Karl Sanders (NILE)—Why Drop A? Why Cubase? Are Amp Simulators Good Enough? New Saurian Solo Album?

Today, Karl Sanders of the technical death metal band NILE sits down with me to talk about all manners of things!

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We'll talk about the final consensus of the latest NILE record, Vile Nilotic Rites, why Karl switched from Cakewalk Sonar to Steinberg Cubase, as well as his favorite instrument library. We'll also be treated to practically an arrangement tutorial in Cubase and why Karl loves the arranger track so much.

Karl also touches on the topic of amp simulators for metal and how fast the technology is improving.

Of course, what is an interview without a few stories? Karl shares quite a few of them—not to mention, his newest high score in Call of Duty.

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✚ TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Intro
01:06 - What's the final consensus about Vile Nilotic Rites after a year?
04:35 - Why it's hard to make technical death metal interesting
08:19 - What do you remember about writing the song "Of The Sleep Of Ishtar” from Saurian Meditations?
10:50 - So how did you come to decide to actually do a solo album?
12:55 - When is the next Saurian masterpiece coming out, if there is one?
14:51 - Story behind the song "Skull Fuck Ritual"
16:00 - Which instrument library is your favorite and what does a library need in order to be useful to you?
19:45 - MIDI Controller/Getting Humanity in Music/Why it's important to play the music
25:00 - Why Karl is always excited playing music and staying out of that "zone"
26:10 - Growing up without camera phones / How camera phones changed touring / Why Facebook kind of sucks
28:51 - A drinking story from Houston (Don't mix Tequila with brown liquor)
31:48 - You switched from Cakewalk Sonar to Steinberg Cubase—why is that?
39:46 - Showing the power of the Arranger Track in Cubase
46:50 - Why you need to shorten the amount of time of having ideas to recording them
49:09 - Do you think amp simulators will ever be good enough where you'll use it on an album?
53:27 - Why you need mids in your guitar tone for the drummer when you play live
54:45 - So how did you actually decide upon playing in Drop A tuning?
59:50 - You've got a YouTube channel that you haven't uploaded a video to in 9 years... anything going on with that?
1:01:05 - The trials and tribulations of getting OBS to work
1:04:22 - You happen to be a pretty sick Call of Duty player... any NILE songs based on the games you played?
1:06:40 - New CoD K/D Record
1:08:40 - Thank you Karl for the kickass interview!
1:09:30 - How can people get a hold of you if they want guitar/Cubase lessons... ?

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