(written by Islander)
The covid pandemic cast a dark and deadly cloud across the world, but it did have some silver linings in the musical world. With shows canceled and in-person rehearsal and recording sessions suspended, restless creative types began thinking in different directions, and that led to some collaborations that otherwise probably wouldn’t have happened.
One of those silver linings was the formation of the U.S. death metal band Imperishable (to be distinguished from the Swedish band of the same name, who released an album of their own last April). The U.S. band started in 2020 as the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Brian Kingsland (from Nile and Enthean) and bassist Alex Rush (Olkoth, Enthean). They wrote material during covid, but then put that on the back burner as they got busy again with more normal life and activities with their main bands.
But they brought their ideas to the front burner again after completing their lineup with the addition of famed drummer Derek Roddy (of Hate Eternal, Malevolent Creation, and too many other bands to name), and now Imperishable‘s debut album Revelation In Purity is set for an August 29 release by none other than Everlasting Spew Records — and we’ve got a lyric video for the album’s astounding first single today. Its name is “Oath of Disgust“.
Brian Kingsland has described the band’s objective on social media as creating “aggressive riffing and catchy songwriting”: “Not reinventing the wheel here, but it’s a blistering slab of metal with some dynamic and experimentation here and there. I even venture into clean vocal territory at times.”
“Aggressive” and “blistering” are definitely adjectives that apply to “Oath of Disgust” — but if anything they understate the case. The music blasts from the speakers in a superheated torrent of blaring, blazing, and rapidly darting riffage, backed by furious drumming out on the cutting edge of human capacities and by maniacal yet nimble bass performances. Kingsland‘s bestial roars, scathing howls, and unhinged screams add to both the song’s full-blown fury and its berserk energies.
But the song also twists and turns in unexpected ways. There is indeed singing in this one — haunting and harrowing singing — as well as rapidly mutating riffage and rhythmic variations that combine to create music which viciously eviscerates, jolts like jackhammers, convulses in feverish insectile swarms and darting bursts, and seems to maniacally scream.
The music also suddenly expands and segues into a magnificent guitar solo, leading to one last spectacle of head-spinning instrumentation at the finale.
And so the song proves to be not only aggressive and blistering but also inventively elaborate and technically mind-bending, undeniably savage but also a multi-faceted and relentlessly thrilling escapade (and immediately addictive too).
Revelation In Purity was mixed and mastered by Jamie King, and features ghastly cover art by Nestor Avalos. Everlasting Spew will release the album on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats, with a vinyl edition expected by early 2026. They recommend it for fans of Hate Eternal, Nile, Olkoth, and Anaal Nathrakh. Pre-orders will soon become available at the locations linked below.
PRE-ORDER:
https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/album/revelation-in-purity
https://everlastingspew.com/
IMPERISHABLE:
https://www.facebook.com/Imperishable83
https://www.instagram.com/imperishable_metal