One obviously drunken night somewhere in Sheffield,these guys were punting around looking for a cool name for the Thrash metal band they always dreamed of being in and as the night got drunker and the speech more slurred one of them uttered a line along the lines of: "Did I menshion the time?" and before this drunken tale unfolded the other guys there said "That's it... Immension..it's a perfect monumental metal name, everyone will wonder what it means and we can build a whole world of Immension for them to allow them a suspension of reality while we pummel them with our top quality thrash metal. That'll make us bigger than Slayer or Metallica in no time."
Back in the real world they have been apparently building a following ahead of this, their debut single. It's out at the start of the year and opens with as solid a slab of NWOBOTM as I've heard since seeing Kremated a few months ago. Shadow Of Yourself is a good modern thrash update of late 80s Iron Maiden with a full on opening with almost (but not quite) widdly guitar and drums before they get down to the business of thrashing like mad.
The middle song Lost & Forgotten sounds like they have tried to rework Metallica's Through The Never while drinking tins of Webster's Yorkshire Bitter with Jagermeister chasers while one of the band kept saying they need to sound more like Evanescence. The results are actually pretty good too even if the lyrics may not be totally on the money the music is and the Evanescence interludes are thankfully minimal.
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In Vain, the EP's closing song opens slowly and builds like they want to be a bit like Anathema only this time the song just keeps building and subsiding between verses and chorus before building to become a real thrash monster of a tune.
I'm sure if they sound half as good live as on this EP that they would make a good touring partner for Kremated at the forefront of the New Wave Of British Thrash Metal (NWBOTOM) scene.
Immension online
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