Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see… I once thought of Cryptic Shift as the UK’s answer to Blood Incantation and I know that I wasn’t alone in drawing the easy comparison between these two cosmically-minded progressive death metal bands. Both bands’ output is heavily influenced by hard science fiction, both pay homage to early ’90s Floridian death metal, and they each put out what had at the time been the best release of their careers pretty close to each other near the turn of the decade. While Blood Incantation went on to dabble in ambient soundscapes and … Continue reading Review: Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime