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Death Metal Album of the Week: Incantation – Diabolical Conquest
Incantation will of course be best recognized for their debut full-length, the powerful, dark epic that was ‘Onward To Golgotha’, however seeing as having given this album several listens, it deserves it’s place as an overlooked classic of the death metal genre. A slight change recognizable but non-detrimental is the guttural bellow of Daniel Corchado, of Cenotaph and The Chasm fame, who also handles bass, additional guitar and makes some lyrical and songwriting contributions. This brings no drastic change to how the band sound on record, but instead brings about new experiments in harmony, melody and texture that didn’t make themselves as present on earlier releases. Production-wise the music is dominated by the thick, bassy atmosphere of the guitars, giving the same dark depth that is one of the key features of Incantation’s sound and appeal. Kyle Severn’s drums are also higher up in the mix, though his rhythmic playing conforms more with the stream of guitar, and sounds less juxtaposed than on earlier releases. More notable are the experiments with pace and tempo on this album, and is much more varied in it’s fast-slow polarity, only under the framework of tighter, less free-form musicianship that defines earlier work. This is a dark, precise and enchanting opus that adds further testimony to the excellence of one of the subgenres most overlooked and important bands.
Filed under: Death Metal Album of the Week — Tags: Black Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Death Metal — Pearson @ November 23, 2009 09:12 — Comments (1)
[...] meaninglessly in deep space. The melodies that tear out of this method resemble a less occult Incantation or Infester but are imbued with all of their insanities. Shades of Revenant appear in the shredding [...]
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