Impiety - Formidonis Nex Cultus
March 24 2008 at 06:36:05 AM
"Thrash ‘till black!” commands Impiety’s founder and vocalist, Shyaithan with volcanic ire. Regrouping with a native lineup bred for atomic stagecraft, this old Singaporean outfit rifles through 8 new tracks of sneering, splinter speed blast-beats and splatter chord mayhem. The new album helped launch the now completed
Storm of The Antichrist tour with Watain where, according to some in attendance, the Southeast Asian regiment bested even the mighty Swedes on stage. One imagines anything but a bloodless victory. Indeed, no other record this year so captures the single-minded persistence of global warfare like
Formidonus Nex Cultis. After enduring the first five tracks, one is almost caressed by Shaytain’s fried-lung expectorations following “Vomit Jehova Vomit,” composed entirely of non-stop strafing leads and skull-shaving octave chords retracing the wreckage as the victors belch their load through the fiery din. Dynamics are shunted in favor of fingers handling fret boards like hot machine-gun barrels, riffs that chisel their way through the hallowed walls of temple and dome. From the cover’s striking reconstruction of Joe Petagno’s Motorhead mascot as a soul-snorting wild boar (the “Beast Of Abominable Regiments”), the old-school Thrash of King Fowley and company echoing in the climax of “Escalate the Pestilence” and dual covers of Brazil’s Vulcano and Darkness (Germany), Impiety's aim is clear, erecting their own monuments to this near becoming Godless age.
[Todd DePalma]
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