NILE frontman Karl Sanders is featured in a new interview with Tomb Of The Opinionated. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Nile is in their 17th year now, which is an amazing achievement.What do you think is the secret to your longevity?

Sanders: "The great unknowable secret to longevity – is the same simple great truth as you learn the first time you want to run a mile -Don’t give up.Don’t stop running.If you stop , and then you wont finish.Its that fucking simple. I suppose it would have been easy to pack it all in when we lost original drummer Pete Hammoura – He and I go all the way back to 1982 – and we had worked so hard for so many years in several bands.But Nile didn’t quit then – we persevered. And that’s the truth in a nutshell. If you want to last, don’t give up. No matter what."

Q: What I always find amazing about Nile is how you your sound evolves and is refined on every album. From the raw aggression of of Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka to the polished and refined, yet even more brutal Those Whom The Gods Detest, you can clearly see how far you guys have come. This must have taken serious dedication on your part.

Sanders: "We are all about dedication, hard work, and sacrifice. I get asked frequently – by the people who live in my hometown – what does it take to 'make it'? Or how on earth do you make all those killer albums – or get a band to sound as tight and brutal as Nile – or How do some guys from Greenville SC – which is like NOWHERE on the musical map of planet Earth - fight and claw there way up the sheer impenetrable mountain that is the metal music world? Aren’t there like, 10,000 other would-be metal bands all tenaciously vying for the same few thin scraps of recognition? And the only real answer is – we were willing to do what it takes.

It used to even be a running joke with us – What does it take to make it ?You have to be willing to go on tour with INCANTATION for $50 a night. If you don’t have the force of will necessary to QUIT YOUR JOB , put everything in your life on the line – job , girlfriend , family, your personal finances, etc etc ad nauseum and undergo the Underground Horrors of an Incantation tour (or any other completely icky, utterly shameful no-pay , tour-de-force of infamously shitty road dives and inner city-bar-hell-hole clubs ) AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN, then you probably aren’t willing to do what it takes. And while you are whining about 'How our band is too talented to eat shit, and we would never lower ourselves to play those kind of gigs , or live like a bunch of broke and homeless persons in a dirty broken down old van...' then some other band – who is a little hungrier – WHO ARE WILLING to do what it takes – will be the ones who just happen to get somewhere.

People are even more spoiled by the internet nowadays , Young Bands today think all you have to do is put up a Myspace profile – and all of a sudden success will magically fall from heaven .It doesn’t work that way."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Nile recently released their new video, for the track 'Permitting The Noble Dead'. Created by Juan "Punchy" Gonzalez of D.O.W. Studios, the video can be seen below.

Dates for Nile's Those Whom The Gods Detest Tour II, with support from EX DEO, PSYCROPTIC, KEEP OF KALESSIN, PATHOLGY, are now as follows:

November

1 - Headliner's Music Hall - Louisville, KY
2 - Sonar - Baltimore, MD
3 - Crazy Donkey - Farmingdale, NY
4 - Rocko's - Manchester, NH
5 - Club Hell - Providence, RI
6 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
7 - Blondie's - Detroit, MI
8 - Reggie's Rock Club - Chicago, IL
9 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
12 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA
13 - Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR
14 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
15 - Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA
16 - Key Club - Los Angeles, CA
17 - U.B.'s Bar - Mesa, AZ
18 - The Rock - Tucson, AZ
19 - The War Legion, Amarillo, TX (No Nile, Ex Deo)
20 - Emo's - Austin, TX
21 - The Warsaw - Houston, TX
23 - Club Firestone - Orlando, FL
24 - Culture Room - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Dates for Nile's Those Whom The Gods Detest Tour 2011 Part 2, also featuring DEW-SCENTED, MELECHESH, ZONARIA, and DARKRISE, include:

January

20 - Katowice, Poland - Mega Club
21 - Vienna, Austria - Szene
22 - Budapest, Hungary - a38
23 - Bucarest, Romania - TBA
24 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Blue Box
25 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Eightball
26 - Beograd, Russia - SKC
27 - Zagreb, Croatia - Mochvara
28 - Nova Goriza, Italy - Pieffe Factory
29 - Dietikon, Switzerland - Sounddock14
30 - Darmstadt, Germany - Steinbruch Theater
31 - Prague, Czech Republic - Exit Chmelnice

February

1 - München, Germany - Backstage
2 - Vevey, Switzerland - Rocking Chair
3 - Romagnano Sesia (Novara), Italy - RnR Arena
4 - Rome, Italy - Blackout
5 - Gualtieri (Reggio Emilia), Italy - Temp Rock
7 - Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornrosje
8 - Cardiff, England - Millennium Music Hall
9 - Liverpool, England - The Masque
10 - Derby, England - Redemption
11 - Dublin, Ireland - Buttom Factory
12 - Belfast, Ireland - Spring And Airbrake
13 - London, England - 02 Academy
14 - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Baroeg
15 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
16 - Hannover, Germany – Musikzentrum