Nile

Video Premiere: Narcotic Wasteland – “Sex, Lies & DNA”

October 18, 2023

Narcotic Wasteland, featuring ex-Nile frontman Dallas Toller-Wade, return another dark, campy gem in the form of “Sex, Lies & DNA.” We have the video for you first

Video Premiere: Narcotic Wasteland – “Victims of the Algorithm”

November 17, 2022

Check out the latest and greatest from ex-Nile frontman Dallas Toler Wade’s Narcotic Wasteland, the new video for “Victims of the Algorithm.”

Video Premiere: Xael Creates Their Own World with “Srai – The Demon of Erring”

May 20, 2021

Check out the otherworldly video from the otherworldly North Carolina sci-fi obsessed freaks Xael.

Video Premiere: Nader Sadek – “The Serapeum (Polluted Waters)”

October 21, 2020

In-studio and in-pyramid footage of the recording of The Serapeum, the latest EP from Egyptian-American death metal visionary Nader Sadek, featuring Nile guitarist Karl Sanders.

Rank & Defile: Nile’s Albums Ordered from Worst to Best

December 4, 2019

To celebrate the recent release of the USDM heroes’ latest album, Vile Nilotic Rites, we rank Nile‘s studio LP discography.

Full Album Stream: Contrarian – “Their Worm Never Dies”

March 8, 2019

Hear the new album from progressive death crew Contrarian featuring Nile’s George Kollias.

Track Premiere: Olkoth – ‘Imperfect Reanimation’

December 7, 2018

Current and former members of Nile, Rapheumets Well and more join forces in Olkoth.

The Top 10 Metal Songs Never Performed Live

August 8, 2017

We look at some of the best metal songs of all time… that have never been performed live.

Hall of Fame Countdown: Nile’s Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka

May 5, 2016

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is a near-perfect death metal album—absolutely pummeling and technically astonishing, yet layered with unique instrumentation and musical phrasing that give it an ancient, otherworldly atmosphere. Ranking such a slab of awesomeness from “worst to best” is about as ridiculous as Sully Erna’s face tattoo, but that’s never stopped us before!

Enter A Sweet, Sweet Deci-Hell, Courtesy Metalcakes

January 8, 2013

“The weak pale in the face of both baking and metal!” Metalcakes proprietor Kathy Bejma declares when asked how she first came to realize heavy metal and cupcakes belonged in the same mixing bowl. “Plus ovens are like little mini hells accepting your sacrifice of unborn chickens, butter, and sugar…Occasionally I’ll get the How dare…

Into the Depths: Karl Sanders of Nile

July 3, 2012

On today’s edition of Into the Depths we invite Karl Sanders out of the catacombs for a conversation on how a hippie-admiring kid from San Francisco became a visionary force of nature in extreme music destined to single-handedly summon the improbable subgenre of ithyphallic death metal into being. From having to pawn their guitars on…

Ashmedi’s (Melechesh) biographical column & chaotic metaphysical thoughts, Part XVII

May 24, 2011

Here I am back after a long silence. What can I say?! I naively thought I could be writing while on tour… I was wrong. For one, I was sick as a dog during the majority of the European tour, so for the most part the routine was: from bed to stage to bed. Day…

Top 5 Metal Albums You Should Work-The-Fuck-Out To! by Charles Elliott (Abysmal Dawn)

February 15, 2011

By Charles Elliott (Abysmal Dawn) Decibel asked me to create a list of top 5 (insert inane subject here) things for their blog so this is what I came up with. I wasn’t big on working out really until maybe a year and half ago when I started going through a real rough patch in…

Ashmedi’s (Melechesh) biographical column & chaotic metaphysical thoughts, Part XVI

February 3, 2011

By Ashmedi (Melechesh) The first column for 2011. And it’s number 16. For a person who used to hate writing I find this quite the accomplishment.  2010 was very productive year. It is the year The Epigenesis was recorded and not long ago released, so I felt a sense of accomplishment and relief. We are…

Nile – “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka”

June 17, 2009

Nile didn’t play cribbage with the Lord of all Fevers and Plagues. Entrails were never ripped from an unfortunate virgin’s cunt as far as we know.