New album 'Acts of God' out in February, new song:
https://immolation.bandcamp.com/track/apostle
Have listened to it a good few times since yesterday. I'm into it. The drums sound particularly bad but it's solid Immolation. 15 tracks seems like a lot so we'll see how that plays out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dvYGN3gYs
This track is a banger. Really looking forward to it now.
Same, it's shaping up to be another solid album judging by the few songs that are out. One thing has been bugging me though and it's the near lack of bass in the mix, maybe it's just me but there just seems to be a bit of an 'emptyness' in the low end where the bass should be.
Listened again last night with that in mind but could hear the bass. I listened on Spotify rather than YT.
She's live. First impressions are good.
Gave this a full spin this morning,brilliant!.The most consistent DM band of the old guard!
Only catching up on this one now. It's a bit of a beast in terms of length, a lot to digest. I'm enjoying it but it's a record of few surprises, closest in style perhaps to Unholy Cult.
Really need to go back to it. Couldn't fault it but the lack of anything new makes me reach for earlier Immo.
Listened to it on a loop for 3 weeks solid when it came out, it's a great album but I've rarely gone back to it in the last 6 months. It'd benefit from being 10 tracks long I think.
Had it on again today, there's some cool bits here and there but I'd say it'll be on the shelf collecting dust before long.
Immolation have done well considering how bad most of their peers have become, they kept up a great standard for much much longer than any of them really bar maybe Incantation. Acts of God isn't terrible, it's just finally a case of hearing it all before.
They are definitely in a comfortable groove. I like it a lot. But I can't help wishing that they had gone for a ten track album and followed it with a five track EP. Clearly I could split it up myself, but that's not the point.
Bands with straight aces in their early career are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to evaluating their NOWADAYS work.
I don't think its quite on a par with 'Atonement'. I love that album and go for it almost as often as the classics.
All in all a totally worthwhile record. While clearly (duh) not as good as their canonical efforts, it is solid as fuck.
Solid as fuck is a fair appraisal and when you look at the muck their peers put out what they've managed to achieve for so long should be studied in a lab.
Atonement was certainly better, like you I'd still throw that on. Kinda doubtful this will make it past this year.
It's a decent album alright but it does feel long. It's not even much longer than most of their other albums so I think it cuz there's so many tracks. If it was the same length but with fewer tracks it would be much better.
Pretty much echoing what's been said, I know this album 'should' be in my Top Ten for the year but it just doesn't work as an album, yes, virtually every track is killer but also interchangable and homogenous. In the end, and I've listened to it probably about twenty times, I just can't get a handle on it, a place marker, a sense of beginning, middle and end. As someone said, it should have been ten tracks and the rest for an e.p. .
Also agreed on Atonement, absolute monster of an album.
Exactly, perfect description. there's none of those epic stand out moments that at least 2 or 3 tracks have on most of their other albums. Now I just want to listen to some outros from their older stuff