Imminence – Heaven In Hiding
Release Date: 26th November 2021
Label: Arising Empire
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Genre: Metalcore
FFO: Architects, Landmvrks, Wage War.
Review By: Ross Bowie
Swedish metalcore quintet Imminence are back with their new album Heaven In Hiding. Unfortunately for them, the scene they’re trying to carve themselves into, is in such an upward swing, it’s hard not to leave them behind. This is no fault of the band’s either, had Heaven In Hiding came out a few years ago it would have been one of the better records in what was becoming quite a lifeless genre, however with bands such as Dying Wish and Seeyouspacecowboy raising the bar over recent months it’s only natural compare Imminence’s latest effort to what’s around it.
Imminence don’t do anything wrong and everything on this record is very passable, but that is all it is. It’s hard to think you’ve heard all of this before and done to a higher standard. With that said, the band do manage to pull out some memorable choruses and sneak some fun, ear catching lead guitar work across the thirteen tracks. Ghost, while being the first song on the record (After the intro track) shows you what this band is all about. Fun riffing, some hard screams and a clean vocal that is very reminiscent of Alexisonfire but by the fourth and fifth track I couldn’t help but feel I was listening to two Architects offcuts.
It’s only really in the last quarter of the Heaven In Hiding do the band start to push themselves into new territory. Vocalist and violinist Eddie Berg really let’s loose in the closing portion of the record, and utilizing the violin is a trick that could really pull this band forward. When the guitars and violin are playing off each other, it really kicks the album into life and grabs your attention, it’s just left till too late in the record to really have an impact.
You would be forgiven for thinking this is a band on their debut album, as the influences start to take over the band, but with them being four albums in at this point it’s difficult to know if Imminence will ever capture their potential and make an album that sets them apart from the rest. 
(3 / 5)
