Onward to Golgotha
by Incantation
- Type: Album
- Released: 5 May 1992
- Label: Relapse, Relapse Records
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:19
- Community rating: 4.27/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Craig Pillard, Jim Roe, Ronny Deo, John McEntee
Album Notes & Community Reviews
As a landmark debut, 'Onward to Golgotha' established a raw and influential blueprint for death metal by incorporating the morbid atmospheres of doom and black metal. The album's songwriting is defined by its dynamic shifts between crushingly slow, funereal passages and chaotic, blasting sections, all enveloped in a murky production that emphasizes swarming guitars and deep, guttural vocals. This influential recording cemented Incantation's signature sound and became a defining work for the old-school death metal movement.
Genres
Descriptors: technical, dissonant, noisy, cavernous, monolithic
Tracklist
- Golgotha (03:29)
- Devoured Death (02:19)
- Blasphemous Cremation (04:24)
- Rotting Spiritual Embodiment (04:58)
- Unholy Massacre (04:38)
- Entrantment of Evil (02:39)
- Christening the Afterbirth (05:33)
- Immortal Cessation (03:26)
- Profanation (04:54)
- Deliverance of Horrific Prophecies (05:28)
- Eternal Torture (03:31)
Credits
- Craig Pillard - guitar, vocals
- John McEntee - lead guitar
- Jim Roe - drums
- Ronny Deo - bass
- Steve Evetts - producer, engineer
- Dave Shirk - mastering
- Miran Kim - cover artwork
- Matthew F. Jacobson - executive producer
- Bill Yurkiewicz - executive producer
- Manny Vallejo - photography
- Bill Venner - logo