Finland's veteran black metal/punk band Impaled Nazarene return with their ninth studio album Pro Patria Finlandia. Having been around now for over 15 years, the band has their style down pat and offer up no real surprises here, just plenty of hateful and speedy black metal littered with punk exuberance. Lead singer Sluti666 still delivers some of the most evil and maniacal vocals around, as he does so convincingly on songs like "Goat Sodomy", "One Dead Nation Under Dead God" (gotta love these titles!) and "Weapons to Tame a Land". The twin guitar attack of Tuomio and Onraj 9mm provides plenty of fast picked tremelo riffs and harmonies, and the relentless rhythm team of bassist Arc V 666 and drummer Repe Misanthrope bash your brains in with a non-stop assualt of crashing double bass drums and speedy grooves. In the end though this is my one problem with Pro Patria Finlandia, and Impaled Nazarene's music in general. Most of the songs follow the same course and in the end are almost interchangeable, as the riffs, vocals, and tempo of each track tend to sound the same after a while. It's not until mid-way on "This Castrated World" that you get any sort of slow paced and complex breakdown, and when you do it's a welcome relief.
I'm sure many die-hard Impaled Nazarene fans will love this new release, as technically speaking it's well executed black/speed metal with plenty of punk attitude. For my tastes though, I like a little more variety in my music, and there's not much to be heard here.
Track Listing
1. Weapons To Tame A Land
2. Something Sinister
3. Goat Sodomy
4. Neighbourcide
5. One Dead Nation Under Dead God
6. For Those Who Have Fallen
7. Leucorrhea
8. Kut
9. This Castrated World
10. Psykosis
11. Contempt
12. I Wage War
13. Cancer
14. Hate - Despise - Arrogance
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