Impaled Nazarene - Nihil
Damn! This is probably the cleanest sounding Impaled Nazarene album ever. As a matter of fact, Nihil sounds so out of character that I almost thought that this was a completely different band! This literally sounds like Dissection or In Aeturnam playing Impaled Nazarene covers with Mikka Luttien doing the vocal parts. The sound on the guitars is razor sharp and crystal clear, giving this a more Black Metal sound than any previous Impaled Nazarene album. Impaled Nazarene always sounded more like a Discharge-influenced Extreme Hardcore band with Satanic lyrics, but for whatever reason they decided to change all that this time. The Discharge element is still there, but the sound is so clean that they lost a lot of the raw, dirty Punk As Fuck sound. The songs are also a tad longer than before as well. The last time they did anything that was this far from the traditional Impaled Nazarene sound was the rather disastrous Soumi Finland Perkele album (which saw Kimo Luttien, Mikka’s brother and Legenda founder, getting kicked out for causing the band to stray too far from their roots). The songs are good and the playing is tight, but with the new sound I wonder if we can still call this Nuclear Metal?
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