Born Divided – Impending Doom Review

Instantly, as the listener presses that play button, one is welcomed to the opening piece, Impending Doom. This piece welcomes the listener with progressive riffage, flowing melodic passages, and pounding drum strikes—following suit with a surge of sped-up tempo, along with brutal and soaring clean vocal work…

As one continues their journey with the second track, The Scars That Unite Us, and the remaining five pieces. Born Divided provides an excellent release, where their music or style is complex to describe -but unique. Born Divided delivers the listener’s ears with a musical spectrum consisting of melodic sections of melodic death metal combined with a high level of complex/technical proficiency, intricacy, and dynamics from progressive music. They also blend orchestration arrangements within their musical spectrum.

Impending Doom doesn’t just deliver a fruit of art death metal to the listener’s ears -but the lyrical concept (without looking into it – it’s there in front of the listener) that has a solid/meaningful lyrical meaning. The artwork, album title, and track two, The Scars That Unite Us give it away!

Impending Doom’s whole music spectrum mixes elements of melodic death and prog/tech death metal (mentioned above)—perfectly done and composed; even the instrumental composition is well arranged, with a nice flow within each piece of progressive and clean melodic passages and arrangements. 

Impending Doom is all present with a production and sound that’s well-executed while delivering and providing the listener with good devilmanship consisting of instrumental work of guitar technic. The complex technical/progression riffage of the guitar with flowing melodic sections, full-rhythmic drum strikes and beats, orchestration/symphonic and audio clip inserts. Nicely placed when needed. 

At the same time, the vocals utilize death growls and clean, soaring vocals—all wrapped in a brutal, melodic, or aggressive atmosphere—with a tint of sorrow added to the atmosphere/musical spectrum simultaneously

The album concludes with the final track, We’ll Exist • We’ve Seen You We want to give a shoutout to GlobMetal Promotions for letting us review Eternal Crypt and their album Stages Of Grief. Now, we are going to conclude the review by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.