Immolation - "Here In After" (1996)
Immolation had to wait a long time, 5 years for the release of the successor to the cult "Dawn Of Possession". For those times, it was a colossal break and a huge risk from the perspective of the fact that after 1993 death metal clearly went out of circulation (at the expense of black metal) for a few years. The Americans from Immolation, however, did not worry about it and decided to go on further, hitting in 1996 with an album even better than "Dawn..." and definitely more innovative. This "Here In After" quickly turned out to be a big breakthrough in the discography of Ross Dolan and the company, and in the following years, this position became extremely influential on the masses of younger death metal (and not only) bands established in the 21st century.
The aforementioned breakthrough concerns much more confusing the guitar (both technically and in terms of introducing dissonances), more twisted drums (although still without the classically blasts), narrowing the duration of the tracks (most of them stick to 4 minutes), tweaking the climate (here the cover says it all) and increasing the dose of extremes (because the whole cd hurts even more than the debut). Interestingly, all this intense and generally very dense atmosphere did not abandon a certain catchiness or ease in distinguishing individual motifs - even if at first you may have the opposite impression. Despite the prevailing stuffiness on the disc, the whole "Here In After" is absorbed like one story. The number of ideas per track together with a large dose of brutality, dingy atmosphere and Vigna's virtuosity simply captivates that in such a short time (whether it's a song or an album in general) you can stuff so many motifs without losing readability and heaviness. "Towards Earth", "Christ's Cage", "Nailed To Gold", "I Feel Nothing" or "Burn With Jesus" are the best examples of this, and actually each of the "Here In After" program, because none of the tracks differs from the rest. To put it so poetically: all of them daringly destroy with muddy sounds straight from the greatest depths of hell.
So, on "Here In After" Ross Dolan and the rest of the band broke through the complexity and brutality of "Dawn Of Possession", although they didn't go too far with it to lose all sense. On the contrary, their second album is an even more interesting and much more peculiar portion of music. Well, by "Here In After" muddy style of Immolation started to gain heaviness - here exceptionally being more dissonant than later. In this style that they recorded a masterpiece at the very beginning.
Rating: 10/10
To jest chyba najtrudniejsza do przebrnięcia płyta Immolation. Niektóre patenty są tutaj mocno powykręcane i nieoczywiste, rzekłbym nawet że trochę wyprzedziły swój czas. Bardzo zawiły materiał, do którego przekonałem się całkowicie dopiero niedawno, a i tak ciężko mi go czasem ogarnąć umysłem w całości. Są tu fragmenty, które przypominają wydaną dwa lata później "Obscurę" Gorguts - co jest naprawdę intrygujące (choć trzeba pamiętać, że Gorguts zaczął pisać swój ikoniczny album w 93' i uważać z tezą, że byli zainspirowani Immo ;))
OdpowiedzUsuńNa pewno wymaga trochę czasu, ale to chyba ze mną jest coś nie tak, że tak łatwiutko mi podszedł ;)
UsuńJa tak miałem z suffocation że od razu mi wszedły ich pierwsze 4 płyty, gdzie inni do dzisiaj nie potrafią ich ogarnąć. Inni tak podchodzą do Cryptopsy. Immolation poznałem dopiero od Closed to a world below i gdy wróciłem do starszych albumów, to faktycznie, słychać że najlepsze na świecie, ale niewiele zostałe w głowie. Przynajmniej nie od razu
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