{"id":52,"date":"2023-10-01T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/?p=52"},"modified":"2023-12-29T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:54:18","slug":"blood-incantation-timewave-zero-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/blood-incantation-timewave-zero-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero (2022, Century Media Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Blood Incantation<\/strong><\/a> announced that their new studio release would be an ambient and atmospheric album, few of us could have guessed what the death metal quartet from Denver (Colorado) was up to after having given birth to two works as colossal as Hidden History Of The Human Race<\/strong><\/em> (2019) and their debut album, Starspawn<\/em><\/strong>, from 2016. The band formed by Isaac Faulk<\/strong> on drums, Jeff Barrett<\/strong> on bass, Morris Kolontyrsky<\/strong> on guitar and Paul Riedl<\/strong> combining his duties as guitarist and vocalist debuted in 2015 with a splendid EP such as Interdimensional Extinction<\/em><\/strong>, an authentic example of old school death metal with which they made it clear what their label would be when it was time to release their first full-length, a year after Interdimensional Extinction<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then they have released a live album, Live Vitrification<\/em><\/strong> (2018), and their devastating second album, Hidden History Of The Human Race<\/em><\/strong>, released in 2019 under the Dark Descent Records<\/strong> label. In this latest studio work, the increase in psychedelic elements in their compositions was already noticeable, including synthesizers and keyboards with a dark sound that generated an atmosphere very consistent with the depth that the band wanted to convey with their music. This evolution suited the Colorado quartet wonderfully and both critics and audiences succumbed to the charms of Blood Incantation<\/strong>, yours truly included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With three years of high school to give life to their new spawn, few of us would have imagined that the band would opt for an ambient album after blowing our minds with Hidden History Of The Human Race<\/em><\/strong>, to the point of practically eliminating death metal from the equation to focus solely and exclusively on an album that walks between darkwave and dungeon synth with certain touches of the Germans CAN <\/strong>or Tangerine Dream<\/strong>, authentic banners of krautrock that emerged in the late sixties in West Germany. In addition to the purest electronic part that we find in Timewave Zero<\/em><\/strong>, there are certain elements that remind us of Biosphere or Vangelis, thus suggesting a connection with bands like Atrium Carceri<\/strong>, Sun O)))<\/strong>, Ulver <\/strong>or Velvet Caccoon<\/strong>, with certain remnants of the most eclectic Burzum <\/strong>from the late nineties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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