As Desires Fade...

Impedigon play melodic death leaning towards the style that resounds from Gothenburg. Even though they are from Belgium, they bear a hell of a lot of infulence from older Swedish greats like In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. A Noteworthy fact is that Niklas Sundin of Dark Tranquillity did the album cover artwork... So yes, Impedigon suffer from a lack of originality, yet that does not reduce this album to pure garbage. There is still a portion of mildly impressive songwriting on this cd.

There are a few solid riffs, and given the sub-par production, some of the songs remind me a lot of Gates of Ishtar, though slower paced than GoI for the mostpart. Overall though, not the most impressive stuff, a lot of it just seems generic. The unoriginal rhaspy vocals seem to sound the same most of the time, with little variance. The production, seems very flat, but not all bad... nothing is unaudiable.

This album is not likely to take Impedigon anywhere as far as fame and fortune because of it's unoriginality. It also doen't do very much for the genre of melodic death, as it basically adds to the x amount of other bands who are clogging up the genre with their uninventive releases, as well as making sterotypes of how it all sounds the same. I'm not going to be too hard on Impedigon though, they aren't the only one's doing such things, and as I am a whore for melodic death, it still gets a decent rating. So all in all, this one is for the melodic death fans, and not really anyone else.