NILE
Conclusions
Certain bands are ever-present, and subsist so by being (in distinct manners) mediocre or very, very good, but could go unnoticed for an entire lifetime of listening. They play out their lengthy, continuous blur of bad (with a dedicated, retarded fan base) or, in this case, almost great records, over entire decades, and in Nile's case started in 1993, meaning they're almost 20 years from formation. They've made six LPs, with very little variety, but indeed just three interspersed categories of song, being interlude, fast Nile song and the rare slow Nile song. There are a couple of classic songs that combine the fast and slow Nile songs into epic lengths, but as a matter of total overview, they have a near-zero will to change, and one might argue, just as little reason to stop doing what they're doing.
Conclusions
Certain bands are ever-present, and subsist so by being (in distinct manners) mediocre or very, very good, but could go unnoticed for an entire lifetime of listening. They play out their lengthy, continuous blur of bad (with a dedicated, retarded fan base) or, in this case, almost great records, over entire decades, and in Nile's case started in 1993, meaning they're almost 20 years from formation. They've made six LPs, with very little variety, but indeed just three interspersed categories of song, being interlude, fast Nile song and the rare slow Nile song. There are a couple of classic songs that combine the fast and slow Nile songs into epic lengths, but as a matter of total overview, they have a near-zero will to change, and one might argue, just as little reason to stop doing what they're doing.
Nile is a band that, as I mentioned, can be forgotten and buried to the seasoned listener - relying mainly on myself and my equivocal friends outside the fan base - because, after discovering them and listening to their records, you realize they're only going to gainsay the same values and tread the same steps over and over. Certain bands can wield the curse, of repetition combined with ideology, while recording diverse materials (see VOIVOD), but most of them do not (see the entire genre of serious metal), and in this Nile is very much of a type with IMMOLATION, and just the same they both started young and many erstwhiles ago, but had laborious and unsteady start-up processes, which left them with a sort of training in the arts both of instrumental proficiency and many lessons against the art of vacillating. The only difference to offer that stands out is that Immolation is one of the best bands in metal ever, while Nile is just too specific and " outsider-hilarious" to enter that class.
The term "outsider-hilarious" is just a fluke of substance, but I think it does require observation, placing you as the metalhead outside looking in, to realize when a band is just soaking with ridiculous obstacles to the serious or external listener. I have the advantage of once showing Nile to a metal-unseasoned outside listener and, on the canvas of facial expression, recognizing that their whole Egyptian motif is nearly hilarious, and seems like a joke. But the first time I heard Nile, before I had become adjusted to death metal with blast beats at the age of 12, I was obviously trying to get into the entire genre, so I didn't mock them because they were too tight. But playing their records will substantially follow as such:
1. Instrumental section -- using instruments that shall not appear again for the duration of main musical structure. This tries to belabour that these dudes are very serious and well-read guys who did not just pull everything about Egyptian ideology or musicality out of their ass because, with no doubt, it seems heavy as fuck
2. Instantly, without failure, blast the listener with a picaresque, jolly INTENSE BLASTING and TREMOLO PICKING for five minutes
3. Leave the attentive listener failing to either BE VERY CONFUSED or SIT AROUND MOSHING to all of their records.
Without further review of their discography - which could be forthcoming - that is all.
