(Below we present Professor D. Grover the XIIIth’s review of a new album by the northern Italian quartet Miscreance, which was released by Season of Mist in late August.)
Greetings and salutations, friends. There have been an increasing number of bands in recent years who are mining the early days of the tech-death subgenre for influence, to varying degrees of success. It’s a reasonable assumption that most of these bands grew up listening to classics like Human or Piece Of Time or Testimony Of The Ancients, especially with the internet making it so much easier to access and discover the sort of album that was fairly obscure at the time of release.
Miscreance caught my attention in 2022 with their full-length debut Convergence, and while I didn’t do the NCS review, I was sufficiently impressed that it wound up in the number 6 spot on my year-end list here, beating out releases from some of my favorite bands of all time. They’ve been on my mind ever since, and I was pretty darn excited when word came that their follow-up was coming. Continue reading »
