Nails – Obscene Humanity & Abandon All Life

http://www.discogs.com/Nails-Obscene-Humanity/release/4134543

http://www.discogs.com/Nails-Abandon-All-Life/master/530528

Nails are to me a very anonymous band. I know next to nothing about them, and I’m not curious. But I like these two slabs o’ wax. A lot. Fast and fierce hardcore with elements of grindcore.

I honestly can’t rcall how I heard about them, I guess it could have been in a Decibel Magazine, or a review on the grindtodeath.com blog. But I can’t be bothered to find out.

The anonymity and my disinterest in knowing about the band even stretches to me not knowing to lyrical content or their world view. Things that normally are important to me. But you see, the music does an excellent job in itself, and I’m afraid to break the spell, if I start reading about them. I like the innocence in it, like it was back in the pre-internet days, where you sometimes got a tape in the mail, with music on it, about which you knew nothing – and had no means to gather information about. All you had was a band name and some titles, and that’s the relationship I want from Nails. All dirty fast sex and no emotions. And that is what I get.

About these two records, I like both a lot, but favor Abandon All Life just a tiny bit over Obscene Humanity.

Nothing to see here, please disperse, daddy’s getting fucked.