Today, Caligari Records
announces February 2nd, 2023 as the international release date for Act of Impalement's highly
anticipated second album, Infernal Ordinance,
on CD and cassette tape formats.
Formed in 2012, Nashville's Act of Impalement steadily
sharpened their sound over a handful of demos and EPs, culminating in the 2018
debut album, Perdition Cult. Always a
power-trio, Act of Impalement's sound has
never been easy to categorize; galloping, oft-doomy death metal and blackened
crust are always at the fore, but Perdition Cult showed
ever more sides to the band, including moshable thrash and blown-out sludge.
This relative variety should've proved a boon, but Act of Impalement went on
a recording hiatus thereafter.
Work began on Act of Impalement's second
album in February 2020, when all instruments were recorded; vocals were then
done in March 2021, with everything recorded & mixed by Yautja's Shibby
Poole. The wait was definitely worth it, for Infernal
Ordinance is a monstrous work, with Act of Impalement at their
gutsfucking and most focused best. Eschewing some of the variety of its
full-length predecessor, Act of Impalement's
second album surges forward with more songwriting finesse; every riff is given
maximal room to inflict damage, every segment carried forward to its conclusion,
and every transition seamless. That the power-trio can still show traces of
Cianide, Bolt Thrower, Prophecy of Doom, and even Archgoat - often, all in the
same song - and make it meld together consistently and compellingly is no small
feat. Add to that their characteristically GUTTED guitar & bass tone
and Infernal Ordinance verily
becomes its namesake. Perhaps best yet, the album doesn't overstay its welcome:
Act of Impalement get in
and slaughter in a mere 29 minutes.
With world-eating mastering courtesy of Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
and stark cover artwork by Diablo Macabre, Act
of Impalement have undeniably delivered their best record
yet in Infernal Ordnance.
Hear for yourself with the brand-new track "Summoning the Final Conflagration"
HERE
at Caligari's Bandcamp, where the
album can be preordered. Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as
follows:
Tracklisting
for Act of Impalement's Infernal Ordinance
1. Summoning the Final Conflagration
2. Bogbody
3. In Wolflight
4. Specters of Unlight
5. Creeping Barrage
5. Atomic Hecatomb
6. Blasphemous Rebirth
7. Death Hex
8. Erased
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