ENCARTE: NILE [2]

Disco novo do Nile é quase certo q vem coisa boa. Vem pedrada. Mas certo mesmo é q virá encarte gigante com notas explicativas som por som a cargo de Karl Sanders, o ícone do cheesburger metal.

“Vile Nilotic Rites” (2019) acabou de sair – estou absorvendo – e contém 32 páginas de encarte. 20 preenchidas por explicações (dizem q editadas por uma certa Michelle Mercado), até da instrumental “Thus Sayeth the Parasites Of the Mind”. Reproduzo por aqui, no entanto, o prólogo da coisa, consideravelmente simpático.

“PROLOGUE

This album you are holding in your hands, dear reader and Metal Enthusiast, marks the 9th Chapter in the Saga of Nile albums. At this point in time this band has defiantly outstripped any initial expectations that naysayers and critics had dared to have concerning the lifespan of this bands career. The members of Nile would be making metal music regardless of circumstance, but we all know taht the whims of fate make any predictions concerning the path, longevity, or realization of the endeavors of any musician or creative artist uncertain.

I believe that it is ultimately the music fans themselves whose collective hearts and souls determine the ascendancy and life-breadth of any band’s career. As such, I feel that the fans relationship with the band and its music are the quintessential underlying driving forces, their importance on an equal par with the band members’ own ongoing will to make music. The band and its fans are a symbiotic, yin yang relationship, in that one cannot exist without the other.

With that in mind, it is from a great personal sense of the bond with our fans that I can share these liner notes, bringing to thse who enjoy the music we make a deeper understanding of what goes into the ideas and concepts of these songs. The prophetic words of Ross Dolan and Bob Vigna of Immolation still ring true nearly 2 decades later. When during the making of the Black Seeds Of Vengeance album, they first suggested to me that Nile albums should have liner notes – for the fans. It is my hope and wish that this Nile album is a tangible expression of the supreme appreciation, sincere respect, and heartfelt thanks that we feel as a band for you, the very person holding this CD in your hands. Thank you to each and every Nile fan for your patience while we labored to make this album the best one yet!”