MORTAL INCARNATION
The four-piece hallucinogenic death-doom colossus known as Mortal Incarnation materialized in Tokyo, Japan around 2018, by the will of four individuals (Septic Necrovoid on guitar and vocals, Goatlord on guitar, R$Y on bass, and Miasma Vortex on drums) obsessed with arcane and timeless forms of extreme metal and influenced by transcendental and mystical experiences that defy reality. This fascination with otherworldly states and realms of the unknown has pushed the band to create highly contemplative and mystical music that explores states of spiritual ubiquity, out of body experiences, absurd rituals and inexplainable phenomenons that live on the plain of irreality. While early experimentalists and progenitors of absurd and boundary-pushing extreme metal like Incantation and dISEMBOEWRLMENT are obvious influences for the band, Mortal Incarnation have also been particularly drawn to the experimentalism and self-destructive artistic lawlessness seen in early Scandinavian death and black metal bands who've widely explored this almost mindless pull toward near complete loss of self: Thou Shalt Suffer, early Darkthrone, Purtenance, Crematory, early Entombed etc. Their sound has then been ulteriorly shaped by contemporary and more immaterial influences like various forms of darkwave, shoegaze and ambient music which have greatly contributed to shaping the band's almost exaggerated obsession with creating enveloping and otherworldly atmospheres used as a backdrop to a maelstrom of pulverizing primitive death metal. The urgency and intensity with which Mortal Incarnation write, perform, and record their music comes from yet another plane of inspiration which sheds ulterior light on the band's incredibly diverse background and seemingly endless pool of inspirations: hardcore and punk music, mainly brought in the band by bassist R$Y who also militates in Japanese powerviolece band Soiled Hate. Conceptually, Mortal Incarnation focus on building a mirror-like reflection to their own sound, as a perfect thematic continuation and counterpart to the music, with philosophical, fantasy, and gothic literature or Japanese manga being the main source of lyrical inspiration, especially works dealing with the transcendental realms of existence, mystical experiences, surreality, and the mystery that permeates human nature, along with concepts of vastness, enormity and of incomprehensible and sensorial and psychological awe and wonder.