UMUR "Never Ending Nightmares" is the debut full-length studio album by Swedish death metal act Humanity Delete. The album was released through Dead Beat Media in December 2012. Humanity Delete is a one-man project by prolific musician Rogga Johansson (Demiurg, Ribspreader, Paganizer...among others) who plays and sings everything on the album excluding the guitar solos which are handled by Lasse Pyykkö from Finnish doom/death metal act Hooded Menance.

Most of Rogga Johansson´s projects are rooted in old school death metal (and to a lesser extent old school thrash metal) and the same can be said about the music on "Never Ending Nightmares". However it´s not business as usual as "Never Ending Nightmares" features quite a few grindcore and crust elements like D-beat drumming, short song lengths and a sound production that is more in grindcore territory than in death metal ditto. It´s still predominantly a death metal album though. Something that is fully established by the deep growling vocals. The standard of the output is not surprisingly of high quality. It´s seldom any of Rogga´s projects have disappointed me and Humanity Delete is no different.

Rogga has never aimed at inventing the wheel and "Never Ending Nightmares" is not an original sounding release by any means. However the music is professional sounding, well played and well written. Solid, brutal and effective. This is inspired and delivered with conviction which is probably the most important thing, when you´re not aiming at sounding original. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

adg211288 Never Ending Nightmares is the debut full-length album by Swedish death metal act Humanity Delete. The album was released in December 2012. Humanity Delete is a project led by prolific musicians Rogga Johansson whose credits include artists such as The 11th Hour, Bloodgut, Demiurg and Paganizer. While Rogga is the sole member of the band there are guest guitar solos played by Lasse Pyykkö (Hooded Menace) while the lyrics are penned by Jill Girardi.

While predominantly a straight-forward death metal release Never Ending Nightmares also features elements of grindcore and punk. The songs are typically short and to the point, which is the best thing for this particular brand of extreme metal as far as I’m concerned, but they seem to accomplish a lot within the short running times, none of which even hit four minutes. Because of the short times Never Ending Nightmares isn’t a long album despite having twelve tracks, falling short of a full half an hour. Humanity Delete’s music is described in its promotional blurbs as being post-apocalyptic but while the band name and cover art convey that sort of atmosphere well enough it’s not a vibe I get from the actual music; at least there’s nothing that really sets Never Ending Nightmares apart from other death metal to suggest any particular feeling that I’d associate with a post-apocalyptic vibe.

But the important thing will an album like this is that it gets the job done. Rogga Johansson is a very accomplished vocalist and instrumentalist and Never Ending Nightmare is testament to his abilities. His growl is strong and his riffs have a great groove to them that almost pushes some of the music into a death ‘n’ roll sound while there are some nice showcases that it isn’t all about brutality and thrashing away, with the lead guitar in particular adding spice to the music. It’s an experience that is over quickly, but one that once over I do feel inclined to go back to sooner rather than later. While I can’t say that Never Ending Nightmares has the markings of a genre classic about it, this is clearly the work of a man who knows what he’s doing in this field and a great album tier rating is deserved.

82/100

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven (http://metaltube.freeforums.org/humanity-delete-never-ending-nightmares-t2776.html))