Sunday, October 16, 2022

Entry 105 - Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods


 

Abyssal Gods was my first exposure to Imperial Triumphant. At the time I had not heard any of their later works.

The album sounds like everything is decaying. The riffs de-tune mid note, the songs slow down periodically, the vocals are toxic... everything is just dying form the inside out.

The second half of the album is also rather different form the first. While everything is cohesive, there is quite a bit more emphasis on ambience and atmosphere in the last four songs. Church bells, violins and other stringed instruments, and outright silence are all present.

While not as bizarre or complex as some of the later works from the band, Abyssal Gods still stands on its own. There are hints of what is to come, but by no means is it dwarfed by those releases. Imperial Triumphant is a band that thrives off of change, and this is merely another step in their continual evolution.

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