After 'Millennium,' George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher left Monstrosity to join Cannibal Corpse. The rest of the band then hit a fork in the road: they could either continue or retire. They chose the former, hiring vocalist Jason Avery, formerly of Eulogy, who worked with them on 'Millennium' as the backing vocalist on some tracks. The rest of their lineup staying the same as before, and they went on to write their next full-length which was released in 1999. 'In Dark Purity' was not as technical as 'Millennium,' but it built off of it. In fact, it's more like a combination of their first two albums.
The reason that this album is not as technical as 'Millennium' is because it was mostly written by Jay Fernandez of Brutality. Why this is is unknown to me because I cannot find a record of Fernandez ever being in the band. However, he is credited by the band for writing the music for tracks two, four, seven, eight, nine, and 10. Despite writing these songs, he does not play anything on the final product. Brutality is still a fairly technical band, but nowhere near as technical as Monstrosity on their 1996 release. His writing style fits, but it lacks the jumpiness and time signature experimentation that made 'Millennium' so amazing.
No matter how 'simplified' it is compared to their second album, 'In Dark Purity' is still one of their best. It shows development on the riffing styles of songs like 'Slaves and masters' and 'Devious Instinct' from 'Millennium.' This riffing style makes use of harmonization and feeling, so that no only does it have extremely awesome riffs, but they also sound uplifting. This riffing style is seen on tracks like 'Angel's Venom,' 'Perpetual War,' and the title track.
The structure of this album, like their previous released, is balanced. They have great songs at the beginning, and great tracks at the end. In fact, my favorite track is the last one on the album. I don't mean the Slayer cover or the instrumental outro. I mean the actual song: the title track. Over six minutes of harmonized riffing that fills me with joy every time I hear it. Leading up to this track is a lot of thrashing OSDM on tracks like 'The Eye of Judgement' and 'Dust to Dust.' There's also 'Perpetual War,' a slow, chugging song reminiscent of 'Fragments of Resolution.' However, all of the songs between 'Angel's Venom' and 'Perpetual War' tend to blend together. After a while of listening to the album, I can identify most of the tracks when listening to the album all the way through, and 'Suffering the Conquered' becomes more and more familiar with every listen. However, the rest of the material becomes a blurry mess of thrashing death metal.
Another thing about the structure, I could do without the last track being a cover. It's a good cover, so it's at least acceptable. It also gives clear identification to the influences of this album, especially since some moments on here sound like Slayer. However, I would rather have it in the middle of the album because this album has an instrumental outro and a track that flows nicely into it, and all of that becomes lost once another track comes next. And, to make it even more of a moodkiller, it's not even an original.
Until 2018, this album was their longest, clocking at just over 50 minutes. Their newest album is longer, unless you don't get the CD version with two extra tracks, but as those two songs are new, I still consider them part of the actual album. The length of this album does not bother me. Usually, long album like this can become tedious, but 'In Dark Purity' moves along at great speeds, and there is never a dull moment. Despite tracks blending together, I never find myself checking to see how much longer I have to suffer through the album. And that's the thing: I don't have to suffer through it because it's so damn good.
Overall Rating: 91%
Originally written for themetalvoid.wordpress.com
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Tracks 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 written by Jay Fernandez.
Confirmed by Lee Harrison:
Jason Morgan recorded all of the rhythm guitar tracks and the solos are broken down as follows:
Jason Morgan: Second solo on #4. #7, and the Second solo on #8.
Tony Norman: #2 (both solos), #3, First on #4, First on #8, #9, Second on #12, All on #14.
Jamie Osburne: First on #12.
Morgan and Norman do the solo trade off on Pillars, the last is both at the same time.
The first version of this CD was released by German Metal Age Recordings (Turbo Rec. follow-up label). However the label was a rip-off label and therefore Monstrosity later re-released it over The Plague Rec. as LP and Digi-CD.
Released on Olympic Recordings in the US under license from Conquest Music.
At the end of the song 'In Dark Purity', someone (most likely Jason) whispers 'get the gun, get the gun, shoot shoot shoot', which is a dedication to Ozzy's fiasco with the parents of a kid who shot himself while listening to his song 'Suicide Solution', which supposedly had those words subliminally embedded in it.
There are 5 different versions of the CD. 2 European versions, one without lyrics and mistakes in song titles, and another version with a shape disc saw blade, lyrics and correct song titles. Then there's the Japanese version, which has a Bathory cover (Total Destruction), the South American version with 5 more seconds at the beginning of 'Perpetual War', and the US version.
A music video was made for 'Destroying Divinity'.
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