Profane Nexus

AlbumAug 11 / 201711 songs, 42m 38s
Death Metal
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On their 10th album, Incantation push their doom-worship style up front. “Visceral Hexahedron” is a neo-Sabbath dirge thick with atmosphere, punctuated by John McEntee’s grizzly hacking and a few blastbeat spasms toward the end, while “Ancients Arise” roars like a bulldozer struggling to escape a muddy sinkhole. But the mighty band are ultimately death-metalheads, and as “Lus Sepulcri” proves, they’re experts at laying down dense, suffocating rhythms capable of fracturing continental plates.

Legendary death metal pioneers INCANTATION triumphantly return to their original label Relapse Records to vomit forth another unholy offering of godless abominations on Profane Nexus, their formidable 10th full-length album. Embodying 11 blasphemous tracks of sacrilegious conquests, crushing dirges, and vile riffing, Profane Nexus is an obliteratingly heavy execution of disgusting death metal that further solidifies INCANTATION as one of extreme music's most influential and consistently hailed artists of the past 30 years. Recorded at the band's own Incantation Studios in Johnstown, PA and mixed/mastered by Dan Swanö (Bloodbath, Asphyx, Dark Funeral), Profane Nexus is perhaps the finest template of INCANTATION’s masterful synthesis of pummeling death metal and disemboweling funeral doom ever to be unleashed during their harrowing, 28-year reign.

8 / 10

NYC-bred, Pennsylvania-based death metal legends Incantation are the latest old-schoolers to offer up a stellar new album this year, along w...

9 / 10

Songs like “Rites of the Locust” and “Les Sepulcri” represent the band at their best, with massive riffs and a perfectly honed atmosphere that places them right alongside classics like “Unholy Massacre” and “Essence Ablaze.” These are the songs John McEntee was born to write and perform.

3.5 / 5

A review of Profane Nexus by Incantation, available August 11th worldwide via Relapse Records.

2.9 / 5

Incantation - Profane Nexus review: Sound but stagnant.