Nunslaughter - Hells Unholy Fire (2000)

   As one of the very first death metal bands from the late '80s, Nunslaughter counts as a very underrated band. They had to wait a lot for their full-lenght debut and for the wider attention.
   By "Hell's Unholy Fire" a very nostalgic music material showed up that leads back to the birth of death metal. Raw and simple thrash influenced themes, short song lenghts, and common grinding parts are the main features of the album. The main concept is primitive but effective, the lyrics might sound immature and based on blasphemies and satanism. But this is just how old school bands were in the '80s. The unrepeateble feeling of those times have returned by first hand, when extreme genres didn't develop yet and included a bit of everything related. So it's like turning back time both in feeling and style by a very authentic band. Probably it wasn't a big problem to put the songs together, cause most already existed since a decade long, but only on demo tapes or split albums, so in the very depths of underground. Many things happenned in the scene meanwhile, and to hear a band with such ancient references is quite extraordinary. Even though the influence of Nunslaughter wasn't mentionable in the development of the gerne, their work counts as an important music document.