Karl Sanders Interview

Nile is in the midst of working on their next album, but they had some free time when Karl Sanders finished his second solo CD Saurian Exorcisms. Like his first solo effort, it’s not death metal at all. Instead, it’s ambient and mellow instrumental music with exotic instruments and a Middle Eastern vibe. Sanders gives us the scoop on his solo CD, when we can expect a new Nile record, and several other subjects.

Chad Bowar: What’s the timetable for the next Nile record?
Karl Sanders: Preproduction is April and May, then we start recording in June at Erik Rutan’s studio in Tampa. Hopefully we will finish mixing sometime in July at Rax Trax in Chicago.

Are you far enough along to be able to divulge an album title or the direction of the record?
Gunter Ford would have my ass if I were to give away the title this soon. As far as the musical direction, we have upped the bar on the guitar playing this time around, and are very conscious about incorporating plenty of new and interesting extraneous instrumentation.

The last two Nile records were more straightforward death metal than say In Their Darkened Shrines, but that’s really just where we were as a band at the time. At that time I was also perhaps a bit fed up with some of the online nay-sayers who were accusing us of “gimmickry” and saying stuff like we weren’t capable of making metal without some sort of other “trickery” elements. What B.S., I know.

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(photo courtesy The End Records)