'' is the second studio album from the
Death Metal band
Nile . It was released on the 28th of April
1998 through
Relapse Records . The album is considered to be their breakthrough record.
# "Smashing the Antiu"
# "Barra Edinazzu"
# "Kudurru Maqlu"
# "Serpent Headed Mask"
# "Ramses, Bringer of War"
# "Stones of Sorrow"
# "Die Rache Krieg Lied der Assyriche"
# "The Howling of the Jinn"
# "Pestilence and Iniquity"
# "Opening of the Mouth"
# "Beneath Eternal Oceans of Sand"
- 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.
- Choir chants by Gyuto Drukpa
- Thigh bone flutes & Turkish gongs played by Drilbu Dungkar
