Kings of Misery

This is musical nihilism, the aural manifestation of the denial of all life. This is music to curl up and die to, pure and simple. It is minimalistic to the extent where it is merely the bare bones of a song dancing around in your head. All of the riffs are extra primitive, just a step up from classic rock, but with a different feel. And what is that feel? Misanthropy, hate, malice, repulsion, ugliness, life denial and entropy to the fullest degree.
The last song is 8 and a half minutes of basically two riffs, but it is more like just one for most of it. And that riff is very, very primitive as well. You need to be wasted to listen to this, the title track of this album. I do not see someone sober minded getting through this song unless they have already resigned to die and have embraced the loss they will soon experience. To quote a passage ‘I feel connected to decomposing life’, and this comes through on this album more then anywhere else for this genius of a band. Highly recommended to people who like doom, minimalist music, or just want a breather form all the shredding and blasting going on nowadays.

This is the newest full-length album from Incriminated, and I think that this is a good album, but something is missing. The music here doesn’t have the spirit and energy that one can find in their previews (destined to be a classic) album “miracle of purity”, this is the Thrash/Black/Death (also Doom haha) they have always played but it isn’t as entertaining as I expected. The songs are kind of lifeless, slow, heavy and don’t have many riffs that captures your attention. The vocals aren’t as extreme as on their older material, in fact, you can understand what the vocalist is saying! Here he uses a more guttural style, and doesn’t force his lungs so much. The sound also is different, this time the guitars are more audible, the bass has a different distortion, and the atmosphere is very different, a lot darker and have more of an underground feeling. But this isn’t a horrible album, in fact it has it’s good moments, it’s just that they are starting to repeat themselves too much, maybe if this was my first experience with Incriminated I would liked this a lot more, but when it is compared with their other work, well, it’s not as good.