(On January 31st Iron Bonehead Productions ushered in the return, after 30 years, of the German band Naked Whipper, and now we’re providing Zoltar‘s review of their new album.)

I know better. Fuck, I was there. So don’t believe those claiming they were right from the get-go into Blasphemy and their likes back in the mid-’90s because they weren’t. Truth be told, back then what was to be called ‘war metal’ and their likes had very few disciples. Even if death metal was on its way out, I guess most of them hadn’t come to terms with the new definition of what extreme metal stood for and what the heck this both annoying and fascinating corpsepainted kid known as black metal had to do with it.

What I do know though is that when Naked Whipper‘s first full-length Paintreaks unexpectedly dropped in 1995, most of us dismissed it, including me. Their only claim to fame was that their bass player and vocalist was briefly Blood‘s frontman for their cult Christbait album released three years later but that was about it. As a matter of fact, the result sounded to my ears like a more satanic-flavored and primitive version of Blood, and thus was immediately suspected of jumping on the left hand path band-wagon, especially since it was being put out by MMI Records off Germany (Morbid Records‘ little brother if you catch the reference), then first and foremost renowned for putting out ugly death metal and grindcore, such as Avulsed, Dead or Deranged. Continue reading »