Nausea - Condemned to the System (2014)

   Formed in 1987, Nausea counts as one of the earliest grindcore bands, on the side of Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass, Repulsion and Terrorizer. But unlike these fellow coatenous bands, Nausea had to wait longer for a full-length release, and didn't spark wider attention. It was partly due to their debut's poor rehearsal quality, and partly because of the primitiveness of their early music, that simply couldn't even keep up with the intensity of other grindcore bands.
   While "Crime Against Humanity" was still kind of an experimenting death/grind album filled with a lot of basic punk influenced themes, their returning album, "Condemned to the System" decades later did reach the quality and intensity that a grind/death or grindcore band supposed to. The second album is basically incomparable with "Crime Against Humanity". However, more than 2 decades have been passed meanwhile, and after so many things did happen in the underground on the side of the renaissance of grindcore, that mainly came in the form of porngrind, this kind of strongly Napalm Death and Terrorizer influenced death/grind sounds quite vintage. The concept is also strongly relatable with those two bands. The production is high quality and flawless, and whether the band's intention was to create what they couldn't perform in the early '90s, or just to return to their roots, and release an old school styled album that's actually the main scene was pretty much missing since a long while, they definitely succeeded in both cases. Recommended for the fans of old school grindcore!