Review by Sonny for Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)

I'm not a huge fan of modern death metal, being as it either concentrates on being excessively technical or full of juvenile "brutal" imagery, but if this is the kind of album that is coming out of another area of the current DM scene, then count me in 'cause this is the shit! Progressive, but not full of technical wankery, with a spacey atmosphere at times reminiscent of the Waste of Space Orchestra album Syntheosis, this veers from old-school death metal riffing to space rock atmospherics without adversely affecting the out and out heaviness - it even manages to shoehorn a short section seemingly borrowed from The Dark Side of the Moon into the ludicrously long-titled eighteen minute closing track, Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul), a song that will surely be hailed as a new benchmark for an ever-evolving branch of death metal. I'm always up for a bit of sci-fi imagery and some epic songwriting to get into and this has both in spades, coupled with a great production job and performance and we have a winner of the Best Death Metal Album of the Year award.