nile - amongst catacombs of the nephren-ka
holy seven, i have them all. all seven nile long players on coloured vinyl. after i sucessfully tracked down an orange copy of 'black seeds of vengeance', i was really bound and determined to bring it to an end. so i searched the net for opportunities. discogs was the first attempt to find a solution. and the last. a seller from france was selling this for a really agreeable price. i can't really remember it, but it was way lower than the rest, which varied around the €70 mark without postage, of course. i think it only took a week to get to me.
just like on 'annihilation of the wicked', this album contains a song with a german title. 'die rache krieg lied der assyriche'. this made me chuckle a bit because there is a grammar mistake. translated it means 'the revenge war song of the assyriche'. in german there are three definite article, whereas only one in english (which is way easier, by the way. non-natives always struggle with the articles because there is a quite complicated pattern to it, which the majority of germans fail to explain. including me. i simply know the right use, because it's my mother tongue). the use of the article 'die' in front of the word 'rache' (revenge) is wrong in this case. standing alone, 'die' would be correct for 'rache', but in combination with the other two nouns of 'krieg' (war) and 'lied' (song), the article reffers to the last noun of the combination. correctly that has to be the german 'das' (das lied - the song). pretty confusing, right?!
i was really happy to be able to get the clear orange w/ yellow splatter vinyl. because of the three colour ways made, i thought it to be the coolest. there are 100 copies 'friends press' on clear, 300 on orange, 300 on clear w/ orange splatter (of which
lenny has one) and 300 of my colour way. for the first time relapse pressed it to vinyl in 2008, for the ocassion of the tenth anniversary of the release of this album.
relapse records. 1998/2008
