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  • Nile are just....perfect....

  • This is beyond metal.. This is Nile.

  • Nile has the set the standard for all metal bands in which they shalt compare themselves too.

  • This song thrusts you into another world ... another universe ...

    Karl Sanders is a fucking genius and their melodies are so magical and eternal ...

    ONLY group of its kind in the history of music

  • as someone who is interested in ancient history and someone who enjoys metal...i love this! :D

  • I HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT!!!! HOLY FUCK I LOVE THIS!

  • Sounds a lot like black metal vocals on parts of this.

  • @IBrokeTheOath

    why? almost all black metal vocals are rather screamed than growled. especially marduk or immortal for instance

  • @pR1sooeem Not shrieking vocals. More like first wave black metal vocals. The raspy, cleaner parts.

  • @pR1sooeem I know what I was thinking. It kind of reminds me of Celtic Frost or early Bathory.

  • This is the most atmospheric album Nile did. The drumming got even better on In Their Darkened Shrines. The drumming may well have improved technically in terms of speed on Annihilation of the Wicked, but it wasn't as interesting as on the 2nd or 3rd album.

  • 1:40 - 2:10 fucking badass drummer did awesome job in this song. its fucking good.

  • Baglama Saz!!!!

  • Nile forgot to add the word ''Mom'' in the title.

  • 3:39 and on....

    That riff ALWAYS gives me chills..... I love it.

  • 04:47 - 06:07 no words could describe this awesomeness!!!

  • @soulsuicide this makes me think of all the sufferings

  • @soulsuicide I always thought that too... chills every fuckin time. I wish they'd perform it live.

  • There are 20 second that i repeat over and over and over, i`m going insane, i`m serious. When 3:20 kicks in until 3:40, and at about half, the deep change of the vocals... goosebumps every time...

  • @MrSatanochio I do the exact same thing lol, it happens at 2:10 to 3:11 also

  • Who else jizzs to Scott Wilson's vocal part?

  • This is definitely one of Nile's best songs. It's kind of ironic that for a band so obsessed with speed, its best song is also one of its slowest. The same is true for Children of Bodom too I guess (Everytime I Die).

  • @siddharthp1983 Nile always included slower doom-inspired songs on all their records. On Those Whom the Gods Detest it was 4th Arra of Dagon. Ithyphallic - The title track, Eat of the Dead and Even the Gods Must Die, In Their Darkened Shrines - Sarcophagus and I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead and Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka - Opening of the Mouth. They have also started including many doom-inspired passages on many of their newer songs including Kafir!

  • @BathorysGraveland True. I haven't heard 'Those Whom the Gods Detest' or 'Ithyphallic' so I will check out your recommendations. Sarcophagus is a brilliant track, possibly my favorite on that album along with Execration Text.

  • This band is rad I haven't really listened to them before

  • 1 troll hates this song... I love this fucking song =)

  • Is that Chief Spires singing the first eight lines?

  • @Thatmetaldude590 i dont think chief spires played on this album

  • @a7foldforlife102 Actually, this is the last Nile album that Chief Spires played on.

  • @Thatmetaldude590 Well, you made this comment a month ago, so you may already know the information or don't care. But those strange chanting vocals on the two verses are actually done by an album guest called Scott Wilson. I don't know if he's in any other bands or anything.

  • @BathorysGraveland Ok cool. I actually didn't care to find that info myself, so thank you : )

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  • i own any nile record except for bsov and catacombs. even in the beginning... but this song is heavier than user-maat-re and unas together!!! WOAH!!!!

  • nile is the greatest death metal band ever!

  • @qaz121212 Ur is a temple in iraq or iran i don't remember well i think was mesopotamia during the Ubaid period is in sumerian, I think this kind of music try to recreate ancient history and that is why i like this so much and the music is awesome soon the sumerians gods will return and will take what is belong to them!!

  • What's Ur?

  • @qaz121212 The answer is found in the acheron song immortal sigil.

  • This album should be the soundtrack for the Stargate series.

  • Anyone know what instrument is used to make that epic egyptian sound

    at 1:05 - 2:13

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  • It would be my pleasure to see these guys live and sacrifice myself inside the pit for them. Even better if someone opened me up to let my bloody guts hang out.

  • i love the solo to death. how epic it is.

  • I remember I took Fly Agaric (a form of psychedelic mushroom used by Viking Beserkers before they went into battle) and listened to this album...

    It was both a brilliant idea and a terrible idea. My flat had significantly less plates and mugs by the end of it.

  • 5.00 oh my fucking god!! My Brain has exploded!!!!!1

  • @Tornfromreality so has my cock :O

  • fave song on this album

  • Where can I find the explaination of these lyrics without having to buy the physical album again?

  • @MCCrleone354 google

  • it would be fucking awesome to stand inside a pyramid stoned and listening to this

    that would be a whole new fucking world

  • @PharaohJed

    Okay, thanks ^_^

    Also, did you know that Karl Sanders had a guest role in "The Final War (Battle of Actium)" by the death metal band Ex Deo? Their themes are based off ancient Roman history.

  • @Manas10101 Yeah i've listened to their stuff but most of it is pretty generic music, and at the end of the day the themes of the band come second to how good it sounds. Nergal also did a track if i remember correctly.

  • @PharaohJed

    I suppose. I guess I just love history and mythology, so all of these bands appeal to me for those reasons ^^;

    And, yes. Nergal was featured in their track "Storm the Gates of Alesia" ^_^

  • I've been looking into Nile more, seeing as their general themes are right up my alley =D

    Out of curiosity, do you have any interests in the death metal bands "Amon Amarth" and/or "Ex Deo"?

  • 9 Minutes and 8 seconds of Brutal Egyptian Awesomeness

  • its like a trip to Kair, deep inside the pyramids!!!

    love this album!!

  • this is my favorite band!!!i love the whole egyptian thing they have going.i flipped shit when i found out my aunt is friends with karl

  • @Maddlord4 your aunts friends with KARL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!! dude where the fuck does your aunt live, i want to meet karl so damn bad, he is like my favorite guitarist other than dallas and petri lindroos

  • @tyrant6of6genocide she lives in dallas now but she grew up in south carolina

  • @Maddlord4 dude thats epic

  • @tyrant6of6genocide i thought so too

  • black seeds of vengeance is an fucking unbelievable album...

  • 5:00

    SEVEN, ELEVEN!

    (thought he said that for a second rofl)

  • @itssti check the new album "Those whom the Gods detest" out. Great music, hail Nile

  • Nile is pretty new to me and I really love them!! The music is awesome, but they manage to give it all a very special and mighty atmosphere too which makes it all even more epic!

    Is there any other bands like this I should check out?

  • @itssti check Alchemist out.

  • @itssti deicide

  • @itssti Rudra

  • @itssti Impurenza

  • @itssti No, Metal died. 

  • Epic

  • This song is so brutal, it defies description.

  • looks like there's a lot of history buff metalheads

  • @goatambush hell yeah, i study history, and in college were doing ancient egypt now.

  • these guys are the reason I made this nickname on youtube, fucking incredible song, it puts me in a state of nirvana everytime I listen to it

    5/5

  • The most vivid narrators about ancient Egypt, Ur, Babylon!

  • this reminds me quite a bit of even the gods must die, which was off ithyphalic. Both great songs =P

  • absolutely amazing songwriters. no doubt the best in metal

  • Might just be my favourite Nile song.

  • legendary

  • we can only dream of Ur now after the ransacking of the museum in Baghdad in 2003...

  • They need a death metal hall of fame to put Nile in

  • I remember buying this album in high school, cause I liked the cover of the cd. It totally turned me into a death metal freak!

  • Love playin this song loud around my friends,they get freaked out.another one my favorite bands.

  • Black Seeds of Vengeance is definitely still my favorite Nile album. Will likely never change. it's packed with an amazing atmosphere, front to back.

  • @nuadaAtTube

    too bad it wasn't as good as amongst the catacombs... :(

  • @nuadaAtTube Yes, this was an awesome album. I lost it, but I think I'll buy it again.

  • @nuadaAtTube Yeah, from the atmospheric point of view, mine too. But then Kollias joined and the band suddenly had a new velocity and brutality.

  • anyone else think this has to be by far the best solo that karl sanders has ever written? seriously none of the new solos compare in atmosphere to this. fucking love their old material, its a shame very few people know it, probably also due to all the ethnic instruments used, but fuck they do it brilliantly and in such an original way

  • I prefer the one from 'Stones of sorrow'. :)

  • Derek Roddy is such an improval over their first drummer.

  • Pete Hammoura? He is actually drumming on this song...

  • Really? Well then he deffinitely got his chops up by the time they recorded this album.

  • Yeah, but it's the only song on the album he was drumming on.

  • I need to go out and actually buy this album so I can know things like this. Nile is so fucking amazing and this album is awesome.

  • anyone know where to get "In Their Darkened Shrines" on vinyl????

  • t3h int3rn3tz?

    probly ebay or an official NIle ight

  • I found one on amazon.. Just use google and you should find one in no time :] .

  • Smoke weed and listen to it again. Close your eyes and see the desert right before you :D

  • i don't know about you, but i don't need to smoke weed to imagine the desert when listening to this song. All music that is not mindless shit conjures up images and conveys messages.

  • Well said, brother. Well said indeed.

  • you speak the truth. Nile provides so much atmosphere I dont know how its possible to not get mental images of ancient egypt when listening to this.

  • True, but it's 500% more magical if you're stoned.

  • I bought this album on picture vinyl, it's alright. I like annihilation of the wicked best.

  • I just got Annihilation of the Wicked and it's pretty good.

  • SPIIRIIITSSS OFFF THEE GLORIOUSSSS DEADDDDD.

    Can anyone tell me the name of the instrument used throughout sounds like "pwom pwom pwom"

    LOVE this epic death sweep of a song.

    Nile!!

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  • @ Color of ...

    The "pwom pwom pwom" instrument might be a didgeridoo, at least in the beginning. Theres also a drone from a Sitar as well...

  • Its definately not a digeridoo......

  • At ca 0:30 i think its definitely a sampled didgerodoo played on a keyboard... But Im not going to argue about it, it could be anything.

  • Baglama Saz, dude. i think

  • such a great song.

  • nile tą płytą pokazał światu jak można grać death metal trochę inaczej zachowując oczywiście standarty tej muzyki.śluchałem tej muzyki na kolanach.zajebisty album

  • superb album...nile sets a new standard every time....

  • Awesome, amazing and epic. Hail Nile.

  • its so epic, this is my favorite song from nile, simply amazing.

  • the evil vocals in the beginning remind me of attila csihar. Awesome

  • his name was scott wilson

    you can hear his voice also on the last song ( Khetti Satha Shemsu )

  • who does the evil mid-pitched vocals at the beginning?

  • chief spires probably cause dallas and karls growls are deeper than that

  • It wasn't Spires. His vocals were equal to Karl and Dallas. Example, Cheif did the parts on this song "Of ages past when the world was young, when babylon was blessed of Marduk" and "Of bronze gates arrayed in splendour." calodax is right, that was Scott Wilson doing the evil sorcerer vocals.

  • of Temples of Marble

    and Bloodstained Altars

    Long Before the jeweled Throne of Ur

    Fell Silent and Turned to Dust

    Beneath the Endless Shifting Sands

    and the Inevitable Vengeance of the Elements

  • Desolate an Forsaken Eerily Moaning Dark Winds Murmur Incantations Dusk Calla forth Shadows Spirits of the Glorious Dead Lingering Bound to this Place They Whisper of Untold Sagas of Long Dead Cities the Seven Shining Cities Sacred to the Aphkhallu of Ages past when the World was Young When Babylon was Blessed of Marduk and the Sound of her Armies was the Blare of Omnious War Horns and the Clash of Immortal Cymbals of Bronze Gates Arrayed in Splendour and Magnificent Walls of Sunbaked Brick
  • one of the first death metal albums i bought right here. amazing band.

  • This is the only song Pete recorded on the record.. Roddy did the rest..

    I got it from Roddy him self

  • amazing song!!!!.....

  • one of the best songs of NILE.....

  • yes, i love the instrument which comes in the song at 1:05

  • I agre, i swear the eerie sound almost made me cum lol! not too keen on the whiney vocals but the rest is insane

  • you have a strange fetish

  • you are right about one thing it is an eerie song...but whiney vocals? you must be hearing my chemical romance that is playing in your room little boy. Nile is badass and THEY DONT HAVE WHINEY VOCALS ANYWHERE IN THEIR MUSIC. get your ass to the store and buy some nile albums and wake the fuck up!

  • yh i meen the vocals tht are abit more black metally at the beging havnt herd tht from nile before there usual low vox like the ones tht come in at the double bass

    and ive got 4 nile album Nile are my fave band im going to see them in sept \m/

  • whereabouts u seeing nile, cos i'm going to a gig in september also, dunno if its the same venue or not though

  • wolvo civic in wolverhampton shud be fuckin sick

  • Awesome. One of the best songs from Black Seeds Of Vengeance. Epic. Hail Nile.

  • I Love the eerie sounding guy at the beginning of the song he's awesome! He sounds like a sorcerer or a witch doctor... Kinda reminds me of parts of Unas and "Die Rache Krieg..."

  • yeah, they try to create a mysterious egyptian feel which theyve nailed pretty well

  • This isn't Egyptian though, because Ur was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Not only does Nile do Egyptian things, they've also incorporated H.P Lovecraft stories, and Mesopotamian sounds/lyrics.

  • they are all very similar, and the ancient egyptian empire streched very far with great influence as it was the biggest, most advanced empire of its time

  • I am aware of that, but, Mesopotamia was a whole other civilization.

  • Actually, Mesopotamia is a geographical region, not a civilisation. It has seen many different cultures, among which are the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians...

  • It's always difficult comparing different cultures, but I don't think the Mesopotamian culture was less advanced than the Egyptian: it can even be argued the Sumerian culture was more advanced than the Egyptian (higher degree of urbanization, earlier development of intensive agriculture etc.).

  • the thing is though, the egyptian empire survived for over 6000 years. this is because they excelled in all things especially adaptation. many other empires like sumerian excelled in just a few areas but that was their downfall. even if the mesopotamian culture was more adavanced at their height egypt peaked at many times only to be crushed by the superpower of the Romans(barbarians>:()

  • 6000 years? I always thought the 'traditional' Egyptian culture lasted from around 3000 BC till Cleopatra. And the problem here is: although the Sumerian culture lasted less long in the formal sense, their heritage didn't: the Mesopotamian region has since seen other great civilizations (Babylonians/Assyrians etc), all of whom were very much influenced by the Sumerians. And if you look at Egypt: the Old Kingdom is very different compared to the Middle or New Kingdom.

  • they have found mummies dating from 5000bc, even though they werent advanced they founded the religion at that time. africa is by far a much bigger place than the average person would think. the "world atlas" is far out of propotion. egypt started as three seperate kingdoms. this became 2 empires which were finally united after many struggles in around 3150bc. allthough not united until 3150 the 2 nations were ruling for many centuries beforehand and were both advanced and powerful.

  • Obviously your original comment was ignorant, no matter how much pseudo-arguments you throw in, it is two very different cultures of whom you speak so comparing them is extremely difficult and relative to preset terms and interests.

    Besides there was no ''Egyptian empire'' there were just different dynasties with kings that ruled a bunch of linked villages (not so much cities or urbanized until very late) that shared a common culture that evolved through time.

  • Egypt was not actually an empire until quite late, like you said, and it was divided into two Main parts upper and lower, (Memphis being the captial of Lower, and Thebes/Ptolemias being the capital of Upper).

    These "kings that ruled abunch of linked villages" had actually invaded and controlled syria and palestine, achieved buildings of unequalled architectural difficulty, and had repelled attack after attack from mostly all of the neighbouring countries.

  • you talk about pseudo arguments while you claim there was no egyptian empire, your ignorance is impressive

  • Actually this is quite true, however I can see where confusion may arise. Using the term Egyptian Empire is assuming a-priori a link between geographical-political-cultura­l etc. terms based on the same people with the same culture who view themselves as such. The former is not an easy debate (and for example what defines ''Egyptian''?) therefor if you wish to be prudent; there were different dynasties who controlled (vast) empires, but those were not Egyptian but the empire of (insert king).

  • Well said; in Ancient Egypt the polictics/culture and even mythology changed Drastically with each different pharaoh/dynasty. Its like saying The Victorians were the same as the Tudors (for example) because they lived in the same area.

  • Mesopotamia was more advanced, if you ask me. Sure, individual cultures were shorter, but the Sumerians, being the first, had major impact on all the following. You rightfully mention urbanization and agriculture. Egyptians waited for the Nile to flood, but the Sumerians dug canals and thus took things into their own hands. Also, cuneiform writing was more widespread than hieroglyphs. Egypt might be fascinating, but Mesopotamia is much more so...

  • Waiting for the life-giving floods of the Nile was more religious than not being able to build canals.

    I think the reason that Egypt is "more" fascinating is that we know so much more about them than the Mesopotamians, and they are more universally known.

  • Well, yes of course, but the environment in Mesopotamia was a lot harsher, so the people living there needed to work more together to accomplish something. It is this 'working together', particularly the specializing in specific skills, that forms a civilization. And I have a bit of doubt about the knowledge about Egypt being greater than the knowledge about Mesopotamia: yes, it is pretty clear normal people know more about Egypt. But under historians I think the difference is not so big.

  • haha, the Egyptians relied on a much more efficient and quicker way of accomplishing things.

    Generally, concerning hieroglyphs and cuneiform, scribes were the elite of egyptian society and a lot would know other languages as well as their own. With the Egyptians life was very religious. Hieroglyphs were considered art which is why these are only really found on tombs/ monuments. Most scribes of egypt would write in hieratic(from before the 1st dynasty) or Demotic(25th dynasty)

  • Death Metal. The music of knowledge & individualism!, Existentialism...so & so on.

  • @xzxz619 Shut up.

  • @blashyrhkRAAA

    I sense jealousy...

  • @xzxz619 That's because you're a fucking idiot. If you weren't, you'd feel the cringing i did at your facepalm worthy comment.

  • @xzxz619 I didn't know Morgoth were objectivist.

    Silly boy.

  • @xzxz619 and also of spiritualism and abstractism....and it is the major moral on the earth

  • hahaah! guess i'm not the only one. xD

  • They're different genres, so its harder to compare them. They are equally skilled at their individual genre, but i prefer Nile definately!

  • But the egyptians also dug canals allowing the water to go from the nile, through canals, into the farmland alongside of the Nile. So they also had knowledge of irrigation. I also think (but this is my own opinion) that if they dug canals to receive water from the Nile, ands thus not waiting for the Nile to flood, they wont receive the fertile clay (dont know the word for 'slib' in english) the river brought with it

  • 'Silt'

    And yes, when it flooded annulally, it brought rich mud/silt which was high in nutrients that the crops needed to grow effectively.

  • ancient egyptians referred to their land as "Kmt" or "Kemet" meaning "the black lands" not only because of the black fertile soil but because they were black africans (despite how hollywood portrays them)

  • @13b1cdw8g

    Black Africans? Are you serious? The Egyptian genepool remained largely continual, the Arabic genetic influx is the largest.

    If you want a good representation of the Ancient Egyptian population you can take a look at the Copts, who are the Christian Egyptians that didn't intermarry with the Muslim invaders.

  • @13b1cdw8g The 'black african' history of egypt refers to the nubian culture. Now modern Sudan. They conquered egypt at one point.

  • Their best song. Incredible guitar solo, one of the best ever written, regardless of genre.

  • its pretty good guitar work there, also all the kindof egyptian noises are from karl sanders, whos basically the leader and founder.

  • Spirits of the Glorious Dead Lingering, Bound to this Place

    They Whisper of Untold Sagas, of Long Dead Cities

    The Seven Shining Cities Sacred to the Aphkhallu

    of Ages Past when the World was Young