AGONIZING TERROR ZINE (Pol)

NOMINON (Swe) Blaspheming the dead Ep'03
NUCLEAR WINTER RECORDS

I read some articles and interview about NOMINON into very much metal fanzines, and I expected something very much obscure and totally old school. But I must say I was quite disappointed when I played this Ep. While I imagined their music as being a cross between doomy and obscure death metal melodies à la ROTTREVORE and old school as fuck ferocious Death metal between bands such as ENTOMBED (old), NIHILIST or newer acts as REPUGNANT, KAAMOS, what I discovered is a Death metal between the old stuffs of DISMEMBER, GRAVE (really softer!) and it reminds me the last UNLEASHED releases. I feel like it lacks of morbid energy while the tracks are quite common. It's convenient Death metal, and a bunch of melodies are here. Nothing special. It could sound a bit like BLOODBATH's releases, but it's less inspired and less Heavy Brutal. Cool cover artwork in the old vein! Notice there's a REPULSION cover! Heavy Death metal vocals, tight musicians with Ok tracks, but that's damn not enough! More blood and tears! Even if nothing attracted my attention and if it remains average, it doesn't suck. But one should be an absolute old school maniac to get into NOMINON! http://www.nominon.nu