Comes as Jewel Case with black tray in O-card, include 12 page black/white booklet.
Just after one year from the hyper violent Ugra-Karma, these Finnish crazy motherfuckers Impaled Nazarene, are back in anger with another album that would have remained in history for the brutality and the sheer rawness of a band that never accepted any form of compromise and always conserved a mocking but shocking attitude. Once again, the hilarious components are heavily present also in this new album, starting from the title and passing through the songs on it.
Everything is made to be violent but also a way to laugh back at those too serious and satanic black metal bands that were taking dominion on several zones of the world at the time. Already from the incredibly strange, martial and cold intro we can notice that the band hasn’t move away from the original sound of the previous efforts and “Vitutuksen Multihuipennus” is ready to welcome us to hell. The raw, semi blast beats remind the ones on the debut and everything sounds far rawer than the predecessor. By the way, if you listen carefully, we can find some more melodic riffs and that is the turning point for this band.
From now on, these riffs will grow in number and this album is just a way between the old Impaled Nazarene period and the new one. “Blood Is Thicker than Water” is another example of what I said: the riffs have even something epic inside and the speed is less present. Mika is always great at the vocals but in some parts he’s less schizophrenic and there’s a stronger will in considering more the form of the song. In these tracks the rawness of the first years is filtrated through the bigger burden of technique of the recent years and also the punk/black assaults are a bit more controlled.
In tracks like “Steelvagina” and “Ghettoblaster” the raw attitude survives and the instruments are just relentless. Before I forgot, a special credit should be given to the bass sound: it’s always like a panzer with the dry-out, blasting production, ready to support everything with its metaphorical “large shoulders”. During the most impulsive tracks, the band changes of skin and it’s again ready to show its supremacy with essential, open-chords riffs and blasting vocals. “Total War - Winter War” is another classic in their set list: the martial drums rolls at the beginning are soon washed away by more savage black/punk riffs.
“Quasb / The Burning” has more of those doom/ritual atmospheres we could find in Ugra-Karma with keyboards too. This time we can find more “melodic” hints in the riffs. “Kuolema Kaikille (Paitsi Meille)” is the heaviest and surely the most evident return to old brutality being a 50 seconds blast beats song. It’s fucking good. “Let’s Fucking Die” has lots of influences from Venom in the tempo and the riffs while can find even a guitar solo! “Genocide” is a return to more melodic and sad riffage before the brutal explosion with up tempo parts and more brutal sections.
“The Oath of the Goat” is a more mid-paced and atmospheric track. It shows quite different and new types of riffs by the guitars and this is another point of evidence about the Impaled Nazarene’s will to change a bit from the past. One thing is for sure, they did it very well with this album. Ugra-Karma remains unmatched for intensity and pure brutality but this Suomi Finland Perkele will forever be remembered for the first innovation by this great band.
Sample:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwQjfHkG00&list=RDZcwQjfHkG00&start_radio=1
