NewFriendAncientEnemy wrote:
Sell me on a Nasum album. I honestly wanna give em a shot. I can respect an album like Shift, enjoyable at a casual level, but short of what I'd wanna own myself. People keep shitting on my parade when I say Machetazo is cool, but Nasum ain't my style. Maybe it means something. Obviously Nasum kicks the shit out of most grind technically, they've got the skill. Must be a matter of what I can and can't relate to. I've heard limited amounts of their earlier full lengths, but who knows, maybe I can find something stronger, and end my lackluster outlook of the band.
Best album. Lay it on me.
Listen to Helvete. It's got the most important aspect of any grind album - consistency. There's only one song that isn't quite as good as the others, and even that one is worth listening to. There's a maniac sense of energy in these guys that takes you back to the first time you heard thrash, or the first time you heard punk. It speaks to something deep and primeval within.
The riffs are crushing, the production is pristine/divine/wondrous/*insert highly complimentary adjective here*, the riffs are crushing, the drumming is absolutely splendid and suitably varied to make you want to keep listening, the screams and screeches are as intense as the last vocalizations of a man struggling to claw his way out of a monstrous mechanical vise that's crushing his lower body before he can never again father children and failing, the blood vessels in his forehead one step away from hemorrhaging violently. It's like a sonic firestorm of violence and hatred.
Oh, and the riffs are
crushing. Lots of thrash influence and more than a touch of death, as in Harmony Corruption-era Napalm.
