If you need a more descriptive description than that, picture this. Take Carcass melodic deathgrind and top-tier The Black Dahlia Murder onslaughts, coupled with Galneryus levels of extreme power metal leads and solos, then double the speed. There is enough energy in this mixture to slingshot a bus through the sun without even giving the driver a tan. It’s a head spinning ride, and the band knows this, because the longest tracks barely pass the 3 minute mark and the entire record lasts less than half an hour. In that time the band crams more hooks and riffs than many of their peers manage in double the time.
Need more convincing? There’s not a bad track on here, but there are highlights. The opener and the title track make for a delicious one-two punch to the groin. The latter is especially exhilarating, using the dragged-on-pavement brutality of Anaal Nathrakh with a chorus Children of Bodom wished it could’ve written. Latecomer “Vagina Dentata” draws from Dissection for a delicious blackened riff that winds and coils and spools through 3 minutes of guitar wizardry. Some tracks spice things up with smatterings of keys, such as the ethereal twinkling on “Slave Humiliation.” It doesn’t take away from the energy; when Bloody Cumshot stops to smell the flowers, they inhale the entire bush and sprint away again the next second.
On a longer record this attitude might’ve become exhausting, but as the embodiment of compact songwriting, Nymphomania is a rollercoaster ride through and through. It ends as sudden as it begins, and when it does, it leaves you so giddy with adrenaline you’ll want to go again right away. It may not be the deepest record of the year, nor the one that evokes the most emotion, but that is never the point. The point is to kick ass at ridiculous speeds with more hooks than a coat rack factory. Mission fucking accomplished.
Tracks to Check Out: “Shoot Your Ugliness,” “Nymphomania” and “Vagina Dentata.”
