Interview: Karl Sanders (Nile), 2002

“I think people take death metal ideas much too fucking seriously. I mean, Jesus Christ, we might be writing about heavy subject matter, but you cannot … actually live those lyrics.”

This 2002 interview was done as background for a very brief (250 word) blurb in Alternative Press about Nile’s Egyptology obsession. I remember staying up all night trying in vain to compress an entire interview’s worth of quotes into essentially a couple of paragraphs—a ridiculous amount of effort for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it filler piece of that sort. I have not followed Nile since the early 2000s, but I did get a lot of enjoyment out of their Black Seeds of Vengeance album. They were also a really great live act back then.