Irreparable – The Fate Of All Life
Irreparable – The Fate Of All Life
These Hands Melt
Release Date: 17/10/2025
Review by Metalphysicist
8/10
Irreparable is an Australian based band who released their latest album, “The Fate Of All Life”, on 17/10/2025, via These Hands That Melt. “The Fate Of All Life” is a violent piece of art – at least at the beginning of the record. I must say that I love when a band plays Black Metal adorned by Harsh Industrial stylings. I know that the drums play a great part in all things Metal, but, in that case, the drums programming was the only option to get the sonority right where “The Faith Of All Life” is supposed to be.
The album opens with ‘Revelations…’, a noisy Harsh Black Metal piece, which gives to the song that dystopic vibe that all of us from the dark forces worship. On ‘…Upon Malignant Shore’, the next song, get ready for inhuman blast beats, switching the rhythm session to an upbeat pace, and the machine drums begin to follow the riff’s progression and go all the way to a muddy Ambiental bridge. All these diversities are delivered in just 3 minutes of a 7:57 running time song.
On ‘Forever Remain’, the vocals take that Dani Filth-like dramatic screaming signature, but when the low pace is introduced, the vocal lines are almost on a Death Metal pattern. On ‘Expose’ female atmospheric singing opens the song and, suddenly, gothic vocal joins in the mix creating an amazing ambience, getting irreparable sonority all the way to Post-Punk/Gothic Rock back to the 80’s. That sounds very good to me, but the drum programming here is a little lost during the song’s transitions.
The interesting thing is that Irreparable let go all the gloomy Harsh Black Metal of the first songs and the next songs are all Post-punk and Gothic Rock-oriented. To be honest, this radical change of ambience made me a little confused. ‘Failure To Thrive’ and ‘140283’ are cool songs, but I mean, where the heck did those songs come from?
Did that musical proposal work well? I really enjoyed all the songs, but I can’t take away the feeling that we have two albums inb one on ‘The Fate Of All Life’. Irreparable has a couple of tricks up their sleeves, but I think that the band should decide on which direction their sonority is supposed to focus.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Revelations…
02. …Upon Malignant Shores
03. Forever Remain
04. Exposed
05. Failure to Thrive
06. 140283
07. Death in a Time Capsule
LINE-UP:
D.B. – Guitar, Electronics
N.M. – Vocals
M.B. – Bass
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