nuclear blast pt. III: nile

nile - ithyphallic
a hulk of an album! nile plays everthing with virtuosity - the fast & technical parts, the slow parts & the melody parts. all under the pretext of the old egyptians which is the very factor that makes them so special to me. i just love getting lost in the whole topic of old pharaos trying to get immortal by mummification, speaking spells to get rid of enemies, showing the after-world ones glory by building enormous monuments and so on and so on.
the only thing which bothers me a bit is the missing of the liner notes on this one. that was discussed with eagerness among fans and led to the revival of liner notes on "those whom the gods detest", thankfully. but that's really the only thing not being on the top. -that solo on "the essential salts"... what a cracker!-

i was lucky to get my hands on this. actually it was sold out for a long time but nuclear blast dug out some left over copies from some forgotten vault. this happens from time to time (e.g. sepultura latest album was available again on white and some blue copies of agnostic front's my life my way were up again) but nb doesn't seem to make a big deal about those re-stocks. it seems to go unmentioned and you have to find those copies by chance. that's excactly what happened here :) i got it for the original price of 16€ and was quite happy!

it comes in a nice gatefold sleeve including the lyrics. clear gold w/ black smoke vinyl. great match with the cover art!

on the back you can see it is numbered. the four numbers indicate a pressing number in the range of 1000. i presume it's 1500 because i saw a pic of a copy on the net that was #1043 and because it's a round sum :)
if some one knows the actual pressing number let me know.


nile - at the gate of sethu
*at this point i actually wrote about my first copy of this album. i wasn't satisfied with it and re-placed it with a better one :-) read about it here.*