About.com's Chad Bowar recently spoke with NILE frontman Karl Sanders about his new solo album, Saurian Exorcisms. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q:Who’s your primary target for the album, Nile fans or ambient music fans?

Sanders: "Whoever wants to listen. I have no purist attitude at all about who can listen and who can't. I have seen a wide variety of people who enjoy the Saurian Mediations music, folks who would have never given Nile a chance. There are also plenty of Nile fans who enjoy Saurian as well, probably cause it is a break from real loud brutal metal, but it’s also dark enough to be interesting.

I played this music firstly for my own sanity, cause Nile is at its heart a death metal band, and once in a while I need a break from the constant blasting and super fast super brutal guitar playing. Sharing the Saurian music is just really giving something a bit more personal to others who may enjoy the same kinda thing. And that helps me keep my perspective on it being purely music that I enjoy relaxing with, without the whole 'OMG I gotta write it this way or that way cause my whole career depends on it being fast and brutal.'

Oddly enough, it seems a significant share of my audience demographic is the gothic belly dancing women. I get a pretty steady stream of emails from belly dancers who dance to and listen to the Saurian Mediations, complete with pics of them in their belly dancing gear. At first I was a bit flabbergasted I hadn't counted on that at all. Then I guess I figured 'what the hell.' The only real downside is that it isn't just the "lovely and charming" gothic belly dancing chicks who send me their pics. The 'not-so-lovely' also share their pics. So clicking on an email from one of them entails its own fair amount of risk."

Go to this location for the complete interview.