Imperial Empire - _The Second Coming_
(Independent, 2003)
by: Pedro Azevedo (8 out of 10)
Death metal stalwarts like Napalm Death and Morbid Angel have
influenced countless bands out there, but every once in a while you
find a band that can wear those influences all over again and still
come out with something interesting in the end. Imperial Empire are
one such case, and _The Second Coming_ is a veritable feast of cool
hooks and wicked riffs, dynamic mid-paced crunching goodness and
outbursts of hyperblast. This is made all the more remarkable by the
fact that the band consists of only one person: Lee Wollenschlaeger,
who lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Not having been able to find
suitable members for the band yet, he's done great work on his own
with just the help of a rather unobtrusive drum machine. While not
exactly a very original album, the death metal competence shown on
_The Second Coming_ is of such calibre that surely Imperial Empire
will be on a label sometime soon -- especially if Wollenschlaeger can
enlist some worthy band members. Well produced and impeccably
delivered, _The Second Coming_ is an unpretentiously enjoyable death
metal disc that should not fail to please any death metal addicts out
there.
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