Forest of Impaled - Rise and Conquer
March 22 2008 at 12:34:22 AM
At one time comprised entirely of Polish expatriates, Chicago’s Forest of Impaled returns here with long-time member Duane Timlin (ex-Krieg, Sarcophagus) on drums and new vocalist/bassist Zion, of local Death metallers, Disinter, stepping in for original player Marcus Kolar.
Rise and Conquer is the group’s third album, gaining appreciable speed and fury as they continue to forge elements of black and death metal into precision note anabasis. Like Zyklon and Belphegor, Forest of Impaled seems to reconstruct pieces of elder Morbid Angel’s
Covenant into imperious phrases with very a European sense of melody and occasional keyboards painting awestruck tones amid the cold-blooded brutality. While the album’s more tempered moments are less convincing, they are also few and far between. It is propelled by immediacy and martial frenzy: jihad in full commencement. 12 tracks including a cover of Miasma’s “Schizophrenia.”
[Todd DePalma]
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