NOWEN

Thrash Metal • Finland
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Nowen was founded in 1999 in Raahe by Mikko Lappalainen. Due to lack of decent band members he was forced to move to Lahti. Between 2001 and 2003 Nowen released 2 demos entitled "From Birth to Death" and "Cursed or Blessed" and played a few gigs. In couple of years Mikko Lappalainen got bored with wimps and unmotivated members in the band and decided to get rid of them. Soon after that in 2005 he asked his friends Jarno Nurmi and Markus Taipale to join the band and finally Nowen became a stable unit with attitude and ability to handle even the most complicated musical material. In 2005 Nowen also released their latest attempt to destroy the planet, "Where Hell Begins" MCD. On WHB Nowen took turn for more aggressive and twisted way of expression. "Where Hell Begins" was highly acclaimed and soon sold out. Now, after 2 years of read more...
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NOWEN Nothing but Hate album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nothing but Hate
Thrash Metal 2010
NOWEN Essence of Fear album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Essence of Fear
Thrash Metal 2012

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NOWEN Where Hell Begins album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Where Hell Begins
Thrash Metal 2005

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Cursed Or Blessed
Thrash Metal 2002

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NOWEN Where Hell Begins

EP · 2005 · Thrash Metal
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Where Hell Begins is the debut EP of the Finnish death/thrash band Nowen, at the time of these recording sessions functioning as a duo, but since grown into a full line-up. The main man of the group was an acquaintance of mine from a couple of metal related discussion forums, so obviously I had to buy his record to support the good work.

Brutal, hard riffing assault is the name of the game here, and the tightly executed riffs indeed manage to carry most of the songs to the finish line, aided by the extremely effective drum work of Ville Vehviläinen, the thrash beat sometimes slipping into a blast beat and more complex death metal patterns, and always rich in fills.

The furious opener Pathetic Existense and the almost epic multi-part five minuter Breaking Point are both pretty great, and after Illusions lowers the standard a bit, the title track launches into another great riffing and drumming fest. With Pain is almost a weird one in this bunch as it actually contains some rather nice guitar melodies, of course framed by some more blast beating madness. It also has the only clean guitar parts of the EP, if I remember right the sound reference used in the studio was mentioned to be Beneath the Remains.

The two main problems of this recording are the sound that could benefit from some extra bottom and the rather bland growls of mastermind Mikko Lappalainen. I believe at least the first problem is solved on the two full lengths, perhaps I should check them out as well.

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