Death Metal Goes Cosmic Synth in 2022
An exact replica of a 70s cosmic synth record in the vein of Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze made by current death metal band Blood Incantation. In 1975 it would have been futuristic. In 2022 it's nostalgia for past visions of futurism. I'm not sure what the point is but it's a strange unorthodox trajectory for a death metal band to take.
Is it so strange though?
It may not seem so when you consider a track such as Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte by black metal act Burzum from their 1996 LP Filosfem (rec. 1993). So this tune was an ambient electronic tune not dissimilar to that of contemporaneous tracks by Aphex Twin.
There is however quite a large difference when you consider that this Burzum track was at least made in the innovative era for both ambient techno & black metal whereas Timewave Zero is a throwback to a genre that was innovative 45+ years ago.
Many would argue death metal hasn't really pushed the envelope since the mid to late 90s when Death, Cryptopsy & Suffocation were making sonic transformations in the genre.
So Burzum were doubling up on their boundary expansion in the mid-90s while Blood Incantation are doubling down on their regression in 2022.
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