Holy hell what a review! Seeing that Sarah reviewed this record really makes it far more interesting to me. Well done and damn I miss her reviews. The LEVEL of detail is unmatched! Cheers to all of you guys!
Paul is heavily influenced by Enya. In fact, he used to work at a record store in Arvada, CO called Black and Read. He typically worked the opening shift, and so he generally worked solo, until the afternoon. I’ve always preferred digging for records with little to no people around, so the AM hours were my go to. Anyway, every single morning, Paul would put on 1 of 2 Enya records, before any other music was played at the store. Watermark and Shepherd Moons. I loved it, and actually started taking my mid morning coffee break from work, at the record shop, just to listen to Enya with Paul. The atmospheric textures in in almost all of Blood Incantation’s work is heavily influenced by Enya, and you can hear it all over this new record.
Best thing about the album: its going to destroy the algorithms that make up a Spotify radio playlist. Imagine plugging in Eno and that going into Blood Incantation then back out to Can or Tangerine Dream. Ain't gonna happen. Great band, great stylistic move - fucken love all of it! Thanks Banger, thanks Sarah!
As a metalhead and a synth nerd, seeing BI make such a gloomy, spiraling, and lush album after their first two offerings is such an inspirational treat. And thank you for reading off some the gear they used, I had no idea a Moog Grandmother was on the album.
album is nice. it’s probably fun for them to make music that’s a little different from all the metal stuff they have been cranking out. if people don’t like spacey ambient stuff they won’t like this. it is what it is. i enjoy it but wasn’t blown away, whereas some other similar sounding records have been some of my favorites. i can’t wait for them to put out another metal album though. something in the middle ground of this record and their previous stuff would be sick
@@panicsnacks6882 giobia - the intergalactic connection, bernard fervre - cosmos 2043, suzanne ciani- the velocity of love, basarabian hills - enveloped in the velvet cloak of midnight, mort garson- mother earths plantasia, les baxter - moog rock, lustre - blossom. there is one that i really want to recommend, but the guys name is escaping me :/
@@panicsnacks6882 of course! hope you like some of it. another main artist i couldn’t remember for hours yesterday was anything by ulrich schnauss. cheers
I fucking love Blood Incantation and I absolutely love that they put out an ambient record. I'm a huge fan of dungeon synth and 1980s prog and horror composers so this is a fucking dream come true!
I was just about to put this album on for the 50th time while going to sleep. When I saw there was a BangerTV review I thought it might get treated as a joke. But holy smokes thank you! Very informative and inspiring for a non-ambient listener and for someone like myself who loves both ‘extremes’ (metal and ambient) this is such a revelation. You really did this so much justice.
Greetings from Taiwan. Firstly, and most importantly, I'm not trying to start a flame war or any controversy with my following comments. Merely providing an opinion. Please be kind should you so choose to comment or reply. I'm sorry, but I feel I have to say this. This is Banger's Overkill Reviews.... Now, while I can go from listening to Archspire to King Crimson to Todd Rundgren to Victor Wooten (I'm extremely eclectic in my listening choices, including a certain Banger presenter's band, Smoulder) I just can't believe that this February 25th, which saw a veritable slew of a wide swath of genres of metal get released that not a single actual metal album was reviewed or "shout(ed) out" We saw the likes of Allegaeon, Scorpions, Tygers of Pan Tang, Godless Truth, Deathhammer, Corpsegrinder, Serious Black, HammerFall, Naxatras, Venator.... and there were more, but you surely get the point. Could not one of these have been shouted out, at the very least? On a channel that's supposed to be all about the headbanging? I fully understand and respect the desire to introduce your audience to new styles of music - that's practically the entire raison d'etre for my TH-cam channel. I've gone from covering Ænigmatum to covering Thundercat to Dan Fogelberg to Chick Corea to Atheist to David Sanborn to ELP to Queen to Wilderun and on and on.... And please don't misunderstand - I enjoyed today's review and Sarah, you did a phenomenal job with presenting it. But while I share your appreciation of this album and the genre, I just don't think it fit for Overkill Reviews. Blood Incantation is a band I can enjoy & I do find this new release a fine experiment (if not extremely daring for them as well!), but it just isn't heavy or metal... My channel was created with the sole intent of genre-busting to explore outside of expectations any viewer might bring to the table...but I come to Banger specifically for heavy music. Couldn't you at least have done the Blood Incantation review and followed it up with some shout outs that might have given your viewers some actual heavy sounds to explore? Sure, I'm glad you name-dropped Tangerine Dream & Goblin - I've been a huge fan for a long while - and while they are exquisitely masterful in the prog-rock cum soundtrack arena, couldn't that have led to at least mentioning something a tad heavier in the shout outs? Sarah, I have great respect for you and how wonderfully you present in all your videos (I only wish I could be 1/8 the presenter you are in my videos, but I'm a one-man show and I try to do the best I can within as small a timeframe as I can and I know I make flubs frequently...all to my shame. But I always try to improve.) I enjoy your band and wish you tremendous success. You deserve to have your star rise, and you have a lovely singing voice. May peace and prosperity be upon you and all those you hold dear. - a BangerTV Patreon supporter
It's such an awesome time to be in love with music. I feel like genre barriers and borders between scenes are being torched. Especially in terms of festival line-ups (Oblivion Access, Primavera, etc). This BI record has so much potential to fold those who're open to it, and unfamiliar with it, into a whole new world. I've loved ambient music and electronic music in general ever since my brother first blew my brain with Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works series and Brian Eno/David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts". I second the "Phaedra" recommendation. For me, it's like the "Sad Wings of Destiny" of ambient music. It's been interesting watching people and publications who more often review metal records grapple with reviewing this one. You did a tremendous job here, Sarah!
I'd give it 5/5. The blu-ray comes with a wonderful 5.1 surround mix of the album, truly immersive experience! There are different sounds coming from all corners and sometimes a note dances from one speaker to the next - nothing too flashy though, just beautiful. I listened to it 5 times in a row now. It's very focused on the drone, much more cohesive than the ambient albums by WITTR and Neptunian Towers (Fenriz). Lately I listen to a lot of stuff that comes out on the Cryo Chamber label ("the last resort" by Beyond the Ghost was my personal rabbit hole into this - if you dig the Blade Runner soundtrack, you'll definitely love this)
I have really gotten into dungeon and winter synth recently, and while at first I was very disappointed that Blood Incantation was going full ambient for their first Century Media release I will probably check it out. If anyone wants another Tangerine Dream recommendation, I absolutely love their soundtrack for Michael Mann's movie Thief
I love how informed and well-researched you are on reviews, but "THE BAD" being that fans might not "get it" and then not actually ranking it seems like a missed opportunity to fairly critique it.
Thank you Sarah for the album review. I’m definitely going to check this album out because you always give me some of the best music to listen to. Thanks to you I’m a big storm keep fan now 😊.
I enjoyed the review - and I want to offer this thought - It's strange to me that a review won't include criticisms. My thought is that a review should always include your critique of the music in full. Because that was omitted it feels a bit like we're pulling punches here because we want to offset potential backlash that any risk taking metal will invariably encounter. I have yet to listen to it but I am going to do that immediately. I enjoy synth, ambient, death metal, and of course blood incantation. That said, from a commercial standpoint it's a bold ass move to release this record and I really hope it isn't a permanent shift as I do rather like their brand of cavernous third-eye-open death metal! Really appreciate the shine you put on foundational artists, and the master John Carpenter (who can do no wrong in my book). As an aside, I really appreciate how cerebral your review style is - check out the big brain on brad indeed. Thanks for the review.
Bought the album without even hearing a second of it. When I heard they were releasing this ambient album I jumped with joy as they have already used it in their other recordings and I got a load of albums by Tangerine Dream and Vangelis already. So there was no doubt that I would like this. It may not be for every Death Metal fan but go ahead give it a try and expand your musical horizons. The band picture in the vinyl gatefold reminded me of Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - I think that's what it was meant to do.
Really interesting review and insight into ambient music. I would recommend a Spanish metal band called Toundra and their most recent album Hex. Really good instrumental album. Great video again.many thanks from Switzerland.
Great review! Very happy that you gave a short background of this style. I've started to really enjoy such textural/ambient music of late. I think this album will definitely grow on me.
I thought it was sick. Great to see these guy's doing something different and not being afraid at all of what their fan base may say or think. Also I saw them live about two months ago and it was insanity, great, great band.
Wow what a great review! Finally had time to listen to this record and then watch the review. I wasn’t sure what to think of it before listening. It really really hits a different stride in an exceptional way. I will be revisiting and utilizing this for the rest of my life, based on exactly what you described in the history and emotional application. I’ve been dabbling with using guitar pedals that explore instrumental/ambient/noise related music. This is automatically an inspiration. I’d love BI to out more of this type of stuff out, because it’s both really good and they sincerely love it.
I hadn't heard of this band until today. I probably wouldn't have listened to them if they hadn't done this electronic album even though I was heavily into death metal back in 1990. On a first listen its OK, I don't feel a terrible urge to buy it but it may grow on me later. I'd like to recommend Jacco Gardner's Somnium album to those who did like this and other more chill music. He went from being a whimsical Syd Barrett type vocalist to being a synth player so I feel his take on space music has way more musical involvement.
I do need rest for my soul and I do tend to find ambient music relaxing. Aphex twins is also a legend in the ambient scene and his early songs were more harder drum and bass, and now has some of the best chill tracks. Great video 🤘🏿👍🏾
Feeling a lot of Klaus Shulze vibes (Timewind, Kontinuum, etc), which in some ways is not surprising since he was in Tangerine Dream briefly and I think he and Edgar Froese (of Tangerine Dream) had similar influences.
COIL did a soundtrack for the original HELLRAISER movie that was heavy as fuck and also ambient-shockingly enough it was called "the unreleased themes for hellraiser"
Awesome review, I really appreciate the context and the way you centre this within a universe of music, a part of a greater whole. Personally I am loving this record. I love Blood Incantation, ever since I first pressed play on Starspawn. I respect the creative process and artists who refuse to pigeon holed, and perform to expectations. Timewave Zero is a lush, soothing, yet still disconcerting listen that provides space to explore the next chapter in the Blood Incantation mythology.
Great music done here for sure. I was not aware It would be an ambient album, kind of a disappoitment for me, because i was expeting a Death Metal album.
As a primarily ambient/electronic listener, it's funny to see so many other reviewers trip all over themselves trying to figure this record out. I like it a lot and enjoyed your review, not least because you had a bunch of recommendations at the end of stuff I'd not heard before. Thanks. 👌
I really like ambient music (dark or otherwise) and especially mah boi Brian Eno. I love it when Banger does a non-metal review, so thanks for that, Sarah! I'll give the album a listen.
When it comes to insightful analysis showing equal measures of knowledge and passion for the music, Sarah is my favorite Banger reviewer. Thank you Sarah for your work!
I honestly didn’t even know that Timewave Zero was an ambient album until I put it on. Man was I surprised. This album only continues to grow on me. On the side I’ve been really getting into ambient. A fantastic “rabbit hole” for anyone who is getting into ambient is the Cryo Chamber record label. They publish dark ambient artists/ projects. They have a channel on TH-cam.
What springs more to my mind at first listening is Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening LP or her work with the Deep Listening Band. Great review of Blood Incantation.
I really respect this band because they are not just make killer death metal but do other styles. Very respectable and this shows that you may not please everyone but it showcases their flexibility. Thank you for this review.
Could you see them touring this album? Maybe on lineups for New Music festivals? The decision to go full ambient is contextualized by the uncertainty of touring today. I saw BI on that tour w Immolation and it was amazing. Miss those days. As much as i love the last album, I'd be so crushed if i couldn't see a live show of a new abum that's an evolution of HHHR. So I'm satisfied with the turn the band has made on this album.
I loved the album. I’ve been listening to ambient since 1998 and death metal at least as long, so I’m all for this! I would also recommend Jean-Michel Jarre, Bop, Biosphere, and yes, Moby. His ambient work introduced me to the genre, and really are his best work imo.
If anyone's looking for other ambient recommendations, Atavist and Nadja did a split EP/album type thing (I'm too lazy to find the name, because it's just a sequence of numbers) that's absolutely incredible.
Had no idea they were also in wayfarer and stormkeep, they really are dominating the modern scene. Also first listen didn't do it for me but so much respect for doing this and will keep listening
Here's the thing. We all know that Blood Incantation was coordinated and invested PR campaign and severely over-hyped. The latest trend is to call serious metal critics trolls, haters, gatekeepers etc - it is not cool. Blood Incantation is NOT innovative or executed well. If you said Imperial Triumphant, Contrarian, Gorguts, Ulcerate, Spiral Architect, bands that have really taken metal forward, I would join in on the hype. This OSDM hype is embarrassing for the genre.
Spot on. I would also include Mithras , because they do/did what Blood Incantation is trying to do in a much authentic and dignified way without the BS hipster hype. Blood Incantation is so mediocre, it makes the hype all the more unbearable.
My homie fucking loves this band and then this dropped and he kinda went on a rant about it and I gave it a try and I fucking loved it . So relaxing especially laying in bed at night and playing it full blast in my ears and just letting my imagination free .
Excellent review. I would replace the coffee with a nice cup of masala chai or Assam though (no hint of which country I am from there). Ea 3+4 wrap this album up beautifully.
Great review! Didn’t know that Stormkeep shared members with Blood Incantation. It completely makes sense, though. If anyone is looking for more Dark Ambient, try Cryo Chamber and Atrium Carceri. Atrium is the mastermind behind the label, and, his music is absolutely the best of the best. Peace and respect. Stay space. 🙏🏻👽
Love how you’re pushing the DS agenda via ambient/krautrock worship, keep it up. By the way I’ve never watched these videos because I always thought they were cheesy af but your review of this record changed that for me. Cheers from Texass
Nice review, Tangerine Dreams Zeit is the closest in mood to this wonderful Blood Incantation record. It's unfair that Enos beautiful Music for Airports gets credit for inventing ambient because their was so much that came before, especially Zeit and early Popol Vuh.
The only way to make waves with an ambient album without a backing movie is to ride your popularity from other projects. So it makes sense to release under their band name. Either your fans like it ( which we do) or the controversy gives press. Well played BI
Finally listened to it. Being a fan of ambient, I'd say it's an okay album. Not bad but not great either. I like it when rock and metal bands experiment with music outside their expertise as it often yields unusual results or even create a new subgenre. But for this album, I feel like they did not really add anything new or exciting to the genre. Far from the feeling I felt when I first heard Ulver - Shadows of the Sun. Furthermore, some parts of this album sounds too cheesy (more on the choice of notes/chords and not the synth sound) that it prevents me from trying to meditate which is what I usually do when listening to ambient.
This album has me thinking back to Senjitsu from Iron Maiden due to the controversy. I’ve yet to finish this album, but I really think you’re supposed to be on mushrooms or acid when listening to this. More entrancing that way!
Haven't had the chance to listen yet, but I'm super excited for this release. I've really enjoyed what they've done so far. I so grew up with Tangerine Dream being played by my dad, who I listen to on occasion these days. So yeah. Great review Sarah
Sarah, thank you for sharing a well researched review! Thumbs up to the well spoken lines you left in this work! Although English is not my first language :)
Brilliant review as always. Sarah's look here is sorta 1979 acid rocker. The yellow Camaro Berlinetta is parked outside. Lol. More Smoulder music please!
Very Nice Review! This álbum was not what i was hoping for BI. i respect the bold movement, but its a NO for me. I like frequential things, and this can be the subject of this whole thing. My point is the ressonance affects the Brain immediately and here lies the danger. We Just dont know what this emissions do, and the result can be exhaustion, sadness, confusion blablabla.... I advise caution.
looking forward to delving into this love tangerine dream john carpenter soundtracks etc great review thank you love blood incantations death metal material but this is a nice diversion! and grew up with krautrock can and ash ra tempel etc so excited by this!
Using phrases like "haters and crybabies" to describe detractors of this change in musical direction is pretty lame. That said, kudos to the band for trying something different.
I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Not disappointed at all that it is a 100% ambient recording. All the vibes are totally Blood Incantation, it sounds like a Blood Incantation album, minus guitar, bass and drums. In fact, if you listen close enough, you can catch these vibes on their EP and two full length albums. They're hard to hear on a first listen, but dig in and you'll hear them. Timewave Zero has a very cinematic feel, almost Vangelis-like, especially Vangelis' work on the Blade Runner soundtrack. Blood Incantation just forgot to make the movie to go along with the soundtrack.
Holy hell what a review! Seeing that Sarah reviewed this record really makes it far more interesting to me. Well done and damn I miss her reviews. The LEVEL of detail is unmatched! Cheers to all of you guys!
Paul is heavily influenced by Enya. In fact, he used to work at a record store in Arvada, CO called Black and Read. He typically worked the opening shift, and so he generally worked solo, until the afternoon. I’ve always preferred digging for records with little to no people around, so the AM hours were my go to.
Anyway, every single morning, Paul would put on 1 of 2 Enya records, before any other music was played at the store. Watermark and Shepherd Moons. I loved it, and actually started taking my mid morning coffee break from work, at the record shop, just to listen to Enya with Paul.
The atmospheric textures in in almost all of Blood Incantation’s work is heavily influenced by Enya, and you can hear it all over this new record.
Enya rules.
Shut up
Best thing about the album: its going to destroy the algorithms that make up a Spotify radio playlist. Imagine plugging in Eno and that going into Blood Incantation then back out to Can or Tangerine Dream. Ain't gonna happen. Great band, great stylistic move - fucken love all of it! Thanks Banger, thanks Sarah!
It did today! right after this Tomb Mold started playing 😂
@@onairmastering love Tomb Mold
I’m a sucker for dark ambient. Favourite album is that realm is Dark Age of Reason by Arcana. It actually even has a Metallum page!
Arcana/Sophia are both great, and Peter is a really great guy
As an edgy young twat that pretends only the heaviest and most technical metal is worthy, I give this the thumbs up.
As a metalhead and a synth nerd, seeing BI make such a gloomy, spiraling, and lush album after their first two offerings is such an inspirational treat. And thank you for reading off some the gear they used, I had no idea a Moog Grandmother was on the album.
album is nice. it’s probably fun for them to make music that’s a little different from all the metal stuff they have been cranking out. if people don’t like spacey ambient stuff they won’t like this. it is what it is. i enjoy it but wasn’t blown away, whereas some other similar sounding records have been some of my favorites. i can’t wait for them to put out another metal album though. something in the middle ground of this record and their previous stuff would be sick
it's painfully average for me
What would be some other albums with a similar vibe to this that you enjoy
@@panicsnacks6882 giobia - the intergalactic connection, bernard fervre - cosmos 2043, suzanne ciani- the velocity of love, basarabian hills - enveloped in the velvet cloak of midnight, mort garson- mother earths plantasia, les baxter - moog rock, lustre - blossom. there is one that i really want to recommend, but the guys name is escaping me :/
@@sommelierofstench wow thanks! I enjoyed this record a lot and am excited to check out some similar stuff
@@panicsnacks6882 of course! hope you like some of it. another main artist i couldn’t remember for hours yesterday was anything by ulrich schnauss. cheers
I fucking love Blood Incantation and I absolutely love that they put out an ambient record. I'm a huge fan of dungeon synth and 1980s prog and horror composers so this is a fucking dream come true!
HELL YEAH BROTHER!!!!!! \m/
Same here!
The fact that Sarah looks like a 70s hippy chick reviewing this album is very on point 🤣.
Come on, you got the new Stormkeep album in vinyl edition. That's so cool.
so annoyed that I wasn't able to grab that!
You can get it as a repress preorder on Amazon for $23
I was just about to put this album on for the 50th time while going to sleep. When I saw there was a BangerTV review I thought it might get treated as a joke. But holy smokes thank you! Very informative and inspiring for a non-ambient listener and for someone like myself who loves both ‘extremes’ (metal and ambient) this is such a revelation. You really did this so much justice.
Greetings from Taiwan.
Firstly, and most importantly, I'm not trying to start a flame war or any controversy with my following comments. Merely providing an opinion. Please be kind should you so choose to comment or reply.
I'm sorry, but I feel I have to say this. This is Banger's Overkill Reviews.... Now, while I can go from listening to Archspire to King Crimson to Todd Rundgren to Victor Wooten (I'm extremely eclectic in my listening choices, including a certain Banger presenter's band, Smoulder) I just can't believe that this February 25th, which saw a veritable slew of a wide swath of genres of metal get released that not a single actual metal album was reviewed or "shout(ed) out"
We saw the likes of Allegaeon, Scorpions, Tygers of Pan Tang, Godless Truth, Deathhammer, Corpsegrinder, Serious Black, HammerFall, Naxatras, Venator.... and there were more, but you surely get the point. Could not one of these have been shouted out, at the very least? On a channel that's supposed to be all about the headbanging?
I fully understand and respect the desire to introduce your audience to new styles of music - that's practically the entire raison d'etre for my TH-cam channel. I've gone from covering Ænigmatum to covering Thundercat to Dan Fogelberg to Chick Corea to Atheist to David Sanborn to ELP to Queen to Wilderun and on and on....
And please don't misunderstand - I enjoyed today's review and Sarah, you did a phenomenal job with presenting it. But while I share your appreciation of this album and the genre, I just don't think it fit for Overkill Reviews. Blood Incantation is a band I can enjoy & I do find this new release a fine experiment (if not extremely daring for them as well!), but it just isn't heavy or metal... My channel was created with the sole intent of genre-busting to explore outside of expectations any viewer might bring to the table...but I come to Banger specifically for heavy music. Couldn't you at least have done the Blood Incantation review and followed it up with some shout outs that might have given your viewers some actual heavy sounds to explore? Sure, I'm glad you name-dropped Tangerine Dream & Goblin - I've been a huge fan for a long while - and while they are exquisitely masterful in the prog-rock cum soundtrack arena, couldn't that have led to at least mentioning something a tad heavier in the shout outs?
Sarah, I have great respect for you and how wonderfully you present in all your videos (I only wish I could be 1/8 the presenter you are in my videos, but I'm a one-man show and I try to do the best I can within as small a timeframe as I can and I know I make flubs frequently...all to my shame. But I always try to improve.) I enjoy your band and wish you tremendous success. You deserve to have your star rise, and you have a lovely singing voice.
May peace and prosperity be upon you and all those you hold dear.
- a BangerTV Patreon supporter
It's such an awesome time to be in love with music. I feel like genre barriers and borders between scenes are being torched. Especially in terms of festival line-ups (Oblivion Access, Primavera, etc). This BI record has so much potential to fold those who're open to it, and unfamiliar with it, into a whole new world. I've loved ambient music and electronic music in general ever since my brother first blew my brain with Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works series and Brian Eno/David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts". I second the "Phaedra" recommendation. For me, it's like the "Sad Wings of Destiny" of ambient music. It's been interesting watching people and publications who more often review metal records grapple with reviewing this one. You did a tremendous job here, Sarah!
I'd give it 5/5. The blu-ray comes with a wonderful 5.1 surround mix of the album, truly immersive experience! There are different sounds coming from all corners and sometimes a note dances from one speaker to the next - nothing too flashy though, just beautiful. I listened to it 5 times in a row now. It's very focused on the drone, much more cohesive than the ambient albums by WITTR and Neptunian Towers (Fenriz). Lately I listen to a lot of stuff that comes out on the Cryo Chamber label ("the last resort" by Beyond the Ghost was my personal rabbit hole into this - if you dig the Blade Runner soundtrack, you'll definitely love this)
I personally love this album as I've always been a fan of Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre as well as most genres of metal.
Love that Hole Dweller and Secret Stairways got some shoutouts! Great stuff!
I have really gotten into dungeon and winter synth recently, and while at first I was very disappointed that Blood Incantation was going full ambient for their first Century Media release I will probably check it out. If anyone wants another Tangerine Dream recommendation, I absolutely love their soundtrack for Michael Mann's movie Thief
I love how informed and well-researched you are on reviews, but "THE BAD" being that fans might not "get it" and then not actually ranking it seems like a missed opportunity to fairly critique it.
As a lover of both metal and ambient/synth music, I found this a great video. Well done, Sarah!
Thank you Sarah for the album review. I’m definitely going to check this album out because you always give me some of the best music to listen to. Thanks to you I’m a big storm keep fan now 😊.
Well now y'all better do a video for the Dungeon Synth scene!
Great review. I bought Timewave zero last week and I'm totally amazed and delighted.
I enjoyed the review - and I want to offer this thought - It's strange to me that a review won't include criticisms. My thought is that a review should always include your critique of the music in full. Because that was omitted it feels a bit like we're pulling punches here because we want to offset potential backlash that any risk taking metal will invariably encounter. I have yet to listen to it but I am going to do that immediately. I enjoy synth, ambient, death metal, and of course blood incantation. That said, from a commercial standpoint it's a bold ass move to release this record and I really hope it isn't a permanent shift as I do rather like their brand of cavernous third-eye-open death metal! Really appreciate the shine you put on foundational artists, and the master John Carpenter (who can do no wrong in my book). As an aside, I really appreciate how cerebral your review style is - check out the big brain on brad indeed. Thanks for the review.
Great review ! Love the album. Have not stopped listening since it was released this morning and my preordered vinyl copy arrives tomorrow 🪐🛸 ☕️
Bought the album without even hearing a second of it. When I heard they were releasing this ambient album I jumped with joy as they have already used it in their other recordings and I got a load of albums by Tangerine Dream and Vangelis already. So there was no doubt that I would like this. It may not be for every Death Metal fan but go ahead give it a try and expand your musical horizons. The band picture in the vinyl gatefold reminded me of Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - I think that's what it was meant to do.
Love this record. The Tron Legacy soundtrack came to mind immediately when I first listened to it. Which is a good thing.
So many great and useful informations. Thank you so much for the good job !
Really interesting review and insight into ambient music. I would recommend a Spanish metal band called Toundra and their most recent album Hex. Really good instrumental album. Great video again.many thanks from Switzerland.
Great review! Very happy that you gave a short background of this style. I've started to really enjoy such textural/ambient music of late. I think this album will definitely grow on me.
I thought it was sick. Great to see these guy's doing something different and not being afraid at all of what their fan base may say or think. Also I saw them live about two months ago and it was insanity, great, great band.
This is perfect. I love Eno, Stars of the Lid, Eluvium. It’s just an amazing piece of music. Front to back. Nice to see you Sarah.
Wow what a great review! Finally had time to listen to this record and then watch the review. I wasn’t sure what to think of it before listening. It really really hits a different stride in an exceptional way. I will be revisiting and utilizing this for the rest of my life, based on exactly what you described in the history and emotional application. I’ve been dabbling with using guitar pedals that explore instrumental/ambient/noise related music. This is automatically an inspiration. I’d love BI to out more of this type of stuff out, because it’s both really good and they sincerely love it.
I hadn't heard of this band until today. I probably wouldn't have listened to them if they hadn't done this electronic album even though I was heavily into death metal back in 1990. On a first listen its OK, I don't feel a terrible urge to buy it but it may grow on me later. I'd like to recommend Jacco Gardner's Somnium album to those who did like this and other more chill music. He went from being a whimsical Syd Barrett type vocalist to being a synth player so I feel his take on space music has way more musical involvement.
I do need rest for my soul and I do tend to find ambient music relaxing.
Aphex twins is also a legend in the ambient scene and his early songs were more harder drum and bass, and now has some of the best chill tracks.
Great video 🤘🏿👍🏾
aphex makes some gorgeous ambient, yeah. there's some stuff on Selected Ambient Works II that drilled into my brain in weird ways
@@nicholasromig5506 Check out also Carbon based lifeforms and boards of Canada are also great bands you might enjoy as well
Blood Orange Incantation 🍊
Feeling a lot of Klaus Shulze vibes (Timewind, Kontinuum, etc), which in some ways is not surprising since he was in Tangerine Dream briefly and I think he and Edgar Froese (of Tangerine Dream) had similar influences.
COIL did a soundtrack for the original HELLRAISER movie that was heavy as fuck and also ambient-shockingly enough it was called "the unreleased themes for hellraiser"
I thought it was good and yes for Sarah doing the review my score 3/5
Awesome review, I really appreciate the context and the way you centre this within a universe of music, a part of a greater whole. Personally I am loving this record. I love Blood Incantation, ever since I first pressed play on Starspawn. I respect the creative process and artists who refuse to pigeon holed, and perform to expectations. Timewave Zero is a lush, soothing, yet still disconcerting listen that provides space to explore the next chapter in the Blood Incantation mythology.
Sarah's reviews are the best reviews, truly.
Great music done here for sure. I was not aware It would be an ambient album, kind of a disappoitment for me, because i was expeting a Death Metal album.
They said in advance it would be an ambient album
They've said it for months it was gonna be ambient.
@@SanskarWagley Ok then, i only saw the cover somewhere, great album though.
Excellent review. Sarah does an awesome job every time.
This has become my go-to album for reading Lovecraft, and I think that's great.
I like ambient music, but I wish they did this as a side project. Or did a double album- one side ambient, other death metal.
No one woulda paid attention.
@@onairmastering If the album was good they would've.
@@welcometoskyvalley The album is amazing. Under a new name? no one would have known.
As a primarily ambient/electronic listener, it's funny to see so many other reviewers trip all over themselves trying to figure this record out. I like it a lot and enjoyed your review, not least because you had a bunch of recommendations at the end of stuff I'd not heard before. Thanks. 👌
Are you in a library?
I really like ambient music (dark or otherwise) and especially mah boi Brian Eno. I love it when Banger does a non-metal review, so thanks for that, Sarah! I'll give the album a listen.
When it comes to insightful analysis showing equal measures of knowledge and passion for the music, Sarah is my favorite Banger reviewer. Thank you Sarah for your work!
Amazing review. Lots of context and explanation. Your musical knowledge and research is excellent IMO. Thanks!
I'm SO happy you did this review, because I can't believe the amount of hate it's receiving. Also, please someone review the new Amorphis.
I honestly didn’t even know that Timewave Zero was an ambient album until I put it on. Man was I surprised. This album only continues to grow on me. On the side I’ve been really getting into ambient. A fantastic “rabbit hole” for anyone who is getting into ambient is the Cryo Chamber record label. They publish dark ambient artists/ projects. They have a channel on TH-cam.
I don't think Sara could even watch this video to the end. Woof.
An incredible review for a great album. Thanks a lot Sarah!
What springs more to my mind at first listening is Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening LP or her work with the Deep Listening Band. Great review of Blood Incantation.
I really respect this band because they are not just make killer death metal but do other styles. Very respectable and this shows that you may not please everyone but it showcases their flexibility. Thank you for this review.
Could you see them touring this album? Maybe on lineups for New Music festivals? The decision to go full ambient is contextualized by the uncertainty of touring today. I saw BI on that tour w Immolation and it was amazing. Miss those days. As much as i love the last album, I'd be so crushed if i couldn't see a live show of a new abum that's an evolution of HHHR. So I'm satisfied with the turn the band has made on this album.
I saw that tour too - it's all subjective of course....for me they were making me yawn live. Some bands just work better for me at home I guess.
Going to see them do this album tomorrow
They could easily fit headline slots in fests like Roadburn or co-headline with Sunn O))), Ulver, or Neurosis.
I loved the album. I’ve been listening to ambient since 1998 and death metal at least as long, so I’m all for this! I would also recommend Jean-Michel Jarre, Bop, Biosphere, and yes, Moby. His ambient work introduced me to the genre, and really are his best work imo.
If anyone's looking for other ambient recommendations, Atavist and Nadja did a split EP/album type thing (I'm too lazy to find the name, because it's just a sequence of numbers) that's absolutely incredible.
Great review Sarah! I'll give it a listen with an open mind and see where it takes me.
Love Blood Incantation discography but this definitely isn’t for me
Had no idea they were also in wayfarer and stormkeep, they really are dominating the modern scene. Also first listen didn't do it for me but so much respect for doing this and will keep listening
Love BI and love this album. Am interested in seeing if they do another ambient album in the future or if this is a one-off, either way I'm happy.
holy shit holy shit holy shit. i never really got into Blood Incantation cuz meh it's just not my thing but THIS is incredible.
fantastic context filled review, great job!
Thank you for this review I can’t believe I haven’t heard this yet
I see blood incantation every time they come to Brooklyn. Love em!
Here's the thing. We all know that Blood Incantation was coordinated and invested PR campaign and severely over-hyped. The latest trend is to call serious metal critics trolls, haters, gatekeepers etc - it is not cool. Blood Incantation is NOT innovative or executed well. If you said Imperial Triumphant, Contrarian, Gorguts, Ulcerate, Spiral Architect, bands that have really taken metal forward, I would join in on the hype. This OSDM hype is embarrassing for the genre.
Yeah I am with you. This OSDM revival is pretty lame and overhyped. Still not nearly as cringe as Deathcore! LOL
Spot on. I would also include Mithras , because they do/did what Blood Incantation is trying to do in a much authentic and dignified way without the BS hipster hype. Blood Incantation is so mediocre, it makes the hype all the more unbearable.
I'm on board with all of this. These guys don't do ANYTHING special and their songwriting is wack.
Well said.
Rigorous criticism WILL demand better art.
My homie fucking loves this band and then this dropped and he kinda went on a rant about it and I gave it a try and I fucking loved it . So relaxing especially laying in bed at night and playing it full blast in my ears and just letting my imagination free .
Sarah - Janis Joplin of metal community in pyjamas 😜
I love this band and I also love ambient so can't wait to check this out!
Excellent review. I would replace the coffee with a nice cup of masala chai or Assam though (no hint of which country I am from there). Ea 3+4 wrap this album up beautifully.
Great review! Didn’t know that Stormkeep shared members with Blood Incantation. It completely makes sense, though.
If anyone is looking for more Dark Ambient, try Cryo Chamber and Atrium Carceri. Atrium is the mastermind behind the label, and, his music is absolutely the best of the best.
Peace and respect. Stay space. 🙏🏻👽
Devin Townsend's made a bunch of ambient music over the years as well. Worth checking out if you like the sound.
It's a bloody great album. I love this type of ambient experimenting.
Love it! But I have been listening to kraut, ambient etc from early 90's. Give also the early Biosphere albums if you like this BI album
I for one am always stoked when metal musicians make music outside of their genre. and I love ambient music/krautrock.
ALSO I LOVE HOLEDWELLER.
Love how you’re pushing the DS agenda via ambient/krautrock worship, keep it up. By the way I’ve never watched these videos because I always thought they were cheesy af but your review of this record changed that for me. Cheers from Texass
There should be no limits or restrictions on any music. That’s how death metal was created in the first place.
Well said
Nice review, Tangerine Dreams Zeit is the closest in mood to this wonderful Blood Incantation record. It's unfair that Enos beautiful Music for Airports gets credit for inventing ambient because their was so much that came before, especially Zeit and early Popol Vuh.
The only way to make waves with an ambient album without a backing movie is to ride your popularity from other projects. So it makes sense to release under their band name. Either your fans like it ( which we do) or the controversy gives press. Well played BI
Wow, you have cassettes!
Finally listened to it. Being a fan of ambient, I'd say it's an okay album. Not bad but not great either. I like it when rock and metal bands experiment with music outside their expertise as it often yields unusual results or even create a new subgenre. But for this album, I feel like they did not really add anything new or exciting to the genre. Far from the feeling I felt when I first heard Ulver - Shadows of the Sun. Furthermore, some parts of this album sounds too cheesy (more on the choice of notes/chords and not the synth sound) that it prevents me from trying to meditate which is what I usually do when listening to ambient.
I'm a massive fan of ambient music and dungeon synth so this album is incredible
This album has me thinking back to Senjitsu from Iron Maiden due to the controversy. I’ve yet to finish this album, but I really think you’re supposed to be on mushrooms or acid when listening to this. More entrancing that way!
Sarah is the champion of reviewers. Thank you!
At first I was kinda sad when they announced this album, I'm not really an ambient fan but this album was huge surprise
Damn i was not expecting to learn so much about ambient music while watching this review.
Went to see them open for Immolation awhile back, it was crushing😎🤟🔥
I was excited when I heard about this but when I found out it’s just background noises I was in disappointed to say the least
Haven't had the chance to listen yet, but I'm super excited for this release. I've really enjoyed what they've done so far. I so grew up with Tangerine Dream being played by my dad, who I listen to on occasion these days. So yeah. Great review Sarah
I love blood incantation, I love this album. Great review
Sarah, thank you for sharing a well researched review! Thumbs up to the well spoken lines you left in this work! Although English is not my first language :)
The Lions Daughter album Skin Show is another band heavily influenced by synthy old horror movie sound tracks paired up with neurosis like post metal.
Brilliant review as always. Sarah's look here is sorta 1979 acid rocker. The yellow Camaro Berlinetta is parked outside. Lol. More Smoulder music please!
Very Nice Review!
This álbum was not what i was hoping for BI. i respect the bold movement, but its a NO for me.
I like frequential things, and this can be the subject of this whole thing. My point is the ressonance affects the Brain immediately and here lies the danger. We Just dont know what this emissions do, and the result can be exhaustion, sadness, confusion blablabla....
I advise caution.
looking forward to delving into this love tangerine dream john carpenter soundtracks etc great review thank you love blood incantations death metal material but this is a nice diversion! and grew up with krautrock can and ash ra tempel etc so excited by this!
This is the last track from skinny puppy last rites album...30 years later.
Using phrases like "haters and crybabies" to describe detractors of this change in musical direction is pretty lame. That said, kudos to the band for trying something different.
Got to see Blood Incantation live in Portland (along with my second time seeing Cannibal Corpse) a few years ago and holy crap were they fantastic.
I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Not disappointed at all that it is a 100% ambient recording. All the vibes are totally Blood Incantation, it sounds like a Blood Incantation album, minus guitar, bass and drums. In fact, if you listen close enough, you can catch these vibes on their EP and two full length albums. They're hard to hear on a first listen, but dig in and you'll hear them. Timewave Zero has a very cinematic feel, almost Vangelis-like, especially Vangelis' work on the Blade Runner soundtrack. Blood Incantation just forgot to make the movie to go along with the soundtrack.