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Karl Sanders holds his signature Dean and wears a guitar strap that looks like medieval weaponry
“This can’t be about brute physicality”: Karl Sanders on technical epiphanies – and why Nile needs three guitarists

By Jon Wiederhorn Published

Sanders might be one of death metal's most ferocious and technical players but he tells us you're never too good to stop improving, and a lesson from one of his students transformed his technique, making it more vicious and controlled than ever

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Nile’s Karl Sanders talks new guitar partnerships, the key to heaviness and what all tech-metal bands can learn from The Beatles

By Jonathan Horsley Last updated

Sanders has composed some of death-metal’s most pulverizing arrangements, but “people go ridiculously nuts over” his most simple songs

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Nile’s Karl Sanders: “If you took all the guitars out of Saurian Apocalypse, it would be an ambient/meditative record. But I like playing guitar, so there’s guitars”

By Greg Prato Last updated

Sanders returns with his first solo album in 13 years, and it is a haunting and hypnotic companion piece to Nile’s tech-death cacophony, featuring the genius of Rusty Cooley on acoustic

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Karl Sanders
Hear Rusty Cooley make his “acoustic debut” on Karl Sanders‘ new solo single, The Sun Has Set on the Age of Man

By Matt Parker Published

Check out the first track from the Nile guitarist’s new solo album, Saurian Apocalypse

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Betcha Can't Play This: Karl Sanders' Sweep-Picking Fiesta

By Karl Sanders Published

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Nile Offering Free Download of New Song

By Josh Hart Published

South Carolina-based technical death metal band Nile are now offering a free download of a new song, "The Fiends Who Come To Steal The Magick Of The Deceased."

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Nile Announce July Release Date for New Album, 'At The Gate Of Sethu'

By Josh Hart Published

Technical death metal veterans Nile have announced a July 3 release date for their upcoming new album, At The Gate Of Sethu.

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Nile: Pyramid Schemes

By By Brad Angle, Photo by Travis Shinn Published

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Exclusive Nile Video Lesson

By Guitar World Editors Published

Watch the death metallers teach you "Black Seeds of Vengeance" and "Hittite Dung Incantation."

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Nile: Put to Detest

By By Jon Wiederhorn Published

Nile's Karl Sanders and Dallas Toler-Wade discusses how Paul Gilbert helped shape Those Whom the Gods Detest.

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