Blood Incantation – Astral Spells (2014)

June 2, 2024

Mixed bag early release from the now legendary Blood Incantation. As has already been firmly established, these tracks are available elsewhere on better releases, so Astral Spells is a listen for the true ‘heads and the lost. The TLDR is that the first twelve minutes of music is glorious technical death metal but with an anxious and paranoid edge, like I’m creeping around corners in an abandoned moon base filled with monsters. Like Death meets Timeghoul meets Bobby Prince. Fantastic stuff, with an organic yet warm and clear production.

This thing loses heavy points for its garbage padded runtime of awful live tracks. That’s an immediate press of the stop button for me, dog.