Born Divided is 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.
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Born Divided, Impending Doom Review: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of Impending Doom
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Born Divided and their album, Impending Doom
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Comprises complex technical/progression riffage with flowing melodic sections and bombastic basslines. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Which involves death growls and clean-soaring vocals. The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of full-rhythmic drum strikes and beats.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion:
Exploration of themes of loss, isolation, and grief, but also a feeling of inviting the listener to delve deep into their emotions
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.
The Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins of Born Divided and their album, Impending Doom
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia:
The “memorabilia on the band’s music is creating a unique musical style that is all their own.”
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork has three elements: “Sorrowful,” “Powerful,” and “Meaningful.”
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Within the musical world of Born Divided, we did find one thing to dislike: 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, sorry Born Divided. Therefore, this concludes Born Divide dand their album, The Scars That Unite Us review.
Members
Tommy Demers: bass
Lucas Biron: drums
Michaël Beaudoin: Guitars
Fred Bédard: guitars
Maxim Levesque: vocals
Track-Listing
01. Impending Doom
02. The Scars That Unites Us
03. Old Remorse
04. Censorshit
05. Human Masquerade
06. We’ll Exist • We’ve Seen You
