Style: Dissonant black/death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Confusion, a mire of chaos, destruction, mental degradation
Thoughts: I'm stuck in a pit of utter despair. There is no way out, there is nothing but darkness. When I'm here it's impossible to see anything but the absolute worst of humanity. These moments are me dealing with the demons of my past and the ruinous havoc that they have on my existence.
Not much can break me out of these cycles, but it's nice to know that other people have been through the same. The fact that music like Blight Upon Martyred Sentience exists tells me that the minds behind Impetuous Ritual have at minimum battled their own demons as well.
This album barely qualifies as music. Rather it feels like it's a collection of notes and sounds that are meant to torture the listener throughout the 43 minute runtime of this album. Form the opening moments of Void Cohesion the listener is drawn into a maelstrom if death and decay. The notes have been bleached with the rot of the dead and have decayed into a nearly unrecognizable form.
When the band starts their music in earnest with Apoptosis all sense of what is real is lost. At least with the opener, the music is slow and it takes it's time seeping into my pores. With the rest of the album the band gives no fucks about slowing things down further, this is simply out to rip me apart piece by piece.
Despite the music's murderous intent, it won't let me die. I am destined to suffer here along with all others who have been lulled into Impetuous Ritual's third album. This fate is worse than death, it is an unending purgatory of death and rebirth. Nothing makes sense, my sanity erodes and all sense of what is real is lost.
Allegory aside Blight Upon Martyred Sentience is an interesting album. Interesting good or bad? I'm not sure yet. I don't know if I will ever know. It's a mire of chaos and it doesn't care in the slightest what I think. If I approve or disapprove is of no consequence. It will continue its chaotic existence.
Impetuous Ritual is one of those bands that take a lot for me to listen to. They are so far removed from what normal music is that it's difficult to truly wrap my head around it. Even for fans of dissonant music, this is likely going to be a huge challenge.
That said the world needs music like this, because sometimes we need music that can match the confusion that we feel in our lives. This is that soundtrack for me, when I don't know what is up or down, left or right. It's one of the albums I come to when I have no where left to go. In that there is solace.
Written December 11th 2023
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