Finland's CORPSESSED will break a four-year silence this fall with the release of Impetus of Death. Featuring eight crushing tracks of obscure death metal, Impetus of Death is due out November 23 on Dark Descent Records.
Impetus of Death track listing:
Impetus of the Dead
Sortilege
Endless Plains of Dust
Graveborne
Paroxysmal
Forlorn Burial
Begetter of Doom
Starless Event Horizon
Many things have changed since the 2014 release of the band's acclaimed first full-length album, Abysmal Thresholds.
Main composer and guitarist Matti Mäkelä finally found some time to
resurrect his funeral doom project TYRANNY and release one crusher of an
album (also on Dark Descent) in 2015. A year later, CORPSESSED found a
new bassist in Tuomas Kulmala (LIE IN RUINS and PERDITION WINDS). And
over the course of four long years, CORPSESSED completed their second
full-length Impetus of Death, an album that manages to top it
its predecessor in terms of heaviness and brutality while taking their
epic sound a step further.
"We've never been that fast
composers" admits Mäkelä. "But the atmosphere must be there, the riffs
must be killer and everything has to be top notch. Plus, we knew we
needed to raise the bar this time. So all the band members contributed
and we had three separate demo sessions of almost all the songs. It was
quite time consuming but invaluable while thinking of the big picture,
even more, so we've once again recorded the album ourselves."
The
recordings took place from November 2017 to February 2018 in their
rehearsal place, with extra help from their label-mates LIE IN RUINS and
DESOLATE SHRINE, Dan Lowndes from Resonance Sound Studio took care of
the mastering last April.
The
album's title was inspired by the impression that, indeed, it is "death
itself that sets things in motion, be it the fear or lurking presence
of your own demise, or the death of a loved one. It can be seen as a
force that moves us and sets a timeline for our very existence. This
you can view as either something very grim and nihilistic, or on the
contrary, the very thing that gives your life a meaning or the power to
do anything. To create you must also destroy - 'solve et coagula'
right? - where death gives birth to something new.... This is life, and
death is an essential part of it. And the music we play, is DEATH METAL
so what's more fitting than this?"
Impetus of Death
is completed by a fitting and disturbing artwork by Mattias Frisk from
VANHELGD whom Matti met in 2015 in Copenhagen while playing the 'Heavy
Days in Doom Town' fest with PROFETUS.
"We
told him to do what he felt would fit the music, but devoid of the
usual clichés like mystic figures in robes, goat-headed priests and nude
girls on altars," recalls Mäkelä. "We also wanted it to be in colors this time around as all our previous covers were in black and white."
Simply
put, the second full-length from CORPSESSED is brutal; although it
doesn't feel the need to break the 250 BPM barrier to show how tough it
is. Still rooted in the classic sound of the early 90's yet with its
own doomy touch, it's really Impetus of Death's uncanny ability
to bring forth a quite unique form of creepiness, almost cinematic in
places and quite claustrophobic that sets them apart. As Matti puts it
best, "What can I say? We like to keep things evil and ominous."
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