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Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the debut studio album by American death metal band Nile. The album was released on April 28, 1998, through Relapse Records. The album is considered to be their breakthrough record. Unique in the discography, the songs on this album are notably shorter in length than those featured on subsequent Nile albums. Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the only release besides Ithyphallic to not include Karl Sanders's liner notes explaining each song.

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Studio album by Nile
Released	28 April 1998
Recorded	1998
Studio	The Sound Lab, Columbia, South Carolina
Genre	Technical death metal
Length	33:07
Label	Relapse
Producer	Bob Moore, Earl Sanders
Nile chronology
Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (1998) Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000)

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The title of the album is a reference to the H. P. Lovecraft story The Outsider. The phrase is featured in the song "Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand" which has lyrics paraphrased from the aforementioned tale. In Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Nephren-Ka was an Egyptian Pharaoh whose unspeakable cult worship led him to be stricken from almost all Egyptian records. The catacombs where he is buried are referenced in several Lovecraft stories as well as many stories by other mythos authors. The song "Smashing the Antiu" is about a festival celebrating the destruction of the Antiu, a people with whom the early Egyptians were frequently at war.

The orchestral intro on "Ramses Bringer of War" is strongly inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars movement from The Planets, written between 1914 and 1916.

The title of the song "Das rache krieg lied der Assyriche" roughly translates as "The Revenge War Song of the Assyrians" in German ("Das Rache-Kriegslied der Assyrer").

Track listing

All tracks written by Karl Sanders

Personnel

Nile

• Karl Sanders - guitars, vocals, keyboards
• Chief Spires - bass, vocals
• Pete Hammoura - drums, vocals, dumbecks

Additional musicians

• Drilbu Dungkar - thigh bone flutes, Turkish gongs
• Mahala Kapala - Damaru human skull drums
• Mudflap - additional vocals on "Die rache krieg lied der Assyriche"
• Penga Grande - additional vocals on "Die rache krieg lied der Assyriche"
• Gyuto Drupka - choir

Production

• Adam Peterson - artwork
• Bob Moore - producer, engineering
• Matthew Jacobson - executive producer
• Earl Sanders - producer
• Bill Yurkiewicz - executive producer

References

На других языках

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- [en] Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

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[ru] Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka (рус. Среди Катакомб Нефрен-Ка) — дебютный альбом американской дэт-метал-группы Nile, выпущенный 28 апреля 1998 года лейблом Relapse Records.[1]

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