Editing Karl Sanders (section)

== Early life ==
Sanders started playing guitar when he was nine years old.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Naylor |first=Alexander |date=2015-09-11 |title=Nile's Karl Sanders Interviewed August 2015 |url=https://www.rocksins.com/2015/09/an-interview-with-karl-sanders-of-nile-none-of-the-old-rules-were-allowed-to-apply-this-time-25646/#:~:text=So%20you%E2%80%99re%20not%20only%20a%20vocalist,%20you%E2%80%99re%20a%20guitarist%20as%20well.%20When%20did%20you%20start%20playing%20guitar? |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=Rock Sins |language=en-GB}}</ref> Before creating Nile, Sanders was in a [[thrash metal]] band during the late 1980s called Morriah and played local shows with the young [[Morbid Angel]] and other US death metal bands.<ref name="Metalship">{{cite web| author=Metalship |date=February 12, 2013 |url=http://en.metalship.org/interviews/258-Nile |title=Interview with Karl Sanders of Nile |publisher=Metalship}}</ref> He said, "The 80s were a lot of fun. It was a time where everybody had disposable income so everybody was always going out. There were half a dozen places to play in my home town. You could have quite the life playing four nights a week, even as a cover band, but after a while we wanted to write our own songs."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Karl Sanders - Wikiquote |url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Sanders |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=en.wikiquote.org |language=en}}</ref>