Excited for this, their debut was brilliant. Artwork certainly catches the eye, I actually like it.
https://www.treblezine.com/blood-incantation-new-album-hidden-history-human-race/
Probably my favourite death metal band of recent times,absolutely adore Starspawn!.Really looking forward to this new one!,not to sure do i love or hate that artwork!
Actually i love the artwork,apparently its been used by another band in the past.
Savage news, really looking forward to seeing where they go with the new stuff. Actually really dig the artwork too, almost just out of pure curiosity of how much it's going to reflect the music
Retarded artwork but looking forward to hearing it.
Although, I'm glad they went for something that is different to the glut of samey images that are doing the rounds.
Tha cover is woeful, it looks like a Ed Repka reject for a terrible modern thrash record. Blood Incantation however are great but I much prefer the Starspawn aesthetic.
Can't see anything topping Starspawn but this is class news. Would love to see them on these shores.
Touring with Immolation in the states,what a combo that is!.
Album cover was very surprising, the old Destroy All Humans games came to mind haha, looking forward to the record though. Ended up putting Starspawn on tonight, still holds up!.
Same artwork as Agony's Apocolyptic Dawning (https://img.discogs.com/ymKsbtibeJHaCFV9pMsBeDNWDXE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-4062926-1363413577-6827.jpeg.jpg)
The cover is straight up gash, but the album is my most anticipated record this year, so hopefully the tunes'll be hot sauce.
Cover is actually taken from a book cover. It was used by other artists before, not only Agony.
I haven't read the book, but the fact some bands are repeatedly using its cover should be a good reason to do it. Still, not a good choice of cover in my opinion, even if they are referencing the book...
uploaded the wrong image... this is the book cover
I like the cover. Could fit the tunes nicely.
Cover is the same artist who did "Interdimensional Extinction", Bruce Pennington, It's another Michael Whelan (Obituary/Sepultura etc) job, an artist whose old paintings frequently reappear on book and album covers as different people re-discover him.
I saw pictures of the recording of this where all four were playing old 70s synths, and I know they're all big fans of stuff like Tangerine Dream, so I'm very curious to see how that element shows up on the album.
Absolutely the best death metal band of their generation for my money and I suspect this is going to be an absolute whopper. More excited about seeing them live again, caught them on the "Starspawn" tour and they're an absolute force live. Hopefully with Century Media handling the European release and giving them a big push we might see the stargate open in Dublin at some point?? Honestly, the buzz and anticipation around this kind of reminds me of the excitement when Morbid Angel were about to release "Blessed"
I've thankfully been oblivious to the hype. That's one fucking thing the metal underground needs to nip in the bud.
Nip in the bud is the wrong term for something that has become so all consuming, but you get the drift.
I'm maybe not sure "hype" is the right word here.It's more that it feels like there's a sense of event about this record, both from the underground (I'm sure the NWN mongoloids are probably in the midst of a 20 page thread about how BI are lefty faggot posers though no doubt) and the more mainstream metal scene in equal measures that's increasingly rare.
Quote from: Slaughterday on September 19, 2019, 10:06:07 PM
Can't see anything topping Starspawn but this is class news.
I think the Interdimensional Extinction EP is just as good as Starspawn, so here's hoping.
Got that gut feeling that the album will be a fucking ripper, looking forward to it.
Looking forward to this one. I've enjoyed all their output so far and I'm confident this album won't disappoint.
I'm also mad to see this fancy booklet thing the lad from Deathwound zine has done for the LP version, his zine was fucking aces so that should be deadly. I don't have a turntable currently but fuck it, good excuse to finally pick one up again!
If nothing else, let's hope this band's growing popularity forces BC Rich to make more Ironbirds.
I know the artwork is splitting opinion,but i love the shirt!
Artwork aside (which I like personally), I am counting down the days to get my hands on the album, just waiting for a teaser track for now.
Dug out 'Starspawn' and 'Interdimensional Extinction' for a spin in preparation for the new album. I have 'Starspawn' on now. It's good stuff but I've found that over the past few years I've been more inclined to revisit Spectral Voice. I think the more doomy gloomy shit tends to hit me harder than the techy spacey stuff. Looking forward to hearing the new album, none the less. It'll be interesting to hear how they have developed.
Ps. I got a chuckle out the lyric sheet when I saw that they name all their lead solos ('Fractal Humanoid Dimensions'- Reidl, 'Caustic Existence'- Kolobtyrsky etc.) . Also surprised to see The Winding Sheet mentioned in the thanks list. I must have interviewed them for it but my mind is a sieve...
A soundtrack to Ancient Aliens?
Quote from: Paul keohane on September 21, 2019, 07:12:18 PM
I know the artwork is splitting opinion,but i love the shirt!
Where did you find that shirt? cant see any preorders or anything up yet
Quote from: nukeabuse on September 23, 2019, 12:50:56 PM
Quote from: Paul keohane on September 21, 2019, 07:12:18 PM
I know the artwork is splitting opinion,but i love the shirt!
Where did you find that shirt? cant see any preorders or anything up yet
if you follow Matt Calvert (Dark Descent records) on facebook/twitter,he said he'll be doing preorders in a few weeks.
I'd Say Century Media will do a similar one for Euros when the preorders launch too.
Quote from: polymer on September 23, 2019, 09:36:12 AM
A soundtrack to Ancient Aliens?
Yeah, that's what I thought of too. On the surface of it, an oddly "meme" direction to go in. Can we confirm whether or not Tom DeLonge has a guest spot??
It's nice to see a DM record get a good bit of mass anticipation around it! Honestly, given the amount of silly and ridiculous art this genre has given birth to, it's really not a contender for a stand-out in terms of terribleness.
The only thing I'll say is it's a shame it wasn't ready in time for the Immolation tour. Going on Instagram, they're already playing a fair bit off it on the first few nights of the tour, but it would be cool to be somewhat familiar with the songs when they come through.
There's videos of two of the songs on line for a while now (going back to the Decibel tour) if that's any help
I will await the Giza power plant's official grand opening.
Seeing these with Immolation next month have seen them once already and gave the last album a go. Still not convinced.
Darragh was saying he'll be getting copies of this in for locals.
It's very good. Far less instant/catchy parts than previous, and to be honest 4 songs seems a bit short even if one of them is 18 minutes long. But highly enjoyable, total Roadracer Records circa 91 magic to it.
There definitely seems to be a more explicitly Schuldiner influence in the guitars on this one I'd say. And fuck me, the blast part have definitely picked up a few BPM!
Super sold on that description.
Saw it described elsewhere as "Modern Day Timeghoul" which is accurate, although BI are a lot clearer sounding.
But yeah, it really did take me back to hearing "At Death's Door" on first listen. Imagine all the bands on that at the same time :laugh:
Like I said before I haven't been into anything this band has done before but this new album is great. I have listened to the whole thing about 10 times over the last few days and really enjoying it.
Is the album up somewhere?
It's available on some of the blog sites. I think the label or someone else fucked up and the bandcamp download codes for the people who pre-ordered got sent out last week instead of at the end of November.
New video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYzciq9GVs&f
Ballsy move using the weirdest song on there as a single.
Fits the zeitgeist of the online ancient alien wisdom fan demographic, making it great for sharing. Cool tune too. I'd also almost go so far as to say that practically any frame from that video would have made better artwork for the album. But yeah, cool tune, ain't heard the album yet myself.
Just had a listen there, ballsy move for sure. Really liking it though, they're defo not a meat and potatoes kinda DM band.
The actual video reminds me of something you'd see on "The Chill Out Zone" on MTV in the 90s at about 3 am
Haha, bang on comparison!
I really just want to hear the meat and potato parts,the 18 min long track has me worried,im not a fan of ridiculously long songs in any genre.
Kinda sounds like Mastodon with blast beats
The other songs are business as usual
Seeing them tonight much more excited then I was the first time round due to how good this new album is and I of course can't wait to see Immolation.
Have BI played in Ireland? I think I remember something about them coming to Dublin back on the old forum?
No they haven't. it was looked into but it didn't work unfortunately.
Thanks I couldn't remember is they ended up playing.
They were great last night new material sounds great live. Immolation as always were brilliant.
This album kills, I've had it on pretty heavy rotation the last week, I'm Finding I'm enjoying it more than I did the first one actually. I definitely hear the more Schuldiner-esque sections. I think I'm in the minority but I think the cover looks great.
Well. Now. This is absolutely hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=J_RuT79FnZc
:laugh: some people have way to much time on their hands! :laugh:
Quote from: Pentagrimes on October 30, 2019, 02:19:09 PM
Well. Now. This is absolutely hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=J_RuT79FnZc
Seriously hope he isn't kidding and this is the start of a series
Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUQO_KPuVA Here's your meat n' potatoes Paul
Fuckin great!!
Stuck that track on repeat today for almost two hours. Good, good sauce.
Have to stop listening to the two released tracks so I can give the album a balanced listen when it releases, but they're just obscenely good.
I somehow missed this band completely til last week. I heard the name but never got around to them.
I apologize.
Fuck me they are incredible. I've been listening to the back catalogue solid and on the second spin of the new one now. Savage. That drummer is a beast.
Oh fuck, why did I have to check Spotify for this before bed...
Getting through my first listen now. Definitely my favourite death metal album of this year, if not my favourite album. Does a good job of keeping things interesting for the whole thing. Really like the production, gets a good balance of wet reverby vocals with the rest of the band.
It's phenomenal. It's everything good about death metal with none of the flab.
The band are doing an AMA on Reddit newt Wednesday at 23:00 if anyone's so inclined.
Listened to it fully now!,fuckin incredible!
Quote from: Ducky on November 22, 2019, 03:38:40 PM
The band are doing an AMA on Reddit newt Wednesday at 23:00 if anyone's so inclined.
Do you have a link? I don't use reddit and it seems like it's hard to find stuff on it.
Here's the announcement thread. The metal community isn't on the front page and is kinda buried to prevent the "guys Lars Ulrich invented double bass with The Black Album" type of nonsense you see on other subreddits and it works well. Easily one of the best on there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/dzz1mp/blood_incantation_ama_announcement/
Quote from: Ducky on November 22, 2019, 04:50:59 PM
Here's the announcement thread. The metal community isn't on the front page and is kinda buried to prevent the "guys Lars Ulrich invented double bass with The Black Album" type of nonsense you see on other subreddits and it works well. Easily one of the best on there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Metal/comments/dzz1mp/blood_incantation_ama_announcement/
:laugh: Thanks yes buried is the word I was looking for. Seems to be loads of good stuff on that website not just music but finding it is the problem.
Yep. There's some absolute nonsense on it (the PS4 sub is possibly the worst gaming forum I've ever seen), but the metal sub is well moderated and there's some curation happening there too. Even if you don't bother with an account there's enough cool shit posted there on a daily basis to keep anyone in music for an age.
The metal subreddit is pretty good, it has a blacklist so bands who are popular don't get spammed all the time so there's an emphasis on underground stuff.
Sometimes there's kind of a weird blur with what they consider metal or not though which is pretty funny.
When someone posts Converge it will be spammed with 'not metal' comments but then there'll be a Kyuss post upvoted highly.
Then the general opinion on the sub is that Ghost aren't metal and suck but Uncle Acid are a top tier doom band :laugh:, there's no consistency.
Ha, yeah it's a bit inconsistent at times alright 😁 Still though, they're an affable bunch and the off topic section yields some good non-metal stuff too.
It's a bit like here without the Rings of Saturn jumpers.
I've had this on repeat since about half three today, fuck.
Fuck man, 'Slave Species to the Gods' is the most ordinary death metal song I've heard in ages. I have listened to it a couple of times hoping some of their genius would make itself apparent. There's nothing at all interesting about it. It's cool that they are doing well and I wish them all the best, but fuck me if the hype is going over my head.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 23, 2019, 10:14:48 PM
Fuck man, 'Slave Species to the Gods' is the most ordinary death metal song I've heard in ages. I have listened to it a couple of times hoping some of their genius would make itself apparent. There's nothing at all interesting about it. It's cool that they are doing well and I wish them all the best, but fuck me if the hype is going over my head.
I like it but yeah, overhyped for sure. Massive Morbid Angel and Mastodon influence in the songs to these ears and it's definitely enjoyable but not revolutionary by any means. That being said I never really got into Starspawn, just never clicked with me. Interdimensional Extinction has some great moments though, mainly down to the drumming.
I always liked them. I saw them live in NY and thought it was a great set but I tend not to stick them on all that much. The two new songs I've listened to are so fucking ordinary I'm scratching my head wondering where all this buzz is coming from. I hear fuck all MA in terms of either the wild viciousness of their old stuff or the inventiveness of Blessed or Covenant. It's DM by numbers. Chug-chug- pinch harmonic... could be any support band from anywhere really.
Might have been a little harsh last night with a few beers down the hatch but I think my point stands. Maybe there's really great stuff in the three remaining songs that I haven't heard but I'd consider Dead Congregation, who are doing something broadly similar, to be far more convincing. They are darker, their riffs are better and stick in your head more, they are more vicious... Oddly DC are often referred to as being quite generic but I think they have a much more unique sound than BI, who get treated like revolutionaries. I don't even think the new BI songs are bad, they are enjoyable in their own right, just a bit normal sounding. Funnily after listening to that song last night it put me in mind of Ghoulgotha so I lashed on one of their songs and it sounded far more adventurous to me, despite them having been largely ignored before they disappeared.
I'd tend to pretty much agree with that. Never listened to them before so I stuck it on last night to see what all the fuss was about and wasn't exactly blown away. I enjoyed it alright, it's well played, catchy in places, solid DM but I'm struggling to see where the massive hype comes from
Going to give it a few more goes and see if anything sticks
I think it's one of those things where (for my ears) everything just adds up perfectly. I really like their quieter, atmospheric moments too, there's great dynamics in their playing, it's not all going for the throat, there's a real ebb and flow to it. It's brilliantly produced and it's catchy.
I don't hear a tap of MA in there (who are to my ears one of the most massively overrated bands to ever exist) and even less of Mastodon.
As for DC, I seem to have the inverse experience of McLove - BI have a secret, intangible sauce that is hard to put my finger on and DC are a solid, but unremarkable death metal by numbers affair, an entirely forgettable band.
Taste is a funny auld thing.
It's a matter of taste alright. I'd feel much the same about 99.9% of the black metal stuff posted, it all sounds utterly ordinary to me. BI definitely have some kind of inexplicable X factor and while they remind of other bands in places, they just sound like Blood Incantatio - whereas if you can listen to Dead Congregation (who I love) without honestly going "yeah, but they're just a younger faster Immolation", then you're a better man than me.
I think my issue is that DC (arbitrary example obviously) sound distinctly Dead Congregation-ish despite not trying to revolutionise the DM formula on any way. BI sound to me like a little bit of this and a little bit of that but there's not much BI in the mix that I can hear. They are possibly a victim of the hype machine which is not exactly their fault. They play what they play and they play it well enough but they are being lauded as something which they don't appear to be. 'Slave Race to the Gods' to me is perfectly fine DM but if it was a local band I'd be excited about what they could come up with when they finally take their various inspirations and did something unique with them. Some of the riffs in that song are literally death metal for beginners :laugh:
Fuck a stupid looking alien on the front cover et voila, revolutionary!
Theres some good footage doing the rounds of the album release show in Denver over the weekend,looked brilliant!
I know I'm being perhaps unfairly harsh on them. They are grand.
Ah no, I don't think you are, it's entirely taste based.
Oh actually hang on, death metal for beginners? That's pretty harsh.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing bad about a bit of chuggy chuggy pinch harmonic riffage. It has its place and can be very effective. It's just the first thing anyone who tries to write a DM song is likely to do.
Heh, yeah that's pretty harsh. They obviously know how to play. I've listened to a lot of the EP and Starspawn in the past, and after hammering the new one this weekend, they absolutely have a tone and style that's "them". It stands out and is memorable to me.
I remember reading an interview with either Mike Portnoy or Gene Hoglan (up or down it was someone that really knows their way around a drum kit) and they were criticized for playing a "drumming for beginners" (paraphrasing) part in a song and their response was along the lines of it's a song and you play what works and you also have dynamics, it's not an exercise to build chops or a challenge to play as technically as possible all the time.
And I think that's another reason why they're memorable - they're playing for the song and letting it breath and have dynamics. Not everything has to be super technical, original or pulverising.
I'd also say that while I don't think they're trying to revolutionise death metal or what have you, the two latter tracks aren't exactly what you'd expect to find on a typical death metal record.
I think I'm a sucker for the old sci-fi death metal slant. I needed something new after listening to Artificial Brain on repeat for 3 years, this has definitely filled that void
Quote from: mick1sheridan on November 25, 2019, 12:39:56 PM
I think I'm a sucker for the old sci-fi death metal slant. I needed something new after listening to Artificial Brain on repeat for 3 years, this has definitely filled that void
Get Nucleus into you as well so.
Ah yeah, tis grand.
It's good. Its very good. That long song is really good. Good
First listen of this today.
Really food stuff.
The long one needs a lot of attention yet, though.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Fucking fat fingers
Fat fingers always thinking about the food!
Good album.
This is fairly deadly. Gave it a lash the other night in the background and thought it was great, must give it another go with my full attention some evening soon.
Spun it last night. Tis well good.
When Starspawn came out I listened to a few tracks and thought it was fairly good but nothing special. Then I had some time and stuck on the opening track and bang, sold. What an incredible piece of music especially the last few minutes. The rest of the album pales after it but is solid.
Need to give the new one some more time as I reckon it needs more than a casual listen but definitely is readily identifiable as Blood Incantation. Artwork is cat.
Interdimensional extinction is a ripper as previously mentioned, especially the drums. I usually play the opener from Starspawn and then lash on the ep . Must check out the split with Spectral Voice too.
It's an undeniably strong release, but I have to echo the sentiments that the ridiculous hype around it has somewhat diluted it for me. It's not that huge a departure from Starspawn, but I'm just not finding myself want to return to it as much as I was expecting. That may change. In any case, their current success is warranted and I'm glad to see them do so well but their fanbase needs to chill the fuck out a bit
My major complaint is really just that I'd have liked another song or two. Very few death metal abdsn I'd want more than 40 minutes of but BI are in that category.
Absolutely agree with Karl on the fanbase thing, though having said that I'll be booking flights to see them at least once when they announce tour dates. Can't stress enough that their live set really does justify the hype about them.
I had the album on last night and, despite my arguments above which I stand behind, I think it sounds cool. I will pick it up if I see the CD around for sale.
Sounds ok so far, only listened to it properly twice though.
Sat down with this and gave it a proper listen and I'm liking it much, much more. Still think some of the fans are going a bit overboard but it's eay better than I first thought
Is there much difference quality wise between this and Starspawn?
Picked up the record yesterday after a good few listens on spotify. Agree about the hype and spastic fans but it's a great album.
Quote from: Trev on November 29, 2019, 05:43:51 PM
Is there much difference quality wise between this and Starspawn?
I didn't have much interest in Starspawn and i think this new album is great.
I think Starspawn is a dm classic myself,i love this new one but definitely think Starspawn is better.
I think this is the better record but Hidden Species from Starspawn is their best song.
New tracks out now sojnd excellent, right up my street dudes
Link to said new track (below)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WYceFbHw4
From 4.44 onwards is sublime, excited to hear more from these lads
Ya, that's second half is blissful.