INCANTATION Sect Of Vile Divinities Album Review | Overkill Reviews

[@yetisuncle666]

i met john and the gang back in 2000 and man i gotta say, they were fucking amazing. i wasnt expecting to bump into them, and was perusing their merch table and realized i needed a new beer. as i trod up to the bar, not even 10 feet from the merch table john and the gang walked up to me (seemingly like they meant to speak to me) and just came up to me and started bullshitting as tho we were old pals. i didnt have anything for autograph, so they grabbed a poster from the merch table and had everyone sign it for me. needless to say i procured a new longsleeve from them after i refilled my alcohol levels. and holy shit that was a kickass show. they were really kool. i still have the pics from that night. it was really fantastic.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Awesome to hear you remember that! Thanks for the support!

[@posisteve]

I'm lucky to be from Cleveland where I've seen them 10 plus times. I likely own more shirts from incantation than any other band

[@posisteve]

@@Ibexmoonrecords I still have a 1994 tour shirt you signed from when my buddies and I walked to your show at the Phantasy in Lakewood.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

@@posisteve that's awesome 🤘🤘🤘

[@Bloodsack1]

Damn I've seen this band like 50 times. They played with everyone back in the day. Good to see them still around

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Hell yeah!

[@ThrashTIllDeath555]

I'm pretty happy with this album overall, I understand that fans of this band are disappointed with the cleaner sound of the last several albums. To me though the Incantation sound is still present and still delivers quality death metal.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@ChoseDeath]

Personally, I like both incarnations of Incantation.

[@Jakster840]

@@Ibexmoonrecords Fuck yeah! Sect is an excellent addition to the discography and I like that you guys branched out with your sound a bit.

[@sixsixsix.]

Hail Incantation...met John, he's cool as a person even off stage.

[@alexanderferus7816]

Indeed

[@wholepuncher1]

I broke my glasses trying to get the pit started at an Incantation show last year. They started up Impending Diabolical Conquest and I couldn't help myself. John's a hell of a frontman.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

@@wholepuncher1 Sorry about you glasses. But I happy you enjoyed the gig.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

@Wytchfinde we will chat in person some day!

[@ChoseDeath]

He really is a very nice man.

[@harryduthie7087]

Bottle of Ardbeg in the background, this guy knows good whisky.

[@luciosantos3608]

I though the same lol Ardberg is only for who has high level Testosterona. Not for "sex on the beach" drinkers :)

[@oscarjimenezacuna1832]

Love this channel!!! Horns from Costa Rica, keeping up with you guys!

[@theogonia1983]

It's always driven me crazy that Incantation hasn't historically been regarded on the same level as Cannibal corpse or Deicide

[@ericwilliams7374]

My personal opinion, Incantation has been on a level that Cannibal Corpse, and Deicide haven't really been on for a while now. For me, CC has become a Commercial Cookie Cutter of their former selves, and Deicide haven't been Deicide since the brothers left the band. Amon crushes Deicide, even though they aren't consistent with releases and or touring.

[@ingmarfris8175]

@@ericwilliams7374 I don't know if I agree about Amon however I do think that Deicide has not been good for a while. CC is very cookie cutter right now.

[@keithmjali761]

The NY side of death metal is seemingly undervalued compared to the Floridian side 🤔 (Suffocation being the only outlier)

[@BangerTV]

true

[@ericwilliams7374]

@@ingmarfris8175 hey, it's cool to disagree.....I think so many have forgotten that we can disagree, and still get along. Not unless you wanna fight, we can.... Dumbass, Amon is the shit, you're stupid for thinking other wise. That part was just in case you wanted to fight.... I have everything covered!!!!!😂😂😂😂

[@fighter2705]

Blayne is gonna make a METAL lasagna

[@Malkav65]

Sounds HEAVY

[@Assimilator702]

aquatic rhombus Actually I hear it’s EXTREMELY LIGHT.

[@Malkav65]

Joe Rico I’m glad its ingredients don’t require any DEATH. I’m just worried he’ll overcook it and it comes out BLACKENED

[@BangerTV]

FROM SCRATCH TOO!

[@fighter2705]

@@BangerTV hope the scratch is the old and worn out flying v guitars of cannibal corpse hahahahha :)

[@personavisceration371]

Hey they relocated to Cleveland for like a minute in the late 90's. How do you think they got Kyle? Gotta represent!

[@acidarrow]

For some reason I only have one Incantation CD - "forsaken mourning of angelic anguish" and it's brilliant, I must get more.

[@ericwilliams7374]

Honestly, you can't go wrong with getting any album from Incantation!!! They have been a favorite of mine ever since Onward to Galgotha!!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

@@ericwilliams7374 hell yeah🤘

[@BangerTV]

catch em all

[@ChoseDeath]

I agree. Pick up any album you can find, Incantation don't make bad albums.

[@themarkedman72]

faceless burial is a great band from my hometown MElbourne, saw them with Necrot last year. The new album is killer.

[@Chris_Oblivion]

A video with not only Blayne, but the legend Branches name-checked? Best video so far. Two top dudes

[@BangerTV]

LEGENDARY

[@greycloudyday5980]

One of my favorite bands. I remember being in high school and picking up Onward to Golgotha. Saw a video last week off this album and love it.

[@ericwilliams7374]

Yes sir, my very first experience with them as well!!!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Hell yeah that's awesome to hear!

[@greycloudyday5980]

That was 91 92 around then

[@greycloudyday5980]

@@ericwilliams7374 groovy buddy.

[@greer776611]

Onward to Golgotha- one of the best- saw them in the 90's at the Berkeley Square!

[@splatterbrained]

Thanks Blayne for introducing me to both Outre Tombe and Hooded Menace!

[@justinflemings5756]

Incantation doesn't seem capable of making bad death metal. They are gods.

[@BangerTV]

100%

[@MrJoshItIs]

They kill live as well

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

@@MrJoshItIs thanks guys!

[@ChoseDeath]

Incantation and Vader are the Motorhead of Death Metal. They don't make bad albums, they just make not-their-best albums. I've never put an Incantation album on and left disappointed.

[@florianedesy2456]

Chant of formless dread Opened my Eyes on the Album too ♡^^

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Thanks 🤘

[@stevesekora]

Seen Incantation in playing in a basement in the 90's supporting their Onward to Golgatha album..Been I fan ever since.. doesn't get more knuckle dragging death metal than these guys.

[@heavymetalhq6908]

🤘Thanks for the review😈I’m a big Incantation fan because of their take on Death Doom!

[@nikolademitri731]

I want to love this new Incantation album. I definitely need more time with it, but just with them in general, I should love them, they have elements of the styles I loved for years (doom, some psychedelia), and now that I’m finally figuring out what I like in extreme metal, these dudes should basically be my favorite of all OG death metalists (not counting Death, bc that’s unfair), but aren’t, at least not yet. Maybe I just need to listen to the right album(s) by them? Maybe I just need to see them live? That said, I do love that Expander album, or at least what I heard from it so far. Noise + experimentalish + thrash = happy me. I’ll check out the Tyranno too, bc you rarely steer us wrong. That also said, there’s just so much good music, including non-metal shit I’m digging, and I can’t keep up, damnit! ✌️🤘♾

[@polarprison4549]

Would it be possible for you guys to give us samples of the shout outs? Just to get an idea of what were looking for. Cheers 🤘

[@Nasoulis34]

Sorry but on guitars is not Sonny Lombardozzi but Luke Shively.

[@sonnylombardozzi7986]

Rhythms on the fast songs 80% of guitars and what solos are left and cut to shit!! I did!

[@TheSt0rmrider]

@Bangertv RE: Shout-outs... Categorizing Expander as merely "good thrash" is majorly under selling them @metalcomedy . It's more like Crazy Voivod meets Sludge type action

[@posisteve]

good watch. perhaps a recommendation to consider is editing in the solo section of the song you were talking about when you're talking about it.

[@laynevlogz4922]

Well said my dude! Great review!

[@csantana1971]

“accessible” “I really like this band”... sounds like I will check this out... the desth metal kid in me is now curious!

[@BangerTV]

Crank it up!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@cr4zyJ-79]

I saw these guys open up for Mayhem two years ago. In Burlington Vermont of all places.

[@shawnsmith8558]

I'm surprised they weren't headlining

[@BanjoSick]

@@shawnsmith8558 you mean for one of the most known metal bands of all time...

[@saltpeter7429]

Higher Ground or Nectar's? I re member going up ther after work in 2000 maybe to see The Misfits ( with some unknown band called Shadows Fall). Almost 3 hour drive one way. I got shut off in the doorway. ( place is full, that's it!) That sucked.

[@cr4zyJ-79]

@@saltpeter7429 Higher Ground

[@thatguido]

The sheer amount of "Hey"s in this review

[@anyss-tj7ht]

right on the spot... sounds unusually clean, takes off some of the evil feeling and intensity

[@buriedinbarbecue2548]

Pretty damn good album compared to the last few although I still dont like the ultra modern digital sound of the drums here. Same reason I dont like dying fetus or cattle decapitation, that computer drum sound makes it so much less brutal in my opinion.

[@DOPAMINErgic66]

I agree about the drums part. I personally think Profane Nexus had the edge compared to this one. However I think it’s on par with let’s day.. dirges of elysium or Decimate Christendom🤘

[@EminemAndFriends12]

I love the drums on Imprecations “Theurgia Goetia Summa”

[@Concatenate]

Expander is interesting, thanks for the recommendation.

[@hmetaljustin]

Eagerly awaiting for my CD/ T shirt bundle!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤞

[@Litoff90]

Soooooooo ... Incantation's last record (also reviewed by this gentleman) was an accountant ... What profession does this record have?? I gotta say, sounds pretty sick from the get go.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@XlouietheflyX]

Check out BEAST OF REVELATION, with John McEntee and Eric Daniels

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

I'm really happy how the Beast album came out.

[@ChoseDeath]

Not review related. So I was talking about this album not too long ago, and was mentioning that I had only seen Incantation once and it was in 2019. Then I got to thinking about that show. Here's the lineup, in the order they played. TERRORIZER INCANTATION WATAIN MORBID ANGEL I don't think I really appreciated how awesome that was at the time... 🤘🤘

[@suffocationgreece1911]

I dont know about all incantation albums but i think this new is their best!!!!!!! Totally sickened

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Thanks bro!

[@Chromosome1919]

Whoa i always thought this band started around the 2010's cuz of the fresh sound

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤣🤘

[@sxuperion]

@@Ibexmoonrecords you rule

[@cmd_f5]

incantation doesn't make bad death metal. This is a cleaner album sonically but still has that sound they crafted through the years. Win. Re: albums and DM slowing down. Cytotoxin's new one dropped, so feast your ears on some quality muscular tech death lol. Been spinning that and the latestSabiendas LP. Not released today but still a beasty record. New single from Benighted... Just look and you shall find good DM. But yeah it's annoying about slowdowns. That Carcass LP had me hoping but then got pushed back. Thankfully we will still have an EP in a few months. Better than nothing lol. Cheers

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@Mslade-ib5il]

Where did you get the shirt Blayne?

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Hmm i want to check out this album!!!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@zerilis]

Holy shit if you like Blood Incantation check out Faceless Burial, that shit slaps they weren't kidding.

[@dazzfreeman7294]

I'm not joking. You don't get any more metal than having a fucking flail mounted on your wall. What. A. Legend.

[@BanjoSick]

Do I see a bottle of Ardbeq Uigeadail in the right corner of the frame? Nice choice!

[@tjcaruthers5593]

There is a part of Incantations discography I havent heard an a large part of that has been how sonically their albums tend to sound bad. Not saying McEntees songs are bad. Fuck they are brutal. Here lies I think the reasons why Incantation and Immolation got lost in the shuffle was because of production and mixing. Blayne said it in the review about the better production of Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel ok not better but cleaner. I didnt hear an over produced sample hear like the over produced and not mixed well works from Cannibal or Morbid. The first thing I said when the snippet played was holy shit they cleaned it up. If only Onward to Golgotha sounded like this. So my complaint is with Blayne damn it. "Its to murky" or "you took to much of the murk off". This album sounds fucking great. I think that if Incantation and Immolation had better sounding completed albums starting with Onward to Golgotha and Dawn of Possession or within a couple of releases after the careers of these two bands would had taken a different path one resembling the careers of their Tampa counterparts.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘 I'm happy you like the new album perduction. dan Swano did a awesome job imo.🤘

[@wilcohoutman2352]

I was more hoping for a Overkill Review for the new album by the CANADIAN band Unleash The Archers

[@Drforrester31]

They did get an entry in the August Tip Sheet from Dylan

[@kevinberstler]

Every Incantation is accessible.

[@jarunia17]

I don't think so but whatever man :P

[@kevinberstler]

Jarosław Lipiński i meant to say that all of their albums are accessible, in that metal heads can listen and not be put off by the quality. They definitely don’t have any raw Vietnamese styles black sound. Haha

[@jarunia17]

Kevin Berstler So you meant more production-wise? Then I'd definitely agree.

[@kevinberstler]

Jarosław Lipiński yes! Sorry my message was clear. I just saw I didn’t even type “album” after Incantation. Haha

[@Indymetal89]

Where’s the Primitive Man review??

[@cookiemonster749]

An extremely good album.

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Thanks we are so happy you enjoy it🤘

[@saltpeter7429]

I think I will be ordering a copy of it. What I love about it is the almost old school non polished tone and mid pace. The same factors that I have heard them catching shit for from reviewers. Different strokes...

[@heavynov]

Know what, I may even tune in for the vegan lasagna. Props if you're a vegan, Blayne.

[@AchillesFeel]

Just bought it! This albums fucking awesome 🤘🏻

[@wholepuncher1]

Blayne, where'd you get that Outre Tombe longsleeve? Seems like every video now I'm askin about your shirts.

[@BangerTV]

He really does have the best shirts

[@lornaraine3570]

Some of the lows sound like Rose funerals vocals.

[@ericwilliams7374]

So, to sum up this review. It's a bad ass album, go get it!!!😂😂😂

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Hahaha yes🤘🤘🤘

[@ericwilliams7374]

@@Ibexmoonrecords awesome to hear from the man himself!!!! You know a lot of my buddies actually Ash Thomas, and Probably Jason Pate. Ash Thomas from Estuary Of Calamity, Faith Xtractor ( and a few others) Jason Pate is from Mechanations Of Fate. I played bass for a very, very, very short time with Thorns Of The Carrion in the extreme early days of their existence. Love this new album, been a huge fan ever since Onward to Galgotha!!!!!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Hell yeah Ash and the gang rule! Really cool people.

[@saltpeter7429]

SECT OF VILE DIVINITIES is the best album I have heard in a decade. Incantation marries the power and technicality of Death metal with the Indie/ DIY vibe of OlD school punk and alternative. At least that's my take on it. They do not and will not give two shits what is happening in the music world, gonna do what they need to. My ideal show would be a split bill of Incantation and the Melvins. Dreaming on....

[@gunshow86de]

Gonna have to disagree on calling Expander thrash, more like SciFi Converge. Still a great record (as was their last release).

[@neuroticgothguy]

STILL waitin on a review of the new Black Crown Initiate album.

[@josedias1387]

5 Skulls

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@7abian]

Minenfeld Bongripper Background pretty damn solid.

[@penumchrist]

Hahahaha amazing photo bro.

[@MrSquelch666]

Kyle from incantation has a moustache

[@benmech]

And Seth Putnam is still dead

[@claytonwalter8700]

Clothing freshly purchased at Walmart by his mom.

[@baax]

Incantation, Fuck yeah!

[@james.angel333]

can't wait for the new MEGATONSWORD

[@glass9]

That expander album is amazing 👌

[@budgetgitarr5351]

The production reminds me of the latest Tomb Mold album

[@batrico]

Like minds etc i have Faceless burial new cd in my collection. awesome stuff.

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

Where do you get your longsleeves ??

[@toddapplegate]

Blain, are you vegan!?! Either way is cool for me. I love vegan lasagna.

[@jbasti227]

Yes he is and I think Brad is too

[@houstonburkhead5188]

Great album. I think UNDERproduction is OVERrated. I dont mind it being producted a bit so i can hear everything and nothing gets drowned out.

[@Justintwoguys123]

I’ve never seen another Blayne spelt the same way as me.

[@robert1968ish]

Hails to all from England 🤘🏻☠️🤘🏻

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@nox_1349]

What happened to Sonny? He is out of the band!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

He left the band in late December 2019. We wish him all the best!

[@palax73]

2:31 Album Cover art: Eliran Kantor

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

Yes he did a great job.

[@jonzaker8880]

The heaviest and most brutal Death Metal record of 2020 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@philturc1217]

Nice longsleeve! Quebec represents haha

[@BangerTV]

killer band

[@gguolo]

Incantation always deliver! Also I want that katana

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@sixstringmetal8559]

Ardbeg!

[@kasc.9837]

Incantation!! Review 200 Stab Wounds!

[@Ibexmoonrecords]

🤘

[@kafaanda]

Hey!

[@BangerTV]

Hi!

[@ROSHANSHAWNHARTS]

faceless burial🤘🤘

[@Klauun]

The Expander album is brutal, like Killing Joke with steroids and halfbeats

[@Concatenate]

Agreed, killer stuff.

[@gxshepherd]

Skip to 10:10

[@alexday9404]

Blaine. Send me some of that lasagna!

[@Bricklinsv1970]

Drink Beer!

[@jocksilver7]

So you're still cleaning tables in this joint? Waste of Space. FAS !

[@robofurious]

I like vegan lasagna. I'm there!

[@welkinlawn2309]

This dude seems like a trendy mind slave

[@waynehasch5978]

This is the Canadian opinion. Is there no American opinion?

[@musicmex]

Vegan lasagna?! That’s not metal at all!

[@Benjamin-om3ih]

It's the most metal

[@jedicouncil66]

Vegan lasagna? That's like metal without guitar

[@Absaek]

You can make vegan lasagna just as unhealthy and tasty as non-vegan lasagna these days.

[@BangerTV]

@@Absaek 100%. Blayne loves to remind folks that he's vegan, not healthy.

[@Absaek]

@@BangerTV Lasagna is the best though! And you can make it healthy if you replace the coconut based vegan cheese with nooch. It might just not be quite as delicious then.

[@charlieo.possum5501]

Yuck 😝

[@jedicouncil66]

@@BangerTV no shots fired, just a friendly joke lol I'll eat any lasagna, meat or no

[@salva0922]

How about Unleash the Archers new album?

[@_zoinks2554]

Leaf metal must die and should have never existed except for Voivod. EDIT : and Gorguts

[@infinidominion]

They're probably perfectly rated in the grand scheme of things. Not one song is memorable.

[@DOPAMINErgic66]

I thought a lot of the riffs where quite memorable🤘

[@FurFoxSakeFML]

For a guy that talks for a living you'd think he'd be a little good at it. But, nope, mumble stumble..... umm...ahh...eh..mumble stumble all the way from start to eh hey finish.

[@blacksabbth9932]

The dude cant talk without his hands flapping around

[@putridgrind8689]

Incantation shouldve hung it up. Did anybody really demand this release except for having another colored vinyl in their collection? These dudes shouldve tooken some pointers from Innumetable forms if they had any brains. Ehh

[@dansawicki4982]

Can’t get past those vocals. Sounds so dry and bland.

[@NoelRojasGtz]

Its way over produced

[@sadekx5251]

Big fan of their old stuff but this is just boring 😞

[@allstopblue5717]

Yuuuppp. It’s good if it was a new band, lol. But when your catalog already contains excellent excellent shit that incorporates a lot of doom type death metal...and then this is what starts happening. Yeah....I guess it becomes about the money for these guys at this point. Then again they’re not young kids anymore. Although it would seem the more doomy style would be easier to play as they age? Old stuff much better, which is odd since their old stuff is slower and easier to play

[@reinkaoslaughtersun]

Listened to this on my way to work today... wasn't impressed at all. Mediocre, uninspired Death Metal.