If you're looking at this album, then you're probably already a fan of Nasum and you don't need my review to convince you to have it. It's the last album by what might be the greatest grindcore band in the world after Napalm Death. Entitled : Doombringer, released by Relapse Recs. contains 16 tracks recorded live in Osaka on January 9th, 2004 clocking in at just over 23 minutes. Of course, any Nasum fan’s reaction to Doombringer will be mixed with the sadness of knowing that we’ll never get a chance to see the band play live again. Less than a year after this concert was recorded and three days after his thirtieth birthday, Talarczyk ( Guitarist ) was killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. I’m generally not a fan of live recordings because the acoustics usually suck and the bands almost always fail at capturing their studio sound in a concert setting. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that the sound mix on this recording was actually very good. The vocals and instruments are blended together very well without any one of them being overpowering and the intensity displayed by the band far surpasses their studio recordings also the production is so clean you’ll find yourself forgetting you’re listening to a live effort. Simply put, I don’t think Nasum has ever sounded better than they do on Doombringer! They fly through 16 songs with a staggering velocity comparable to the speed needed to escape the earth's gravitational pull, and deliver that music with a crushing force equal to a nuclear bomb. For every penny you leaved, this is a worth collected album from Nasum, and surely..., it would be the last one from them.
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