30/08/2004 
- Decimate
Christendom
- Dying
Divinity
- Oath
Of Armageddon
- Blaspheme
The Sacraments
- Merciless
Tyranny
- Horns
Of Eradication
- Unholy
Empowerment Of Righteous Deprivation (Intro)
- Thorns
Of Everlastung Persecution
- No
Paradise Awaits
- Eternal
Darkness Under Conquered Skies (Instrumental)
- Feeble
Existence
John
McEntee (Vocals, Guitar)
Joe
Lombard (Bass)
Kyle
Severn (Drums)
release date 30th August 2004
distributed in Switzerland by Irascible Distribution
preview - review by Boris "Azrael" Witta ___
Yeah,
this is a fine piece of brutal and ultra-blasphemic US Death Metal.
Incanation, the band with more than 30 ex-musicians (no joke!) strikes
back with their 9th album, including 2 live-albums. I think
the title of this release, “Decimate Christendom” makes clear what
Incantation is all about. The trio plays a very rough and a very
aggressive, a pushing version of Death Metal, with breaks and
tempo-changes, but never too technical, always easy to understand. When
I listened to “Decimate Christendom” for the first time, I had
pictures of a very big and brutal moshpit in my head and this is the
imagination that the music gives to the listener. I would say that the
three best adjectives to describe Incantation’s sound are: violent,
intense and harsh. And yes, I like this.
Let’s
have a look at the band-members: Mastermind John McEntees voice is
definitively inhuman, his growling seems to come from the deepest depths
of hell, very origin, and his way of playing the guitar is as I said
variable, but never confusing. Kyle Severn is known from his other bands
Acheron and the very provocative band Wolfen Society. Indeed, his
drumming is very tight and the sound of his snare is just great, exactly
the way how it should be. Finally Joe Lombard, who plays the four
strings very competent.
Alright,
now to the songs. In general, you can say that for example the opening
titletrack is a fast and “Oath Of Armageddon”
is a slow song, but each song contains more or less temo-changes, and
some songs also contain special things, “Blaspheme
The Sacraments” for example contains a cool bass-only-part. I
think it’s also not usual that a Death Metal-album is as good as fifty
minutes long, but the good thing is that “Decimate Christendom”
never gets boring, no, in fact, it’s always great to listen and bang
to this Death Metal-massacre. A thing that I can
criticize is that “Decimate Christendom” has’t got the real big
highlight, all songs are very good, but there isn’t a classic or
something like that, the niveau is constant good. Not superb. But
that’s better than some songs would be fantastic and the rest would be
shit, isn’t it?
Incantation
always integrate these typical Death Metal guitar-melodies which make
the songs individual, and a very few times, there’s also a feepy,
fast, virtuous and shrill guitar-solo. I don’t have any texts, but I
thing they’re really hard, blasphemic and destroying, and this is
absolutely necessary for this sound. I don’t know why “Exiling
Righteousness” is a bonus track, because it fits perfect to
the rest of the material and is a very good end of a very good album. An
album without highlights, of course also without lowlights, but with a
lot of great Death Metal-crushers. Cool thing!
rating: 7,9/10
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