Immortality - I Think Therefore I Am (2001) Beatdown / Death Metal from Kobe, Japan
Formed in Kobe, Japan around 2000, IMMORTALITY were one of the darker and heavier names to emerge from the Japanese hardcore underground at the turn of the millennium. Their sound fused the blunt-force groove and physicality of beatdown hardcore with the brutality and darker atmosphere of death metal, creating a punishing hybrid that was difficult to categorize but impossible to ignore. IMMORTALITY delivered a seriously heavy statement with I Think Therefore I Am, a four-track release that captures the darker, more metallic side of early-2000s beatdown hardcore. The riffs are thick and abrasive, moving between crushing mid-tempo grooves, heavy breakdowns and bursts of aggressive metallic intensity without losing the raw physicality of hardcore. I Think Therefore I Am is the kind of release that fits perfectly into the darker side of the early Japanese hardcore/beatdown underground. Immortality - I Think Therefore I Am (2001) Beatdown / Metallic Hardcore / Death Metal from Kobe, Ja...