Comments on: Impending Doom – The Serpent Servant

By: vugelnox

vugelnox — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:48:04 +0000

I’m totally out of the loop on this band. I’ve downloaded and listened to both albums and the best response I can come up with is a mystified look on my face as to what the hell I just experienced. Then I promptly deleted said albums.

I’m only 27 and yet deathcore has the uncanny ability to make me feel very old. Watching bands like Job for a Cowboy or The Faceless as openers at shows, and the very young and strange crowd they draw, just confuses me to no end.

By: AARONIUS

AARONIUS — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:52:05 +0000

Extol’s Undeceived is pretty much untouchable. I picked up Obscura’s-“Cosmogenesis” album cause I heard how great it was. While it is very good from a technical standpoint, I can’t remember any of the songs when it’s over. When you can write complex songs that you can still hear when the album is over, then you’ve got something.

While the Impending Doom isn’t really tech-y I think it is a good brutal deathcore album.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:55:03 +0000

Am I one of the only people who think that Extol’s Undeceived album is THE album to beat as far as Christian metal is concerned. Anyways, I was very disappointed with this. I was hoping for a more brutal,tech-death type of an album, not just more deathcore to over crowd the already crowded scene

By: AARONIUS

AARONIUS — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:32:05 +0000

Yeah I can see that. I guess since most people have a hard time understanding Christian death metal anyway, most of the bands have to work twice as hard as their secular counterparts, which can at times sound forced.

I do think Impending Doom made a smart move going in this slightly different direction though.

By: Erik Thomas

Erik Thomas — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:16:24 +0000

I once owned Scrolls of the Megilloth on cassette. They were not only Christian, but Australian to boot- which was odd to me- especially at the time.
Believer was the first Christian band i remember liking.
with Impending Doom’s first cd it just seemed they were trying really hard to be death metal and forcing the issue.

By: AARONIUS

AARONIUS — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:02:33 +0000

Good review Erik although I never really saw what they were doing on the first album as a “gimmick”. It’s kind of funny how most of the reviewers look to Impending Doom as the first brutal death metal band with Christian themes.

I think the brutal death metal scene (in christian circles anyway) started as early as the late 80’s or early 90’s with bands like Sacrament (Testimony of Apocalypse- technically considered a thrash band but much heavier than any of the other bands out at that time)or definately Mortification’s “Scrolls of the Megilloth”.

Anyway, the new ID is a killer album no doubt.

I really hope With Blood Comes Cleansing steps it up with their new stuff.

By: elguerosinfe

elguerosinfe — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:22:44 +0000

One of the heaviest releases in recent memory. Very satisfying!