"The Underworld Awaits Us All" by Nile (THEIR BEST ALBUM IN A LONG TIME!) | ALBUM REVIEW

[@alexddragame]

Very excited for it, and your opinion is reassuring. Not saying last few albums were bad, but they definitely had stronger records, and sjngles for this one were promising

[@icantdenyreality3516]

I love Nile so much!! Annihilation of the wicked was the first Nile album I heard many years ago now and I Fell in love!!

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

Great album

[@Viyility205]

My Current Top 5 Nile Albums So Far. 1. Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005) 2. The Underworld Awaits Us All (2024) 3. Vile Nilotic Rites (2019) 4. What Should Not Be Unearthed (2015) 5. Those Whom The Gods Detest (2009)

[@adambloomfield4861]

Mine is: (1) In Their Darkened Shrines, (2) The Underworld Awaits Us All, (3) Black Seeds of Vengeance, (4) Those Whom the Gods Detest & (5) Ithyphallic. \m/

[@aidanlastname0187]

Just got into Nile only a couple months ago, but I love them. Can’t wait for the new album

[@mindful2864]

Nile is one of the best death metal bands of all time. I do disagree with your take on What Should Not Be Unearthed, I thought it was a big step up from At the Gate of Sethu. You’re right about the first 4 albums being amazing and I don’t think they’ll top Annihilation of the Wicked but I think Vile Nilotic Rites was their best since Those Whom the Gods Detest. The first single off this album has definitely got me interested in checking this album out in two days when it drops.

[@j4yd34d5]

Totally agree man. I thought Vile Nilotic Rites was an absolute scorcher, especially when you consider that Dallas had left the band not long before. Can't think of many, if any bands with the amount of longevity and originality as Nile.

[@thehakiguy7006]

What Should Not Be Unearthed’s biggest issue was the production for me. I think it’s a great album, but man they screwed George on the mix.

[@adambloomfield4861]

Mr. Kollias is a perfectionist. I mean that in the greatest of respect to the god, I mean man, man. It’s highly unlikely that he would have not had a major input in the production decision of his instrument for that album dude. If you’ve ever had the privilege to see him setup his behemoth of a kit and do sound check you’ll know just how much of a perfectionist he is! Everything must be 100% perfect, every single time. Every single show. \m/

[@Leo-yn5fx]

@@j4yd34d5Lmao Suffocation dude

[@averagevideogameenjoyer3111]

NIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[@nicholassinnett2958]

Idk if Nile will ever be a band I listen to regularly, but what I've heard of the album sounds pretty solid. I'm glad they've been shaking their style up since Dallas left the band. No hate to him, but it felt like there'd be no end to them regurgitating variations on In Their Darkened Shrines until he left.

[@theyankeedownunder9206]

One of my favorite bands can't wait to hear this!

[@nealcrabtree3647]

I've seen them 11 times and I adore them so much.

[@toksic424]

Man, your intros keep just getting better.

[@MilkyHorrn]

This album is amazing and the vocals feel so much more intense than some of their previous albums

[@veryepicperson784]

Nice Video! A Bolt Thrower discography video would be really cool.

[@darrelladams4886]

I’ll check this one out and the new Demiser album for sure

[@rhiannonrecommends]

Oh i am way stoked to hear this record now. Really enjoyed the singles so far. Was first introduced to them with their Ithyphallic album back in like 2009 or so and have been following ever since and this so far sounds like some of their best work in a long while, imho of course!

[@thepredator666qc4]

I miss Dallas but they are going strong still, glad to hear it 😊

[@joecurrier4086]

His band Narcotic Wasteland worth checking out if you haven't heard it. More a thrash style than death metal, but pretty bad ass none the less

[@SouthpawSparky_]

I second that narcotic wasteland is killer

[@JomboyTonesAgain]

Listened to it on KZbin earlier today. Amazing stuff. I really dig their whole style. Their last 3 or 4 albums were incredible. I do miss them leaning more hardcore into the Egyptian theme though

[@ViscusLupus]

The production here is great, some of you may say it's too modern (I wouldn't be surprised if Sanders used Fractal for ex) but for me the sound is more spacey, giving more room for all the instruments to shine (not only George drums lol). My favourite track is surprisingly not the face melted speed one but "The True Gods of Desert" which seems to me as a stoner/doom track slooow, crushing juggernaut, fullfield with George doublefoot, its amazing track all around. I give new album a solid 8/10. Its my 3rd favourite album after AotW and TWTGD.

[@DashieNegan41]

I'm giving a 5/5 a perfectly and probably the best album since Annihilation of The Wicked

[@johnmelvinluce5320]

I absolutely agree everything just flows perfect and the mix is amazing from.mark Lewis

[@raulramirez9657]

Absolutely brilliant album! Their best since Ithyphallic IMO.

[@richardplasencia5532]

FINALLY someone mentions Ithyphallic! Hands down my favorite Nile release.

[@raulramirez9657]

@@richardplasencia5532 YES. It’s my favorite as well! That or AOTW of course. Peak Nile in those albums IMO

[@ilves6664]

Nile kicks again! Big Fan this band many years. Autumn is coming.

[@Viyility205]

I Started Listening To Nile Back In 2003. Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka Was The First Album I Purchased. After Listening To It I Was An Instant Fan.

[@johnmelvinluce5320]

It's my favourite nile ,with annihilation of the wicked, and for who the Gods detest it's an unbelievable album the riffs ,and drumming is sick

[@PadanFain-yp2yz]

And it makes sense that Underworld is a audible continuation of VNR.....Karl, George, and Brian did the writing, Karl led the production/recording out of his home studio, and Mark Lewis did both mixing/mastering on both records. Cheers.

[@Lunar_bloodreviews]

Nile is a great band. The last albums grew on me personally. As soon as this drops I'm going to try to finish the cd collection of their discography

[@adambloomfield4861]

The BEST Band in the Entire WORLD!!!!!!! \m/ Second to NONE!!!

[@Hellenicheavymetal]

Never had a proper listen to this band. The Egyptian elements are what caught my attention but since you said they've toned it down here, maybe I would enjoy earlier albums more. I'm not a big death metal fan but i'll still check it out.

[@PadanFain-yp2yz]

We don't have to agree on the Sethu or Unearthed periods...At the Gate of Sethu is in my top 3 for its creativity and dynamics (IMO) and Nile has been my favorite DM band going on 20+ years so that should say something LOL. But thanks for your take on this album,...gets me even more hyped for what sounds like a very worthy follow up to Vile Nilotic Rites \m/

[@MirrorReaper1]

I really didn't care much for this. True Gods of the Desert and the closing instrumental are solid, but that's about it, really. It's not as bad as Sethu and the one after, but it's a far cry from those first four to five albums. Horrible mixing as well, to boot, but that's a Nile thing nowadays.

[@HoltistheGOAT]

I love What Should Not be Unearthed. Very straight forward, cave man riff filled awesome record

[@SouthpawSparky_]

I like this album and was very excited but I must say the new wormed album is the best death metal album I heard in a long time…

[@Pantheonslayer]

No other band on earth conveys the skull crushing, soul stealing, eviscerating murderous power of the gods as Nile does

[@A-man1998]

Oh boy! A Big Bazinga Theory reference!

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

😝

[@lonewolf1843]

I think the instrumental closer is better as the 2nd to last track.

[@figu6ka379]

Last 2 Dallas albums were kinda mid but this album is really absolutely amazing, even better than the last album

[@alexchavarria2582]

Got to listen

[@johnmelvinluce5320]

Best since whom the gods detest

[@blackwaterrust476]

Me patiently waiting for the Metal Meltdown to have his own Netflix comedy special. It atleast would be way funnier than Joe Rogan and all these “Anti Woke” comedian hacks. Anyways I’m not in Denial, because Nile is so awesome and brutal it makes me Smile.

[@JomboyTonesAgain]

Woke shit sucks bro. Thought police has always been a negative until ppl propped it up on a virtuous pedestal in recent years. Truly sad

[@CH-ml4rz]

@@JomboyTonesAgainyou said woke unironically

[@deadbydawn745]

Who is the lead singer in Nile now? I always thought it was Karl, but in the first official video, there's a guy I don't even recognize. Also, he does some high-pitched screams I have never heard on any other album before. I asked this question somewhere before, but everybody is either as clueless as I am or thinks I'm super ignorant, and the question isn't worth an answer. 🤔

[@cruel77force]

It's Brian Kingsland on the studio album .. but the video has Zach Jeter singing because he is the touring vocalist ..basically the video is showing you the touring lineup ..but Brian does the mid range vocals and Karl still does the deep vocals

[@deadbydawn745]

@@cruel77force Wow, finally. That's very interesting to know. Thanks very much for your answer! 👍 Where did you get all this information from?

[@cruel77force]

Read it in a recent interview with Karl ​@@deadbydawn745

[@michaelfishman6711]

New Nile hell yeah right to boys.

[@MoonlightBelladonna]

Lol that intro

[@DeathTragedy666]

Nile... more like in denial by this band's talent. lol Just following up on that clever joke. But seriously, this gives me hope for this band. Like Opeth and Dark Tranquillity, I've lost touch with this band for a long time. I've heard their first single and it was a great preview of what was to come and what I've loved about this band since In Their Darkened Shrines came out.

[@johnmelvinluce5320]

Just get the damn cd ,and listen from start to finish, and then tell me it's not their best its perfectly produced, and mixed

[@alinktotheblast40]

It's great but it's sounds like a mix of Those who the gods detest, at the gate of sethu and what should not be unearthed. Saying it's their best in a long time is odd as all their albums are awesome.

[@Chrysophylax-I]

Ironic you have the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the back

[@dimifisher]

At the gate of sethu is a great record, check your ears man

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I disagree, deal with it.

[@dimifisher]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial i don't care, i just said my opinion

[@saturninewyrd]

I hope this is a reupload and I'm just high

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

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[@saturninewyrd]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial I could've sworn you did this video earlier but I'm probably thinking of thralls or trenches excuse me Robert I'm baked

[@henrybowman7637]

Underworld. Not Underground..Tryin to keep following you, But sometimes??

[@babbason927]

It sounds really boring. And i even bought a ticket to go see them next month. Their last good album was TWTGD, this one sounds like Vile Nilotic Rites part 2. George cannot play normal drum parts anymore, he needs to do fills + fills + fills + blast + fills + fills + fills; Karl and the other guy do the same thing Kollias does but with guitars: they cannot play normal riffs anymore, all they do is random scales + breakdown + random scales + breakdown + random scales; the vocal part is all over the place, the new guys cannot stay in silence for one second, always screaming on what they're playing. Try to listen "What Can Be Safely Written", they give space to the instruments, the song speeds up, then slows down, it takes its own time. If they wrote that track now they would be screaming all over it, adding hundreds of unnecessary eastern scales. Less is more. Even the instrumental song sounds like something already heard, it doesn't sound fresh at all, it just sounds like a casual song played with a string instrument, something you come up with when you play the guitar bored. There is also a song - which name i don't remember - that, out of nowhere, has an instrumental part as an outro, completely out of place. They could have put that at the end of any other song it would have not changed anything. Last but not the least: the production being too clean. It's death metal, by definition it has to be muddy, raw, almost uncomprehensible. It must picture cavemen envinronments, riffs that are supposed to scary you, to give you chill, fear, anxiety. Here everything is too clean, too plastic, the voices are really too loud and they cover the whole mix (almost as annoying as Dark Funeral's Attera Totus Sanctus). Even the covers dude, they're almost identical, with that damn pyramid in the front. A sign of lack of new ideas. The only good thing is Karl being back at growling, like he used to, taking more space between the songs. They're doing the same mistake of Behemoth, in my opinion: to write an awesome record (Those Whom The God Detest/The Satanist), but then trying to "clone it" by writing more records along said masterpiece (What Should Not Be Unearthed/I Loved You at Darkest; Vile Nilotic Rites/Opvs Contra Natvram) By the way, Vile Nilotic Rites > The Underworld Awaits Us All.

[@DashieNegan41]

Grest review dude im looking forward to Friday for the album

[@Kyp031]

Nah. Too tinny and it just doesn't have that evil middle eastern vibe. Plus Dallas vocals were better. All subjective I know but... suck it.

[@adogde6874]

A band that used to be able to play great death metal now records shitty albums. Why these clean vocals. They recorded an album to sell as much as possible. Big disappointment

[@alinktotheblast40]

At the gates of sethu had clean vocals also, with Dallas barely even growling. It's nothing new for the band

[@adogde6874]

@@alinktotheblast40 After Dallas left, there was a clear decline in the band's form. For fans of their first albums, they play complete crap. Their music has become more accessible now. They want to sell as many albums as possible. Death metal is currently going through a big crisis. Many leading bands record weak albums. There is no element of the 90s in this music. There are more melodies that I don't like. I stopped buying albums.

[@alinktotheblast40]

@@adogde6874 This is only the 2nd album they've released since dallas departed and whilst I'm a fan of all their material, the previous album I'd argue was the least melodic/accessible album they've ever done. Also why it's my least favourite. This new one is much more in the vain with the last 3 they did with Dallas. Yes they use a bit more melody now but they are much faster also and they've incorporated melody in their music since Black seeds of vengeance. The song structures are definitely more accessible but the musical influence has barely changed in my opinion.

[@MikaelNora]

What Should Not Be Unearthed was so disappointing for me back then that I sold the album and stop listening to their music for more than 9 years. They became very stale. Pp have been positive about this new album and the singles seemed promising. Maybe after all this time now would be the time for me to give them another shot. Maybe.

[@KnightlyTruth]

Forgive me for I have sinned, I like Nile on Albums. But I didn’t think they were that great live 😬

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

GASP! HOW DARE YOU! (I never saw em live so no comment)

[@Azzabajam]

I saw em' live in london last year, somewhat small venue and they fucking killed it \m/

[@KnightlyTruth]

@@Azzabajam 2005 Fenix Underground Seattle.. The musicianship is fantastic, they just didn't blow me away like pre cancer Nergal did. It's a you had to be there to understand thing.

[@theyankeedownunder9206]

This October will be my 4th time seeing them. Every show was awesome

[@KnightlyTruth]

@@theyankeedownunder9206 I think that’s great but I’m gonna say it again that night Behemoth stole the show with a mysterious Anti Christian Phenomenon.. It would’ve been hard for anyone to come out after they preformed. Nile did fantastic but they lacked the energy and presence of Behemoth that night and that’s ok it happens. It doesn’t mean I hate them, or that I don’t have every single album they’ve rlsd on vinyl with most being signed. As difficult as it is to grasp sometimes bands have off nights, perhaps that’s all it was now relax.