SACRILEGIOUS IMPALEMENT – EXALTED SPECTRES (Review by Varg The Mighty)

 

Today’s review is of Finnish Black Metal band Sacrilegious Impalement’s second album, celebrating its recent rerelease.

This album is an offering of pure Black Metal that is performed in a unique way without any need of genre bending experimentation or use of modern elements. Combining an aggressive and furious approach in the likes of Marduk or sometimes Impaled Nazarene with slower and more occult tracks, the album is varied but has some sense of cohesion.

Most of the initial tracks are a direct offering of Extreme Metal with no decorum, but as the full-length progresses, a different kind of songs start to appear. Being much gloomier and occult, they sometimes even take an ambient approach, perhaps somewhat comparable to Carpathian Forest. These songs help to give some extra darkness and a sense of mystique that envelops the whole album in an interesting aura while always displaying an old-school style. My personal highlights are “The Woods In A Solitary Soul” and “Aletheia”.

I recommend this album to fans of Black Metal. My rating is of 9/10.

VARG THE MIGHTY