Nervous Impulse - Enough for Dementia (2009)

   From the mid '00s the Renaissance of grindcore has begun and that new wave was represented mainly by porngrind and slamming grind/death bands. It was like a new, modern sound for the genre, but except this and some exact overly exaggerated topic/concept preferences it didn't gave anything new. However, this new wave brought other, more old school oriented bands too, like Nervous Impulse.
   Their short and very intense debut was somewhere between the modern and the old school tendencies of grindcore. The sound, the song structures, switching distorted guttural/high screaming vocal styles, heavier sounding basic death metal or goregrind themes instead of groovy punk influences are definitely the signs of the new wave. Still, the style and the main impression reminds more to the roots of grindcore, and it's more similar to European grind, than to American. In old school American grind/death the songs used to be more unified and they're not building on contrast and themes switches that much. Sudden theme, vocal and speed switches are the most specific solutions in Nervous Impule's musical toolbar. Fast thrashy hammerings switching to mid speed, than to ultra fast gravity blasts, that are usually pulling the other instruments to speed up too. Than the switches keep repeating or they stop for a second suddenly before an outbreak, and everything goes over again. All that gives a very rageful impression that's sometimes unbearably anxious and ends up extremely insane. This fastly repeating diversity might give the feeling that the album is way longer than how it is, and it may be a bit harder to go into, but all-in-one quite effective, and could be enjoyable.