Ελληνικά
Last Updated on 11:19 AM by Nikos Nakos
Genre: Brutal Death Metal/Technical Death Metal
Country: U.S.A.
Label: Napalm Records
Year: 2024
When your album’s first single is entitled ‘Chapter for Not Being Hunted Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Faces by the Four Apes’ you’re either way to confident for your material or you are Nile. Or both. Never escaping the Egypt topical (what else would you write songs about if your band were named Nile?) this time, as the title ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’ unveils, focus on the inevitable of human nature and the certain to come for us all; Death. Musically speaking this is the most furious Nile we have ever heard. And we are dealing with their 10th studio full length…From the vigorous opener ‘Stelae Of Vultures’ the album a specific direction, or better saying it makes its own way, as it built a certain dynamic with ultra-fast almost insane drumming, brutal vocals, super technical guitars and old school traditional vibes. So while the album in its entirety follows the same pattern still the band uses some ‘tricks’ to make the final result rich and alluring for the listener as in some black metal elements in ‘To Strike with Secret Fang’, a one minute acoustic passage in ‘The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka’ , some down tuned mid paced parts as in ‘Overlords of the Black Earth’ or the excellent balance between maximum speeding riffs and solos and epic atmosphere. Nile also kept the balance between ‘hit singles’ or ‘what the fans would want to hear’ songs and more brave or adventurous moments that they managed to fit them after the second half of the record until the end of it. 25 years after their incredible debut Among the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka in 1998, through now considered to be classic Annihilation of the Wicked in 2005 that are their biggest moments, Nile can claim that with ‘The Underworld Awaits Us All’ that is featuring some excellent songs like the aforementioned above or ‘Under the Curse of the One God’ and some ‘slower’ killers as ‘Doctrine of Last Things’ and ‘True Gods of the Desert’, they’ve done an impressive album that can be placed among their finest work of all these years.
