Band: Impiety
Title: Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command)
Label: Agonia Records
Distribution:
Release date: June 2009
Review: CD

The release of the long-awaited new Impiety -album is a fact! This Barbarian Black Horde originates from Singapore, but in the past, Shyaithan (g, b, v, production) was helped out by some ‘international’ colleagues, among whom several Mexican ones. On Terroreign …, the line-up additionally consists of the Brazilian guitar player Rangel Arroyo (from Abhorrence-fame) and one of the most active drummers from the Singaporean Death and Black Metal scene, Tremor (Cardiac Necropsy, Arbitrary Element, Zushakon, Battlestorm, etc). Tremor is also active with the Pakistanian (!) Death Metal formation Dusk, and he plays with Shyaithan since 2007. Both in- and outtro were composed and performed by Beherit’s Holocausto Vengeance, aka Marko Laiho, a band that recently reunited, and engineering and mastering were done with Nizam, known from e.g. Infernal Execrator, another glorious horde of world war preachers from Singapore.
Terroreign … brings nothing new, that’s another fact, yet again this effort exceeds all former ones. As from the very first seconds, Impiety bring forth a sonic power unheard. Every single track has been created to please the misanthropic ones with an unstoppable attack of ultra-fast Thrash-riffs, artillery-drum patterns, blackened and uncompromising Death War Metal, and blasting injections of hateful arrogance and grinding fury. In a way you can say that what Marduk stand for within the Swedish scene, is comparable to Impiety’s position within the sickened international scene. Most parts are indeed extremely fast and devastating, yet only a few times the band slows down a little. But fast, lightning-fast or less fast, the whole album comes with a subtle yet interesting old-school spirit and a rough yet pleasing sound.
FYI: the album ends (right before the outtro, of course) with a more than acceptable cover of Morbid’s My Dark Subconscious.

92/100

Ivan Tibos.