Well, some folks tend to really enjoy hyper-paced extreme metal which beats, stomps, kills, and desecrates forevermore. Preludium, however, takes great measures in making sure you have no idea just what in the hell is going on: constant blastbeats dominate the audio battlefield while sickening rasps infiltrate the perimeter as riffs from Death Metal 101 roll over buildings. Sure it sounds awesome, but hasn't this been done before? Perhaps by every death metal band, ever? It's not that anything Preludium does stinks up the place, yet there sure are a lot of deja vu moments. Bruce Dickinson put it best: Feels like I've been here before.

I suppose "Impending Hostility" truly begins to fail after a few listens, as it becomes droll and totally tiresome. Preludium's idea of mixing it up involves throwing a pinch harmonic here, mid-paced chugging there, tremolo picking on different frets here, tremolo picking on the same frets there, generally doing everything almost identically, yadda yadda yadda. Variation between tracks is almost impossible to find and becomes quite the daunting experience after diving into song after song of tin-can blastbeats, everyday death metal riffs, and vocals that sound like an AK-74 discharge. It's amazing how close they get their balls to the bandsaw.