Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas

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• Band:
  Imprecation
• Duration: 00:27:47
• Available from: 30/06/2025
• Label:

• Nuclear War Now

A record return that is also – and above all – the last farewell to a missing battle companion.
With “Vomitum Tempestas”, a full -bodied EP of seven tracks published without too many proclamations from the Nuclear War Now! by Yosuke Konishi, label accustomed to letting the word of mouth of the fans who push their outputs, the curses decide to celebrate the artistic legacy of the former drummer/founder member Ruben Elizondo (who died of Covid-19 in August 2021) through a mix of unpublished, repechage and alternative versions of songs that obviously does not move by a centimeter from their death metal Barbaro and sulphurous.
A collection that elaborates the mourning starting from a handful of episodes left unfinished by Elizondo and completed thanks to the intervention behind the leather of Matt Heffner (Cruciamanentum, Oath of Cruelty), and which along his path also gives way to reassure the old “Unlock the Ancient Portals of the Faceless Lord”, from the split with the Blaspherian compliant, Always excellent “Devil's Furnace”, included in the last full-length “in Diaboli appointments” and presented here in its original and wild form.
Finally, to crown this half an hour of music, we find the title-track, an instrumental man who, if from a strictly formal point of view does not add much to listening, with his battery solo re-examined by the archive of recordings in the rehearsal room dismisses the Texan musician as simple as it is touching.
Given the premises, it is inevitable that the whole may appear less cohesive than what we have been accustomed to records such as “Satanae Tenabris infinite” or the aforementioned “in appointments …”, to date the most successful and complete work of ours, but this does not mean that the mini deluda the expectations or enhanced the reputation earned by the Houston group in years of underground struggles, indeed.
The cure placed in the material is and remains that of a very experienced reality that, in facing a certain type of American Death Metal, between the funeral, enchantment and vital remin, there is no lack of almost a blow in terms of riff and construction of the individual episodes, as always as always of assaults on white heat, atmospheric digressions (with some keyboard to echo in the background) and the relative in which the section in which the section Rhythmic advances to Caterpillar to crush everything and everyone on their path.
A vibrant proposal, felt, warm like the land of origin of the quintet (or, more prosaically, hell), which also does not fail to be channeled into a series of powerful songs (they feel “Wretched Majesty” or “Cursed Into Black”) that the mixing/mastering work of the legend Harris Johns (Kreator, Immolation, Sodom) Final result of which we are sure, Elizondo would have been proud.
Fans of the band and lovers of traditional Death Metal should not underestimate the flow rate.