NILE — In Their Darkened Shrines (review)

NILE — In Their Darkened Shrines album cover Album · 2002 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines continues the band's thematic exploration of their "Middle Eastern and North African mythology viewed through a Lovecraftian lens" lyrical subject matter. In other words it's not a huge departure from a lot of early Morbid Angel in terms of what the band is actually singing about, and even less of a departure from the approach they took on their previous two albums.

Where Nile make a unique contribution is in their technical approach, which is presented brilliantly here, enjoying a production which lends great clarity to proceedings and highlights just how skilled and inventive the performances are. Toss in a few mini-epics like the multi-part title track and the devastating Unas, Slayer of the Gods and you should have have a winning combination here; however, Nile sabotage themselves by padding out the running time with bombastic marches and and intros and excursions and other bits which fill out the space between the songs needlessly. They do damn good death metal when they get going, but they take a few too many breaks from that here to maintain my interest.
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