After having established themselves as one of the most outrageous and interesting death/grind hybrids to come out of the Portuguese underground in the ten years between 2001 and 2011, these NAMEK lunatics - who took their name from the Dragonball Z anime series - disappeared from the scene and for six years there was no chance of seeing them in concert again. The unthinkable did happen, however, in June 2017, with the quintet returning to the stage to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the iconic ‘Vaginator’ and revisit ‘the lascivious cyber world of robotic porn degradation’. In 2023, a new chapter emerged. ‘Sophistication Is Obsolete’ is yet another Namek treatise on how to mix crust, brutal death metal, grindcore and goregrind with alchemical perfection. Seeing them on the opening day of SWR 2025, fighting for a place at W:O:A, is the antithesis of the Wedding at Cana: the best wine is to be drunk sober, dammit!
