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9.18.2023

IMMOLATION

"dawn of possession"

Year: 1991

Country: US

City: New York

Label: R/C

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 10

Time: 40

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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"here in after"

Year: 1996

Label: Metal Blade

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 8

Time: 37 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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"failures for Gods"

Year: 1999

Label: Metal Blade

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 8

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

On the wave of chaotic and extremely gloomy death metal that emerged with the content of "Here In After", the Americans from Immolation decided to tighten the pace of work even more and with the successor of the "Here..." they hit after just three years. During this time, a very significant change in the line-up took place, because instead of Craig Smilowski there came Alex Hernandez - a drummer who significantly increased the level of intensity and brutality. This, in turn, meant that during the "Failures For Gods" Ross Dolan and the company decided to go to even more extreme regions, although with slightly different means of expression than the previous time.

Despite the simplified logo (which could suggest a softening of the sounds - completely wrong, as it turns out in a moment!), "Failures For Gods" went into a much more merciless paces (because for the first time with classically understood blasts) and even denser technique. It means that some of the dissonances from "Here..." receded into the background, and the main component was taken over by stuffiness, chaos, coarse growl and sophisticated blasting. The result, however, is excellent, because the band has not abandoned the atmosphere of its predecessors, and there are also more catchy moments. An example of such as "Your Angel Died", "No Jesus, No Beast", "Unsaved", "Once Ordained", title track or "Stench Of High Heaven", which are even more abusive than the songs from the previous albums (which was already attainment) and bring even more variety despite the increase in intensity (excluding the nonsense allegations that both cannot be combined). At the end, there is also a certain rarity called "The Devil I Know", which due to its more tearful character (I mean the leads played here by Robert Vigna) is an intriguing bridge between what is presented on "Failures..." and the next album. The production is also great here, dirty, but legible and with enormous power - which can also be heard in the fragments kept at medium tempo.

On the "Failures For Gods", Ross Dolan and the company significantly increased the degree of extreme, and at the same time showed that this type of death metal can gain a lot from even uglier sound. Interestingly, the evolution of this aesthetics did not end there (*Review by HERE ).

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