Before I get on with this review, I'd like to clear my western friends' misconception of Singapore as a third-world country! This is not FUCKING INDONESIA!!! And the biography of Impiety doesn't have anything that makes up another typical Sepultura soap opera! But whatever it is, Impiety is certainly a band that do Asia proud (besides the obvious Sigh and Sabbat). Singapore had its fair share of underground metal heroes like Abhorer and Nuctemeron but Impiety is the most successful of the lot. This outfit was originally spawned under the name Sexfago (Sextrash + Sarcofago??) but the silly-sounding one didn't get anywhere with two loose tracks recorded. At that time, Ariffeen and company did more covers than anything else. The transformation to "Impiety" proved to be a more successful story for our insane desecrators. Impiety's debut promo/demo "Ceremonial Necrochrist Redesecration" in '92 brought up quite a lot of interest to this EXOTIC EVIL. And what a FUCKING HARSH tape this is! My ears bleed along to the ultra lo-fi tunes that litters the stereo with its raunchy filth and you swear the ear-scraping tunes are as sloppy as entangled wires. But the music really KICK ASSES! Their style is more in line with black-death metal like our local guys Libation and Abhorer do but there's BLACK energy flowing through its veins. The vocals are more in the neo-death metal brutality; low key and dripping with goreshitpustench.. Tracks  like "Pentagramathron" and "The Seventh Goatspawn" make you go headbang till you become one with Satan! This is a very underground recording from one of the most notorious black metal band (101% black metal lifestyle guaranteed as I can swear!) and probably the most inaccessible of all their works hence this is not recommended for newer initiates of Impiety or the general melody loving crowds.

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