A quick one: Horror Of Naatu are a Polish project, consisting of vocalist / guitar player / bassist / lyricist and composer Hunger and drummer August, both active in Stillborn. With No Hope For No One they bring a handful of own songs and a Cannibal Corpse cover, which was recorded in early 2014 at the Roslyn Studio (I do remember this name from Hell United’s album Aura Damage). This (demonstrational) mini-release has a total running time of twenty six minutes (the cover included). After the intro Entrance To Crematory (welcome to this Cracow-based horror!), Horror Of Naatu play a mixture of some related styles / genres with a prominent Old Style angle: Grind, Thrash, Heavy, Black and, especially, colossal Blasting Death Metal. Especially the harsher USDM-scene comes to mind, with influences from the European scene (Germany and Holland, with hints of Sweden, the U.K., Finland and Vatican City) being not that far away either – along with the Polish one, evidently.
The main tempo is quite fast, up to blasting furious, yet still the duo maintains a high dose of melody in its execution; rare and almost unseen, yet truly well-done. And despite the lack of innovation, peace, oops, I mean pieces (no room for peace right here) like the massive graveyard-epic Entome In Wormy Soil or the epic Aurora Omnes Ad Infernum are even more worth than ‘quite enjoyable’!
The Cannibal Corpse cover, Put Them To Death, performed with that recognizable groovy pepper-in-the-behind-power, is not that stupid, but 1) the original is always better (even though it is not Cannibal Corpse’s best thing ever written at all) and 2) it is not a necessary addition on this EP; I wonder why…
Some more variation, more of an own face, and Horror Of Naatu will get somewhere…