When in doubt start with the kidneys....

This weeks track of choice is a delightful section of disgustingly visceral death metal- Nile's Eat of the Dead. Without further ado let's get munching!

This track is from their 2007 album- Ithyphallic (which is a reference to an erect penis). The track is a 6.29 minute evil triturate of a track whose low growling guitars, complex drum work and almost vile vocals leave the listener feeling a bit dirty after having listened to it.

The song opens with slow long bended notes which are punctuated by the drummers marksmanship like strokes. This is fractured by some bloody colon collapsing double bass drum playing. The fast bass drum is melded into the song nicely by the slow steady beat of the cymbals and snare as well as the ever present and ominous string bending.

After you have reinserted your cervical vertebrae into your head you realise that the song has broken free from the tight time constraint and softened into a more propulsive guitar rhythm. This transition is so expertly crafted that it sounds as if very little has changed, yet the bass drum and guitar parts have become more manageable. Then Eat of the dead is grafted onto your ear drums as the vocals are snarled into your ear.

As a drummer this is almost an infuriating song as the drummer (George Kollias) is completely destroying his drum kit in a way I could never hope to even match! The rhythms cycle nicely along and the structure is well tailored and this is an example of how blast beating can effectively be incorporated into songs along with more conventional drumming.

The breakdown in this song is characterised by a very low drum part and a very fast tremolo picking section. This all falls away into a sort of breakdown within a breakdown. The guitar part here is wonderfully flowing and it has these mesmerising guitar parts which use broken chords to create a wavering sound. Then one of the most delightfully unnerving vocal passages ensues, sounding like the bastard offspring of a Tibetan monk, Barry White and a death metal vocalist, basically its brutal.

I'm not always a fan of overly complex songs, which often boil down to abject wankery. The song echoes into the blackness with the repetition of Eat of the Dead in death growl/gang vocal style.

So what do we have here? Basically if your in a foul mood and feel like the worlds got a fucking problem with you listen to this track.

After all-

`The highest fulfillment of man, is to become food for the crawling things, that burrow and slither in human flesh`