Band: Impiety
Title: Advent Of…
Label: Pulverised Records
Distribution: Pulverised Records
Release date: February 15th 2011
Review: MCD

[this review was originally posted almost half a year ago, yet on demand of external parties we do have the kindness to…]

Just a couple of weeks ago, Impiety released the magnificent album Worshippers Of The Seventh Tyranny, which was reviewed around the same period – check it out on February 2nd 2011.
Also the review on 2009’s Terroreign … is still available – see July 19th 2009.
-> No endless, useless repetition of biography etc. included right here…

Of importance: probably the Number One Black Metal project from South-East Asia, formed in 1990 by sweetie Shyaithan, and known for many, many interesting releases, dwelling into the extremest Metal spheres (Death / Black / Doom / Thrash).

A new mini-release this time, very shortly after the last full album, recorded with some same-minded Italian colleagues (Shyaithan did work with personalities from all over the world, like Mexico, Japan, Brasilia, Pakistan or Finland, besides Singapore itself), amongst whom (session) members of Malfeitor, Divine Codex and Setherial. Recorded, mixed and mastered again at Music City Studio in January 2011, with a total running time of twenty one minutes (three titles).

In comparison to the latest release, Worshippers …, this one differs again. All right, Worshippers … was the most diverse recording in Impiety’s existence, completely different from any effort from the past. And most recordings came with a different angle. These three tracks too… Opener Advent Of The Nuclear Baphomet especially reminds me to a symbiosis of Impiety’s earliest years (early and mid-nineties) and the Mexico-era, with the most thrashing and blackening approach of blaspheme and blasting Death Nuclear War Metal. Tempo-changes, variation in riffing and melody, indeed, not just another Thrash-assault yet a convincing one. Ave Satanas is an unstoppable Black attack with a splendid Old School attitude. It comes with an evident Celtic Frost-approach, yet not of the same kind as the former album (the Celtic Frost-elements were mainly Hellhammer-inspired; this time I think about Celtic Frost’s post-Emperor’s Return-period), mixed with grotesquery à la Bathory, Setherial and Marduk, and a decent, proper own approach, of course. Blood Ritual Defamation is less fast than both former tracks, and the most technical one. The rhythmic drive is firm and pounding, and the several changes in tempo and melody, as well as the additional guitar solos, for example, make this longest song on the mini-album a worthy apotheosis.

85/100

Ivan Tibos.