World-renowned American death metal icons Nile are making a return this year with their highly-anticipated 10th opus of pure onslaught. Entitled The Underworld Awaits Us All, this new record boasts airtight technicality and unrelenting brutality, pushing each member of Nile 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 for mixing and mastering. In celebration of today’s announcement, the band have dropped the record’s first new single, “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes”, alongside a Tom Flynn-directed, official music video. Topped by killer screams and gutturals, the track is a winding hacksaw of brutal tech-death injections citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead. On the new track and video, Nile’s founder Karl Sanders comments, “‘Chapter for not being Hung Upside Down’ is one of our favorite tracks on the new record. It’s a lot of fun to play, challenging and unpredictable, but with an infectiously brutal, unrestrained vibe that I am very certain will be a blast in the mosh pit during live shows. We are super happy to be working with Tom Flynn for the video for this song – he is a visionary with insanely creative ideas and a really cool guy to work with. Very excited for people to see what he has been cooking up with this video.”
The Underworld Awaits Us All will be released on August 23rd via Napalm Records. Pre-orders are now available here.
Photo credit: Casey Coscarelli
