BravePicks 2015 - NILE's What Should Not Be Unearthed #8

All the votes are in and the compiling is done after days and countless hours of digging through all the piles of molten metal from 2015! So who will be #1? You’ll find out as we count down to the BravePick Of 2015 throughout December! And once again our devout scribes put their collective metal minds together to build the ultimate lists including individual Top 20s (new studio albums ONLY), Top 5 Brave Embarrassments, Top 3 Concerts, What/Who Needs To Stop In 2016? and Metal Predictions For 2016. All will be showcased come the New Year!

Tis the season to commence the good, bad and ugly of 2015! Let’s rock!

8) NILE – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)

Death metallers Nile continue revving the mythological themes with this crushing new album, still ticking all the right place in a battered metalhead’s mind. 50 minutes of no frills, punishing death metal and most assuredly one of the highlights of the year.

“We told Neil that we thought the last record was way too thin, and we wanted something heavier – something along the lines of the big, heavy, crushing guitar sounds of Annihilation Of The Wicked,” Karl Sanders told BraveWords. “We actually killed ourselves to make At The Gate Of Sethu. It was not an easy record to make. It’s hard to make a death metal album when you are using an AC/DC-like clean sound. Dude, the amount of precision you have to have to make that work is just mind-boggling. This latest record was fun to make. You can hear the grooves – the heart and the soul. You can actually hear us having fun playing metal… it’s tangible.”

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8) NILE – What Should Not Be Unearthed (Nuclear Blast)
9) CRYPTOPSY – The Book Of Suffering – Tome 1 (Defen Society 3000)
10) TRIBULATION – The Children Of The Night (Century Media)
11) ENFORCER – From Beyond (Nuclear Blast)
12) FEAR FACTORY – Genexus (Nuclear Blast)
13) CRADLE OF FILTH – Hammer Of The Witches (Nuclear Blast)
14) AMORPHIS – Under The Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
15) MELECHESH – Enki (Nuclear Blast)
16) NAPALM DEATH – Apex Predator – Easy Meat (Century Media)
17) GHOST – Meliora (Loma Vista Recordings)
18) MOTÖRHEAD – Bad Magic (UDR)
19) MARDUK – Frontschwein (Century Media)
20) LAMB OF GOD – VII: Sturm Und Drang (Epic)
21) SYMPHONY X – Underworld (Nuclear Blast)
22) HELLOWEEN – My God-Given Right (Nuclear Blast)
23) MICHAEL SCHENKER’S TEMPLE OF ROCK – Spirit On A Mission (Inakustik)
24) SAXON – Battering Ram (UDR)
25) KAMELOT – Haven (Napalm Records)
26) VENOM – From The Very Depths (Spinefarm)
27) CHILDREN OF BODOM – I Worship Chaos (Nuclear Blast)
28) KATAKLYSM – Of Ghosts And Gods (Nuclear Blast)
29) EUROPE – War Of Kings (UDR)
30) MY DYING BRIDE – Feel The Misery (Peaceville)