Annihilation of the Wicked
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2005 |
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| Label (s) | Relapse Records | |||
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10 |
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51:41 |
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Annihilation of the Wicked is the fourth album by the technical death metal band Nile , released in May 2005 on Relapse Records .
Emergence
The album was the first after George Kollias joined the band as the new drummer. It would also be the last on Relapse Records before the group switched to Nuclear Blast for the album Ithyphallic . As a producer was Neil Kennon active, who also recorded the album and it abmischte. The recordings took place at Soundlab Studios in Columbia , South Carolina , while the songs were mixed in Rax Trax in Chicago . A music video was also created for the song Sacrifice Unto Sebek under the direction of Chad Rullman. The band worked on the album for a total of six months, 13 weeks of which they spent in the studio.
Track list
- Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise - 0:51
- Cast Down the Heretic - 5:45
- Sacrifice Unto Sebek - 3:03
- User-Maat-Re - 9:14
- The Burning Pits of the Duat - 3:52
- Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns - 5:21
- Lashed to the Slave Stick - 4:18
- Spawn of Uamenti - 1:14
- Annihilation of the Wicked - 8:16
- Of Ineffable Cults - 9:46
Bonus songs
The Japanese edition of the album contained an additional song as a bonus:
- Sss Haa Set Yoth - 5:15
Music style and lyrics
Compared to its predecessor In Their Darkened Shrines , the band used much less Egyptian sounding samples on Annihilation of the Wicked . The songs are described as catchier than the previous ones, although borrowings from other genres, such as the use of a black metal riff in Lashed to the Slave Stick , are also characteristic. The songs mostly have a progressive character. The game speed is often very fast, as in Cast Down the Heretic , but is also sometimes reduced, so that songs like Von Unspeakable Cults and User-Maat-Re have a Doom Metal character. The band is less technical than on its predecessor, whereas the songs are more brutal. Another characteristic feature is the use of instruments, some of which are not genre, such as the use of a bouzouki (other sources also speak of a baglamas ). As usual, the songs were inspired by Egyptian mythology and the works of HP Lovecraft . The song Of Ineffable Cults was named after Lovecraft 's work of the same name .
Reviews
Greg Prato from Allmusic praised Karl Sanders' guitar playing and described him as one of the best guitarists in the extreme metal genre. Thomas Weeber from metal.de also praised the album and particularly emphasized the versatility of the album and the technically demanding level of play. The band had created a similarly good album as In Their Darkened Shrines , avoiding "In Their Darkened Shrines - Part 2". He gave it nine out of ten points and advised a blind buy, as you couldn't go wrong with this album. In issue 207 of the rock-hard magazine, author Volkmar Weber described songs such as Cast Down the Heretic and Sacrifice Unto Sebek as "some of the most brutal and technically demanding things the death lead market has ever had to offer". Drummer George Kollias had to hide from Tony Laureano, who was also not untalented; but this “should sink into the ground with shame”. Weber particularly emphasized the fast double bass game and the high level of playing precision, which he described as "frightening". Weber also described playing the guitar as precise and compared it to a Swiss clockwork.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nile , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ↑ Nile (2) - Annihilation Of The Wicked , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Nile (2) - Annihilation Of The Wicked , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ↑ NILE: 'Sacrifice Unto Sebek' Video Stills Available - July 13, 2005 , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ^ Robert Müller: Sledgehammer . All or nothing . In: Metal Hammer , July 2005, p. 72 f.
- ↑ a b Thomas Weeber: NILE "Annihilation Of The Wicked" , accessed on April 27, 2013.
- ↑ Moritz Krüger: CD Review: Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 27, 2013.
- ↑ a b Volkmar Weber: Nile . Annihilation Of The Wicked . In: Rock Hard , No. 217, accessed April 27, 2013.
- ^ Greg Prato: Annihilation of the Wicked - Nile , accessed April 27, 2013.
