For anyone who thinks that Angela Gossow is the only woman doing extreme vocals here is a secret: despite what the mainstream press would have you believe, she isn't; and neither is she the best. Not by a long way.

Immemorial are a Polish Death Metal band who (for this album anyway) were fronted by Karla Czertowicz, a woman who makes Angela sound like Tarja and is thus far more likely than her to disprove any Death Metal fans' skepticism about female vocals than the more famous Angela. Even when you ignore her gender completely and don't make any allowances for her being female then, while she still doesn't really compare with the greats of Death Metal vocals, she still does a great job that many men out there would not be able to match.

Sorry for starting there with the first thing that everyone talks about when talking about Immemorial. Now that that is out of the way, let's talk about the music. What we have here is fairly brutal Death Metal that is in a similar vein to many other bands of the Polish Death Metal scene. “After Deny” is an album that is packed full of ferocious riffs and brutal blastbeats, the production isn't too great, but that shouldn't stop anyone who likes their Death Metal raw and primitive from getting into this. Is it good? Hell yes! A word of warning though, this really isn't an album that is likely to convert anyone who is skeptical about Death Metal into a Death Metal fan. Also, there are no frills, no innovation, no surprises of any kind whatsoever at all, so don't expect any, but do expect your poor ears to take a battering on every song, so if that is what you are looking for then you will want to give this a listen.

The only possible complaint is that there are a lot of Death Metal bands out there who an identical review could be written about. The scene will get as bad as Power Metal soon, but hopefully not. So, while Death Metal fans may want to give this a listen as it is very good, they do have a lot to listen to these days, and there is nothing that I can hear to really make this stand out from the pack at the end of the day.

Picking some songs as favourite tracks would be missing the point here. The album is very consistent throughout and you will either like all of it or hate all of it, so I won't bother. Sorry!