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“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

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

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

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

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."

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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