Style: Cavernous death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Flattened, pulverized, mangled, squashed... any other synonyms you can think of to heavy as fuck
Thoughts: I remembered loving this album when I first heard it. That was years ago, and since then the band released Succumb to Rot, an album that was not to my taste. Was I remembering this album wrong? Have my tastes changed that much in just a few short years?
Corpsessed play old school death metal that have a wide open production. One may even put this into the cavernous death metal category based solely on the production. The music ranges in pace from doom/death speeds all the way up to furious blasting - with the band leaning more into the blasting part than the slower.
When I first put this on I had a bit of trepidation, I had such a bad taste in my mouth from the follow up that I really thought I had made a mistake. Within two minutes I had my answer: there was no mistake, this album rules.
Impetus of Death is a heavy monster, it never lets up either. If I turn this up my entire living room shakes from the bass, not many albums do that. This one does it all the way through... holy fuck. These riffs are monstrous, gigantic, enormous, colossal, pretty much any other adjective you can give them to describe the weight of a thousand tons crashing down on you through your speakers. It's h e a v y.
I'm not sure what the band was thinking with the follow up, but they sure hit it out of the park with this one. Impetus of Death is one of the better death metal albums to come out in the last decade - yeah... it's that good. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to stop writing this and get back to head banging.
Written June 30th 2024
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