Annihilation of the Wicked
Occupation
- Jon Vesano: Bass guitar, vocals
- George Kollias: drums, percussion
- Karl Sanders: guitar, vocals, bouzouki or baglamas Keyboard
- Dallas Toler - Wade: electric guitar, vocals
Annihilation of the Wicked is the fourth album of technical death metal band Nile, which was released in May 2005 with Relapse Records.
Formation
The album was the first after George Kollias had come as the new drummer for the band. It should also be the last to Relapse Records, before the group joined for the album Ithyphallic to Nuclear Blast. As a producer Neil Kennon worked, who also recorded the album and it abmischte. It was recorded in Soundlab Studios in Columbia, South Carolina, instead, while the songs were mixed at Rax Trax in Chicago. For the song Sacrifice Unto Sebek also a music video under the direction of Chad Rullman was created. The band worked six months on the album, which she spent 13 weeks in the studio.
Title list
Bonus songs
On the Japanese edition album it was still an additional song included as a bonus:
Style of music and texts
Compared to the previous In Their Darkened Shrines of the band featured on a Annihilation of the Wicked far less agyptisch sounding samples. The songs are described as catchy as its predecessor, while also sometimes borrowing from other genres, such as the use of a black metal riffs in Lashed to the Slave Stick, are characteristic. The songs usually have a progressive character. The game speed is often very high, such as in Cast Down the Heretic, but is also sometimes reduced, so that songs like From unspeakable cults and User - Maat- Re have a Doom Metal character. The band are less technical than its predecessor, while the songs turn out brutal. Characteristic also is the use of some genre foreign instruments, such as the use of a bouzouki (other sources speak of a Baglamas ). Lyrically, the songs were, as usual, inspired by Egyptian mythology, as well as by the works of HP Lovecraft. So the song was named by unspeakable cults after the work of Lovecraft.
Reviews
Greg Prato of Allmusic praised the guitar playing of Karl Sanders and called in as one of the best guitarists of the extreme metal genre. Even Thomas Weeber of metal.de praised the album, and especially emphasized the versatility of the album and the technically challenging level of play. The band have created a similarly good album like In Their Darkened Shrines to obtain an "In Their Darkened Shrines - Part 2 " was avoided. He forgave nine out of ten points and advised on a blind buy because you can not go wrong with this album. In issue 207 of Rock Hard magazine called Author Volkmar Weber songs like Cast Down the Heretic Sacrifice Unto Sebek and as " having the Rabia tests and technically most demanding what each has to offer the market had death metal ". Drummer George Kollias need to hide from the not untalented Tony Laureano; but this " should sink into the ground with shame ." Weber emphasized especially the fast double bass playing, as well as the high precision game, which he described as " scary ". As also precisely Weber described the play of guitar and compared it with a Swiss watch.