History Music / Nile

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent : And how! The best example of this trope is ''Annihilation of the Wicked'':

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Every bassist they've had since Jon Vesano has fallen victim to this to some degree. Chris Lollis and Todd Ellis have at least technically been full-time members despite having never appeared in promo photos or (in Lollis' case, recorded anything), but Steve Tucker, Christian Lofgren, and Joe Payne were all strictly live session players. Granted, the former two were both only around for a tour or two each, but the latter was in the band from 2005 until at least the beginning of the ''Ithyphallic'' recording process in February of 2007, when he was fired for undisclosed reasons.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Jon Vesano was an integral part of the band. Ever since he left, they've been through a fairly large amount of bassists, most of them hired guns for live sessions, with only Christian Lofgren, Chris Lollis and Joe Payne having received any sort of recognition due to their work in Lecherous Nocturne (as well as [[IAmTheBand being the driving force of the band]] in the case of the former) and Divine Heresy, respectively (and the drug trafficking arrest of the latter in 2012, where he was caught with $26,000 worth of marijuana, as well as three handguns and $5,000 in cash).

* StartMyOwn: Karl, George, and Dallas all have side projects; the first two have solo projects (Karl has a Middle Eastern folk/ambient project, while George has a death metal project), while Dallas has Narcotic Wasteland, which is a full band.

* Todd Ellis: bass, vocals

* BadassBoast: ''User Maat Re' is essentially one big boast telling of Ramses II's ''amazing'' accomplishments, including the boast that his legacy will last a million years. The trope is subverted in that Ramses feels that his father still views him as being unworthy of his legacy. Considering that we still know him as "Ramses the Great" might lend a bit of appreciation to his contributions, however.

* ''Born'' (2002)

* AWildRapperAppears: In "3 in tha Mornin'".

** Alternately, Music/BillieHoliday meets Music/LaurynHill.

* FanNickname: "Colonel Sanders" for Karl.

* HeyItsThatVoice: You'd be forgiven for not actually hearing Music/{{Immolation}} vocalist Ross Dolan doing guest vocals on "Khetti Satha Shemsu", since it's [[VoiceOfTheLegion one voice in a small chorus of them]]. [[WordOfGod The liner notes]], both for ''Black Seeds of Vengeance'' (which features the song) and later ''Those Whom The Gods Detest'', do confirm his presence (the latter also cite him and Immolation lead guitarist Bob Vigna as inspiring the idea of the expanded notes detailing the background of the songs).

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The band's original demo tape, which had more ThrashMetal influence and clean vocals, fell into this until it was reissued in 2011.

* LyingCreator: Karl accidentally stumbled into this when he claimed on a fan forum that there would be no EpicRocking on ''Annihilation of the Wicked'', only for them to produce a record ''[[RuleOfThree 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.

* NoExportForYou: The song "SSS Haa Set Yoth" currently can be found on the Japanese version of ''Annihilation of the Wicked'' and nowhere else.

* OneOfUs: In the liner notes for ''Those Whom the Gods Detest'', Karl mentions the Nazi Zombie levels from VideoGame/CallOfDuty. Apparently the zombies behave similarly to the title creatures in "Utterances of the Crawling Dead".
** Also, on his second solo album, there is a song called ''A Most Effective Exorcism against Azagthoth and his Emissaries'', which features a drum sample from the Gerudo Desert theme song from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.
* ThePeteBest: John Ehlers, the band's original second guitarist.

* AlwaysNight: From "Annihilation of the Wicked":

** The liner notes state that Afu-Ra's boat, and by extension the sun, actually navigates ''around'' Seker's kingdom rather than attempting to sail through, because of how difficult the navigation would be.

* StartMyOwn: Dallas started Narcotic Greed as a side project.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Every bassist they've had since Jon Vesano has fallen victim to this to some degree.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Jon Vesano was an integral part of the band. Ever since he left, they've been through a fairly large amount of bassists, most of them hired guns for live sessions, with only Chris Lollis and Joe Payne having received any sort of recognition due to their work in Lecherous Nocturne and Divine Heresy, respectively (and the drug trafficking arrest of the latter in 2012, where he was caught with $26,000 worth of marijuana, as well as three handguns and $5,000 in cash).

* StartMyOwn: Dallas started Lecherous Nocturne and Narcotic Greed. The former was eventually taken over by Christian "Kreishloff" Lofgren and became its own thing (and the place where former Nile bassists tend to end up), while the latter is still a "for fun" project that will likely refrain from doing anything major.

--> '''THERE IS NO GOD! THERE IS NO GOD! THERE IS''' '''''NO''''' GOD! '''''THERE IS NO GOD!!'''''

--> '''''THERE IS NO GOD!'''''

* JerkAss: Depending on who you ask, Karl is this. Few of his former bandmates ever seem to have anything nice to say about him, that's for certain.

* TimeAbyss : Some of the creatures refered in the songs (eg: SSS Haa Set Yoth) seems to have been alive (or whatever equivalent it is in their nature) since even before man appeared on Earth:

!!Discography:

* BadassBookworm: Karl Sanders is a walking encyclopedia of Egyptian mythology and history.

** Steve Tucker, fresh out of Music/MorbidAngel, was the first in a long line of tour-only bassists after Jon Vesano's departure. He was gone by the end of the U.S. ''Annihilation'' tour.

** ''Black Seeds of Vengeance'' has "Libation Unto the Shades Who Lurk in the Shadows of the Temple of Anhur".

** Oddly enough, this is thoroughly averted by their Epic Rockers - their titles are all five words or less. In fact, the band's first two epics, off the ''Festivals of Atonement'' EP, both had one word titles - "Wrought" and "Extinct". Meanwhile, "Libation Unto The Shades..." and "Dusk Fall Upon the Temple..." are both short acoustic/ambient pieces, the latter serving as a short intro track, and many of the other straight examples are three minutes or less.

* ''In The Beginning'' (2000, compilation of the ''Festivals'' and ''Ramses'' EPs)