Iniquity
Five Across The Eyes

THE REVIEW

Few people know about this Danish band.

Yet, they deserve to be known at least a little more among metalheads. And I also think that if they hadn't chosen one of their songs ("The Bullet's Breath", featured in the subsequent album, Grime (2001)) to serve as the soundtrack for a well-known and funny animation on the internet, it would have at least given them a bit of notoriety. But let's move on to the album.

It was 1998, and everything (or almost everything) about death metal had already been written, but in my opinion, this album is noteworthy. I'm not saying it was fundamental, but it deserves recognition. It's their second full-length (after the decent 'Serenadium'), and the quality leap is evident. With this album, the band proves to be much more professional, with a more personal, more powerful sound (extensive use of the double bass drum, crystal-clear production) and an increase in technicality, to the point of being defined as a Technical Death Metal band.

"Inhale the Ghost", the first track, along with the beautiful "The Rigormortified Grip", will be chosen for the best of "Iniquity Bloody Iniquity", from 2004. The compelling, aggressive rhythm is immediately noticeable, changing many times throughout the song, from fast parts like Cannibal Corpse, to "slowed-down" parts like Morbid Angel. Noteworthy is the great use of harmonics on the sixth string, much like the great Evil Chuck (RIP) loved, and the singer's powerful growl, which, along with an unknown effect to me, gives the sound a "sick" quality, as they say, as you can plainly hear in that animation. Personally, it's really a shame that they broke up (2004) due to a lack of ideas and inspiration, but I always hope for a reunion complete with an album, even if it's very unlikely.

There are few death metal bands that convey emotions to me like this one, only three full-lengths, few but good. Recommended to all lovers of brutal and technical death metal.