The End Records
2005
Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces
About This Album
What sets Finland's Impaled Nazarene apart from most of the other speed-addled, Satan-worshiping, manic-thrashing, extreme metal bands out there is that they seem to be just unhinged, scary-looking, wild-eyed, and darkly comical enough to make you think they actually mean it. In other words, whereas countrymen (and occasional associates) Children of Bodom are merely named after a horrific murder case, these guys seem more like the actual serial killers! So thank your lucky stars that Impaled Nazarene sold their souls to rock & roll instead, and then stand back in awe, jaw dropped in hand, as their first official live album, 2005's adorably named Death Comes in 26 Carefully Selected Pieces, attempts to tear listeners limb from limb. The Fins' studio albums are usually amazingly intense affairs in themselves, but the act of recording some of their best and most vicious songs in front of a heavily partisan hometown crowd at Helsinki's Tavastia club somehow renders their brutalizing onslaught all the more decapitating. No joke -- there's hardly ever a moment to collect one's thoughts once the group's symphonic intro tape finally wraps up and the uninterrupted barrage of light-speed-thrash-black-death-punk-crush-kill-destroy-die! anthems is unleashed.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,6,7,8,9,12 and 18)

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