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| Artist..: Blood Incantation |
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| Album...: Interdimensional Extinction |
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| Genre...: Death Metal | Label...: Dark Descent Records |
| Year....: 2015 | Cat.No..: |
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| R.date..: 2023-10-16 | S.date..: 2015-08-29 |
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| Source..: EP-WEB (24bit) | Encoder.: libFLAC |
| Bitrate.: 2914kbps avg. | F.Rate..: 96.0kHz |
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| http://play.qobuz.com/album/i6ky8pkh7i9xc |
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| Disc 1 / 1 |
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| 01. The Vth Tablet (of Enuma Elis) 3:44 |
| 02. Obfuscating the Linear Threshold 4:19 |
| 03. Hovering Lifeless 3:52 |
| 04. Subterranean Aeon 6:08 |
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| (394.60MB) 00:18:03 |
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| Hailing from the heart of the Rocky Mountains, this Colorado death metal |
| group have made a hell of an impact with these four relatively short |
| songs. The EP's briefness is definitely to their advantage, as this is |
| completely devoid of filler and chalked full of ass kicking riffs and |
| face-melting solos. While they are hardly reinventing anything, Blood |
| Incantation is a band that really understands their chosen style of metal. |
| This grabs from a wide variety of death metal stylings. You have a fair |
| amount of rambunctious tech riffs, lots of OSDM badassery, some |
| (thankfully tasteful) prog sections, some doomier passages - you get the |
| idea. Everyone in this band is very technically adept, yet this never |
| devolves into a garish display of technical showmanship. More than |
| anything, Interdimensional Extinction shows that innovation isn't always |
| necessary to make some really solid music. |
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| I've seen this band be discussed most frequently as a technical death |
| metal band, and I suppose if it had to be pigeonholed into one style of |
| death metal I suppose that would be it, but at the end of the day this |
| doesn't really feel like a tech death band. Besides completely lacking the |
| wankery many tech death bands unfortunately find themselves succumbing to, |
| technicality is hardly the purpose here and there really are a lot of |
| styles at play. It feels like Blood Incantation has the heart of an OSDM |
| band and uses that base to bounce different ideas off of. You've got some |
| of the undisputed classics like Morbid Angel and Demilich forming the |
| foundation, as well as some cult favourites such as Timeghoul. The music |
| has a somewhat dirty, cavernous old school style. Honestly, I don't know |
| why everyone is saying these guys are a spacey death metal. Actually, I do |
| - the EP is about space. But c'mon, guys . . . just because it's |
| thematically about space doesn't mean it sonically evokes it. That's just |
| people hearing what they want to hear. This really doesn't have an |
| atmosphere that far removed from the next death metal band. It is the |
| riffs, the solos and the musicianship which makes this awesome. |
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| The riffs here are pretty diverse. There's definitely some tech stuff |
| going down, but these riffs still feel like meaty fucking riffs rather |
| than technical rhythmic guitar parts that don't really feel like riffs. |
| They have staying power, and they kick ass. There's lots of old school |
| awesomeness pummelling about as well as some mid-paced tremolo stuff. My |
| favourite riff is actually when they slow it down - in "Subterranean Aeon" |
| there's this awesome Wagnerian doom riff which excellently evokes this |
| overwhelming feeling of impending war. The riffs shouldn't get all the |
| glory though; the leads fucking kill on this one. Although there are some |
| really good suspenseful evocative leads, shit really starts getting real |
| when things speed up. The soloing is not a far cry away from classic-era |
| Morbid Angel: a frenzy of technically proficient but intentionally sloppy |
| guitar swirling and tumbling over itself with astonishing speed. The bass |
| here is decently high in the mix and quite intricate at times. It |
| especially shines through on the brief proggy breaks. I often find myself |
| noticing something new in the bass work with each listen, with it twisting |
| around under some meaty and straightforward riff. The drumming is just as |
| awesome. There's lots of speedy assault type stuff going on, but he also |
| produces some sweet fills and mixes up the tempo rather frequently. |
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| Overall, this checks all the boxes for a good death metal release. This |
| wouldn't be much without good riffs, and thankfully this has heaps of |
| them. The musicianship is great, the production is pretty good for a young |
| band that has yet to release a debut album and this has held up after |
| multiple listens. This band has a great sense of dynamics and are very |
| good at making transitions feel natural. The only thing that wasn't |
| particularly spectacular about this was the middle-of-the-road death |
| growls, but they were well enough executed and it works with their sound. |
| Like their sister band Spectral Voice, Blood Incantation shows a lot of |
| promise (however, Blood Incantation is a level above Spectral Voice). The |
| debut album is sure to be a beast. Interdimensional Extinction is quality |
| death metal that should appeal to fans of the genre across the spectrum. |
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