IMMOLATION: Dawn of Possession (1991). LP. Death Metal.

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Mar 23, 2011 Sold Date

Mar 13, 2011 Start Date

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Anyone who’s ever ventured into NYDM or old school death metal in general will have stumbled across this album earlier on in their findings. 1991 was a prime year for death metal, seeing other releases like “Effigy of the Forgotten” and “Blessed Are The Sick”. “Dawn of Possession” ranks among these records as a classic death metal assault. Immolation’s debut may not have been as technical as they would later get, even compared to “Here In After”. However, their identity is already really solid on this album, and they pretty much set up the template for their uniquely evil death metal.

Between Vigna, Wilkinson and Dolan, these guys really thought about how to structure their songs and make them interesting. They build tension within their riffs, and seem to do this with their song structures as well. Each song presents some parts that are slower/faster, primitive/technical, and flawlessly structure them to create nice contrasts here and there. Craig Smilowski (of Goreaphobia) does a fantastic job keeping it all together and created the blueprint to how drums should work in Immolation – follow the riff. His beats get complicated as the riffs do, and feature tons of great double bass work, tom fills, and quick hand work to back these compositions.

Every track on this album is a classic, period. This is where it all started, and Immolation were a band that influenced a lot of more brutal death metal bands, as well as a lot of the more technical ones, but still trumps them all in terms of quality and consistency.

dimension: 10 track album

label: Roadrunner

extras, comments: Perfect condition, with lyrics. This is the original recording from 1991, not the re-released stuff.

style: Death Metal.

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