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1.  Into: Overture Luciferi Rex
2.  Vindictive Armada of Sodom
3.  In the Filth of Christ
4.  Transgression 666
5.  Necrocifixion
6.  Leviathan Rises
7.  Lucifer's Prophet
8.  Bondage of Sin
9.  Conflagration
10.  War and Genocide
11.  Outro: Opus Sadicum

Total playing time:  25:12

Release Date: November 22, 2011
Label: Hells Headbangers

Embalmed - Exalt the Imperial Beast

Reviewer: Chris

November 4, 2011

Embalmed is a Mexico-based black/death band that has been around since 1989 and is releasing its first full-length album in Exalt the Imperial Beast, a somewhat messy trip through a pyre of simplicity and uninspired notes - one step above noise.

The black metal sound, as we all know, is famous for either producing some very distinct imagery with regards to atmosphere or some insanely tepid and banal sounds that are boring and uniformed. Embalmed falls just a hair above uniformed simply because the sound is such an unmitigated sloppy venture that I find no value in it, intrinsic or otherwise. The music is so muddied under what amounts to little more than static electricity and howling screams that are neither engaging nor memorable. To be even more honest, they’re hardly vocals at all; it’s more like orchestrated breaths in concert with some form of musical undertaking I’ve yet to determine. What bothers me most about this type of recording is how agonizingly silly and wasteful it is to offer up such a myriad of mundane tracks posing as constructed heavy metal.

I’ll be even more honest; for me to sit here and belabor the point with ten-dollar words or humorous jargon wastes more of your time and mine; in my opinion this album serves no viable purpose other than to aim for the very young, inexperienced kid who wants to so badly to be ‘kvlt’ that they don’t bother to expand the horizons and accurately identify the true differences between the black metal sound and find no real distinction between good and downright stupid black metal. That alone is sad, even sadder than this album that wastes my time unapologetically. It gets one star for using professional amps, and that’s a gift in itself.

NO MYSPACE