Get excited!

book

Very excite!

Wheeeeeee!!

Song/band absolutely rules

(spoiler the other half of the album is awesome too 😉)

it's OKAY

Wooo!

My body is ready.

Meh

Ready for transport.

Buttfucks me into the 69th dimension.

2 minute Pink Floyd section out of nowhere. It's neat but does feel a bit out of place

All the constituent parts are great (the video helps bring it all together) but I wish the space rock parts had as much of an identity as the death metal parts. This does feel like listening to a mix tape of death metal, prog and ambient instead of a cohesive whole.

Props to Blood Incantation for attempting something of this scale though. Will definitely give this more listens.

Well Pink Floyd king of does the same thing... you get some weird parts and then suddenly it's some insanely beautiful melodic stuff for a couple minutes and then back to some weird stuff.
I'm hoping the other track has more hevvvvvy stuff throughout but 90% of this track was sweet and 20 mins goes by oddly fast

I feel like the prog/electronica interludes are great. All 3 tablets are just so good.

The prog parts are cool, but where is the signature Blood Incantation riff style? All the DM parts feel very run of the mill to glue the prog together.

Idk, I thought them riffs were p tasty

for all their posturing about eschewing creative restrictions and people not being on board with their new sound, this sounds suspiciously compromised, like they were spooked by the backlash to the synth noodle album and tacked on the dm parts as an afterthought to please the fans. it does the same thing most other bands that have tried this genre fusion thing end up doing in that it’s two different sounds slapped together in an alternating pattern without feeling cohesive or like a single vision. it’s not bad but it feels like a band cracking under the weight of their own marketing campaign.

^ agreed with that partially

the message is mostly awesome though

Yes the only thing heavier than Blood Incantation is their marketing campaign lol

Putting out half the album as a single kinda ruins the record imo. I'll wait

Song/band rules

Song is amazing. One of my favourites this year. Also love the music video.

Heard these guys are trying to sell records

Of music they enjoyed making, and believe in

In 2024!!!!

Shame on them

If their vision isn’t fully fleshed out on this record i am abandoning my fanship and faith in them

Who's with me??!!11!!1!eleven!

i mean I thought they did it really well with obliquity of the ecliptic but this feels a lot less cohesive than that. makes me wonder if they backtracked and rewrote some things before recording.

Slaps as expected, big AOTY contender for me.

Sarcasm aside i do understand the crit but idk my crazy take is that not all metal bands need to seamlessly fuse other genres into their sound

Maybe we don’t need the next _____ - ______ Metal and maybe these guys are on to something allowing other sounds to breathe without adding a distorted dm riff every 5 seconds

I’m glad you liked obliquity tho, maybe this record will grow on you with time ; )

I fail to see where these guys let anything breathe on the new album, and I think there's a standard for being more cohesive because the band has done so in the past. I would usually almost always agree with you but as much as I like the new album, most of it sounds damn near BTBAM-esque in its wacky disjointedness

Awesome track and video.

I don’t really follow that logic Slex, you say standard, i say expectation. And my point is that musicians don’t exist to give their audience what they’re expecting all the time. But i certainly respect your experience of the album. If it’s not flowing for you, it’s not flowing for you!

Putting out half the album as a single kinda ruins the record imo. I'll wait


…you know it’s out in two days right?

Yakno that's an insightful and fair point @normal, it's easy (for me) to get swept up in fandom and place weight on my expectations for what a band is going to do. That being said, I do definitely wish new album flowed better ye

the whole “temper your expectations” point is moot when the band and its label have spent the better part of a year hyping up the album as a genre busting magnum opus that breaks the mold and creates something entirely new. that’s why I said it sounds like a band cracking under that pressure. they set these expectations and you cant really chastise the listeners for taking it all to heart.

I just expected it to hopefully be as good as Hidden History and I don't think it is, it's still good tho!

this is actually pretty cool. not gonna listen to the full thing right now but that part at 4 minutes in is wicked. think if I did acid and listened to this album I might shit myself.

Hyperion am i coming off as chastising? I’ve definitely been sarcastic once or twice itt but i think chastising is a mischaracterization. Correct me if I’m wrong

To your point, I don’t remember the band saying “this thing is gonna flow like butter you won’t even know where one set of influences begin and the others end”

They said it’s something new and defies genre expectations. And i don’t find issue with the strong language coming from their camp over the last year What do you want them to do, market the album as something they only sort of believe in? If the audience sets up expectations about what it will be like and whether or not they will enjoy it, that is a separate issue. From the sound of it, many people are enjoying the new music and finding something new and different about it. Just because others don’t feel that way doesn’t mean that the band has somehow been disingenuous about what they’re delivering. “Do you appreciate the subtleties of tastebuds…?”

I’m happy to be along for the ride and i think critiquing a band for their music is perfectly fine, especially when it comes to you lot that know tons about music and music history and have great ears…but claiming to know what a band should or shouldn’t be doing is a stretch imo!

The fact that Midwife is opening for them on tour is WILD. I will likely be going predominantly for her.

That's an insane show wow

not you specifically, it’s the sentiment I see all over the internet. i just don’t think this is anything new at all.

enslaved we’re doing extreme metal + krautrock fusions years ago and made it sound much more organic and cohesive than what BI have managed to do. kudos for them for trying to branch out, I just don’t think it was all that successful.

Fair enough!

I do think in this day and age, creating entirely new art is a difficult nigh impossible task, what makes art “fresh” is the soul of the people creating it, their intentions, and how they make it their own influenced by their own personal influences. Without even hearing Enslaved, i would agree with you that BI is probably not making something completely new here. But is it fresh? Hell yeah. And that’s because they’re not just ripping someone off, theyre bringing what they find beautiful to the center and imbuing it with their own voice.

Now whether or not you vibe with that is totally up to you and I’m not gonna get mad if you don’t feel the same way. That’s kinda just where I’m at with music in general lately

Stop writing cheesy paragraphs lol

THEIR DOING WHAT THEY FIND BEAUTIFUL AND BRINGING IT TO THE FORFRONT "insert ten big words" chastising and imbuing the molecular structures within the minds and soul of Sputnikmusic!!!

You’re not my real dad!!!

Within obtuse condescending gigabite phycology transporters of degradation and minute terra fields !!!!

And MOIST prog jazz ambient death rated a 4.87683/5 on the rating scale graph chart particular equalizer from the fucking future

my problem with the first 1/3 track of the Stargate is that it opens with metal but then lapses into prog before really letting that metal go anywhere, giving very big Blackwater Park vibes. The reason why the latter track works tho is that no other song on BWP really does that, so it's a unique structural plot twist. On AE it feels like the band do that quite a lot, just introduce a riff and wander a bit before going prog again so it feels kinda whiplashy.

Opeth ruined progdeath for other bands.

Nah, Opeth ruined progdeath for the fans who put them on a pedestal

I'm tentatively excited / intrigued for this, but am admittedly a little sceptical hearing the reception to it thus far and the potential for a lack of identity (just a sense I get after their marketing post-Timewave zero, which seemingly got 'downgraded' to an EP after the backlash, lmao)

Timely course-correction, or misguided fan service? TBD

When did you get all serious? I miss the fun, easy-going demon.

I've really enjoyed this. Over multiple listens, it does seem like the technicality has taken a backseat to the band's desire to create a cosmic soundscape and I can certainly see how the DM elements can seem forced. But I find it to be a healthy balance, honestly.

"When did you get all serious? I miss the fun, easy-going demon."

this is a prog thread, the most serious of all the threads

I was just trying to fit in!

I like these guys but this band is honestly so overrated. People treat them like the next coming of Death or something

They are that good tbh. Not new Death status though, but getting their own thing going. One of the most innovative acts in the DM scene nowadays.

I struggle to see how they're innovating at all. Solid dm band though

Guess some people don't possess the required DNA sophistication to appreciate this band.

"People treat them like the next coming of Death"

That would be Horrendous, but we not gonna lie and act like Starspawn/Hidden History weren't some really impressive death metal with distinct character.

starspawn is a modern classic yeah. also the frickin production on it!!! gosh the drums are sublime

there will never be another death, Chuck was one of a kind

“That would be Horrendous”

I have tried so many times to get into Horrendous and it just hasn’t clicked. They were fun live though

This is getting crazy praise. Alot of folks that have heard it are giving it 5/5 and saying it's their best record. And tbh I don't doubt it. Ive never been the biggest blood incantation fan myself I always thought they were a tad over hyped personally but the first half of the album (single) is pretty damn good yeah

"gosh the drums are sublime"

yeah and it sucks that they continue to sound worse every time D:

Good thread

this is great

"like they were spooked by the backlash to the synth noodle album"

are you talking about timewave? Because that was FAR from noodling

MO's seal of approval is the gold standard.

> are you talking about timewave? Because that was FAR from noodling
[2] It was better than the overrated debut.