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KARL SANDERS - Saurian Meditation |
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Götterdämmerung
1. Awaiting the Vultures 2. Of the Sleep of Ishtar 3. Luring the Doom Serpent 4. Contemplations of the Endless Abyss 5. The Elder God Shrine 6. Temple of Lunar Ascension 7. Dreaming through the Eyes of Serpents 8. Whence No Traveller Returns 9. The Forbidden Path across the Chasm of Self Realization 10. Beckon the Sick Winds of Pestilence
Relapse 2004
While listening to a band called Nile, have you ever carelessly let your thoughts be absorbed into the music and discovered yourself on the embalming table or already entombed under thousands of tons of rock in the Valley of the Kings? I can tell from personal experience that when this band does their stuff in one's speakers, one's imagination can easily path a course towards the distant Egypt.
But by simply trampling about the Africa with an army Egypt would never have grown into the high civilization we know; the same way the creative potential of Karl Sanders, Nile's mastermind, would never have evolved beyond death metal by harnessing only aggressive bombasticity. Fortunately everything worked out fine – six thousand years ago the Egyptians stacked together a civilization, thus giving the freelancer egyptologist Sanders enough material to write music inspired by his interests that is no longer just a sideshow to guitar inferno.
"Saurian Meditation" is the first album by Karl Sanders's solo project, much awaited by Nile fans but otherwise created and released without much ado. Personally I can say that the wait was worth it and that this album finished up my musical year of 2004 more than beautifully.
The gist of it is Egyptian folk music spiced up with ambient. Those only interested in metal can easily disregard it – throughout the whole album guitars can be heard only in the last piece. Yet there are other dissimilarities with Nile: this time the Egyptian-like music doesn't sound belligerent, but rather comes forth with restrained majesty, thus becoming all the more atmospheric. The wails of those being embalmed alive as well as the dismal damnations of the undead whispered within dark catacombs are out, the might of desert expanses and temples is in.
The new drifts in his production prove once again that Sanders is a valuable and unique metal musician; I can only find good words to describe both his work with Nile as well as this new release. One can only expect for the quick release of the forthcoming Nile album. |
Added on: January 12-th 2005, at 12:11
Added by: Dark Patrick |
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December 09-th 2005 at 17:42:45
 this is hevey metal |
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