Artist: KARL SANDERS [NILE]
Album: SAURIAN MEDITATION ORANGE VINYL REISSUE (2LP)

Release date: 22.07.2022
EAN/UPS: 840588165445
Media type: LP

Nearly 20 years ago, Karl Sanders – the founder, principal songwriter, and driving creative force behind the exotic, devastatingly heavy stylings of American extreme death metal icons Nile – forayed from his metallic leanings to serve listeners with a transfixing dose of the cinematic, meditative, world music-driven Saurian Meditation (2004). The album explores highly original compositions of hypnotizing, primarily Middle Eastern inspired music, featuring the unique inclusion of instruments such as the balagma saz (Turkish lute) and Glissentar, often blended with dark electronic ambience and deft electric guitar work. Saurian Meditation marked the beginning of Sanders’ Saurian journey, being the first of now three Saurian releases. From the haunting first notes of “Awaiting the Vultures”, which dreamily conjures images of traversing through the dark, mysterious halls of an abandoned ancient temple, to the slithering, percussion-driven pulses and searing electric solos on the ominous album closer “Beckon the Sick Winds of Pestilence” – Saurian Meditation provides a diverse escape for both fans of Nile and the outer realms beyond. Thematically centered around its acoustically-driven, spellbinding seventh track, “Dreaming Through the Eyes of Serpents”, the album ebbs and flows from a higher, rhythmic consciousness to a darker, hypnotic inner balance, achieving a Reptilian Theta State of deep meditation. Saurian Meditation launches the multi-dimensional Saurian universe – witness the very first, transcendental solo output by Karl Sanders, available for the very first time on vinyl, as well as in CD and digital formats, via Napalm Records!


Side A:
01 Awaiting the Vultures
02 Of the Sleep of Ishtar
03 Luring the Doom Serpent

Side B:
04 Contemplations of the Endless Abyss
05 The Elder God Shrine
06 Temple of Lunar Ascension
07 Dreaming Through the Eyes of Serpents

Side C:
08 Whence No Traveler Returns
09 The Forbidden Path Across the Chasm of Self-Realization
10 Beckon the Sick Winds of Pestilence

Side D with an Etching