I would say in their darkened shrines has some pretty technical drumming while annihilation of the wicked has very advanced guitar work, not that either isn't proficient at both!

[@chuckdorado9737]

My fave NILE album ever! It is so stupidly perfect from start to finish!

[@mattirealm]

I love this album. This is just so fucking badass. My only issue with Nile is inconsistency. They have great stuff like this, but then miss on other albums. Great band, just wish they were more consistent.

[@atterion3923]

Just bought this album in digipak CD form! One of my favourite Nile albums

[@michaelsgamingchannel4663]

This album is just phenomenal!

[@AnestisStaikos]

I swear this is the best album ever recorded. Eargasm

[@alisha2921]

This is seriously as recent as last year? This is brilliant!

[@igorlima6356]

Alishashredds Actually, this album was realeased in 2005 :)

[@rosiegratz8377]

For me this is their greatest album that I do not feel they will ever be able to eclipse, absolute masterpiece!!!🤘

[@chriswalshcustomguitars3962]

Shout out to Neil Kernon's excellent production on this album. Visceral yet hugely atmospheric. Apparently they didn't even EQ the guitars! Drums really natural as well and not compressed to shit like so much other technical DM. A huge part of that is down to Kollias' technique, of course, but Neil really captured a moment on this album.

[@6.thedollar415]

It's pretty cool of Relapse to put up full albums on YT like this