Impending Doom release punishingly heavy single / video 'Culture of Death'

Photo Credit: Luke Cooper

Hellbent EP available now via MNRK Heavy

Californian death metallers, Impending Doom, have released their new punishingly heavy single 'Culture of Death'. The ferocious hymn comes from their Hellbent EP, released via MNRK Heavy.

Check out the new single and video for 'Culture of Death' here: https://youtu.be/OXn47Snxt4M

Order the Hellbent EP here: https://hellbent-doom.com/

On the new single, vocalist Brook Reeves comments: “’Culture Of Death’ is a song about sacrificing your beliefs to become someone you’re not for people who don’t care, only to feel numb in the end and the wanting to feel alive again.”

Recorded with engineer Joseph Calleriro at Dungeon by the Sea in Los Angeles and mixed by longtime band collaborator Will Putney (Knocked Loose, The Ghost Inside, Thy Art Is Murder), Hellbent is a blistering five-song blast of readily identifiable Impending Doom brutality, with just enough of a modern flourish. As reliable as ever, the band endeavoured to bring woe with crushing heaviness, sick death metal and grindcore riffage, impossible guttural growls, and steadfast reverence for God. The five-track EP includes punishingly incisive entries into the band's esteemed canon, which stretches back to their 2005 demo.

The new EP arrived adorned with an arresting cover courtesy of Jim Pavelec, an illustrator specialising in the occult, sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, including pieces for classic RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Bassist David Sittig explains: "We'd never done an EP before this, and we spent a lot of time writing the music on Hellbent. We don't traditionally have many surprises with the art, but we wanted to try something different. We've used the same couple of guys to create art for us, but Jim had created this piece already and we loved it so much we decided to reach out to him."

Hellbent Tracklisting:

1. Satanic Panic
2. New World Horror
3. Culture Of Death
4. Hellbent
5. I Must End

The Sin and Doom of Godless Men, Impending Doom's blissfully devastating 2005 demo, was shocking in its urgent immediacy and its unashamed outspokenness. But that demo was merely a step towards the total devastation that was their 2007 debut album, Nailed. Dead. Risen., which shook the proverbial Earth with its uncompromising vision of what they had transfigured with elements of death metal, grind, and hardcore.

The series of increasingly diverse and intense releases that followed never compromised, and were always challenging and pushing the limits of the genre. With the likes of The Serpent Servant (2009), There Will Be Violence (2010), Baptized In Filth (2012), Death Will Reign (2013), and the back-to-basics bludgeoning of The Sin and Doom, Vol. II (2018), each appealed to the faithful and faithless alike. Combining crushing riffs and an unashamed point of view, each of their half dozen albums demonstrate the power of outspoken deathcore devastation.

Impending Doom are:
Brook Reeves // vocals
Manny Contreras // guitar
David Sittig // bass

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