Yesterday I was listening to In Their Darkened Shrines by Nile and trying to work out a few things, like why I have it in my collection and why I haven’t listened to it in the 6 years since I bought it. The second question is quite easy – I don’t like it very much.
Actually that is not quite right: I don’t dislike it, its just that there must be plenty of CDs I would like a lot more that I don’t have, even within the same genre. I can vaguely remember driving back from a day trip to France, coming up the M20 at about 2am in pouring rain listening to rock show on the radio. They played a track that I really liked from a new album so I made a mental note and bought it the next week.
What is strange is that when I listened to the CD yesterday there was no track that stood out so I really have no idea which track I found so brilliant on a single hearing that I had to get the album. The only thing about the CD that stands out now is the preposterous song titles:
- Churning the maelstrom
- Wind of Horus
- Execration text
- Unas Slayer of the Gods
- Hall of Saurian Entombment
And so on, all demonstrating a, possibly unhealthy, obsession with ancient Egyptian folklore. Its always possible that I have grown out of it, but all the evidence suggests I have not really changed much in the last 6 or even 26 years.
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