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Incantation anno 2002 is far from the original incarnation of
the band since John McEntee is the only one left from its inception in 1989.
This is a band that has been one of the leading underground death metal acts
on the North American continent for very long now and "Blasphemy" is
certainly a suitable name for their latest effort. Leaving the nowadays more
experimental label Relapse Records behind them they have now found a new home
with Necropolis Records who have always been supporting brutal music. In
Europe the album is being licensed to Candlelight Records. I would be lying if
I said that I was even the slightest bit surprised while listening to this
album except for the fact that it is more than 70 minutes long. This is a
marathon release when dealing with death metal and as you all know Americans
are best when it comes to short distances. To go with the playing time they
have given the seventh track of the album a title that even Bal-Sagoth would
have been proud of. This is not very impressive though considering that there
are two hidden tracks at the end of the disc - one with 22 minutes of nothing
and one with three minutes of meaningless noise... Musically Incantation
offers nothing but what the old fans of the band would expect - dark, ominous
death metal from the old school. There is no Opeth experimentalism here and
not much time for rest either, just tight, intense death metal. It is well
executed and the growling is, if not exceptional, so at least solid but it
feels as if the same riffs are used over and over again a little bit too much
for my liking... Different is not always good and musical evolution is not
always good but a band needs to have at least something new to show.
Otherwise, why would you want to buy any new albums at all when you can listen
to the old ones instead and still get the same thing? I hope that Incantation
can do better than this in the future. I know they have in the time that used
to be. This is an album that I will forget about very quickly but that is only
doing Incantation a favor.
| Tracklist |
1. Blasphemy 2. The Fallen |
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3. A Once Holy Throne 4. Crown Of Decayed Salvation 5. |
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Rotting With Your Christ 6. His Weak Hand 7. The Sacrilegious |
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Apocalypse Of Righteousness And Agonizing Dementia (The Final |
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Defilement Of Your Lord) 8. Deceiver (Self-Righteous |
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Betrayer) 9. Descend Seraphic Irreverence 10. Uprising Heresy |
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11. Misanthropic Indulgence |
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