NAKED WHIPPER (Ger) – ‘Chapel Defilement’ CD

Arguably, NAKED WHIPPER’s cult status is second only to Necrovore. Formed in 1993 by lone deviant Dominus A.S., the band quickly released their first recording, a self-titled 7″ EP, that very year. However, it was NAKED WHIPPER’s debut album, 1995’s Painstreaks, where Dominus A.S. cemented his legendry. While the “second wave” of black metal was in full swing by then, Painstreaks was 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. Quickly came the Moloch : Acid Orgy EP that same year, and while cultists (rightfully) hailed Painstreaks, this 15-minute assault was both tighter & wilder; think of it like Blasphemy’s Gods of War compared to Fallen Angel of Doom. Of course, NAKED WHIPPER slipped into the shadows: not officially broken up, but not active at all, neither. Not like many were paying attention anyway – at the time and for well into the new millennium, the name was one mostly reserved for only the most diehard and transgressive.