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- Band:
Act of impact - Duration: 00:30:15
- Available from: 28/02/2025
- Label:
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Caligari Records
Focus a profitable interaction with the new inputs on the bass and battery, the voice and guitar of the Act of Impactioment, Ethan Rock, releases two records of absolute interest within a couple of years, continuing the path started precisely with the previous “Infernal ordinance” along the massacred furrows of the new “profane altar”.
As desired, of the passage of discography, they were above all a monolithic sound yield and a martial and compact style, capable of putting on intensity compared to much of the contemporary record market, and we note with pleasure that these characteristics remain fundamental even in the most recent work, kissed by an earthquake verve and a truly remarkable impact from the first bars.
Wanting to go into detail, it is noted that the band has partially declined its style towards a slightly more bestial and ferocious attitude, managing to marry these inflections with the severe Death Metal material that they have always proposed. “Apparition”, moreover, opens the dances according to a style to there Bolt Thrower that we could define classic for these Americans, but before allowing ourselves some more squask and liberating wardls in songs such as “Piercing the Heavens” or “Deities of the Weak”, where influences such as Archgouat and old Belials emerge more clearly and successfully vary the development of the songs.
Defined and powerful, the guitar and bass riffs always thunder with trachiness and great clarity, leaving time to fully enjoy their epic power and the enveloping structure of the pieces, which pass with extreme looseness between slow times, medium and supported without any nod of effort (“Sanguine Rites” and “Zenith of Barbarism” above all). There is even space for some atmospheric turn in “Final Sacrifice” and the title-track, more relaxed moments where the tools give some more marked melodic inspiration, perfectly integrated into the rocky background of the band. The picture completed a cement battery and a vocal gorgoglìo to which, excluding some most varied vocal inflection, you could ask very little more.
A clear artistic vision, a lethal compositional pen and an inspired inventiveness make listening to dynamic and pleasant “profane altar”, a mirror of an enthusiasm towards the Death Metal shown by its creators with all the possible honesty and passion. In an era dominated by Studio Tricks, by conceptual music and the rampant lack of memorable riffs, Act of impact respond with massive and concrete material, demonstrating how you can still create thick music through the “usual”, rudimentary, tools of the metal Death in the old way.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
