Impaled Nazarene has always been, and no doubt will always remain as my favorite band, period. Every new LP is a always solid, powerful, hatefilled, Satanic, goatworshipping masterpiece of epic proportions, taking the typical black metal formula and adding elements of thrash, power metal, and yes, even crust punk. The past few albums (which are, at this time, Pro Patria Finlandia, Absence of War, All That You Fear), are much quite thrash-like in sound, incorporating a lot of power metal tremolo picking and screaming, rather than growling, if that makes any sense, so that is what a lot of people have come to expect from the band. Recently, however, Osmose rereleased the 1993 black metal classic (again), and so this album is once again widely available. For anyone who thinks of Impaled Nazarene as a blackened thrash band, I highly recommend that you pick this CD up. Quite raw and surprisingly melodic at times, Ugra-Karma is pure black fucking metal through and through.