Role Musician Name Karl Sanders | Associated acts Nile
Morriah Years active Since late 1980s Music group Nile (Since 1993) | |
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Born June 5, 1963 (age 60)
Greenville, South Carolina ( 1963-06-05 ) Instruments Vocals, guitars, bass, baglama, saz, bouzouki, keyboards, guitar synthesizer, percussion, drums, ebow Labels Anubis
Relapse
Nuclear Blast Genres Technical death metal, Death metal, Ambient music, Thrash metal Albums Saurian Meditation, Saurian Exorcisms, Amongst the Catacom, Those Whom the Gods Det, In Their Darkened Shrines Profiles | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
Karl Sanders about the upcoming Nile album, Slayer & career
Karl Sanders (born June 5, 1963) is an American musician, most widely known as the founding member of the American ancient Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile. He was born in California, and lives in Greenville, South Carolina. Sanders is endorsed by Dean Guitars, and currently has a signature guitar with the company.
Contents
- Karl Sanders about the upcoming Nile album Slayer career
- Nile s karl sanders gear masters ep 107
- Early life
- Other projects
- Equipment
- Guitars
- Pickups
- Strings
- Picks
- Amps
- Other equipment
- Guest appearances
- References
Nile s karl sanders gear masters ep 107
Early life
Before creating Nile, Sanders was in a thrash metal band during the late 1980s called Morriah and played local shows with the young Morbid Angel and other US death metal bands.
Other projects
Sanders began his own solo side project in 2004. Much of the music that he plays includes similar elements of his band Nile, however presented in an ambient/Egyptian folk format, rather than death metal. Karl Sanders explained that "he got sick of hearing big loud death metal everyday after touring," and started writing quieter music to relax, and recorded them.
His first solo full-length album, Saurian Meditation, was released on October 26, 2004 under the Relapse record label. A second solo album, Saurian Exorcisms, was released on April 14, 2009.
Equipment
According to Karl Sanders himself in the official Nile forum and in a "Rigged" article on metalsucks, the following is the equipment Sanders uses to perform. As of 2012 he owned 19 instruments.
Guitars
Pickups
Strings
Picks
Amps
Other equipment
Guest appearances
Sanders guested on Behemoth's 2004 CD release, Demigod, playing a guitar solo on the track "XUL". He also performed a guitar solo at the end of the track "God of Our Own Divinity" by Morbid Angel, on their 2003 album Heretic, as well as a solo on the song "The Final War (Battle of Actium)" on Ex Deo's 2009 album Romulus. Karl also played on Grave's 2010 album Burial Ground on the tracks "Bloodtrail" and "Naafa",and provided guest vocals for Nervecell's song "Shunq (To the Despaired... King of Darkness)" on their 2011 album Psychogenocide. On Tourniquet's 2012 album Antiseptic Bloodbath, Karl contributed a guitar solo to the track "Chamunda Temple Stampede".