South Carolina's Nile have done a nice job setting themselves apart from the extreme metal pack. For 14 years and counting, the group has carried on its tradition of technical musicianship suited with unique lyrics inspired by an odd obsession with ancient Egyptian culture, history, and mythology. It's an odd combination, but it works. And ITHYPHALLIC (their fifth full-length, and first for Nuclear Blast) is a representative heap of the band's savagely good thinking-man's death metal.
01 What Can Be Safely Written 02 As He Creates So He Destroys 03 Ithyphallic 04 Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve Its Possessor against attacks from he who is in t 05 Eat Of The Dead 06 Laying Fire Upon Apep 07 The Essential Salts 08 The Infinity Of Stone 09 The Language Of The Shadows 10 Even The Gods Must Die