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When asked about the origin of their name, Mika Luttinen stated in an interview that he had read a pamphlet about Christ appearing to be a vampire. He got to thinking about how impaling a vampire is one of the only ways to kill them and thus, thought of the name “Impaled Nazarene“. The band's lyrics have always been controversial. For example, after the release of the album Suomi Finland Perkele a communist youth group from Paris got upset by the lyrics for the song “Total War - Winter War“ and convinced a major store in France to remove the record from their shelves. According to some rumors, the “Ugra-Karma“ was mistakenly removed instead. The band was infamous for seeming to hate the Norwegian black metal scene back in the early 1990s, but in later times, the band seemed to disassociate with such hatred. Impaled Nazarene stopped wearing corpse paint in the mid-1990s due to it being “too trendy“.
