Naked Whipper - Chapel Defilement LP
Naked Whipper - 'Chapel Defilement' LP
Black vinyl edition with insert & A2 poster limited to 400 copies
Arguably, NAKED WHIPPER's cult status is second only to Necrovore. Formed in 1993 by lone deviant Dominus A.S. While the "second wave" of black metal was in full swing by then, Naked Whipper was whipping up a defiant & debaucherous assault of BLACKGRIND. The lineage was there - from the berserker wave of earliest Brazil on to Blasphemy's demo and fellow Germans Blood (Dominus A.S. did vocals on their classic Christbait from 1992) and then especially the early proto-bestiality of Impaled Nazarene, with '80s Napalm Death connecting the dots - but on what would remain, for decades, their lone album did NAKED WHIPPER assimilate those strains into something undeniably unique and unremittingly perverse.
And now, with that well-oiled lineup lubed up for action, NAKED WHIPPER deliver their LONG-awaited second album: Chapel Defilement. Indeed, Chapel Defilement is the proverbial "best of both worlds," as it's the swift & succinct sound of Painstreaks and Moloch : Acid Orgy together, tighter and catchier and more caustic and more "fun" than it has any right being. It's almost as if those 20-plus years never passed, so etched-in-time is the NAKED WHIPPER aesthetic - and yet, in these days when bestial metal has blossomed into its own vibrant / overcrowded subgenre, Chapel Defilement sounds remarkably fresh. Much of that comes down the band's songwriting, which has remained unyielding if not slightly more refined: blast, gallop, blast, repeat, with actual fucking RIFFS that you can remember. Naturally, there's an ever-so-slight tightening of execution that's maximized by the clear & crushing production, but one could argue that NAKED WHIPPER could've delivered this kind of album in the late '90s anyway. Either way you cut it, Chapel Defilement is a glorious & grimy return for a band that never wimped out, and it's gloriously / grimily graced with another classic cover artwork from the legendary Chris Moyen!
