"S.F.P." is one of the cult Finnish black metal records and I'll open up with the statement that it does not really deserve this status. Mostly it is noted simply for it's aesthetically harsh and pleasing cover & lyrics. You see, in this country it is perfectly fun and acceptable to use a national Finnish symbol in the cover (a lion with a sword [what the FUCK is an African animal doing in a Finnish national symbol is a question I can not do answer]) and have lyrics about going to Russia and shooting all of the fuckin' communists up there - yet what is it that you get for actually living according to the ideals of national socialism and when asked, stating that you do not find NS politics that objectionable? A boycott, that's what you get. Impaled Nazarene has avoided this boycott by being accepted and fun drinking music even with people who listen to normal rock music and would not touch 'black metal' with a long stick; I.N. themselves did grasp for this audience with their anti-Norway statements and that should say something about the band's general philosophy. I mean, you don't need to accept all the shit Varg Vikernes says but it's another thing to be decidedly "Anti Norwegian Black Metal".

I don't think I really need to comment on the music on this Impaled Nazarene's 3rd album but if someone is interested, it is black metal with a commendably harsh, yet clear production from the Tico-Tico Studios. Bass solos, song titles like "Ghettoblaster" and also a new level of (aesthetic) variety in the compositions make this a less uncompromising and more generically heavy metal record as opposed to the previous one, "Ugra-Karma". There are a couple of recognizably black metal tracks, such as the opener "Vitutuksen Multihuipennus" with it's hilarious (in Finnish) lyrics and a hateful attitude that does represent some quality of what used to be the old-school thing, like some of the older Ancient Rites. Not surprisingly, there is also plenty of hardcore in "Suomi Finland Perkele", now more obvious and less sincerely original in approach than in the previous album (compare "Let's Fucking Die" with "Soul Rape" and you see what I mean).

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