Impaled Nazarene
Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland - Dec. 12, 2001
By Arto Lehtinen
The
most controversial nuclear cyber sado or whatever nihilistic metal
monster Impaled Nazarene launched their gig date to quite an interesting
moment without any doubts being on the 6th of December which happens to
be Finland's national independent day. The most idealistic moment to
carry out the immortal Suomi Finland Perkele philosophy and slogan.
Basically the gig date was Impaled Nazanere's way of striking back to
all accusations made up by the Finnish bloodhound media during the last
few months, accusing them of all kinds of shit.
Impaled Nazarene entered the stage stylistically dressed up into
customs to salute the Finnish independent day and let hell on loose by
starting out with the legendary Total War shouts and the audience rose
their fists and shouted their lungs out "TOTAL WAR". Even
though the band has undergone quite a few changes in the line up during
the last few years, but however the main ceremony master Mika Luttinen
has always remained and been the main core target of the band who pulls
the audience to testify the merciless hellbound and hardboiled gig from
the beginning to the end. Luttinen's stage charisma and his appearance
definitely cause and wake reactions for and against. But for some
bizarre reason, the audience didn't become that wild or aggressive like
Impaled's gig a couple of years ago which I witnessed in the same place,
when the floor turned a real battlefield when bodies were flying all
around. But anyway it is quite obvious this controversial reputation of
which the whole band is known for is based on the frontman's reputation
being more or less falsely reported in the media unfortunately. Besides
the frontman, both the guitarist handled their duties damn well and
especially the bassist "Killer" appeared to be in damn good
strike during the whole gig…
As I have written in several other gig reviews about Impaled Nazarene
that their gig is nothing, but a total real unforgivable spanking
throughout the whole set. No mercy no pity.
I
have witnessed Impaled Nazarene during the last ten years...Let's
see...Hmm a couple of dozens of times since their early heavily bloody/sm
oriented stage performance until their quite standard and traditional
way of performing the nihilistic stuff, although the blood and mask
dates are gone, but their musical onslaught is still totally pain to the
bitter end.
The set list:
Intro - Total War
Lost Art of Goat
Prequel to Bleeding
Wrath Of the Goat
Chaosgoat Law
Karmageddon Warriors
Violence I crave
Absence Of War
Motorpenis
GoatPenis
S666 / Under A Golden Shower
Cogito Ergo Sum
Intro
Humble Fuck Of Death
Zero Tolerance
Killer Of Trolls
Hardboiled And Still Hellbound
Soul rape
Ghost Riders
Satan's Generation
Condemned To Hell
Intro - Vituksen Multihuipennus
Kuolema Kaikille
Nyrkillä Tapattava Huora
