Band: Nile

Nile is perhaps one of the most important and influential death metal bands to have emerged from the mid-1990s. Brutal and technical in equal parts, the band has incorporated North African themes into their music in an effort to enhance their lyrical obsession with Ancient Egypt. Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka was rightly their breakthrough, where all their musical elements began to gel; 'In Their Darkened Shrines' is as complete a concept album as can be found.