Embalmed - Exalt the Imperial Beast
According to Metal Archives, this band has been around since 1989 (yes, they formed twenty fucking years ago!) and this is their first full-length album. I’m not sure what took them two decades, but here it is. Do you want adventurous songwriting? You’re not going to find it here. Do you want an album full of songs that all sound different from each other? Try the new Hammers of Misfortune. Do you want an album that rips your head off from the get-go, blasts away like the drummer had a bomb strapped to his body that would explode if he went under 300 BPM, and has lyrics about Satan, black magic and more Satan? Then this is for you! Embalmed is from Mexico, but they may as well be from Ross Bay, Canada (home of the legendary Blasphemy). This is the absolute worship of Canadian War Metal in the vein of Blasphemy, Conqueror and Revenge. Exalt the Imperial Beast is brutal, primitive and absolutely bestial. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Yes, it’s fucking brutal as all hell, but it’s also one-dimensional. It may as well be ten different versions of the same track. If all you want is straightforward mayhem and chaos, then that isn’t a problem. The biggest hurdle that Embalmed faces is the “you only need one of their albums because they all sound the same” trap. Their next album will be the one that determines whether this band has the skills to be able to expand on this or not. If they can’t, then Exalt the Imperial Beast will be the only Embalmed album you need to get to know everything about them. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait another 20 years to find out.
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