Clean, articulate, studied, and rooted in the algebraic drumming and incendiary blast-beats of George Kollias and the Mach-3 tandem guitar work and double-vocal assault of Sanders & Toler-Wade, Ithyphallic (referring to the ancient practice of portraying statues of gods with huge, mystically-proportioned phalluses as a sign of strength and fertility) continues to advance the scope and magnitude of death metal. A bold statement of ancient ferocity, NILE’s fifth album is resplendent with epic arrangements and savage extremity and is testimony to the band’s extreme range of expression manifested through a variety of tempos & time signatures and their intelligent subject matter, which – when combined - invokes an unmistakable power. Retaining the band’s exceptionally high standard of sound is long-time engineer Bob Moore; Ithyphallic’s sonic clarity comes courtesy of Neil Kernon’s painstaking production.