Nile Vile Nilotic Rites CD

There's death metal and then there'sNILE. For»Vile Nilotic Rites,«the mantra was: if it's not right for the song, it gets cut. Nothing superfluous or idiosyncratic were allowed to persist on and live throughNILE's new team-based songwritingprocess. If a part was savage but didn't fit, out the door it went. But if it was merciless and fit into the overall design of the song, it was kept and curated.

The end result ofNILE's extreme musical vetting was 11 songs, sharp as obsidian blades, heavy as nine Nubian pyramids. Songs like'Oxford Handbook Of Savage Genocidal Warfare,' 'That Which Is Forbidden,' 'Revel In Their Suffering,'and the title track exhibit the self-made qualities of editorial perfection without losing the fiery passion that makesNILE's death metal devastatingly uncontestable.