Karl Sanders is the resident mummy master of metal. The driving force and sole constant member of America’s most Egyptology-obsessed death metal band Nile, few musicians in the underground have forged a brand quite like Karl, without the corporate connotations of that word because well, this is death metal.
For over thirty years now his band have delivered mystical brutality ripped straight from the ancient world, credited as helping rejuvenate death metal after its first lull period in the late 90s. With latest album The Underworld Awaits Us All arriving over 27 years since the band’s debut, Hammer caught up with Karl to find out what words of wisdom he had to share.
