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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nominon - Diabolical Bloodshed (1999)



1. Malicious Torment
2. Sodom's Fall
3. Night of Damnation
4. Servants of the Moonlight
5. Cemetery of Life
6. Son of the Dragon
7. No Holy Ghost Shall Rise
8. The Sufferer

Origin - Sweden
Genre - Death Metal

" Though "Diabolical Bloodshed" may be Nominon's debut album, these guys have been kicking around in the scene long enough to develop some impressive skills and they certainly possess the conviction to raise the spirit of early 90's Swedish DM. Everything's in place here, from the Sunlight production to the cavernous and obscure solos to the gutteral graveyard rasps, this is textbook Swedish Death Metal and I can't think of any other textbook I would rather read. Honestly speaking, I am rather easy to please when it comes to this sound, but I know the difference between adquate and damn impressive and with its 8 songs clocking in at just over 37 minutes, "Diabolical Bloodshed" falls decidedly in the upper end of the spectrum. Guitarists Jonas and Juha fire off unrelenting streams of ripping riffage, but manage to vary the tempos with some crunch-filled doom passages while tossing in a good deal of agile-handed leads, drummer Emil and bassist Lemmy hold down some punchy rhythms with the former displaying some dextrous footwork and Nicke's inhuman vocals come blasting out from under the floorboards. Admittedly, if you weren't listening to this stuff the first go around, it might just sound a bit antiquated, but for those who remember when the Sunlight stamp made it mandatory this could be the album you've been longing for "



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