After a long hiatus from the public sphere, Texan death/doom veteran Divine Eve has been scheduled as supporters for Impiety on their American Armageddon 2018 tour across the United States.
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Impiety – The Impious Crusade
When metal bands tire of the older styles that demand too much sense, they make something frenetic and use over-the-top vocals to tie it all together despite being random; that is why when metal ran out of ideas in the late 1990s it turned to metalcore. With The Impious Crusade, Impiety take this newer style and infuse it with some of the older style, producing something more deliberate than what we normally hear but within the chaotic styles of modern metal.
The result is equal parts late-1990s charging death metal, where riffs fit together in roughly circular fashion and hold together with pure momentum, and part a few experiments with borrowed items including speedy call and response between thunderous power chords and dissonant voicings, lead guitars that race through solos in an organic style reminiscent of early Vader, and Meshuggah-style sudden stop-start complex syncopation over two-note riffs.
The Impious Crusade delivers what makes Impiety great which is pure speed thrills with enough melody and textural context to remain interesting. Although it doesn’t reach the textural depth of older death metal, which can still incite some powerful moods, this MCD pounds out a gratifying high-intensity twenty minutes of ripping music that perverts modern metal into something more like the original death metal ideal.
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Impiety announces vinyl-only “Vengeance Hell Immemorial” compilation
Released on the 20th anniversary of their first EP, Impiety’s upcoming LP collects some of their rarer releases onto a single platter for perusal by slamming high-speed death metal maniacs worldwide.
Compiling the Salve the Goat…Iblis Exelsi EP (1993), Ceremonial Necrochrist Redesecration demo (1993), split EP with Surrender of Divinity (2004), and the split EP with Abhorrence (2008), Vengeance Hell Immemorial assembles some of the more sought-after releases from this band’s history.
A special gatefold vinyl pressing from Hell’s Headbangers, the compilation will be unleashed upon the world on June 28, 2013. Less than a month later, on August 8 Impiety will unleash their new mini-album The Impious Crusade as if a nod to this grand tradition of shorter works, demos and EPs.
Salve the Goat…Iblis Exelsi EP (1993)
1) Cuntblasphemy
2) Magick-Consecration Goatsodomy
Ceremonial Necrochrist Redesecration demo (1992)
3) Intromancy
4) Ceremonial Necrochrist Redesecration1
5) Pentagramathron
6) Fallen Blasphemathory
7) The Seventh Goatspawn
8) Outroblation
Split w/ Surrender of Divinity (2004)
9) DragonOath Diabolus
10) The Seventh Goatspawn
11) Imperative Coronation
12) Invicible Force (Destruction cover)
13) Blessed are the Borachos
Split w/ Abhorrence (2008)
14) Storm of Abhorrence
15) Outronomicon
Impiety announces release date for “The Impious Crusade” mini-album
Singaporean war/terror metal band Impiety recently announced a new mini-album, The Impious Crusades, and now reveal that the slab of screaming death will hit your mailbox on August 6th, 2013, as released by Hell’s Headbangers Records.
According to frontman Shyaithan, “Mission accomplished, and honestly really satisfied with how this record turned out! The Impious Crusade is a giant leap ahead from the last Impiety album, and to top this one is going to be severely difficult. But that is what I enjoy most, and shall continue to further challenge myself pushing wider, deeper, and even further beyond boundaries of untamed death and chaos.”
The Impious Crusades unites itself on the Impiety motto of “crush, kill destroy” and includes a cover of Sorcery’s “Lucifer’s Legions” and artwork by cult paintbrush Lord Sickness. Although the band have released no information about style, it now seems it will be coherent with their past years of blasting, racing, raging and deconstructive fast simple death metal with undertones of melody.
Although self-referential titles are generally harbingers of poor quality releases, the band seems united on this mini-album as a kind of short and quick mission statement, which could lead to a summation of past works into a single hard-hitting dose. Fans await this exciting release as the band makes the tracklist available:
1. Arrival of the Assassins
2. Commanding Death & Destroy
3. Accelerate the Annhiliation
4. The Impious Crusade
5. Lucifer’s Legions (Sorcery Cover)
Impiety to unleash mini-album “The Impious Crusade”
On August 6, 2013, Impiety will release its latest assault upon the world of mortal beings. Titled The Impious Crusade, this mini-album (that’s an EP for you 80s fanatics) will include five new songs of what we can only assume is the characteristic ripping fullback-rushing-at-Satan rhythmic metal that has made Impiety famous.
Unfortunately, assume is all that we can do. Other than describing the music as “innovative, brilliant and totally unforgiving,” the band has given us no clues. However, Impiety rose to fame for — in a time when bands were “experimenting” by including known influences from other genres — being cuts-to-the-bone pure rhythmic high speed chaotic death metal. Unlike war metal, they kept in the complexity of old school death metal and worked in even a bit of melody without turning into the over-tuned saccharine that afflicts many metal bands today.
In short, people have loyalty to Impiety because Impiety had loyalty to metal at a time when it was unfashionable and definitely not trendy to do so. Over the years, their output has been consistently within this theme, although it has improved, and has attracted numerous tributes. With this release, however, more may be afoot because the band are suspiciously mute on the topic of style.
The Impious Crusade will be released on Hell’s Headbanger’s Records, who promise more information today on this developing story.
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