Horn Impaler are a new Black Metal project from Poland. They caught my eye because of the wonderful cover art by Emil Laska, which adorns their debut EP "Deforming The Imperfection", and because their line-up includes drummer Paweł “Pavulon” Jaroszewicz (Hate, ex-Vader, Antigama). The other members of the band are musician Adam Goryszewski and vocalist Paulina Gołda (with Łukasz Wójcik and Adrian Pisarek as session musicians).
Horn Impaler recently released the first single from the new EP, a dynamic song called “Schismophrenia” that’s hard to pin down in simple genre terms. It’s a fiery track that rocks really hard, with highly infectious melodies and rhythms, as well as caustic vocal ferocity and a hell of a guitar solo in the second half — and in the slower parts of the song, there’s an aching, depressive quality to its emotional character.
A very impressive first taste of an EP that’s worth keeping high on the radar screen.