Nominon - Remnants Of A Diabolical History

Published Feb. 21 2007

*=Staff's pick	Blaspheming The Dead Invocations Live For Violence Cemetary Of Life Servants Of The Moonlight* Diabolical Bloodshed Spit On Your Grave* Blessed By Fire* Genocide Decomposed* Sodoms Fall

Genre	Death Metal	Daniel Garptoft	Vocals
Tracks	11	Juha Sulasalmi	Guitar
Runningtime	43 Min.	Christian Strömblad	Guitar
Label	Pulverised Records	Anders Malmström	Bass
Release	31 Oct. 2006	Perra Karlsson	Drums
Country	Sweden	-	Keyboard
Similar artists	Grave, Death Breath, Repulsion

Remnants Of A Diabolical History, the title couldn't be more suitable. The Swedish band Nominon, uncompromising servants under the banner of filthy old-school death metal since somewhere around the early to mid nineties, have put together some of their sharpest tracks over the years and added some timeless covers to their latest release. Remnants Of A Diabolical History is as said not a new studio album, it is more like a manifest of the bands career during the yearsand is released by Pulverised Records.

By reading the biography it becomes obvious that the road for Nominon hasn't been a walk on roses through the years. It seems like the band have had more line up changes than there have been releases. The band must surely have gone through hell and back again. Considering this fact, I wont go further into the line ups during the recording sessions of each song. As I mentioned, Remnants Of A Diabolical History includes various material from the bands career and as a bonus you also get Live For Violence originally done by Voivod, Spit On Your Grave by Whiplash and the cruel Decomposed from the pioneers in Repulsion. Add to this the unreleased versions of previously released tracks like Blaspheming The Dead and Diabolical Bloodshed and re-recorded ones like Servants Of The Moonlight and Genocide. Spontaneously I think that the covers and re-recorded songs add interest and justifies this release. Not that the other material are uninteresting or so but sadly is the fact that the genre has become narrow and is growing smaller for each year.

Hopefully decomposed melodies from quite fine tracks like Blessed By Fire, Cemetery Of Life and the diabolical Servants Of The Moonlight can prevent the nowadays so sophisticated thinking of death metal. Nothing wrong with the genre's escalation in popularity but it should come more often in the ugly shape that Nominon presents. The production sometimes leaves a lot to wish for but some tracks are quite ok produced with the perfect rotten sound that Nominon's music demands. The song writing is not breaking any new ground but if feels safe and convincing to my ears. A pretty ok collection of violence, the old school way.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	7	6	7	6

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tim