Enjoy fast, FREE delivery, exclusive deals and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime
and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery
Amazon Prime includes:
Fast, FREE Delivery is available to Prime members. To join, select "Try Amazon Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery" below the Add to Cart button.
Amazon Prime members enjoy:- Cardmembers earn 5% Back at Amazon.com with a Prime Credit Card.
- Unlimited Free Two-Day Delivery
- Instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Video
- A Kindle book to borrow for free each month - with no due dates
- Listen to over 2 million songs and hundreds of playlists
- Unlimited photo storage with anywhere access
Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a monthly membership.
Buy new:
$11.37$11.37
FREE delivery: Wednesday, Dec 6 on orders over $35.00 shipped by Amazon.
Ships from: Amazon.com Sold by: Amazon.com
Save with Used - Very Good
$6.78$6.78
$3.99
delivery:
Dec 6 - 11
Ships from: ziarecords Sold by: ziarecords
Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- Sorry, this item is not available in
- Image not available
- To view this video download Flash Player
In Their Darkened Shrines
Learn more
- Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges
- Learn more about free returns.
- Go to your orders and start the return
- Select the return method
- Ship it!
Learn more
| Listen Now with Amazon Music |
|
In Their Darkened Shrines
"Please retry" | Amazon Music Unlimited |
| Price | New from | Used from |
|
MP3 Music, August 20, 2002
"Please retry" | $9.49 | — |
|
Vinyl, August 11, 2023
"Please retry" | $26.98 | $34.82 |
Frequently bought together

Similar items that may ship from close to you
From the brand
From the manufacturer
About Us
Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features many grindcore, death metal, metalcore and sludge metal artists.
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
Track Listings
| 1 | The Blessed Dead |
| 2 | Execration Text |
| 3 | Sarcophagus |
| 4 | Kheftiu Asar Butchiu |
| 5 | Unas, Slayer Of The Gods |
| 6 | Churning The Maelstrom |
| 7 | I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead |
| 8 | Wind Of Horus |
| 9 | Hall Of Saurian Entombment |
| 10 | Invocation To Seditious Heresy |
| 11 | Destruction Of The Temple Of The Enemies Of Ra |
| 12 | Ruins |
Editorial Reviews
ARguably the perfect combination of the old and new school of metal, Nile blends ferocious power and astrouding technical prowess with mesmerizing dynamic and resounding songs. It's epic death metal.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.96 x 5.59 x 0.41 inches; 3.52 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Relapse
- Item model number : 82 3 00000812
- Original Release Date : 2005
- Run time : 59 minutes
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : January 20, 2007
- Label : Relapse
- ASIN : B00006FYFY
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #50,363 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #214 in Death Metal (CDs & Vinyl)
- #23,114 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- Customer Reviews:
Important information
To report an issue with this product, click here.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonReviews with images
Submit a report
- Harassment, profanity
- Spam, advertisement, promotions
- Given in exchange for cash, discounts
Sorry, there was an error
Please try again later.-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
I'll admit a was a little nervous when I read about the departure of two members of the "Black Seeds of Vengeance" lineup, most notably massively skilled drummer Pete Hammoura. However, I was relieved to find that new skinsman Tony Laureano does an excellent job of filling his predecessor's kit. Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay to Tony is that if I didn't know better I'd swear Pete hadn't left. He manages to match Pete fill for fill and blastbeat for blastbeat, and that's no small task. And Karl Sanders and Dallas Toler-Wade are once again rock-solid on guitars.
Although the first four songs on "In Their Darkened Shrines" are all strong, the album really kicks into high gear with the almost-indescribable "Unas, Slayer of the Gods." Nile had shown somewhat of an inclination toward epic songwriting on "BSOV," and that tendency culminates with "Unas." At more than eleven and a half bruising minutes, the song is chock full of tempo changes, stunning musical interludes, and the band's trademark Egyptian/Middle-Eastern elements. The lyrics, meanwhile, tell a frightening tale of an Egyptian Pharaoh's legend in Nile's typically foreboding style. It's just an amazing song, one of the best in death-metal history.
Although I chose to single out "Unas, Slayer of the Gods," it's important to note that every song on "In Their Darkened Shrines" is solid at the very least. Some may take a little time to get going, but this isn't supposed to be easy listening. With some patience and attention, the payoff will come, and when it does it's more than worth the wait. I'm trying to be really careful with my five-star ratings, but the only reason this album doesn't get one is that the vocals don't guite reach the levels attained by the music. Still, "In Their Darkened Shrines" gets my highest four-star rating, and my utmost recommendation for ALL metal fans.
The first song, "The Blessed Dead," storms out of the starting gate with a pounding rhythm, thunderous riffs, insistent, walloping drums, and even a ripping guitar solo. The proceeding song, "Execration Text," features careening guitars and also retains the super fast, ultra heavy double kick drums. Other highlights of the heavy songs include the massive third track, "Sarcophagus," which is slower but equally as heavy, "Kheftiu Asar Butchiu," which brings a hyper speed death metal blast, bludgeoning riffs, and a long, searing solo to top it all off, and the buzzsaw guitar flurry on "Wind Of Hours."
"Ruins" is a slow, somewhat ambient album closer, but it's the only completely peaceful song on this entire disc. "Unas Slayer Of The Gods" and "I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead" are two partially melodic songs, but they are also partially brutal. The former is one very big highpoint of the album. It's an eleven and a half minute epic which begins with a pretty string arrangement before launching into another fast onslaught and eventually becoming melodic again (with what could be a Japanese or Chinese gong). And the latter song ("I Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead") has a great soft-loud dynamic, as it alternates between surging, jackhammer thrash rhythms and slow, haunting, melodic sections with ominous, echoing guitar strums.
In short, this might be the most expansive and best work of Nile's twelve year career. It's easily one of the best death metal records of The Twenty-First Century, and this disc is also about as addictive, technical, dark, creative, interesting, and all around brilliant as extreme music (and music in general) gets nowadays. "In Their Darkened Shrines" is very highly recommended listening.
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021
Open Web Player













