NAILS — Obscene Humanity (review)

NAILS — Obscene Humanity album cover EP · 2009 · Hardcore Punk Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
NAILS is a hardcore punk band band from Oxnard, CA that has been gaining in popularity in the last decade due to its unrelenting mix of crust punk, D-beat and powerviolence with elements of grindcore and death metal. The band was founded in 2007 by Todd Jones (vocals, guitar), John GIanelli (bass) and Tom Hogan (drums) but since then has released three albums, two splits and this debut EP titled OBSCENE HUMANITY which is a mere 10:56 in length.

This EP was originally released as a seven song, one-sided vinyl EP but was re-released with three rerecorded songs bringing the playing time up to 21:42. All NAILS releases are succinct, explosively brutal and to the point with caustic guitar and drum orotundity and incessant percussive explosiveness. Todd Jones’ vocals are a tortured scream out from under the din sort of madness. Although the band has adopted the D-beat and hardcore punk approach in the compositions, the caustic nature of the music is more akin to grindcore with a few elements of death metal thrown in.

The band cites the Japanese hardcore scene as the primary influence but also includes the crust punk and death metal scenes. Despite a near 11 minute playing time this EP hosts 7 tracks with most lasting around the one minute mark. “Lies” is the oddball here extending well past the 3 minute mark. NAILS is the epitome of a powerviolence band which infuses hardcore punk with extreme metal (such as thrashcore) and engages in confrontational socio-politically charged themes that are iconoclastic.

NAILS can be considered some of the most extreme music out there however even OBSCENE HUMANITY isn’t as heavy and extreme as the band’s following classic “Silent Death” which is even more hardcore and engages in more experimentation. This debut is a little more by the books as far as powerviolence rage is concerned but still the band proved it had the chops to pull off the incessant rampaging prowess required to successful evoke the hardcore punk demons to do their bidding. Pretty good start.



Original Track listing

"Disorder" - 1:09 "Alienate You II" - 0:42 "Obscene Humanity" - 1:42 "White Walls" - 1:09 "Confront Them" - 1:21 "Lies" - 3:37 "Alienate You I" - 1:13

Obscene Humanity 7" Track list as above (on both sides) but includes re-recordings

"Obscene Humanity" – 1:43 "Confront Them" – 1:20 "Lies" – 3:34
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Agreed! Silent Death is brilliant. It just has an extra edge that this one is missing but for a shorty EP this ain't bad :)
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Nails are pretty great IMO. I like Silent Death better than this one too...

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