BLOOD INCANTATION Timewave Zero Album Review | BangerTV 

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.

As an edgy young twat that pretends only the heaviest and most technical metal is worthy, I give this the thumbs 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!

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!

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.

The fact that Sarah looks like a 70s hippy chick reviewing this album is very on point 🤣.

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!

Great review ! Love the album. Have not stopped listening since it was released this morning and my preordered vinyl copy arrives tomorrow 🪐🛸 ☕️

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.

So many great and useful informations. Thank you so much for the good job !

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.

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.

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

Love that Hole Dweller and Secret Stairways got some shoutouts! Great stuff!

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 😊.

Come on, you got the new Stormkeep album in vinyl edition. That's so cool.

As a lover of both metal and ambient/synth music, I found this a great video. Well done, Sarah!

Blood Orange Incantation 🍊

Thank you for this review I can’t believe I haven’t heard this yet

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.

Well now y'all better do a video for the Dungeon Synth scene!

fantastic context filled review, great job!

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!

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 Sarah! I'll give it a listen with an open mind and see where it takes me.

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.

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)

Excellent review. Sarah does an awesome job every time.

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 RU-vid 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

An incredible review for a great album. Thanks a lot Sarah!

Great review. I bought Timewave zero last week and I'm totally amazed and delighted.

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.

I love this band and I also love ambient so can't wait to check this out!

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 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.

Sarah's reviews are the best reviews, truly.

Love this record. The Tron Legacy soundtrack came to mind immediately when I first listened to it. Which is a good thing.

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.

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

Amazing review. Lots of context and explanation. Your musical knowledge and research is excellent IMO. Thanks!

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 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.

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 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

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.

I see blood incantation every time they come to Brooklyn. Love em!

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.

Amazing review Sarah 💜

I don't think Sara could even watch this video to the end. Woof.

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. 👌

This has become my go-to album for reading Lovecraft, and I think that's great.

Went to see them open for Immolation awhile back, it was crushing😎🤟🔥

Nice review!

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.

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.

Damn i was not expecting to learn so much about ambient music while watching this review.

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!

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!

Great video Sara

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.

Sarah is the champion of reviewers. Thank you!

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.

It's a bloody great album. I love this type of ambient experimenting.

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 🤘🏿👍🏾

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 .

I thought it was good and yes for Sarah doing the review my score 3/5

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.

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.

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.

Devin Townsend's made a bunch of ambient music over the years as well. Worth checking out if you like the sound.

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.

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 RU-vid.

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 love blood incantation, I love this album. Great review

I'm a massive fan of ambient music and dungeon synth so this album is incredible

At first I was kinda sad when they announced this album, I'm not really an ambient fan but this album was huge surprise

Your awesome and super love this...

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 :)

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.

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. 🙏🏻👽

Ok I loved this review. Album is great too.

I for one am always stoked when metal musicians make music outside of their genre. and I love ambient music/krautrock.

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

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

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.

Sarah - Janis Joplin of metal community in pyjamas 😜

Wow, you have cassettes!

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.

Great review as always, the detail Sarah goes into is amazing and appreciated. Looking forward to your next video/review 👌

Legend 🤘🤘

Are you in a library?

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!

great album 🔥

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

might be your best review

Jesus, the synth list is fucking stacked.

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 like it.

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