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Hellucinate

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it's 2am so i'll keep this short, this cd rules. fast , hard hitting, reminds me of some of my The Crown cd's Deathrace king, Possesed 13, i'm trying to find some of this bands older cd's so if u like hard hitting, ear bleeding, headbanging, necktwisting thrash/death metal ala' the Crown and i'm sure u might come up with a few other bands buy this, i did, i love it.

It's really unfortunate that only one person has reviewed this album. At least it got five stars, because it deserves each and every one of them. At one point in time Impious shared members with The Crown, and when One Man Army and The Undead Quartet were forming it was with the help of one of Impious's guitarists. But Impious, in my opinion, puts both The Crown and One Man Army completely to shame. Like The Crown, Impious is blazingly fast, but on "Hellucinate" the band pulls out all the stops with a stellar production that is gritty but clear as day, subtle technicality in the guitars and percussion, and a pleasant variety of vocal approaches. Impious has an edge unlike most other death/thrash bands I've heard. Sure, they take some inspiration from the likes of At The Gates and The Haunted, but the likeness is only audible in the guitar work, and only minimally so. Impious is faster and harder than At The Gates, and the rampant blast beats and screaming guitar solos set the band in its own category.

The first four tracks on the album are blisteringly fast and consistently good. Things slow down a bit on "Show Me Your God," a catchy melodic piece of work that groves along and is reminiscent of The Haunted at their peak (somewhere between "The Haunted Made Me Do It" and "One Kill Wonder"). After that, things pick right back up again with more intensely fast death thrash, the way it was meant to play. I wasn't familiar with Impious's previous work, but after hearing "Hellucinate" I picked up "The Killer," their previous album, and while I hear the origins of their sound on "Hellucinate", "The Killer" just doesn't compare. What is certain is that if you like that album, you'll love this one. So, if you like The Crown, One Man Army, At The Gates, The Haunted--i.e. the entire catalogue of worthy Swedish death thrash--then do yourself a favor and pick this up.