Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

rdf:langString Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

rdf:langString Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

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rdf:langString Bob Moore, Earl Sanders

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rdf:langString The Sound Lab, Columbia, South Carolina

rdf:langString Barra Edinazzu

rdf:langString Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand

rdf:langString Die rache krieg lied der Assyriche

rdf:langString Kudurru Maqlu

rdf:langString Opening of the Mouth

rdf:langString Pestilence and Iniquity

rdf:langString Ramses Bringer of War

rdf:langString Serpent Headed Mask

rdf:langString Smashing the Antiu

rdf:langString Stones of Sorrow

rdf:langString The Howling of the Jinn

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rdf:langString Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the debut studio album by American death metal band Nile. The album was released on April 28, 1998, through Relapse Records. The album is considered to be their breakthrough record. Unique in the discography, the songs on this album are notably shorter in length than those featured on subsequent Nile albums. Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the only release besides Ithyphallic to not include Karl Sanders's liner notes explaining each song. The title of the album is a reference to the H. P. Lovecraft story The Outsider. The phrase is featured in the song "Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand" which has lyrics paraphrased from the aforementioned tale. In Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Nephren-Ka was an Egyptian Pharaoh whose unspeakable cult worship led him to be stricken from almost all Egyptian records. The catacombs where he is buried are referenced in several Lovecraft stories as well as many stories by other mythos authors. The song "Smashing the Antiu" is about a festival celebrating the destruction of the Antiu, a people with whom the early Egyptians were frequently at war. The orchestral intro on "Ramses Bringer of War" is strongly inspired by Gustav Holst's Mars movement from The Planets, written between 1914 and 1916. The title of the song "Das rache krieg lied der Assyriche" roughly translates as "The Revenge War Song of the Assyrians" in German ("Das Rache-Kriegslied der Assyrer"). The album was inducted into Decibel Magazine's Hall of Fame in June 2009 (No. 52).