I think it’s time for you to take plenty of deep breaths, so as to thoroughly oxygenate your blood, because you may have trouble breathing while this next EP runs its course.
After a creepy intro track, Impurity explodes in a pyroclastic flow of hyper-speed drumming and flying fretwork, with a shrieking voice that’s just as lividly on fire. While the riffs are frequently incinerating, they’re also hooky as hell — these songs rock out almost as often as they set fire to everything in their path.
I’m probably exaggerating a bit — there are breaks and bridges and less frantic movements in this headlong rush, and some of them include the most memorable melodies on the EP (for example, near the end of the third track, “Inhuman”), though you’ll find gripping melodic currents (generally bleak in their atmosphere) in even the most white-hot assaults.
Impurity appears to be a debut EP, created by a young Slovakian band named Sorgoth, and this is another case where one of my favorite short releases of the year has come plummeting out of the unknown like a meteor.
Originally written for nocleansinging
