Those Whom the Gods Detest

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Those Whom the Gods Detest
Studio album by Nile

Publication
(s)

2009

Label (s) Nuclear Blast

Genre (s)

Technical death metal

Title (number)

10

running time

56:36

occupation

production

Neil Kernon , Erik Rutan (drums)

Studio (s)

Serpent Headed Studios , Mana Recording Studios (drums)

chronology
Ithyphallic
(2007) 		Those Whom the Gods Detest At the Gate of Sethu
(2012)

Those Whom the Gods Detest is the sixth music album by the technical death metal band Nile . It was released on November 3, 2009 by Nuclear Blast .

Emergence

The album is the follow-up to their 2007 label debut Ithyphallic . The album was recorded on the drum track in 2009 at Serpent Headed Studios , Greenville , South Carolina . The drums were recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Tampa , Florida , under the direction of Erik Rutan . The sound carrier was mixed at Rax Trax Recording in Chicago . Neil Kernon worked as a producer , who also mixed the album. The album was mastered by Alan Douches . Guest singers were Chief Spiers, David Merideth, Jon Vesano, Pete Hammoura and Mike Breazeale.

Track list

  1. Kafir - 6:50
  2. Hittite Dung Incantation - 3:48
  3. Utterances of the Crawling Dead - 5:09
  4. Those Whom the Gods Detest - 8:06
  5. 4th Arra of Dagon - 8:40 am
  6. Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld - 3:31
  7. Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual In The Abandoned Towers Of Silence - 2:32
  8. Kem Khefa Khesef - 6:14
  9. The Eye of Ra - 5:00
  10. Iskander Dhul Kharnon - 6:40

A special edition limited to 1,000 copies, released on February 9, 2010 via Nuclear Blast, contained the following bonus songs:

  2. Hittite Dung Incantation (instrumental version) - 3:48
  3. Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld (instrumental version) - 3:32

Music style and lyrics

The band played technically demanding death metal on Those Whom the Gods Detest . The songs mostly deal with topics from ancient Egypt as usual, as well as the works of HP Lovecraft , whereby the acoustic and oriental sounds have declined further compared to their predecessor. Compared to its predecessor Karl Sanders , the album again took on more vocal parts, but Toler-Wade still took over the majority. The use of Egyptian or oriental-sounding samples is characteristic here, as with the predecessors. Because Sanders is hardly represented vocally, the guttural singing is less deep. In addition to the extremely fast played pieces, which are accompanied by the fast drumming of George Kollias , there are also slow pieces such as 4th Arra of Dagon and Iskander Dhul Karnon , which come closer to Doom Metal .

Reviews

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Those Whom the Gods Detest
  US 160 11/21/2009 (1 week)

Alexander Eitner from metalnews.de praised the technically demanding instrument playing of the musicians, with the band playing “a large part of the technical death iron scene on the wall while sleeping”. Although there is "not a single bad song" on the album, lengths crept in in some places and there are really new ideas missing. Because Sanders was also used less vocally, there was a little lack of variety through the use of two vocal parts. However, all the points mentioned are complaining at a high level. Eitner awarded 5.5 out of a possible 7 points. Christoph Meul from metal.de also praised the technically demanding playing of the instruments, although there was a lack of variety and atmosphere due to the decline in oriental sounds. He awarded 8 out of 10 possible points. Markus Sievers from Powermetal.de wrote that the album was “the absolutely most groundbreaking and unbelievable piece of death steel of the year, yes of this decade”, so that “NILE has ascended the throne of death metal metallologically” and awarded it the highest rating of 10 points. Robert Müller from Metal Hammer praised the playing of the drums, with Kollias delivering “a very hot race for the 2009 crown” when it comes to speed in Behemoth's Inferno . Müller also complained about the decline in oriental influences and the vocal variability and found that the band could do better. He awarded 5 out of 7 points.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nile (2) - Those Whom The Gods Detest , accessed July 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Nile (2) - Those Whom The Gods Detest , accessed July 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Markus Sievers: NILE - Those Whom The Gods Detest , accessed on July 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Alexander Eitner [soulsatzero]: Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest , accessed on July 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Anzo Sadoni: Sledgehammer . Greater than the gods . In: Metal Hammer , December 2009, p. 82 f.
  6. ↑ a b Christoph Meul: NILE Those Whom The Gods Detest , accessed on July 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ NILE's 'Gods' Lands On BILLBOARD Chart - Nov. 11, 2009 , accessed July 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ Robert Müller: Nile . Those Whom the Gods Detest . In: Metal Hammer , December 2009, p. 104.