NILE have announced their tenth studio album, The underworld awaits us all, arriving August 23 via Napalm Records. The LP marks their first full-length work in five years.
The South Carolina death metal veterans also offered up the lead single, whose title we'll put here verbatim: “Chapter Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes.”
It's a vicious track with frenetic percussion, fast starts and classic thrash riffs that have a hint of late '80s Sepultura. True to the band's Egyptian concept, the video shows the band playing in the middle of a sandstorm in the pyramids thanks to some effective green screen captures.
“'Chapter for Not Be Hung Upside Down' is one of our favorite songs on the new album,” said singer and guitarist Karl Sanders. “It's a lot of fun to play, challenging and unpredictable, but with an infectiously brutal and unbridled vibe that I'm sure will be a blast in the mosh pit during live shows.”
Regarding the video, Sanders added: “We are very happy to be working with Tom Flynn for the video for this song; he is a visionary with incredibly creative ideas and a really great guy to work with. “I'm so excited for people to see what he's been up to with this video.”
NILE's many die-hard fans will be pleased to know that the band's signature concepts, inspired by Egyptology, are as direct and relevant as ever. The underworld awaits us all and, according to Napalm Records' press release, driven by “the inevitable end of the planet.”
“We are very excited to share NILE's tenth album with fans,” said Sanders. “We worked overtime to make this album as spectacular as possible, because we sincerely felt that the fans deserved our best efforts. The underworld awaits us all – and we will see you there.”
You can pre-order the album through Napalm's website. stream the music video and check out the album art and track listing below.
The underworld awaits us all Artwork:
The underworld awaits us all Songs list:
01. Vulture Trails
02. Chapter for not being hung upside down on a stake in the underworld and forced to eat feces by the four apes
03. To attack with the secret fang
04. Naqada II enters the Golden Age
05. The Pentagrammation of Nephren-Ka
06. Overlords of the Black Earth
07. Under the curse of the only God
09. Doctrine of last things
10. True gods of the desert
11. The underworld awaits us all
12. Lament for the destruction of time
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