Apoch's Metal Review - Impiety: Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny CD Review

Discography	Discography covers all information available up to day of review and is updated if future albums are reviewed.
Full-Length(s):	Asateerul Awaleen (1996) • Skullfucking Armageddon (1999) • Kaos Kommand 696 (2002) • Paramount Evil (2004) • Formidonis Nex Cultus (2007) Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command) (2009) • Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny (2011) • Ravage & Conquer (2012)
EP(s):	Salve the Goat... Iblis Exelsi (1993) • Funeralight (1997) • Dominator (2008) • Goatfather (2010) • Advent of... (2011)
Split(s):	Profanatica / Impiety (1999) • Two Majesties: An Arrogant Alliance of Satan's Extreme Elite (2004) • Two Barbarians (2008)
Demo(s):	Rehearsal Demo (1991) • Ceremonial Necrochrist Redesecration (1992)
Compilation(s):	18 Atomic Years Satanniversary (2008)
Live CD(s):	Tormentors of Tijuana (2007) • Tormentors of Nagoya (2010) • Tormentors of Kota Bharu (2012)
DVD(s):	Penang Abomination Tour 2011 (2012)

Review

Impiety never seems to get the recognition they so rightly deserve. This could be from sticking mainly to the underground, though practically every release issued have all shown great promise, and featured some top notch Metal that often blurred the lines between Death, Black, and Thrash Metal styles. After over twenty years of being a group now, they still continue to show signs of maturity and expansion with each release, coming a great distance from the days of their most acknowledged piece, Kaos Kommand 696. Of course, the band's expanding musical being seems to have stretched out once again to weave the one track full-length, Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny, an effort that again shows more exploration of the musical boundaries, but one that appears to be the act's most questionable effort to ever be released.

Those who know the band, or do a little homework, will notice that Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny is their seventh full-length effort. Clearly paying homage to all that the band has done and pursued over the years, the group manages to push their artistic genes further, and idealistically taking a concept that Meshuggah pushed forward to the forefront of the popular/mainstream Metal spotlight: Creating one long song to make up an entire album. Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny does fall prey to some of the typical long-winded song compositions, such as utilizing some padding in an effort to keep the song from being broken up into literal tracks, as well as other non-fluid manners such as random elements of Ambience. Instead, the release sounds fluid from start to finish, though there are some moments that clearly feel a little forced to keep the song going.

While "Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny" isn't necessarily a bunch of tracks somehow spliced together through various "Progressive" means to keep the length going, it does have it's faults. There are moments that will seem to clash once in a while, as if the band had run out of ideas after a while and simply tossed some things in that sounded like decent filler material. The transitions on here, however, are rather stereotypical in the manner used, reminiscent of Catch Thirtythree by Meshuggah. The main passages of the song all stay within the typical fluid motion, and really don't come off as just random chunks of various songs composed for an album that became this kind of artistic vision. The segways between the varying tempo passages, however, are quite bland and often move at a very slow pace that feels forced at times, using simple chords and focusing more on atmosphere then anything.

While these segways aren't the greatest, often becoming very bland, drawn out, and just too slow at times, the music itself throughout becomes an issue due to it's tempo. The speed of the song starts off rather fast and full of energy, but almost immediately seems cut in half thanks to the first segway utilized in the song. From there, it just gradually becomes slower and slower, eventually finding a more melancholic tone, but the chords become overly simple and often feel like they are relying solely on the atmosphere they are creating. Eventually, you'll reach the core of the song, and when you really seem to enter the halfway point, the music starts to sound the same, just slowed down repetitive, as well as even more bland then before. This pace works for a short while, but eventually it just becomes overkill.

For the most part, Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny is not a bad album. The idea of one long track to create a full-length effort isn't anything new, and the band definitely aren't bring anything too unique to make this effort stand out from the rest. The album starts off as a classic Impiety track, but eventually starts to slow down to the point where it just comes off ridiculous. The end of the song picks up nicely for a great guitar solo, and shows off some stronger material from this act. Worshippers of the Seventh Tyranny is going to be a hit or miss album, but from what is present here, whatever way you take this release, whether you like it or you don't, there's no denying the group tried a new direction and had good intentions, but inevitably it just became another longer than necessary track.

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	Digital review copy of this release provided by: Agonia Records.

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