Skull of impending doom11/8/2023 ![]() This album is definitely not deathcore, yes it has a few breakdowns but so do Suffocation (which the band show an obvious influence from in their music). This album (and the band's 2005 demo The Sin and Doom of Godless Men) sound like Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Exhumed, Carcass and Aborted all had some insane gore sex and had this baby as a result that decided to be a born Christian. While Impending Doom's LATER sound seems to display more of a Whitechapel-esque deathcore sound, this album sounds nothing of the sort. Although some people say this album is deathcore, I find this highly inaccurate. If I could describe it, it would be brutal death metal meets goregrind. This band loves their religion and makes it clear in their lyrics. But let alone if you read between the lines of the cover image to discover that the man rising above the endless piles of corpses in the image is priest along with taking another note that the structure that still stands (and is possibly the only thing shown not destroyed in the picture) is a church, it becomes clear that this cover is pretty much spot-on accuracy of what their music is extremely violent and excessively heavy music, yet is 100% Christian. While being a Christian band, the cover art alone is about the least Christian-looking thing you can come to imagine to picture in your mind. Impending Doom sure did start their career with an insane debut and they definitely did make it clear that they're a band that is much more than just meets the eye. Between skull-shattering breakdowns, brain pummeling drums, and some of the lowest guitar tones in deathcore, this is a must have for anyone who enjoys Christian metal, deathcore, or brutal death metal. The fact that they’re growling about Christianity instead of sodomy (Annotations of an Autopsy) and being commercially successful is in and of itself impressive. In comparison to other deathcore albums, this is a phenomenal album. The songs themselves are still solid songs in and of themselves, but in comparison to the overarching power of the rest of the album, they come up rather short in the grand scheme of things. However, considering it's such a small portion of the songs themselves, it really is only a small detraction. The songs without a central breakdown lack variety and are often overlooked and generally skipped by myself. The only thing that detracts from the album is the redundancy of some of the songs. 's version of the breakdown has much cleaner production and helps deliver a low-tuned breakdown that would surprise even long time deathcore fans. The recording of the breakdown is heavier on their "Sin and Doom of Godless Men" album, but only because it has Brook's gutturals/squeals layered over the raw production of the breakdown. At about a minute and a half in, there is a slow build up into one of the heaviest breakdowns on the album. The highlight of the album comes at the third track, "In Reverence of." The song starts off with strong grind elements, very similar to something along the lines of brutal death metal. Unlike most deathcore bands, they vary both their time signatures and breakdown patterns to keep their audience captivated. The guitars are tuned down to Dying Fetus level and deliver an immediate punishment to the listener. The breakdowns aren’t drawn out too long and aren’t littered throughout every song (usually one per song).įrom the first main track, My Nemesis, it's clear that they mean business. Over the breakdowns Reeves’ voice changes between low shouts (almost hardcore-esque) and gutturals that sound like they’re coming from Big Chocolate himself. The breakdowns are brutally simplistic, with single, double, and triple note variations slowly chugged out. Brook Reeves’ vocals sound like a freight train bulleting down a tunnel about to crush all the sinners that ever doubted Christianity. ![]() The guitars gurgle throughout and the drums are impressively technical and fast for deathcore (think along the lines of later Misericordiam speed), but the vocals are what steal the show. But what makes Impending Doom stand out among the rest is that it’s not only one of the heaviest deathcore albums there is, but because of the sheer guttural power of Brook Reeves’ vocals. For starters, there are many Christian deathcore bands out there In the Midst of Lions, Underneath the Gun, With Blood Comes Cleansing, etc. ![]()
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