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przy tej nazwie to tez mocno ryzykowne, bo to podszywanie sie pod istniejaca (i raczej na pewno zarejestrowana) marke piwa. jablonowo, jak tylko bedzie chcialo, zarobi pare groszy ekstraIMP-|-OUS pisze:zalosne w chuj!!!manieczki pisze:
To juz sie robi zalosne i nudne
To jeszcze robią? Ależ to było gówno...uglak pisze:
Odwołaj to.aginsiak pisze:Pewnie chujowe jak sam zespół
hehehe dobrze powiedziane :Daginsiak pisze:Pewnie chujowe jak sam zespół
robia czy nie robia - podszywanie sie jest mocno ryzykowne ;-)mysticcum pisze:To jeszcze robią? Ależ to było gówno.
Pisałeś może do Infernal Death zine? Tam też głosili takie teorie :)aginsiak pisze:Pewnie chujowe jak sam zespół
Wybacz ,ale nie moge nie nazwac Imperatora chujowym ,bo taki jest w rzeczy samej. Ale Twój gust szanuje oczywiście.SOWIX666 pisze:Odwołaj to.aginsiak pisze:Pewnie chujowe jak sam zespół
roman pisze:Praca bębnów na "TTBT" zabija. Carol w tamtym czasie był dużo lepszym technikiem niż Docent, nie wiem jak gra dzisiaj i czy gra.
Zespół kultowy. "Necronomicon" rozpierdala, główny riff z "Eternal Might" zamiata mną po stokroć. ;) Mam ich materiał na LP i CD. Kiedyś jeszcze miałem parę rehów kiepskiej jakości.
Tak w ogóle: w przeszłości Łódź była zagłębiem zajebistych kapel jak choćby wspomniany Imperator, Neuroleprosy, Dark Opera czy Tenebris. A teraz? Teraz zostały tylko wspomnienia. ;)
‘The Time Before Time’ is such an apt title for a release which documents the time before Vader emerged as everyone’s favourite band from behind the Iron Curtain. If anything was ‘cvlt’ in late eighties’ Poland it was Imperator’s demo tapes, which my older and more discerning mate wouldn’t lend me, the sefish elitist bastard that he was. Then their debut album was released in 1991 and I managed to get hold of a copy of the original pressing. I remember being so excited about the LP that I nearly failed to notice how great ‘Morbid Reich’, which I laid my hands on at roughly the same time, was.
So you cannot blame me for how elated I was on noticing that I’d be the first to review such a gem. But only until I downloaded the album and listened to it a couple of times to jog my memory (what with the vinyl having been borrowed by some thieving bugger long ago, never to be seen again). How come I was so impressed by something so average and on the whole uninspired? I guess it was a case of having been enchanted by the packaging rather than the product itself. After all it was a self-financed album and Imperator were one of the first bands to prove it was actually possible to put out a quality release without selling out to Metal Mind Productions, which to every seasoned Polish metalhead was what Babylon is to Rastafarians. They made many of us believe our scene was being noticed elsewhere, nearly getting the album released by Deathlike Silence (but for Euronymous’ death…who knows?). Then there was the wicked black cover with the silver ornaments, the pentacle and the lyrics about all things dark and primordial…
So why does the music not live up to the band’s legend? Because it has aged really badly. It sounds dated even for 1991 and there isn’t enough to redeem it. The genre description in Metal Archives says ‘death metal’ but if you’ve never heard Imperator, imagine a cross between early Sarcofago and really early, ‘Abominations of Desolation’-era, Morbid Angel. Thus if I was to accept the label, I would have to add ‘proto-‘. Surely, there are some blastbeats and stop-start riffing but the guitar sound is unmistakably thrash metal and the vocals wouldn’t be out of place on early Sepultura releases. Don’t get me wrong , I love each of the aforementioned bands, it’s just that Imperator cannot better them in anything. They have less fire and spite than Sarcofago and Sepultura and less memorable riffs than Morbid Angel. I have never seen myself as having short attention span but after ‘Eternal Might’, which is admittedly a really good opener, marred only by the weird let’s-slow-down-to-recharge-the-batteries bridge, there are two or three half decent tracks I can just about remember and then…Snooore….er, what was I saying?
Yeah, most tracks are quite wearisome and seem overlong. However, there is some good news. The sound of the album is quite nice – murky, cold guitars and vocals have a lot of air around them, which makes them really menacing. Other bands from £ódŸ, like Pandemonium or Dark Opera used a similar sound to a great effect with much slower, doomier music. If you picture hell as a huge desolate space of ice and snow rather than a fiery pit, you might find the tone of ‘ The Time before Time’to your liking. Two last tracks which were recorded in 1993 and added on the CD re-issue sound considerably more latter-day death metal, but at the same time the drumming is sloppier and the overall sound less selective.
In conclusion, you probably should listen to it at least once, if you haven’t heard it before, just because it is a historic release. The chances you’ll fall in love with it are however slim, unless you are a tedious, dull and boring person yourself.
To jest oczywiste!Drone pisze:Rozumiem zdrowy rewizjonizm, ale odbieranie znaku jakości tej płycie to kuriozum. Mankamenty tej płyty nie mają żadnego znaczenia dzisiaj.
czy to krakow? bo jak tak to chyba znam to sciane i przetestuje :)trup pisze:
Wyrotowało już dawno pewnie.uglak pisze:czy to krakow? bo jak tak to chyba znam to sciane i przetestuje :)trup pisze:
Slayer to kał i ogólnie rzecz biorąc beznadziejna kapela.
