IMPALED NAZARENE is in the same division with bands like MOTORHEAD. You know them, you trust them. With this 10th album these nuclear black metal lunatics from Finland continue to sit on their throne watching the others from above. And without a doubt these porno-maniacs are one of the two best black metal bands that Finland has given to the world (the other is BEHERIT...).
For Manifest they are outfitted with new lead guitarist UG who was familiar with the band in the past (his name is Tomi Ullgren). Anyway, I liked a lot Tuomo Louhio's solo but he couldn't continue with the others. Surprising fact is the length of the album - approx 50 minutes! Almost one hour of ear bleeding. Yeah!
In my opinion, their previous one Pro Patria Finlandia was one of their best in their horny career. This album was a real sonic dynamite making me wonder of what the next step would be . Any dubiousness was auto-destroyed from the very beginning of Manifest. The intro makes you understand that they are really pissed off and chaos will follow soon, like a storm after the lightning. The Antichrist Files and Mushroom Truth are ultra speed nuclear metal holocausts and this time the band chooses some keys to fulfill them, that take us back to their three - primary - albums.
Your chance to have a great headbanging time comes with the punk metal bastard abomination entitled as You Don't Rock Hard plus the other two (Pathogen, Pandemia) are somewhere between the I.N.R.I. drumming meeting a toxic liquid dyne that will make irreparable damage to your necks, while the spirit of SODOM is laughing at your face.
The Calling starts with a nice solo and has good riff for refrain but it's the most apathetic song of Manifest. Things become really dangerous with Funeral For Despicable Pigs when the tempo becomes slower and deadly. Vocals are great. Is He Mika? After that, we are meeting Planet Nazarene and Blueprints For Your Culture's Apocalypse, finding me at the window screaming to the neighborhood. Thrash riffs, maniac playing, songs with diversity and breaks with SLAYER lunacy. Metal mayhem! The break in the Planet Nazarene will blow your head into 666 pieces.
Could a goat song be missing? Of course not. By the way, the relative one in the previous album was a total thrashing SODOM overdose and maybe the best in band's history. Yes I am blasphemer, I know. Goat Justice is as thrash as the other; high  tension and...oh!!!!, what a break, THRASH!!!! The Manifest becomes more killer, more inspired, Die Insane is in the same level, and now welcome Original Pig Rig. That's it; there is no mercy at all. Vocals from a fury goat with a barrage or great riff including an ultra - heavy metal - bridge.
The last three songs continue the savagery and Dead Return gains the impressions and the interest resembling with a funeral or a requiem for the nuclear end of this fucking planet. IMPALED NAZARENE is like a Mongolian horde that destroys anything in its path. It's too early to judge if this record is better than the previous one, but the obvious fact is that their inspiration is endless like the hate of their leader. Tapio Pennanen worked with the band again, the sound from Sonic Pump studio is perfect, clear and violent, UG is perfect, his solos are very good and insane (look at Die Insane), Repe is an unstoppable (force!) killing machine, Arc has given a new fresh air to the band after his embodied, Anttila is the god itself (he is the oldest member except the bold demon) and this demon who vomits blasphemies and hate to the mankind has the most toxic vocals in the whole universe.