"Impact Is Imminent" est un album de thrash metal percutant du groupe légendaire Exodus, désormais disponible en format CD chez le fabricant MUSIC ON C. Sorti à l'origine en 1990, ce disque présente Exodus dans toute leur agressivité et virtuosité technique avec des riffs acérés et une batterie explosive sur des titres comme « Impact Is Imminent », « Objection Overruled » ou encore « Thrash Under Pressure ». Depuis sa création en 1979 à San Francisco, le groupe s'est imposé comme une référence majeure de la scène thrash américaine aux côtés de groupes tels que Metallica ou Slayer grâce à des albums cultes comme « Bonded by Blood » et « Fabulous Disaster ». Le fabricant MUSIC ON C est reconnu pour ses rééditions haut de gamme qui respectent la qualité sonore originale tout en proposant un packaging soigné destiné aux collectionneurs exigeants.
The beginning of the 90s was generally a bad time for thrash - the last truly masterpiece discs came out, and many bands completely retrained and started playing heavy metal (I won’t point a finger, but, for example, Metallica), and Exodus, just as they were cutting down thrash, continued to do so on his fourth album. And it turned out well, I must say. This release is a very worthy successor to “Fabulous Disaster”, the same fast, mind-blowing songs, again no “snot”, only speed, pressure and aggression. True, it’s not as powerful and well-made as on its predecessor, but shaking it with hair will also do. The disadvantages of the album include the crap quality of the recording (and this is after “Fabulous Disaster”, where there are no quibbles with the recording at all. The rhythm guitar sounds somehow clumsy and unnatural, as if it was put through some kind of filter. All the riffs are very similar , thanks to this, the songs are very similar, and they can only be distinguished by vocals, which is not good.