Ninnuam

Blistering, ferocious, harsh, brutal, nasty, crushing -- those are the sort of adjectives that are typically used to describe Ninnuam, one of the numerous bands that came out of Sweden's death metal/black metal underground in the early 2000s. Although Ninnuam uses a keyboardist and offers some melodic passages here and there, the Nordic headbangers should not be classified as either melodic death metal or symphonic black metal (two styles that have set out to avoid the limitations of death metal/black metal by combining sledgehammer aggression with the sort of intricacy and mu...