### Incapacity: 9th order extinct

#### 21/04/08 || Daemonomania

What motivates a person to write a review for an album that came out four years ago? Well, I’ve been motivated by the recent posting of another Incapacity review on GD. Another major kick in the pants was a delicately worded recommendation from the Lord asking us lazy reviewers to kindly pitch in and do some writing. Believe me, that wording was delicate as shit.

Onwards, then, to 9th Order Extinct. Good title, for starters. According to ye olde intraweb, the ninth order of angels (it would take a 6th Century theologian named Dionysius the Areopagite to categorize the angels, and a 21st Century metalhead like me to categorize my CD collection by sub-genre) are in charge of such fruity things as:

Healing (of various sexually transmitted diseases) Illumination (it was dark back in the day and these angels glowed in the dark) Music (obviously not Swedish death metal, but other jesus-y kinds) Dance (including but not limited to the horizontal mambo) Protection (see number one, it saves them some work in the end) Mental Emotions (listen to more Hypocrisy) Science and Technology (to a limited extent, so that people never realized that religion is a delusion) Overdoses on Purity (see the track listing)…

… and a bunch of other shit. And supposedly, “all you have to do is call (invoke) them and they will come.” Oh, how madjikal. So these semi-deities are all the way at the bottom of the order of angels, and Incapacity decided to start out easy and get rid of them first. Good call guys, move up the order step by step, learn from your mistakes, eradicate them all. The members of Incapacity know how to counteract holiness – they’ve been in every Swedish death metal, EVER.

If you’re into that Sunlight sound, then you’ll like this methinks. There’s plenty of crunchy riffs, low and gruff vocals with a lack of variation that makes Sauron sound like Chalky, lyrics about sinking your teeth into the neck of Christ, and a nice hint of melody that makes some of the songs stick out like an attractive person in McDonald’s. “Winged with fire” fucking kills, “File under torture” is great, “Cross-fixed” is quick and mean, “Shadows of the watcher” has a sweet bass intro and catchy chorus, and “Christless ways” samples The Ninth Gate quite effectively. That’s most of the songs, and for an old-school Swedish death revival band to have more good tracks than mediocre tracks on an album is a good sign.

The production is a bit muddy, which helps the street cred but hurts the ability to make out the riffs. That might be why the last few tracks blur together, and it kind of leaves you on a down note when the album whimpers off into the sunset. But overall, Incapacity firmly place their Swedish meatballs into your mouth and tell you to start juggling.

7.5 more orders of angels to destroy before Incapacity will be on “American Idol” out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2004
- Label: Metal Blade
- Website: www.incapacity.tk
- Band
- Andreas Axelsson: vocals
- Anders Edlund: bass
- Henrik Schonstrom: drums
- Robert Ivarsson: guitars
- Christian Alvestam: guitars

- Tracklist
- 01. Wide of the Mark
- 02. Grand Future Disease
- 03. Winged with Fire
- 04. File Under Torture
- 05. Cross-Fixed
- 06. Shadows of the Watcher
- 07. Christless Ways
- 08. Infinite Time Decay
- 09. A Plague of Their Own
- 10. Overdose On Purity