Nasum
Helvete

THE REVIEW

The beauty of music lies in its variety. A true music listener is someone who can appreciate it fully, without stopping at anything, even if they're holding an album by the Swedish band Nasum, one of the most extreme bands in the current musical landscape. Nasum, in fact, are violence turned into music, and their explosive mix of grindcore and death metal cannot help but shock anyone who approaches listening to their work without a deep psychological preparation for what awaits them.

Formed in '92, our four devastators, after the lackluster debut "Inhale/Exhale," landed in 2001 with Relapse, a label specialized in extreme sounds, and released the excellent and acclaimed "Human 2.0". Two years later, Nasum returned with "Helvete," an album even more devastating than the previous one: 22 frightening tracks for 35 minutes of pure delirium, where distorted guitars and Mieszko Talarczyk's chilling voice seem capable of destroying your stereo speakers at any moment. All is accompanied by high-quality audio and an excellent production that enhances the outcome, among deadly and immediate tracks like Scoop, Time To Discharge, the slower Relics and The Final Sleep, the devastating I Hate People, up to the distortions of the closing Worst Case Scenario (it has nothing to do with dEUS!!! ;D), which seal a magnificent album, almost perfect, in some ways exhausting, but that cannot fail to sway you on the final judgment.

Congratulations to Nasum, then, "Helvete" only confirms their tremendous skills, already demonstrated in previous works, and comparisons by some critics with historical genre groups like Napalm Death or Extreme Noise Terror are far from unwarranted.
In short, another crazy album for us crazy musicophiles, and let's hope they continue this way... Magnificent. Score: 4.5