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| | Those Whom the Gods Detest | | | Music Artist : | | Nile | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Nuclear Blast Americ | | Release Date : | | 2009-11-03 | | Store Price : | | $15.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Kafir !
2. Hittite Dung Incantation
3. Utterances Of The Crawling Dead
4. Those Whom The Gods Detest
5. 4th Arra Of Dagon
6. Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld
7. Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual In The Abandoned Towers Of Silence
8. Kem Khefa Kheshef
9. The Eye Of Ra
10. Iskander D'hul Karnon
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Same Old Nile
Submitted on: 2009-11-19 |
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| If your a die hard Nile fan, this album will not dissapont. I gave it only a 3 because they honeslty have made no impact on me for the past five years, it sounds like the same old Nile you'd expect. I knew what to expect as far as riffs and had no anticipation when the release date was set. The blast beats, drop A tuning, death vocals, and lyrics about the egyptian era to this point are a snore. I have a theory that they either love what they do and don't care what other people think, or they are truely scared to take a different road. Don't get me wrong Nile is very talented, and Karl had a great approach in the beginning. This album to me just doesn't hit the spot, but it shows potential. |
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 The Best! Hands Down!
Submitted on: 2009-11-13 |
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I don't usually write reviews but, Nile are one of my absolute favorites as far as extreme death metal goes.....and I think the new CD is far superior than anything I've ever heard in the extreme death metal genre....And I've heard tons!
Other bands that rate very high: Opeth, Behemoth, Anata, Anaal Nathrakh, Nachtmystium, Necrophagist, Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, Death, Satyricon, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary....many more too numerous to mention.
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 Annihilation # 2
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 |
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To start off, the new album is great, it's awesome! To me, this album starts wher "Annihilation of the wicked" left off. There is nothing realy ground breaking or anything you have'nt heard before. Like I said, it sounds like a continuation of "Annihilation" and thats not a bad thing!
They do sound a bit more mature( in a good way ) And they are on point with every song.
I still like "Ithyphallic" (the album before this one) better, it's diverse from the other albums. That album realy stands out.
Over all, this album is good, nothing new, but still one of the best releases of '09 |
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Excellent
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 |
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| Nile have outdone themselves here. There is not a bad track nor dull moment to be found. I'll need a few more listens, but I think this one could very well become my favorite Nile release. The production is excellent making it a pleasure to listen to. Awesome job guys, love it! |
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Back to the Shadows Whence They Came
Submitted on: 2009-11-10 |
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In order to explain the problem with the "Those Whom the Gods Detest" album, I feel compelled to go backwards and look at the bands progression. Plenty of us became aware of Nile when the "In their Darkened Shrines" was released. As plenty of Nile fans still remember, this cd was a wild one. Wade and Sanders shredded their guitars in a way that created an almost indecipherable wall of buzzing sound. While some of their songs fit this description, "Kheftiu Asar Butchiu" for example, a few slower paced tracks like, "Sarcophagus" stood out to show the fans an alternative direction for the band.
"In their Darkened Shrines" marked a point in the bands career where Nile began to mature, putting aside sheer speed and brutality for tracks with more listenability.
The band's next two albums illustrated this perfectly, pushing thematic and egyptian elements to the front of their sound. Even though plenty of the tracks were still blindingly fast, they retained a quality that kept the listener's ability to keep a steady headbang to the rhythm. Check out Burning Pits of Duat, the Annihilation of the Wicked track, Eat of the Dead, or Even the Gods Must Die.
Since the Ithyllphalic album was released, I couldn't wait for more once I heard that the "Those Whom.." album was being released, but once I heard it, I was a bit disappointed. The problem with the album once I listened two it, was that it did not follow the same path as the previous two albums! It resembles Nile at a younger, less selective point in their career of more technicality, more buzz, more brutality and less melody.
On a different note, I must admit that this cd has the best production I've heard from this band to date. Each note note from every instrument is sharp and discernible, but that doesn't distract from the fact that some of the album's melodies are just plain weird (and not in a dissonant good way), the chorus of the album's title track is sung HORRIBLY, and the middle eastern singing excerpts are installed in just the worst way. Aside from that, this is still Nile.
The interludes from Sanders are plentiful and are some of the band's best, although in my opinion they don't mix well with the main track. I believe that Sanders got his fill of thematic acoustic style music and decided to focus mainly on the albums rougher sounds rather than creating brooding melodies shared by the interludes and the main track (thus creating a more magical mesh).
Aside from all the lows I pointed out, some of the albums tracks are truely unforgetable! Tracks like, "Permitting the dead... and Iskander D'hul Kernon " stand as purely epic and BEYOND AMAZING! (Better than anything on the previous cd!) And yes, like the rest of the albums, this one gets better the more you listen to it. Although the entire album wasn't as good as Ithyllphalic (from start to finish) it is more than worthy of a full listen. |
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