Review Summary: Pure evil has been brought to the face of the earth, in the form of Impetuous Ritual!
If there would be one word to describe this two-piece death metal band from Australia, it would be "cluster***." Impetuous Ritual are a lot like fellow Australians, Portal, seeing as how both members of this band are also apart of Portal. Anyways, this band isn't a clone by any means and they have their own style. When I mentioned the word cluster***, it's because there's so much going on at one time with this album and it varies so much that if you don't pay attention for just one second, you'll be completely lost. This could be a good thing or a bad thing for some people, but if you can pay attention to your music, then you'll definitely find a lot of things to love about Impetuous Ritual and their debut album
Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence.
First thing's first, this album is chaotic as balls. Don't think of an unorganized and uninteresting chaotic like albums like
Jane Doe. This album has plenty of organization and these guys know damn well what they're doing. The guitars vary so much on this album it's almost inhumane and they change from minute to minute. First you'll be getting beat in the face with lightning fast and extremely technical death metal riffs and then next thing you know, they completely change their sound to funeral doom. Yes, funeral doom, with slow and suffocating riffs. Same thing goes for the drumming. It can either be technical fills and blast beats or just dumbed down and very slow. Either way, they make it sound great. When I mentioned them being death metal in the first sentence of the review, that doesn't do them justice. They're so much more than that. Add in a Portal and/or Mitochondrion fuzzy type atmosphere and you'll get the basic sound of this album.
Vocally there's not too much variation, but that doesn't present a problem at all. Pretty much the vocal style of the whole album is deep and agonizing death growls. You can almost feel a funeral doom type element in the vocals as well, if that makes any sense. They're slow, painful, and you can hear the despair in every single word that comes out of his mouth. This album is evil in every sense of the word and there's no doubt about that and you can hear it in every aspect, even vocally. From time to time there will be a higher pitched black metal shriek, but that doesn't happen too often. When it does happen though it's a nice change from the regular growls.
Evil is the key, as I mentioned. Any religious people will want to stay very, very far away from this album and this band in general. Even though the lyrics can't be understood, trust me, they're all about Satan, blasphemy, and the occult. So, if you're into that kind of thing then this album is probably for you. The album is accessible for any fans of brutal or technical death metal as well as fans of slow and tormenting funeral doom in the vein of bands like Worship and Skepticism.
