In Their Darkened Shrines

by Nile

In Their Darkened Shrines cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 August 2002
  • Label: Relapse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:38
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Karl Sanders, George Kollias, Tony Laureano, Dallas Toler-Wade, Mike Breazeale, Jon Vesano

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'In Their Darkened Shrines' is a monumental achievement in technical death metal, renowned for its immense speed and complex Egyptian mythology concepts. Nile seamlessly weaves Middle Eastern acoustic interludes into their brutal, relentless guitar assaults.

Genres

Descriptors: death, mythology, ritualistic, technical, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. The Blessed Dead (04:53)
  2. Execration Text (02:46)
  3. Sarcophagus (05:09)
  4. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu (03:52)
  5. Unas, Slayer of the Gods (11:43)
  6. Churning the Maelstrom (03:07)
  7. I Whisper In the Ear of the Dead (05:10)
  8. Wind of Horus (03:46)
  9. Hall of Saurian Entombment (05:09)
  10. Invocation To Seditious Heresy (03:51)
  11. Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra (03:11)
  12. Ruins (06:01)

Credits

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