When death metal was slower, more evil, and far more calculating. Throughout Nekropsalms Obliteration capture the vibe, the air, and the terrible taste of stamp backs. True fans may cite Perpetual Decay as the jump-off point for all things Obliteration, but it’s Nekropsalms that holds the key. Not quite, but Kolbotn-based quartet blasted off into death metal’s tape-trading days like true pros on second album, Nekropsalms, where they finally found their proverbial footing. The New Wave of Old-School Norwegian Death Metal perhaps. Unlike most death metal of the day (late 2000s), the Norwegians opted for an older sound. Obliteration – Nekropsalms (Fysisk Format)ĭarkthrone’s Fenriz was one of the first to call out Norwegian death metal artists Obliteration. Maybe Gorelord aren’t so sophomoric in hindsight.Ĥ. Then again, Frediablo did get Maniac and Killjoy to drop vocals on two tracks. Had Force Fed On Human Flesh seen light of day in 1991, it’d be worshiped like other obscure, second-tier death, like Miasma, Sororicide, and UK’s Impaler. “Dismembered Virgin Limbs” is the perfect lead-off track, with its mid-paced guts-out riffs and blood-gargle vocals. The song titles are absolutely cliche, the lyrics are laughably gross, and the sound is superbly sanguine. Force Fed On Human Flesh has all the trappings of classic death metal through a modern lens. Gorelord’s debut album, Force Fed On Human Flesh, didn’t get much attention in 2001 (though it was re-issued on Relapse through Phil Anselmo’s Housecore label), but that doesn’t mean the album’s not a monster. While most Norwegian bands were still stuck in the throes of post-black metal (not the genre, but the era), Frediablo was making dirty, disgusting, somewhat catchy death metal, the likes of which were pulled from Autopsy, Repulsion, and early Death. The guy was involved in all kinds of projects, most notably Necrophagia and Gorelord. Gorelord – Force Fed On Human Flesh (Baphomet)Ī one-time or long-time member of Grimfist, Hemnur, Wurdulak, and Necrophagia, mainman Frediablo (aka Fred Prytz) was, for a few years in the mid-2000s, Norway’s answer to mid-1990s Dan Swanö. Decibel flips through the musty pages of history to highlight the Top 5 Norwegian Death Metal Albums Of All Time.ĥ. And it’s still there, far more prevalent now than ever before. It was always there, lurking in the shadows. Even so, the genre of death didn’t bow completely to corpsepaint and lo-fi production values.
The first five years of the Second Wave of Black Metal (or Norway’s inaugural) had more activity than the country’s entire death metal history. *No question Norway’s reputation for black metal surpasses its meager death metal offerings over the last 20 decades.
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