Iniquity
Iniquity Bloody Iniquity
8.3
Danish blasters Iniquity decide to mark their 14 year careers by releasing Iniquity Bloody Iniquity, a "growth chart" of sorts marking their arguable fine points and defining moments and fantastic recent unreleased material, along w/ the super old school demos before they evolved into the Mighty Music Metal Machine that they are today. Ripping things open w/ the new studio track "Revel in Cremation", Iniquity show a slightly more upbeat and *GASP * melodic side which is a slight change of pace and no doubt a surprise to fans. "Mad props" for putting Madman of the Trade on here as well. It was a hidden track on the Grime Candlelight release but could only be played on Windows Media Player for some reason and not on the home system. This is fine'n'dandy if you have a super pc sound system, but seeing as I have a $20 pair of GE speakers on mine it doesn't exactly assist the song in reaching its full sound potential. The album werks in a direction of retrospect, going from Grime's better tracks to Five Across the Eyes, and I thought for sure I'd see Random Bludgeon Battery on here, but they skipped right to Rigor Mortified Grip, which is an equally impressive song w/ the masterful employment of natural and artificial harmonics, but personally I think Battery is one of their best songs ever w/ the amount of energy it holds. Another bonus track from 5 Across the Eyes follows. "Cocooned" is a prime example of Iniquity's creative technikillity and flattening brutality. I suggest repeated listens. Onto the superb tracks from the "mcd" Hidden Lore (which I won from some loser off eBay over a year ago and it still hasn’t shown up in my mailbox), which sport a monster bass and low end guitar sound. "The Hidden Lore" is a monument in guttural crunch and the picking patterns are everywhere. The end starts w/ a tapping pattern that goes to the top string and proceeds to have a seizure on it. Creative heaviness. Seranadium's "Encysted & Dormant" has a thick, smooth bass sound and the beginning could be mistaken for Obituary. Slow, churning riffs that grind and ablate lead up to where I think Devourment got their ideas from w/ a massive neck-snapping breakdown. Followed by another stomping stop'n'start break, Iniquity surprised me w/ this beast of a song and has put Seranadium at the top of my "to get" list. Production obviously declines a few degrees w/ the early demo tracks and are probably not worth more than a few listens, but the gem at the end is the pro-shot video for one of Grime's tracks. As a quick summary I not only recommend this album, but all of Iniquity's albums as well. This band is one of the best and no doubt deserves more attention than what they seem to get. A musician's band, the music is complex, substantial, and very well crafted. Iniquity employ the 2 best ideas of brute heaviness and mathematical tecknikillity and come out successful every time. Grime is their best as far as tight technicality and excellent production, 5 Across the Eyes as far as most memorable songs and amazing harmonicwerk, and Hidden Lore & Seranadium as far as primitive heaviness w/ budding ideas of creativity and distinction.
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IniquityGrime
4/30/2002