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Impaled Nazarene - Road to the Octagon

Osmose Productions - 2010

Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Imp Naz have long since mastered the art of flawless recording and sound, and Octagon certainly does not disappoint in that respect, nor in any other, really. The sound here is x-ray laser sharp, and the intensity of their Black Metal (Nuclear Metal? Or Goat Metal, perhaps?) onslaught is beyond belief. Sacrificed to that intensity, however, are the slower tempos that the band reintroduced on 2007’s Manifest, other than the very beginning of “Cult of the Goat,” and the ending of the last track, “Rhetoric Infernal.” And that could be what keeps this just short of perfection. Or possibly it’s that the album is only about 34 minutes long, and I want more. Perhaps it’s that I need a lyric sheet in front of me so that I can blaspheme along with Mika’s screams.

Rating: 9.5

- Ray

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