Death Metal Icons NILE Reveal Vicious New Track

20th August 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

American death metal icons NILE will finally drop their highly-anticipated 10th album, The Underworld Awaits Us All, this Friday, August 23 via Napalm Records! In celebration of this week’s album release, the band has unleashed their third single – pinnacle burner “Under the Curse of the One God”. Accompanied by a hypnotic lyric video, the track combines sinister atmospherics with breakneck pacing and vicious riff acrobatics, soaring as a technical tour-de-force with career-defining drumming from George Kollias.

NILE’s Karl Sanders comments on the new track and lyric video:
“We are really happy that fans will finally have a chance to hear ‘Under the Curse of the One God’. It’s a ferocious and brutal NILE track, and steeped in Ancient Curses. Many thanks to Ingo Sporl for once again wielding his uniquely creative visual artistry to help bring our music to blasphemous life.”

Boasting airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality, the new album pushes each member of NILE – founding mastermind guitarist/vocalist Karl Sanders, longtime iconic drum master George Kollias, vocalist/guitarist Brian Kingsland, along with bassist Dan Vadim Von and guitarist Zach Jeter – to their furthest extremes both in artistry and performance.” Once again produced and recorded at Sanders’ own Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina, the band returned to Vile Nilotic Rites engineer Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Whitechapel) for mixing and mastering.

Facing the planet’s inevitable end with their diehard fans at their side, NILE waste absolutely no time with histrionics on The Underworld Awaits Us All, distilling their trademark Egyptology driven tempest down to its most streamlined essence. Charging into battle as its namesake depicts, “Stelae of Vultures” makes an immediate impact with dissonant guitar chords and supernatural drumming, teasing the auditory evisceration to come. Topped by impressive screams and gutturals, the track leads into “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes”, citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead’s 181st chapter. The album’s most succinct track, “To Strike with Secret Fang”, blends low-end punishment with blackened death metal inspiration, before album standouts such as “Naqada II Enter the Golden Age” and “Overlords of the Black Earth” breathe new life with thrash and fusion experimentation, as well as real human choirs – adding a raw element to the NILE fold. Each track soars as a technical tour-de-force – featuring career-defining extreme drumming from Kollias, as well as razor-sharp soloing from all three active guitarists and palpable bass exploration. A perfect example of this equation is pinnacle burner “Under the Curse of the One God”, combining sinister atmospherics with breakneck pacing and whirlwind, vicious riff acrobatics.

Throughout the remainder of its 11 pummeling tracks and intricate interludes, NILE masters full-tilt speed and ferocious musicality. 30 years into their heavy reign, The Underworld Awaits Us All proves that NILE is marching onward and undoubtedly upward, bleeding metal for their fandom for as long as the sands of time will allow.

The Underworld Awaits Us All’s mind-bending art was once again envisioned and created by Michał ‘Xaay’ Loranc, with reference to the cycle of life and judgment at its end.

The Underworld Awaits Us All track listing:
1. Stelae of Vultures
2. Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes
3. To Strike with Secret Fang
4. Naqada II Enter the Golden Age
5. The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka
6. Overlords of the Black Earth
7. Under the Curse of the One God
9. Doctrine of Last Things
10. True Gods of the Desert
11. The Underworld Awaits us All
12. Lament for the Destruction of Time

The Underworld Awaits Us All will be available in the following formats:
-2LP Gatefold GOLD (Napalm mail order only – limited to 300) – NEW!!
-2LP Gatefold MARBLED ORANGE RED BLACK w/ 24 Page Vinyl Booklet and Slipmat (Napalm mail order only – limited to 200)
-2LP Gatefold SPLATTER DARK GREEN YELLOW (Napalm mail order only – limited to 300)
-2LP Gatefold CLEAR (North American indie stores only – limited to 500)
-2LP Gatefold CLEAR w/ signed card (limited North American Newbury Comics exclusive)
-2LP Gatefold BLACK
-6 Page CD Digipak
-6 Page CD Digipak w/ signed card (limited North American Newbury Comics exclusive)
-6 Page CD Digipak & Anubis Bust (limited to 500) – SOLD OUT!
-Cassette Tape Edition YELLOW (Napalm mail order only – limited to 200)
-Digital Album

NILE will kick off their upcoming European headline tour on September 3 in Essen, Germany, and will follow with tour dates in Japan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand later this year. NILE also recently announced their upcoming 2025 USA co-headline tour with death metal greats Six Feet Under, featuring support from Psycroptic and Embryonic Autopsy. Visit https://nile-official.com/ for more information on all dates!

Additional NILE Tour Dates:

NILE Underworld Europe Tour 2024:
September 3, 2024 – Essen, GER @ Turock
September 4, 2024 – Amstelveen, HOL @ P60
September 5, 2024 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
September 6, 2024 – Glasgow, UK @ Slay
September 7, 2024 – Dublin, IRE @ Opium
September 8, 2024 – Belfast, N.IRE @ Limelight2
September 10, 2024 – Manchester, UK @ Rebellion
September 11, 2024 – London, UK @ Underworld
September 12, 2024 – Drachten, HOL @ Iduna
September 13, 2024 – Uden, HOL @ De Pul
September 14, 2024 – Brugge, BEL @ Het Entrepot
September 15, 2024 – Mannheim, GER @ MS Connexion Complex
September 17, 2024 – Barcelona, SP @ Salamandra
September 18, 2024 – Valencia, SP @ Almassera
September 19, 2024 – Sevilla, SP @ Custom
September 20, 2024 – Lisbon, POR @ RCA
September 21, 2024 – Porto, POR @ Hard Club
September 22, 2024 – Madrid, SP @ Mon
September 24, 2024 – Moncalieri (TI), ITA @ Audiodrome
September 25, 2024 – Rome, ITA @ Largo
September 26, 2024 – Modena, ITA @ Notte Tempio
September 27, 2024 – Aarau, CH @ KiFF
September 28, 2024 – San Dona’ Di Piave, ITA @ Revolver
September 29, 2024 – Munich, GER @ Backstage

NILE Japan Tour 2024:
October 8, 2024 – Tokyo @ Space Odd
October 9, 2024 – Tokyo @ Space Odd
October 10, 2024 – Osaka @ Varon

NILE in Bangkok:
October 12, 2024 – Bangkok, TH @ Mr. Fox Live House

NILE Australia & New Zealand Tour 2024:
October 15, 2024 – Perth, AU @ Milk Bar / Civic Hotel
October 16, 2024 – Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
October 17, 2024 – Brisbane, AU @ The Brightside
October 18, 2024 – Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts
October 19, 2024 – Hobart, AU @ Uni Bar
October 20, 2024 – Sydney, AU @ Crowbar
October 22, 2024 – Auckland, NZ @ Whammy

“Revenge of the Underworld Tour” USA Co-Headliner 2025
w/ co-headliners Six Feet Under
w/ Psycroptic & Embryonic Autopsy
January 7, 2025 – Nashville, TN @ Basement East
January 8, 2025 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
January 10, 2025 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
January 11, 2025 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
January 12, 2025 – Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
January 13, 2025 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
January 14, 2025 – Greenville, SC @ Radio Room
January 15, 2025 – Greensboro, NC @ Hangar 1819
January 17, 2025 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
January 18, 2025 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium Underground
January 19, 2025 – Albany, NY @ Empire Live
January 20, 2025 – Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedrafts
January 21, 2025 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
January 23, 2025 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
January 24, 2025 – Columbus, OH @ The King Of Clubs
January 25, 2025 – Flint, MI @ Machine Shop
January 26, 2025 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Elevation
January 27, 2025 – Joliet, IL @ The Forge
January 29, 2025 – St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag
January 30, 2025 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
January 31, 2025 – Ft. Wayne, IN @ Piere’s
February 1, 2025 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
February 2, 2025 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theater
February 4, 2025 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
February 6, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV @ Sinwave
February 7, 2025 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
February 8, 2025 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Roseville
February 10, 2025 – Portland, OR @ Bossanova Ballroom
February 11, 2025 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
February 13, 2025 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone
February 14, 2025 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst
February 15, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA @ 1720
February 17, 2025 – Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Theater
February 18, 2025 – Farmington, NM @ Lauter Haus
February 20, 2025 – Dallas, TX @ Haltom Theater
February 21, 2025 – Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live
February 22, 2025 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live