NILE unveil masterful second single “To Strike with Secret Fang”

American death metal icons NILE recently announced their highly anticipated 10th album The Underworld Awaits Us All, out August 23rd via Napalm Records, and the first reviews are in! The album’s breakneck first single, “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes,” received high praise from long-time fans and was immediately signed by Consequence as “kinetic, technically dense brutality”, while MetalSucks sees it as “face-disfiguring death metal from start to finish.”

The album’s second single and most succinct, “To Strike with Secret Fang,” takes that relentless strength to the next level. Out today in a new lyric video and streaming on all major platforms, the track blends deep punches with black death metal inspiration, rhythmic vocal mastery, and brutal conviction. Check it out below!

In addition to the single, NILE have also announced their upcoming 2025 co-headlining tour of the US with death metal greats Six Feet Under. The tour kicks off on January 7, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee and will feature support from Psycroptic and Embryonic Autopsy. Tickets for this unforgettable onslaught go on sale this Friday, July 12th at 10:00 am EDT! Pre-show meet & greets will also be available for both headliners. For tickets and more information, visit https://nile-official.com/. All tour dates can be found below.

Karl Sanders from NILE comments on the new song and the tour announcement: “‘To Strike with Secret Fang’ is a direct, fast-sounding metal song that comes across like a poisonous murder blade. It is the shortest track on the new record The Underworld Awaits us All, which of course, in Nile style, contains several long, complex metal compositions. But ‘Fang’ goes straight to the throat and will no doubt be a hit at Nile live shows.

“Speaking of which, Nile is very excited about the opportunity to share the stage again with the guys from Six Feet Under and Psycroptic. We are also well-equipped to play some of the killer songs from the new Nile album for metal fans, as well as classic Nile tracks that have become live favorites over the years. We have no doubt that metal will happen!”

The new album is full of stinging technicality and unrelenting brutality, pushing each member of NILE – founding member and guitarist Karl Sanders, longtime drummer George Kollias, singers and guitarists Brian Kingsland and Zach Jeter, and bassist Dan Vadim Von – to their artistic and acting limits. The album was again produced and recorded at Sanders’ own Serpent Headed Studios in Greenville, South Carolina, and the band again turned to Vile Nilotic Rites engineer Mark Lewis (Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Whitechapel) for mixing and mastering.

Facing the inevitable end of the planet with their diehard fans by their side, NILE waste absolutely no time on theatrics on The Underworld Awaits Us All, stripping down their signature Egyptology-infused storm to its purest essence. Charging into battle as its namesake depicts, “Stelae of Vultures” makes an immediate impression with dissonant guitar chords and supernatural drumming, heralding the impending sonic disemboweling. Capped off with impressive screams and guttural cries, the track leads into “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes,” which quotes the 181st chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

The album’s most succinct track, “To Strike with Secret Fang,” blends deep beats with blackened death metal inspiration, before album highlights like “Naqada II Enter the Golden Age” and “Overlords of the Black Earth” breathe new life into thrash and fusion experimentation, as well as real human choirs – adding a raw element to NILE. Each track is a technical tour de force – featuring career-defining extreme drumming from Kollias, as well as razor-sharp solos from all three active guitarists and palpable bass exploration. A perfect example of this equation is the climax “Under the Curse of the One God,” which combines sinister atmosphere with breakneck tempo and swirling, vicious riff acrobatics.

Across the remaining 11 driving tracks and intricate interludes, NILE commands full throttle and wild musicianship. 30 years into their tough reign, The Underworld Awaits Us All proves that NILE are marching onward and undoubtedly upward, bleeding metal for their fans as long as the sands of time allow.

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The incredible art of “The Underworld Awaits Us All” was once again conceived and created by Michał ‘Xaay’ Loranc, with reference to the cycle of life and the judgment at its end.

Tracklist of “The Underworld Awaits Us All”:
Steles of the Vultures
Chapter to avoid being hung upside down on a pole in the underworld and forced to eat feces by the four monkeys
Strike with the secret tooth
Naqada II – Enter the Golden Age
The Pentagrammathion of Nephren-Ka
Overlords of the Black Earth
Under the curse of the one God
Doctrine of the last things
True Gods of the Desert
The underworld awaits us all
Lament over the destruction of time

NILE Australia & New Zealand Tour 2024:
October 15, 2024 – Perth, AU @ Milk Bar / Civic Hotel
16 October 2024 – Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
October 17, 2024 – Brisbane, AU @ The Brightside
October 18, 2024 – Melbourne, AU @ Max Watts
October 19, 2024 – Hobart, AU @ Uni Bar
October 20, 2024 – Sydney, AU @ Crowbar
October 22, 2024 – Auckland, New Zealand @ Whammy