Track Listing

1. Awaiting The Vultures
2. Of The Sleep Of Ishtar
3. Luring The Doom Serpent
4. Contemplations Of The Endless Abyss
5. Elder God Shine
6. Temple Of Lunar Ascension
7. Dreaming Through The Eyes Of Serpents
8. Whence No Traveler Returns
9. Forbidden Path Across The Chasm Of Self Realization
10. Beckon The Sick Winds Of Pestilence

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140716 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Bliss
this album was introduced to me late one night (rather early one morning!) by a friend of mine who loves his metal HEAVY and FAST! i like opeth and meshuggah, but never really cared for cannibal corpse or nile. (Karl Sanders plays for nile) but seconds into this cd i was knocked for 6. the album kept me interested all the way through. the riffs on the guitar and baglama saz are soothing but rock you at the same time. i love it!

Good, but not essential
With a title like Saurian Meditation I was expecting this solo project from Nile guitarist Karl Sanders to be all ambient drones, but there is a fair amount of solid guitar-work going on here. Of course, despite the odd distorted solo this is a lot more restrained than Nile, sounding instead like a collection of the Egyptian mood pieces that pepper the bands records. The addition of tribal drumming and chanting helps keep this fairly busy, though as a whole this album becomes rather repetitious in style and mood.

When it works well, such as the duelling acoustic guitars of Whence No Traveller Returns or the bluesy riffing of The Elder God Shrine it's fantastic - but equally it falls flat on it's face on a couple of occasions, witness the misjudged crooning on Of The Sleep of Ishtar, or ex-Morbid Angel vocalist David Vincent's unintentionally hilarious narration on The Forbidden Path Across The Chasm Of Self-realisation.

Flawed but interesting, Saurian Meditation is no substitute for a new Nile album proper, but it is a pleasant extra for those in need of an Egyptian-tinged chillout between doses of metal...

laugh i nearly paid my licence fee
Yep! its got some great moments & really i'm pleased i bought this title.
However, i must say it took every fibre of my being to stop choking on my Coco pops when i heard the daft spoken " all i will ever be.." bit on track 9
Whooops! talking 'bout serious serious musicians here!
they were doing it for a laugh?
right..?