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While the rest of the show was supremely technical, and crisp, Nile impressed me even further.  In the first place, I still get so impressed that Nile can even think to write and perform what they do with such precise performances on their records.  But to see it live is even more impressive and unbelievable.  Before their set, Karl Sanders was passing the smoking section out front when a drunk decided to chew his ear off.  “I’m going get my nose broken and break someone else’s nose and…” Karl Sanders looked at the lotus eater and said exasperatedly, “Don’t do that.”  This drunk was all over the pit and I’m shocked the lush made it through the night.  He got into two fights and got pinned to the floor twice by another fan after being thrown through the break in the guardrail.  I got pulled out of where the second fight was ensuing and Karl Sanders would be happy to know there were no broken noses, though I did see two or three noses bleeding… so who knows.  It was a pit to write home about, with a seven-foot tall giant, two tag team skinhead twins in their blue coveralls, the infamous (but sober) drug zombie, and the lotus eater mentioned above.  I felt as Odysseus must have.  I looked out to the sea of long hair whipping back, only to be broken up by brutality.  Opening with “Kafir” from their most recent album Those Whom the Gods Detest, they continued their assault with the much-loved “Sacrifice Unto Sabek.”  They continued with “Hittite Dung Incantation” off of the new album, and then threw back to a song off the Amongst Catacombs of Nephren-Ka.   Dallas introduced most of the songs and I giggled at the particularly long titles being screamed before the song.  They played “Ithyphallic” which Dallas admitted was his favorite,  “Execration Text” off of In Their Darkened Shrines, and two others from Those Whom the Gods Detest, “4^th Arra of Dagon” and “Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld” (that’s the intro that made me laugh because he had to take in three breaths to scream it all out).  While I generally get angry when a band plays a lot from their new album, Nile’s new album is so amazing and wonderful I was pleased to hear the new songs live.  They tossed in classics like “Lash to the Slave Stick,” and off of In the Darkened Shrines, “Sarcophagus”, also playing a few off of Annihilation of the Wicked and Black Seeds of Vengeance. 

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Report, Photos & Drawing by: Lynora

February  12, 2010

Nile played no encore, which made sense, because if you were on your sea odyssey with Nile you would want to get back to the safety of land too.  Though nothing can keep me from more metal odysseys in the near future… hey does anyone else hear sirens?

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NILE: Those Whom The Gods Detest - US Tour 2010

Blender Theater at Gramercy
127 East 23rd Street
NYC, New York 10010 USA

Monday - January 18, 2010

BANDS:
The Dreaming Dead
Krisiun
Immolation
Nile