{"id":99930,"date":"2023-05-05T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=99930"},"modified":"2023-05-18T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:38:59","slug":"ep-review-impending-triumph-impending-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-impending-triumph-impending-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPENDING TRIUMPH – Impending Triumph EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMPENDING TRIUMPH
Impending Triumph EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nJawbreaker (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Epic, marching metal is what\u2019s on the menu here as this Brussels, Belgium-based duo unleashes its debut work that comes fully armed with a dual vocal assault. This is good, steely and heroic metal dripping with commanding vocal echoes and mid-paced tempos that provide an apt soundtrack to the fantastic cover art.<\/p>\n

\u2018Armies Of The Conqueror\u2019, \u2018The Invisible Fortress\u2019, \u2018Dragon Hunt\u2019 and \u2018Temple Of Oblivion\u2019 all prompt the listener to reach for the role-playing games time and time again as swirling anthems fill the sky like smoke rising from the dragon-scorched battlefields. At times, and probably because of its European origins, there is a doomy feel about proceedings, more so on the trudging \u2018The Invisible Fortress\u2019 but the archaic vapours do remain throughout, even on the moments when the instruments gallop like golden stallions contending with grey waves.<\/p>\n

This is well crafted and often majestic metal that is never far away from bombastic power metal trends, particularly on the expansive closer \u2018Temple Of Oblivion\u2019, but when one considers that the platter is only 25 minutes long, as a listener I felt so enriched and warmed by the depths of this wonderful adventure.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IMPENDING TRIUMPHImpending Triumph EP Jawbreaker (2023)Rating: 8\/10 Epic, marching metal is what\u2019s on the menu here as this Brussels, Belgium-based duo unleashes its debut work that comes fully armed with a dual vocal assault. This is good, steely and heroic metal dripping with commanding vocal echoes and mid-paced tempos that provide an apt soundtrack to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-impending-triumph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99931,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99930\/revisions\/99931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}