IMPALED NAZARENE - Ugra - Karma CD

This is a style that has been much imitated over the years, but little understood. Sure, you can smack some primitive black metal against a heavy streak of grindcore, write some edgy lyrics about bondage and nuclear war, and lace the whole thing in ill-advised mastering choices. But this is only a superficial understanding of what these Finnish artists where achieving at the time, and of how it really differed from Norway, Greece, the US, or France. Setting aside the elaborate explanations above, we could simply say that 'Ugra Karma' (and the exhibitionist debut) is one of the pillars of European extreme metal of this era, and has deservedly stood the test of time.