Trivia / Nile

• Creative Differences: Subverted with Dallas, as he left due to burnout from life as a professional musician that had been mounting for some time and came to a head when he apparently got into an altercation with a member of another band on the 2016 Summer Slaughter Tour, which was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back and made him realize that he needed an exit from that lifestyle.
• Creator Backlash: While they don't hate At the Gates of Sethu, Karl has admitted that they feel that it was far more technical than it needed to be and an overall chore to listen to and also feel that the largely negative reaction to the album was entirely warranted; as someone who has gone on record numerous times as an opponent of surgical, sterile, super-clean and precise tech-death, Karl has come to realize that Sethu wound up being exactly the kind of album that he was against making. He does enjoy some of the material, however, and "The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased" has become a setlist staple in the Brad/Brian era.
• Flip-Flop of God: Karl stumbled into this when he claimed on a fan forum that there would be no Epic Rocking on Annihilation of the Wicked, only for them to produce a record three such songs without really meaning to. The first of them, "User-Maat-Re", apparently started off in the six-minute range, until Karl let Dallas tinker around with it for a little while, at which point he returned with the nine minute version heard on the album.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In the US, they can usually draw between 350-500 in most markets and around 600 in the very best. In Europe, they can easily pull over 1000 and play in far larger venues, and their popularity in Europe is far greater than their (still reasonably high) popularity in the US.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The band's original demo tape, which had more Thrash Metal influence and clean vocals, fell into this until it was reissued in 2011.
• No Export for You: The song "SSS Haa Set Yoth" currently can be found on the Japanese version of Annihilation of the Wicked and nowhere else.
  • It also shows up on at least the 2015 vinyl edition of the same album, released in the U.S. by Relapse Records, but apparently still hasn't been released digitally outside of Japan.
• The Pete Best: John Ehlers, the band's original second guitarist.
• Schedule Slip: Vile Nilotic Rites saw a much larger gap than their other albums due to repeated delays, most of them related to getting used to the new band dynamics without Dallas and with two new writers in the band, as well as the band repeatedly getting good tour offers thrown their way that they couldn't pass up that prolonged the What Should Not Be Unearthed touring cycle well beyond what they thought its endpoint would be. It wasn't until the very end of 2018 that they finally got around to hitting the studio, over three years after the release of their previous album and over a year after when they had originally sought to hit the studio.
• What Could Have Been:
  • They had originally invited Gene Hoglan to play with them after Tony Laureano left. He turned down their offer and stated that they weren't really his style, but invited them to check out a then-little-known drummer from Greece by the name of George Kollias, and the rest is history.
  • Erik Rutan was originally supposed to produce Vile Nilotic Rites, but their Schedule Slip caused it to fall through.