Reviews : Albums : Immolation, "Here in After"
Email the reviewerImmolation, "Here in After"
Immolation's second CD came five years after their debut, Dawn of Possession. Here In After is kinda like listening to a warped record in a small, locked metal box on a hot July day while people randomly smash the outside with baseball bats.
Alex Hernandex is a triggerless monster on the drums, pounding like Bill Ward on crack with timing. Vigna and Wilkinson play off each other well, doubling up on tremolo-picked lines and especially when playing separate notes on the accents to create dissonant punctuations marks in the music. Pinch harmonics and reverse bends abound and you won't find anyone in death metal who uses them to greater effect. Ross Dolan's vocals are fairly ominous, but he only sings one note, one way...just changes up the rhythm a bit. It'd be cool to see him push himself a bit more as a vocalist, but even as is, he's not hurting anything. Things get really interesting on Towards Earth's background gang chants.
The best songs, like Christ's Cage and Here In After are the ones that slow down and really get experimental. The riffs in Here In After are some of the sickest I've ever heard, just swinging blindly and staggering drunk, only to come together in complete control.
Claustrophobic, paranoid, twisted death metal, this is some cool, crushing shit.
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