In Their Darkened Shrines

Infobox Album | Name = In Their Darkened Shrines


Type = Album
Artist = Nile
Released = August 20, 2002
Recorded = 2002 at The Sound Lab, Columbia, South Carolina
Genre = Technical death metal
Brutal death metal
Length = 58:44
Label = Relapse Records
Producer = Bob Moore
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:56psa9lgw238 review]
Last album = "In the Beginning
(2000)
This album = "In Their Darkened Shrines"
(2002)
Next album = "Annihilation of the Wicked"
(2005)
Misc = Singles
Name = In Their Darkened Shrines
Type = studio
Single 1 = Execration Text
Single 1 date = 2002
Single 2 = Sarcophagus
Single 2 date = 2002

In Their Darkened Shrines is the third studio album by American death metal band Nile. It was released on August 20, 2002 through Relapse Records.

Track listing

# "The Blessed Dead" – 4:53
# "Execration Text" – 2:46
# "Sarcophagus" – 5:09
# "Kheftiu Asar Butchiu" – 3:52
# "Unas Slayer of the Gods" – 11:43
# "Churning the Maelstrom" – 3:07
# "I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead" – 5:10
# "Wind of Horus" – 3:47
# "In Their Darkened Shrines I: Hall of Saurian Entombment" – 5:09
# "In Their Darkened Shrines II: Invocation to Seditious Heresy" – 3:51
# "In Their Darkened Shrines III: Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra" – 3:11
# "In Their Darkened Shrines IV: Ruins" – 6:01

Notes

* The lyrics to "In Their Darkened Shrines IV: Ruins" are borrowed from the H. P. Lovecraft short story, "The Nameless City". These lyrics are not actually spoken in the song, as it is an instrumental. Along with "In Their Darkened Shrines I: Hall of Saurian Entombment", the lyrics are supplementary to the theme of the instrumental.
* The two main melodies of "Unas Slayer Of The Gods" are a tribute to "Gothic Stone/The Well of Souls" by Candlemass, from their classic doom metal album "Nightfall".

Personnel

* Karl Sanders – vocals, guitar, bass guitar
* Dallas Toler-Wade – vocals, guitar, bass guitar
* Tony Laureano – vocals, drums, percussion
* Jon Vesano – additional vocals
* Mike Breazeale – additional vocals