It must feel weird to be in Incantation. Imagine how strange it
must be to head into the studio to record a new full-length,
your first in six years, and carry with you the knowledge that
there are dozens of newer bands out there aping the exact same
kind of songs you're about to commit to tape. Recording a genre-
defining classic like Onward to Golgotha early in your career
sets the bar pretty high, after all (following it up with the
likes of Mortal Throne of the Nazarene and Diabolical Conquest
doesn't help!), and some of the younger bands who've been
wearing their love for those records on their sleeves do a damn
good job of trying to recreate them.  While the more talented
purveyors of recent old school death metal have taken what was
rapidly becoming an exhausting creative desert of a trend and
turned it into the new norm, it's still far too easy to shove a
mishmash of slow heavy riffs together, bury it under some audio
mud, and declare, "That'll do!" There are few things more
joyless than sitting down t