Comments on: Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest

By: Fred Laner

Fred Laner — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:07:36 +0000

I agree with some of the other comments here. TWTGD was not only the best Death Metal album 2009, but Metal album of that year, period, and one of the best Metal albums of this century. It’s as though the original reviewer didn’t let the album sink in enough.

By: TRaikov

TRaikov — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:40:53 +0000

I saw Nile live,and i must say they really kill every other death metal band like grave or belphegor or whatever,ive heard alot and i mean alot of death metal bands,and one thing is for sure THEY FUCKING DISERVE IT.Their new album is a smashing masterpiece and it will bring them even more success than the previous albums.

By: faust666

faust666 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:51:22 +0000

“fafir” ???
Not a good review. “The short of it about Those Whom the Gods Detest is that the disc is not a game-raising album, though it is another grand Nile effort.”
I disagree totally. Nile has not just raised the game with this album but changed the fuckin game too.

Death Metal AOTY 2009. No. Fucking.Contest.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:23:11 +0000

I agree with the reviewer, sort of… I think this is better than Ithyphalic (by a mile, the production alone is enough to make it far better), and it might even be better than Annihilation of the Wicked. This compares favorably to In Their Darkened Shrines, an album I hold among the five or ten best death metal albums ever made. The more I listen to this, the more I like it.

By: emperorjvl

emperorjvl — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:33:19 +0000

Ithyphallic got me interested in Nile, but this one got me hooked. The 1st and 6th tracks are simply amazing.

By: Jobby

Jobby — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:40:10 +0000

Actually this is the Nile album that (for me, at least) *is* up their with ‘In Their Darkened Shrines’.

While I liked Annihilation and Ithyphallic and the rest, they didn’t have the memorable song-writing and hooks? catchiness? memorability (not the right words for it, but … you get what I mean).

This is the first Nile album in quite a while that has me really excited. I catch myself humming ‘there is no god’ quite often and the album has yet to make it out of the car, while Annihilation and Ithyphallic were (apart from a few key tracks) pretty forgettable.

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:20:39 +0000

Good review, we’re of the same mind on this one.

It sounds fucking monstrous, the technical skills are still ridiculously dizzying and it’s got that classic epic Nile presentation – but it’s not gelling for me like In the Darkened Shrines, which I still think is their best album (and one of my favorite metal albums ever).

It’s incredibly well-researched – read the liner notes – but I don’t know if that level of care went into each of the songs. Some of them are really hard to get a handle on, they just seem like blizzards of guitar but not actual riffs or melodies – compare Hittite Dung Incantation to Utterances of the Crawling Dead. Thought the title track was a complete mess, though I do like the chanted chorus. But as an epic, it’s no Unas Slayer of the Gods, far from it. Even a slowed-down track like 4th Arra of Dagon is not as mesmerizing as Eat of the Dead on the last album.

Still it is Nile, and Nile is amazing. Just not the career-crowning release that some people have been claiming it is.

(Sorry, that became a mini-review)

By: Biff Tannan

Biff Tannan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:29:57 +0000

I agree that Nile has never made a bad album….they have become very sterile and boring to my ears. I know what to expect, and it has no staying power, in my opinion. I have grown tired of br00tal death metal, and its bland atmosphere, Nile included. I think there is a GREAT resurgence of death metal going on right now in the underground that blows Nile outta the water…I encourage people that are sick of the sterile mainstream death metal bands (Nile,Arsis,Suffocation,Cannibal Corpse…etc) to seek out the following bands:

Ignivomous (Australia) – sick DEATH metal. Not technical wankery like most modern stuff. Think Incantation but with more speedy section.

Necros Christos (Germany) – Awesome death metal in the vein of Grave/Dismember, but with a very occult black metal atmosphere. Their guitar tone brings back the glory days of the early swedish death scene.

Embrace of Thorns (Greece) – Fast, chaotic death metal with great atmosphere and loads of riffs.