Born Divided – Impending Doom Review: A Progressive/Melodic Death Metal band from Canada. On September 2nd, 2022, Born Divided independently released their debut studio album, Impending Doom, which would gratify Symphonic X and Opeth fans. The album was promoted through GlobMetal Promotions.
Provectus – Postero Mundi Review opens and discusses the FIRST SIN: THE STRINGS/KEYS, which comprises complex technical/progression riffage with flowing melodic sections and bombastic basslines.
Let’s talk about the SECOND SIN: THE VOCALS, which involves death growls and clean-soaring vocals.
Moving on to the THIRD SIN: THE PERCUSSIONS, which delves into the vast world of full-rhythmic drum strikes and beats.
In our following discussion about the band’s musical work, we will focus on the FOURTH SIN, the overall DISCUSSION of the album. 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…
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 and blending orchestration arrangements within their musical spectrum.
IMPENDING DOOM doesn’t just deliver excellent 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 gives 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 of 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 utilise 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.
I wanted to share our thoughts and MEMORABILIA on the FIFTH SIN. The “memorabilia on the band’s music is creating a unique musical style that is all their own.”
Let’s discuss the ARTWORK of the SIXTH SIN. The artwork has three elements: “Sorrowful,” “Powerful,” and “Meaningful.”
Finally, the review will close with the last sin, the SEVENTH SIN, the DISRELISH. Within the musical world of BORN DIVIDED, we did find one thing to disrelish: the second track, THE SCARS THAT UNITE US. Around the three-and-a-half-minute mark, the guitar solo is not terrible, but it doesn’t seem to fit into the song. This is only a letdown, concluding the Born Divided – Impending Doom Review.
Impending Doom Song-listing:
- Impending Doom
- The Scars That Unites Us
- Old Remorse
- Censorshit
- Human Masquerade
- We’ll Exist • We’ve Seen You
Born Divided Members:
- Tommy Demers (bass)
- Lucas Biron (drums)
- Michaël Beaudoin (Guitars)
- Fred Bédard (guitars)
- Maxim Levesque (vocals)
