Aside from pockets of resistance in the major cities, UK death metal is the sole domain of MySpace-dependant idiot bands who'll release two EP's in two months and break up still wondering who or what the subject of their Suffocation T-shirt is and why the guys they got it off eBay from started crying when he saw them. And were it not for Nailed, West Yorkshire would be no exception. Forming in 2000, Hatred, Failure & The Extinction of Mankind is Nailed's second offering, and does not disappoint. Long overdue, Nailed are now on the verge of delivering a brutal wake-up call to the cause of real death metal. No longer tied to their past material and earlier line-ups, or dogged by associations to bands with whom they share only their accents, Nailed are raising the colours for songwriting – brutality, old school values and a balance of the three in a scene where breakdowns and pinch harmonics are all that seem to matter.
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