Impending Doom - Baptized in Filth

Impending Doom are known for their high energy and brutal sound. They're here to remind us with their album Baptized in Filth.

Murderer opens up for the album. Man this song - so good. Its absolute head-bang gold. Riffs are amazing and really get you moving. Drumming is really heavy and features some great double bass. Pair all this with stellar vocals and this pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the album.

Its really refreshing to have a band like Impending Doom play with such energy in passion and it really shows in their recordings. Each song has this great hard hitting and punchy bass to it - its almost too much to contain in my headphones. Almost.

Impending Doom lean towards doing more heavy breakdowns and really love to chug their guitars. This is not really a respectable trait in most bands as its a fairly simple technique and the formula gets boring fast. However, these guys manage to keep their songs interesting and unique, while still throwing in some trade-mark face-melting breakdowns.

Another standout song on this album is My Light Unseen. This takes a slower approach, they tone down the guitars and drums and in place use some quite epic, drawn out playing. The vocals also shine through and you can hear the passion and strength in them more than any other song on the album. I think this song shows that Impending Doom can be diverse in they music and actually succeed in doing something different.

So overall, Impending Doom are still doing what they've always done. They more or less stick to a well-worn formula, but they add their own intensity and passion that really makes them standout. Baptized in Filth is definitely rated highest of all of Impending Doom's albums and also in my favourite album list in general.

Highly recommended. Support Impending Doom at Last.fm.

Full Track List:
1. Murderer
2. For the Wicked
3. Chaos:Reborn
4. Deciever
5. Falling Away
6. Absolute Horror
7. Angry Letters to God
8. Baptized in Filth
9. My Light Unseen
10. Death. Ascension. Resurrection.