Immolation - Providence

Published October 19 2011

*=Staff's pick	What They Bring Illumination Still Lost Providence Swallow The Fear*

Genre	Death Metal	Ross Dolan	Vocals
Tracks	5	Robert Vigna	Guitar
Running time	19 Min.	Bill Taylor	Guitar
Label	Scion A/V	Ross Dolan	Bass
Release	11 October 2011	Steve Shalaty	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	Bolt Thrower, Hate Eternal

Following in the footsteps of the 2010 full-length release Majesty And Decay comes Providence, a five-song EP from American death metal quartet Immolation. After getting past that strangely ugly cover art there is not much to be said about the music - it's basically twenty minutes of getting your ass kicked by a brick wall.

One objection I have is there that while there occasionally are some really good riffs, much of the guitar work seems a little blunt which kills some of the brutality in combination with the very clean production. More riff-based song writing would really have lifted this to another level.

There is no denying that this is a very competent handful of death metal songs although I would have preferred a grittier, less polished production. Furthermore, the entire EP is available for free download on the record label's homepage so there really is no excuse for not checking it out.

See also review of: Kingdom Of Conspiracy , Shadows In The Light

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	5	6	7	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Bjorn