“You’ve got to be strong enough to survive through periods of bleakness, times of no hope, where things look like they’ll never turn around,” NILE’s Karl Sanders says. “You just gotta keep believing in yourself and pushing forward. The strong will ultimately survive. The weak fall by the wayside. NILE has a new ethos: we’re not going to live in the past. That’s over and done with. Nostalgia has its place, but we’re virile now. We’re going to do something meaningful now. This ethos bears out on »Vile Nilotic Rites.« It’s not dwelling on the band’s past – it’s showing what the band is capable of now. We are here to conquer!”