Too Much Said the Nature—Prophet of Tomorrow EP (2025)

Details

Produced, mixed and mastered independently under the Too Much Said the Nature name. Released independently on 7 February 2025.

For fans of: Whitechapel, Hypocrisy, Marduk

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Band

Unknown
feat. Joni Mustonen

Tracks

Who told you to kill who?
All I ask is clean thoughts
Falling masterpiece

Review

Too Much Said the Nature is a studio project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2021. On Prophet of Tomorrow (2025), it offers three tracks of punishing death and black metal that combine raw physical force with brief flashes of melody and unsettling atmosphere.

This is not a long release, but it makes good use of its limited running time. Its heaviness is not simply about speed or volume. Each track has movement, rhythm and small changes in texture that prevent the music from becoming an indistinct wall of aggression.

“Who told you to kill who?” (track 1) opens with an atmospheric, almost breathy melody oscillating between two notes. There is something strangely hypnotic about it, particularly when set against the heavy-as-death onslaught that follows.

The track moves between these two worlds: the ethereal and the subterranean, the distant and the immediate. Around halfway through, a spoken voice appears over the music before everything descends once again into guttural vocals and a pummelling instrumental attack.

It reminded me of the extreme metal I first began listening to in my teens. That may explain why I found it both unsettling and oddly comforting. There is familiarity in its violence, like returning to a landscape that once frightened you but which you now understand.

“All I ask is clean thoughts” (track 2) continues the assault with guttural vocals over a relentless musical backdrop. The rhythm has a compelling bounce to it, giving the track forward movement beneath all that weight. It feels like an endless railway of extreme metal, rolling onwards without hesitation.

Around the midpoint, isolated notes emerge during a brief bridge-like passage. They do not soften the song so much as emphasise its severity. It is like noticing a single buttercup during the darkest of storms: a tiny point of brightness that makes the surrounding darkness feel even greater.

“Falling masterpiece” (track 3) begins with drums over a faint melody before opening into a growling, steady-paced thrash. The bass rumbles beneath vicious vocals that are spat out before shifting into an unsettling half-sung, half-spoken delivery.

Once again, rhythm plays an important part. The track has a muscular bounce, while occasional instrumental dropouts leave the drums exposed to carry the beat alone. These moments feel like sudden breaks in a storm, when the pressure briefly lifts but the danger has not passed.

The independent production suits the material. The sound is dense and forceful without losing the individual character of the drums, bass and brief melodic details. There is enough clarity to hear how the arrangements have been assembled, although a little more variation in vocal delivery or pace might have given the three tracks even stronger individual identities.

Conclusion

I have sat on this review for over a year now, while my life flailed around me like a fire tornado. This track has been something on a soundtrack to the complexity and at times chaos of the last eighteen months or more. With its combination of brutality, atmosphere and rhythmic movement, Prophet of Tomorrow (2025) immediately connected with me. This is extreme metal that knows how to pummel, but it also understands the value of leaving a small melodic light burning inside the darkness.

At only three tracks, it feels more like an introduction than a complete statement. However, it is an effective introduction: dark, focused and physically satisfying, with enough atmospheric detail to reward repeated listening.

Review score: 80%

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Disclosure

Zach at MDPR contacted me inviting me to preview Too Much Said the Nature’s Prophet of Tomorrow EP, thank you. I have no connections to either MDPR or Too Much Said the Nature. I’m not being paid to review this, but I did get a free digital copy of the EP to review, which is pretty cool. Many thanks to Zach from MDPR, and to Too Much Said the Nature for continuing to create fresh, exciting death and black metal.