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7.5
- Band:
Insineratehymn - Duration: 00:39:10
- Available from: 21/04/2025
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Memento Mori
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With “Irreverence of the Divine”, the Insineratehymn sharpens their arsenal and reach a new level of compactness and stylistic consistency, offering a job that moves with even more decision in the groove of certain old school death metal.
If in its first releases the Californian band had ranged on various fronts metal fronts, mixing multiple influences, including some Swedish accents, however, always attributable to the school of the early nineties, today the focus has all been moved to a form of most North American Death metal, with a more round, slender and thrashy sound cut.
The main influences can now be found in the great classics of first deicids, discharged, gorguts, brutality, with sharp structures and riffs and several Groovy passages alternating with freer and galloping restarts. At this point, an combination with what has been done lately by the fellow countrymen Skeletal Remaini would arise spontaneously – and reason – but at the same time it is underlined how the Insineratehymn, at least for now, maintain a slightly more underground spirit, with a less clear sound yield and a generally faster and poisonous climate.
The composition of real 'individual' is perhaps not yet in their ropes, but the songwriting of this new album, at least at times, is more 'catchy' than what has been previously shown, with several moments already rather captivating from the first listening. We can speak of a clear step forward in this sense, given that the quartet has managed to maintain a hostile approach, while refining a readability that makes listening less monolithic than in the past.
The riffing of guitars is of course the true beating heart of the album: dense, tight and omnipresent, with an alternation between more intricate phrasing and solutions with a more direct and essential taste. In some moments within compositions always rather articulated, the band seems almost to recall that sense of urgency and simplicity that characterized the deicide of “Once Upon the cross”, focusing on immediate impact riffs, without orpelli, but often immediately effective and fun. A striking example of this approach are episodes such as the title-track, “Cosmic Abominations” or “Sempallal Suicide”, who are certainly part of the most successful songs in the repertoire of the American boys.
We are therefore in the presence of a qualitative leap for a band whose dedication to the genre is evident: the Insineratehymn obviously do not want to revolutionize anything, but this is confirmed as a reality capable of mastering the rules certainly Death Metal with growing safety. “Irreverence of the divine” has the riffs: for a certain type of listeners particularly linked to this old school, this can certainly be enough.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
