Track Listing

1. Born Is The Enemy
2. Ignorance Of Bliss
3. The Blood OF Angels
4. Countdown
5. Prism Of You
6. End Of Days
7. Severance Day
8. Sellout
9. September
10. Beggars With Knives
11. Sibling

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189363 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
Death Metal

About the Artist
Having cut their teeth with prior releases on Hammerheart Records and Black Sun Records, IMPIOUS have finally found a home at Metal Blade Records, where their brand of severe, groove laden Swedish Death metal can be fully realized. IMPIOUS doesn't hold back when it comes to creativity and melody. Outside of the so-called Swedish death-thrash sound, Impious also makes use out of some "old-school thrash" and "bay-area thrash" influences, clearly treading ground previously marked by the likes of POSSESSED and TESTAMENT. However, IMPIOUS is far from an old school knock-off. IMPIOUS are bent on filling the void in the Metal world left by the likes of AT THE GATES and THE CROWN. For those who simply can't get enough of Swedish metal, especially fans heart broken by the recent demise of The Crown, get your hands on "Hellucinations"

Customer Reviews

in your face, assault on aural senses
it's 2am so i'll keep this short, this cd rules. fast , hard hitting, reminds me of some of my The Crown cd's Deathrace king, Possesed 13, i'm trying to find some of this bands older cd's so if u like hard hitting, ear bleeding, headbanging, necktwisting thrash/death metal ala' the Crown and i'm sure u might come up with a few other bands buy this, i did, i love it.

impious at there best
LET ME START BY STATING I AM A HUGE IMPIOUS FAN!! NOW THAT WE HAVE COVERED THAT, THIS IS BY FAR IMPIOUS'S BEST WORK!! YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG WITH ANY OF IMPIOUS'S ALBUMS BUT IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE JUST 1, THIS IS IT! THIS IS THERE FIRST OF TWO ALBUMS RELEASED ON METAL BLADE, THE OTHER BEING A CONCEPT ALBUM. VERY TIGHTLY WOUND SOUND QAULITY COMPLIMENTS THE ROARING DOUBLE BASS AND CRISP GUITARS. LONG STORY SHORT, BUY THIS ALBUM!!

Painfully intense death thrash from (where else does this stuff come from?) Sweden, of course.
It's really unfortunate that only one person has reviewed this album. At least it got five stars, because it deserves each and every one of them. At one point in time Impious shared members with The Crown, and when One Man Army and The Undead Quartet were forming it was with the help of one of Impious's guitarists. But Impious, in my opinion, puts both The Crown and One Man Army completely to shame. Like The Crown, Impious is blazingly fast, but on "Hellucinate" the band pulls out all the stops with a stellar production that is gritty but clear as day, subtle technicality in the guitars and percussion, and a pleasant variety of vocal approaches. Impious has an edge unlike most other death/thrash bands I've heard. Sure, they take some inspiration from the likes of At The Gates and The Haunted, but the likeness is only audible in the guitar work, and only minimally so. Impious is faster and harder than At The Gates, and the rampant blast beats and screaming guitar solos set the band in its own category.

The first four tracks on the album are blisteringly fast and consistently good. Things slow down a bit on "Show Me Your God," a catchy melodic piece of work that groves along and is reminiscent of The Haunted at their peak (somewhere between "The Haunted Made Me Do It" and "One Kill Wonder"). After that, things pick right back up again with more intensely fast death thrash, the way it was meant to play. I wasn't familiar with Impious's previous work, but after hearing "Hellucinate" I picked up "The Killer," their previous album, and while I hear the origins of their sound on "Hellucinate", "The Killer" just doesn't compare. What is certain is that if you like that album, you'll love this one. So, if you like The Crown, One Man Army, At The Gates, The Haunted--i.e. the entire catalogue of worthy Swedish death thrash--then do yourself a favor and pick this up.