Brazil and Japan met under Luciferian pact in 2019. Both offered five songs: Impurity gave mostly new material for their fans unlike Sabbat, who just compiled some oldies. Again.

Brazilians Impurity do it old way; digging graves with a spade, not with an excavator. In vein of the bands like Hellhammer and Samael (the old, apparently), things are kept simplistic. Evil tremolo riffing and power chords with tempos varying from mid-paced to fast blasting. Ghastly growls and ghoulish voices (like what the fuck did he just say?!) accompany. The recording sounds like it was done on a four-tracker or something, hailing the old spiritual soundscapes; the instruments sound dry-ish and dirty, while the vocals do have some echo on them, adding loads of atmosphere. The bass guitar does its own things at times, being the highlight. Impurity are effective in a crude way and definitely into the point, and the songs are only available here, so you know what to do...

Japan's Sabbat show many eras with their Faustian fivesome. Sabbat have a HUGE discography, but I do not like it getting bigger by putting out old material inside new cover. Okay, the tracks aren't broadly available, maybe on one other release each. So, I take their part as an extra, more like. Offering varying pieces, like evil, fast 'Black Metal Horses' with its old Iron Maiden style guitar playing, to 'Nekromantik' (taken from 2000's 'Satanasword' album) which clock at 14 minutes and is a dirge depicting a morbid mind with loads of lead guitar work. I guess it's easy to put it like this: Sabbat are thrashier than their countrymates Sigh, both just sounding very Japanese and rather fucking unique.

Sabbat are a highly illustrious black/thrash metal trio, and while their spot here isn't the only way to hear these songs, I cannot say it's pointless, but a way to introduce the band to people. I wonder how many a metalhead have actually heard their stuff, not only the name, even though they have put out hundreds of releases (9 full-length platters) since 1984. There are/were several Impuritys and I certainly haven't heard the Brazilian one before even though they've been active since 1988 (8 full-length albums), so I take this wholly as a cool introduction to them.

As a release, this is a tad weird, bu it's nicely presented as a digipak with booklet with lyrics to every song. With a mandatory photo of Gezol sporting his Satanic sex missile undies... Feel the heat!

Rating: 7 (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Lane
01/08/2023 12:21