did you get the e-mail, people?
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Email received.
Never heard of em!
What should I know?
apparently im not on signed up for emails (which is good, too many of them)
Was the email just a newsletter or was it for the pre-sale? I registered my wristband from last year and assume that means I’m in for pre-sale, but I’m not sure if they are using the same ticketing service just based on what I’m seeing on the site.
That said FUCK YEAH BLOOD INCANTATION. There so many of us wearing BI shirts at FoV this year that it’s almost not even a surprise lol
let’s say you have to be able to stomach a certain flavour of extreme metal – after that, their latest album is a blessing. These (the first 2 or 3 reviews) are a good read: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/blood-incantation/absolute-elsewhere/
I’m not 100% sure, but I think Amy Jean did the album cover. Maybe that’s how they met 
edit: 8th best album for 2024 on rym, all genres
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@geojerry @mrvoidself
The email was the p(doom) email update. FoV 2.0 officially announced, and 3xForest Hills as well for the weekend after FoV (Thu/Fri/Sat… with Sat being identified as a Rave Show and no comments on the type of shows for the other two FH shows).
Presales for these start tomorrow!
I’ll be sure to gird my loins before I give them a listen 
Probably not something I would typically listen to, but then again, with the right context I can enjoy just about anything.
I should have just been patient lmao. Just got the pre-sale code email now. So hyped.
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Their last album is equal parts prog a la Pink Floyd and synth collab with Tangerine Dream v. Death metal if that makes any difference. It does have death metal but there’s a lot more going on than blast beats and growls.
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I’ve seen Blood Incantation twice now and they’re fucking incredible. They do some really heavy, satisfying, dissonant death metal with a somewhat avant garde feel that has HEAVY doses of early electronic music and synthesizer stuff that has a bit of a pink floyd feel. They’re very intense but there are lots of straight up beautiful passages that take it out of the death metal realm. They’re really fucking great. Check out Absolute Elsewhere. I could see them playing some of their Timewave Zero EP which is all synthesizer space out, no metal, but still heavy. I’d say they’re a very good addition to this lineup.
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Check out the video for the A side of Absolute Elsewhere, “Stargate” which is the first three tracks as one 20 minute sci fi fantasy video. They’re continuous on the album but broken into three tracks.
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Pretty stoked for this. I have seen BI 8 times and it will probably be 9 by the time of FOV. Hoping they do a Timewave set (as Hugomilk mentioned) in addition to their standard set. I have been listening to Death Metal since the 80s and BI are one of the greats. Some of the members are also in a death/doom band called Spectral Voice that are also very interesting. Paul from BI has been in a bunch of bands including the more lofi black metal Leech who did a split with Thou, and he played guitar in the live iteration of the doom band Hell many years ago. Morris was also in a killer blackened death metal band called Black Curse with some other Denver folk. He is only on the first album, but both are fantastic.
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Yesss! Spectral Voice and Black Curse are sick!
just saw a clip from last night Hypertension
let’s say they celebrated Blood Incantation’s announcement 
@HugoMilk Thanks for the recs – gave them a listen. It exceed expectation! I think its a “listen introspectively with headphones” band for me, as opposed to making me want to go out and break stuff and find the nearest mosh pit. I’m somewhat familiar with Mastodon and Dream Theater and felt some similar vibes from both at times. Death metal doesn’t hit my radar too much so its nice to have something I can go to when the right listening context presents itself.
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FUCK I didn’t even consider the possibility of them doing two sets like they had done on this last tour.
Glad to hear it! yeah not so much a mosh band. “Thinking Man’s Metal”.
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What I don’t get about those Death Metal bands, when has it become mandatory that the logo must be designed in a way that it’s impossible to read it? I mean, nice band, but really, could you tell the band’s name based on their logo?
Not sure, but I think it originated with black metal. Anyway, yes, ridiculous.
Metal bands having stylized logos with unique characteristics goes back decades. Look at the logos for Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer. All very distinctive and different. Fans of metal often felt like outsiders and developed these signifiers to identify each other. The band logos operated in much the same way as ciphers. The logos could be identified at a distance even if you could not read the individual letters. Influential extreme metal bands like Sodom and Celtic Frost took this a little further.
Death, a very early death metal band, added other illustrations into their logo, a spider, the head of a hooded skeleton/grim reaper, and an inverted cross. Interestingly, Death’s logo became more legible and austere over time, losing many of these elements. Morbid Angel also has a logo that was more of a very stylized illustration with a pentagram, pitchfork and connected letters. The grindcore band Napalm Death added lots of squiggly flourishes to their logo. As did Carcass. The 2nd wave black metal band Mayhem kind of combined a metallica and death style to add inverted crosses and much more stylized letters that tended toward the illegible. These are just some early examples of bands in the 80’s. Far from definitive.
In the early 90’s you had the Death Metal band Decapitated starting to add so much flourish to their letters that it almost become illegible. The Death Metal band Hypocrisy were getting there as well. Of the initial 2nd wave black metal bands, Darkthrone probably had the craziest logo, but it did originate when they were still a death metal band. It certainly starts to be more recognizable as a shape than recognizable letters.
At the moment I can’t think of the full shift, but by the late 90’s there was certainly a shift in death metal and black metal to have the craziest, least legible logos. I am not knowledgeable enough to speak on goregrind, but they had some wild ones. In many ways it is similar to wild style graffiti, which goes back to the 70’s and follows a imilar trajectory. Some graf work got really abstract in the oughts, that I was seeing at least.
Really, it boils down to pushing limits, being knowledgeable enough to recognize the logo and its significance as a cipher, and sorta being silly which is an often overlooked or under embraced aspect of being a metalhead.
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