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Failures for Gods Review

Immolation - Failures for Gods
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Failures for Gods

TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
Released
GenresDeath Metal
LabelsMetal Blade Records
Length40:21
Ranked#73 for 1999 , #3,680 all-time
Album rating :  85.5 / 100
Votes :  10  (2 reviews)
Reviewer :  level 12         Rating :  80 / 100
After the incredible Here in After, I was prepared for Failures for Gods to similarly break my spine and send me to a place of misanthropic misery where no god can touch me. I was ready for twisted riffs to fill me with infernal black flames and ravage my soul while the drums mimicked the beatdown of an unworthy god. That triumphant album cover of the devil gazing upon his subjects was the final piece.

Perhaps I expected too much. For somewhere between the two albums, Immolation seems to have lost something key. By rights, the music is expertly played. The drumming is inhuman, the songwriting is interesting, the vocals slay. On its own, it’s a great album. But this is essentially a strong Tech/Dissodeath influenced Death Metal album… not the follow up to one of the greatest albums in that genre ever.

Trying to put my finger on what’s missing here, it’s the memorability. Despite being highly Dissodeath influenced, Here in After featured some incredibly memorable riffs, often repeating their strongest, catchiest riffs multiple times in order for you to latch onto something amidst the brutal chaos, leaving each song memorable and strong. Failures for Gods… just doesn’t have that. I can’t remember a single riff off the album.

And that’s pretty par for the course when it comes to Dissodeath, but it goes to show why Here in After is a whole other breed. Failures for Gods is a great album that is sure to satisfy fans of the genre. But as a follow up to one of the greatest albums by one of the greatest bands in that style, you could call it a… “Failure.”
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Track listing (Songs)

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1.Once Ordained5:2288.84
2.No Jesus, No Beast4:4387.54
3.Failures For Gods6:2588.84
4.Unsaved4:3788.84
5.God Made Filth3:5886.34
6.Stench Of High Heaven4:2487.54
7.Your Angel Died5:2686.34
8.The Devil I Know5:2486.34

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