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BLOOD INCANTATION

Hidden History Of The Human Race DARK DESCENT/CENTURY MEDIA

Denver death metallers go boldy where no band has gone before

SCI-FI AND DEATH metal are natural bedfellows; both of them attempt to push the boundaries of our imagination and are considered as outcasts. Yet for the most part, when cosmonauts sporting Morbid Angel t-shirts have aimed for the stars, they’ve taken the space rock/Hawkwind route, filling their music with effects and lyrical references to evoke the vastness of space.

In recent years, Mithras and newcomers such as Nucleus have done their best to reach out to extreme metal and Carl Sagan fans alike, but if Nocturnus AD’s reunion album felt like a good yet familiar flick, is the musical equivalent of : a profoundly more cerebral yet thoroughly spectacular effort.

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