Impaled – “Death After Life”
These eight songs are all about Carcass’ “Symphonies” and “Necroticism”: the combination of the low and midrange growling and the muddy-but-catchy riffing. This is surprisingly memorable and even melodic. Impaled has been a promising band, but I think this album shows a real development. The songwriting has improved a lot. I remember that I liked this band’s Carcass remake better than its own songs. Well, now, they are progressing and perfecting. I look forward to their next album. Some people will criticize this band for being a Carcass rip-off. This band takes that as a compliment. They love Carcass and if you don’t like the above Carcass albums, don’t even bother. PROBLEM: There is one thing on here that is awful and stupid: the spoken-word samples. I am surprised that the band did not delete these “scary”/”funny” samples, which sound cheap and have no feeling and almost ruin this album. There are four of these horrible pieces on here and they sound stupid. Not silly. Stoopid. On Carcass’ “Necroticism” this type of pieces were shorter and added to the feel of the album; and I don’t think they sound silly or stupid even today (And yes, I did go back and listen to “Necroticism” to compare, so you know.). RECOMMENDATION: Make yourself a copy of the album and take out the spoken-word pieces; record only the songs; it will be much better