Artist: IMPALED NAZARENE
Title: Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz
Year of Release: 1992
Label: Osmose Productions
Format: LP
A truly profane record that often borders on the ridiculous, the first two platters by Impaled Nazarene are definitely noteworthy, and though not overly heavy (compared to say Beherit or Archgoat), they are extremely fast and chaotic. I think that things definitely changed for the band as they turned their backs on the black metal spirit, as opposed to the sound, and unfortunately they failed to gather a new audience, which saw them become something of a maligned entity. Sure their first two albums are their best in my opinion, but when they managed to kick off with something as devastatingly overkill as ‘Tol Cormpt…’ you can’t help but to lament that things went as they did.
I’m confident that an ever changing line up served the band no favour either, though it did allow them to retain a diversity… the kind that new blood always enables.
Though not grindcore in style, this record has loads of those little intro styled pieces of depraved sounding acts with man and beast and I often wonder if that crowd would ever find release in this offering. It does feel a little disjointed on occasion due to these intros etc, but when it’s cooking, it’s a truly fierce and savage offering.
I think Impaled Nazarene are victims of their own desire to do as they wanted to, irrespective of what the scenes and cliques dictated, though unlike a band such as Cradle Of Filth whose debut came out not long after this one, and believe it or not were quite well respected at that time, Impaled Nazarene should not be victim to revisionism as their sound and attitude, of that time at least, was very much a black metal one.
Their funny little ‘wars’ with Norway and Eastern Europe are worth revisiting too. “For ten fucking years have I done this and they say WE are trend.”
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